WTF Is DC Doing? (In October 2007)

COUNTDOWN PRESENTS: LORD HAVOK AND THE EXTREMISTS #1 (of 6)

"Quick! We found some more JLI characters we didn't rape, mind-wide or kill yet!"

This is almost enough to make me give up reading DC ttitles.

- METAMORPHO YEAR ONE #1-2

i lol'ed.

What I was thinking:

- ENOUGH WITH THE ONE-SHOTS (and minis)
- wha happen to promoting your flagship characters in lieu of one-off projects essayed by B/C-list talent?
- why is Gary Frank working w/ Johns?!?! ;_;
- I hope Crazy Quilt is in the Sinestro Corps
- COUNTDOWN PRESENTS: KOOEY KOOEY KOOEY oversized GN / pop-up book please!!!!

That's horrible. Not a single comic I want to buy on that list. I'm too old for this shit.

Easy, Chuck. That's the just the stuff they want the internet to be excited about. The full solicits will be up in like 6 or 7 hrs.

Didn't Nowlan do the Metamorpho origin in 52?

full solicits up at above link now. GOOD GRIEF.

Suicide Squad: Return to Dinosaur Island!!!

And when Hal finds himself face-to-face with one of the most bizarre members of the Sinestro Corps he has a simple choice to make — keep fighting and die or lay down and walk away.

That's weird, an old friend of mine is dating the JSA Classified writer. (I haven't met him.)

It's kinda amazing how quickly DC pissed away all the good will they won with me following One Year Later.

I'm not even excited by being unexcited.

GREEN ARROW/BLACK CANARY cover rather spoils the outcome of the wedding, doesn't it?

DEATH OF THE NEW GODS looks potentially decent. Or not.

CRIME BIBLE: I'll be reading it.

Gary Frank on ACTION: not bad! Five bucks for 80 pages of Broome/Infantino FLASH: not bad either! Ditto for SHOWCASE: SSoSV and SSquad!

AUTHORITY and WILDCATS: still not solicited!

Is it time to feel old when Showcase start reprinting comics you bought at the time?

Or is time to feel sad, when you just buy them all over again, except in black and white?

Nonetheless: Showcase Suicide Squad = exciting.

I LOVE the covers for Metal Men, one of the few things giving me hope about DC.

Death Of The New Gods I have serious problems with, It seems like DC is killing, maiming or destroying any sense of wonder that existed in their universe. How can they argue that it's better for them to NOT HAVE these wonderful creations flying around? DiDio is like a over-eager kid who only likes the biggest and shiniest toys.
And the fact that Starlin fails to see the awesomeness that is the Black Racer only depresses me more.

I'm guessing no one actually read the JSA solicit, because otherwise we'd be aflutter with the news that the KINGDOM COME SUPERMAN is in it!

Also, Gail Simone's 1st WW! (Why the fuck isn't DC giving that the special pre-solicit treatment it afforded stupid-ass M:YO?!?!?!?!)

I think I'm turning into Simon Stagg, what w/ all the DAMN YOU METAMORPHO talk. I shd shape my hair accordingly.

I LOVE the covers for Metal Men, one of the few things giving me hope about DC.

Remember, this is Dan Didio's DC, where the Allred/Dorkin Metal Men got axed because it was happy and fun and no-one died.

there was an Allred/Dorkin Metal Men????

I completely forgot (or probably didn't know) about Allred / Dorkin Metal Men. A sad, sad, loss... Samples!: http://evandorkin.livejournal.com/2007/03/05/

Anyway...still have hopes for Rouleau's Metal Men, and I'm aware this is DiDio's DC, where Red Rocket gets blown up for no good reason :(

COUNTDOWN PRESENTS: LORD HAVOK AND THE EXTREMISTS #1 (of 6)

"Quick! We found some more JLI characters we didn't rape, mind-wide or kill yet!"

-- energy flash gordon, Monday, 16 July 2007 08:58 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Y'see, I misread that as COUNTDOWN PRESENTS: LORD HORROR AND THE EXTREMISTS #1 (of 6)

Which would probably explain why the raping, mind-wiping and killing seemed so logical to me...

Rocket Red didn't even make Wizard's Top Deaths List.

That's tipical capitalist propaganda masking the many achievements of communist Russia.