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DC Rebirth |OT| It's not a reboot, and it always was [SPOILERS for Rebirth #1]
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Poodlestrike
Banned
Cheers, mate(s)!
And Blue Beetle right
Right
Right
I've been thinking about it, but I'd say they're just new.
No love for Booster Gold
Booster could be in JLA or show up in Blue Beetle (especially since Giffen is writing Beetle)
No love for Booster Gold
THAT'S who's reaching out on the Rebirth special cover :O
Or better yet.... BOOSTER GOLD WAS THE JOKER ALL ALONG!
No love for Booster Gold
This looks to be doing whay DCYou should have done: Concentrate on the books that sell, and sell well. These are hubs. Then slowly spoke from there.
There are some experimentation here, but you will notice that much of that is contained in books they know will do well.
Booster will make it back when they have more of their shit together.
Especially with a Blue Beetle book around.
I'll give some of these a shot, I read a lot of Marvel and Image comics but I just can't get into anything by DC. I read great reviews of Superman: American Hero but when I read it, it just wasn't very good to me.
Trying to copy the spider-verse probably.
Trying to copy the spider-verse probably.
Beaniedude
Member
I'm skeptical with the bimonthly release schedule.
But Dick is back in his blue costume...
So how does Trade Waiting wait? They come out twice as fast or will they be twice as big?
But Dick is back in his blue costume...
So how does Trade Waiting wait? They come out twice as fast or will they be twice as big?
Try Omega Men and Grayson.
They are both DC books, but King's style is very unique.
Nah. The other way around.
Beaniedude
Member
No idea but the first thing that came to mind was GREAT and BRITAIN
Poodlestrike
Banned
I don't think I've seen anything about trades, but I'd imagine twice as fast.
Sounds about right.
He'll almost certainly show up in Blue Beetle, Giffen can never seem to resist getting the gang back together. Guy, Fire, and Ice are almost certainly going to crop up as well.
My guess is that they will be Superman-tier heroes challenging the Bats' monopoly on fighting crime in Gotham.
I was never all that negative about the new 52 in general. It started off with a lot of bad books, but a few good ones, and it was also my entry point into comics in general. That was a while ago though, and by now, it's really good with a lot of ambitious, unique books like Gotham Academy. Rebirth seems to be them making this shift official, and formalizing the change by spreading the current surge of creativity and quality even more.
I mean, ignore the talent here for a second. Look at the ideas here. An asian character becoming another superman. Superman getting a son. Wonder Woman is being told with 2 stories. These are kind of ambitious ideas, and I can't wait to see how they pan out. Plus there's a lot of stuff I just always wanted to happen happening here. Like Dick finally going back to being Nightwing with a blue costume. That cover looks fantastic, I hope the art in general is that good. And do you have any idea how long I've been wanting a Trinity book?
And yeah, the writer line up looks really fucking good, especially GREG MOTHERFUCKING RUCKA being back on Wonder Woman. I'm sorry, but he's one of my favorite writers and he made one of the best runs with Wonder Woman that I've ever seen. I am so excited that he's back on WW and I hope he weaves an epic that he can actually finish unlike how he got cut short last time.
The only thing I dislike is how some books are multiple runs of the same character. I don't mind team books, but I just don't like seeing multiple simultaneous books of the same character. It just muddles the characterization. I'd rather they put Snyder on one Batman book, and then used the other writers to do other stuff instead of having ten cooks in the kitchen on one character.
So yeah, overall, I'm really eager with a lot of these titles.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Wow, that's going to go really poorly for them.
Holy shit I just realized that's the point. Tom King is going to write an allegory for American intervention in the middle east using these two super powered types.
The more I think about it, the more likely it seems.
That crashing plane on the cover is not the kind of thing Batman is usually equipped to quickly deal with.
Action Comics seems to be doing that. Just not as much as Detective Comics.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
In for... a lot of fucking books. Phew.
Yep. My video game budgets gonna have to go down a little.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Unspeakable Evil
Member
Yay Blue Nightwing
Oh yeah.
So you recommend any blue beetle stuff that is currently in collected format?
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
I will even try Venditti's Corps book.
Roland_Gunner
Member
When they were talking about Aquaman Johns also confirmed that he's working on Rise of the Seven Seas. Which I guess will be a mini.
Anything currently in print that I wouldn't have to pay cover price or more on?
Your a brave man.
Roland_Gunner
Member
It was largely overlooked, but the Blue Beetle series that spun out of Infinite Crisis was one of the best teen super-hero books that DC has ever put out. The main villains in the overall arc, The Reach, were even used in season two of the Young Justice cartoon. The series started out kinda week but I strongly recommend the 2 - 4 volumes:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401213618/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401216420/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401219527/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Poodlestrike
Banned
More likely an event book, but yeah, that too.
Print, hmm.
Instocktrades doesn't list the first volume of the 06 run, which is the only one I can really recommend :/
Have you heard about our lord and savior, digital comics?
Machine
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Midnighter and Grayson have been damn good so naturally those are gone. Lois and Clark is the best work Jurgens has done in ages, hopefully he can keep it up on his new assignment. Titans Hunt has been good too, glad to see Abnett's work being pivotal. Now if Abnett could work in Resurrection Man - that was an under-appreciated title (particularly volume 1).
UltraGunner
Banned
>Red Hood is still being written by Lobbdel
FUCK
FUCK
Poodlestrike
Banned
Ah, damn.
Well, I guess you could try starting with volume 2, but you miss out on some cool stuff.
http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/DC/BLUE-BEETLE-VOL-2-ROAD-TRIP-TP/MAR070197
http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/DC/BLUE-BEETLE-TP-VOL-03-REACH-FOR-THE-STARS/NOV070224
They also don't have volume 4 lol
To be fair they did say the events and characters from Grayson would carry over to Nightwing, so hopefully its not a total loss.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
A Birds of Prey comic,
in 2016.
in 2016.
Pilgrimzero
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Classic JLI was the best thing DC ever did. Of course it started the best GL so...
Yeah, I find it pretty upsetting as well.
This 'Dark Trinity' idea is pretty cool as well, I just do not want it from him.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Damien and Jon book will be on my pull list for sure.
Do you know if he got any better? He's been on the book so long, you'd think he'd gain some competency in telling stories with the characters.
I'm just so happy that Bruce is Batman again and Gordon looks like Gordon should.
Find out next issue, Justice League!
Imo no. It's pretty sad when the characters end up way better when showing up in other books. Although I'm thinking about Robin Wars and Grayson mostly. Even Eternal was more bearable.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Out of curiosity, what do you think they should have done to win back those fans?
Poodlestrike
Banned
They're also putting a ton of talent back into rotation and bringing back large chunks of the characters' histories.
Schweinehund
Member
red head wally for JLA is what I mean.
unless that is bart, dunno. His hair is too different from new wally and I don't think that's barry.
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