The DC Comics Thread Vol. 3
 

Hey THAT'S more like it...actually, that's pretty darn awesome, thanks W!

That'll do, West. That'll do. ;)

(pictures West as Donkey from Shrek)

Funny, when I hear "That'll do (fill-in-the-blank), that'll do" I immediately think the pig from Babe.

It reminds me of the end of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIQDpHdS-U

Me too. In fact, I have to refrain from saying it out loud when I say "that'll do" because most people don't dig being referred to as a pig.

Either will suffice. ;)

'AQUAMAN' AND 'TITANS' WRITER DAN ABNETT SIGNS WITH DC ENTERTAINMENT

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Green Arrow: Rebirth #1 Preview
Writer: Ben Percy
Artist: Otto Schmidt

http://i.imgur.com/9jagxGz.png?1

Except for the Forever Evil tie-ins, I haven't read any GA in the New 52, but I'm seriously considering trying this tomorrow.

Watchmen Co-Creator Dave Gibbons

What a shocker!

If they're going to outright go against Moore's wishes, what's the difference in snubbing Gibbons?

Anyone get a good sense of the overall fan's reaction to Rebirth?

Twitter/Reddit have been happy with this week's titles as far as I can tell and they loved last week's one-shot.

It seemed well received...I don't know much about business, but I don't think there would be the special edition things coming out if it hadn't.

All it did for me was reaffirm my knocking off over fifty percent of my DC subscriptions and moving them over to Marvel. I didn't like the direction at all, and the worse thing for me is apparently this new direction will have repercussions all over DC. Too bad for me.

I'm keeping my Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Justice League, and Superman subscriptions, and hoping like hell they don't mess up Blue Beetle or Teen Titans (of course I HAVE to check those two out, I've been waiting forever for another Jaime title in particular).

In my (admittedly twisted) mind, that's it. Marvel finally overcame DC in my mind, it took them years to do it, though. To me that sorry ass Batman movie, Johns' continued, sorry ass executive position and retarded leave of writing comics, Rebirth #1, us Green Lantern fans getting a Hulk sized spiked dildo up the buttal regions...I'm mostly done.

But that's just my lowly opinion. Hey, a lot of people are into what DC's doing and more power to them. I consider myself fortunate to be able to hang around and just talk about comics, to be honest!

Uh....heh. I just realized that Detective Comics had not only Barrows on art but co-features BATWOMAN. One big wow...

(sheepishly) maybe I'm wrong....:spank:

'Rebirth': Geoff Johns Talks About Bringing Hope Back to the DC Universe
'Rebirth is the DNA of DC Comics': Geoff Johns offers in-depth breakdown of epic new comic

I kind of feel sorry for both Moore and Gibbons but at the same time I don't.

It's a shame Watchmen hasn't been left alone. I thought it'd be left as one of THE classic DC stories that was self contained.

But on the other side of the coin, they created these characters while at DC and DC can do what they want with the characters. Do DC really owe an explanation ?

I think the characters used in a different context works and as we might've seen with Mr.Oz already , they could be a lot different to how we saw them in Watchmen.

They could all end up redesigned by Jim Lee with kewl V collars, strappy boots, armor plating and lots of linework.


DC would have been better off not touching Watchmen and leaving it a self contained story contained in those 12 issues. More proof that Kahn and Levitz leaving DC were the worst thing to happen to DC since...well, pretty much ever.

Square bound and $5.99 for the 3rd printing as well.

I'm feeling a little put out that DC may well have deliberately run a shorter initial run on this so they could jack the price on all subsequent runs once hype had built (partly from its "sold out" status). I'm also more annoyed that my LCS didn't pull it for me in the first place (though if the quantities were limited, they may not have GOTTEN enough copies to pull one for me).

Is anybody really demanding the fancier binding that supposedly accounts for this higher price? I doubt it.

Did you tell your LCS to pull the book for you?

Maybe the shorter initial was due to John Geoffs' commitment to buy back all copies of Rebirth if readers didn't like it. :p

Not specifically, no, so I definitely bear some of the blame, but I DID confirm with them in advance that they would be pulling Rebirth titles related to titles on my current pull list (so they BETTER have done THAT), and I assumed that they would pull Rebirth, too, since it seems kind of important, almost my entire pull list is DC, and in the past they have ALWAYS pulled that sort of thing automatically and just let me tell them if I didn't want it when I came to pick up my box.

I didn't ask for Rebirth #1 and they didn't pull it for me, but my local shop still had a few copies on the shelf on that Wednesday it came out. I bought it for shits and giggles, and to give it a chance.

They did pull Green LanternS rebirth #1 for me yesterday. I was just going to read it on the shelf but there weren't any left on the shelf anyway. I said screw it and bought it.

I'm off from work today and spent time bagging/boarding old comics and filing them away in longboxes in my comic room. I got everything put away and spent time tidying up and reorganizing my 7 GL longboxes. I labelled the divider cards I was missing and fixed some filing mistakes I made the last few years. Feeling kind of melancholy about it right now.

It can be a pain, but it really pays off for the collection. I'm betting you're glad now you took the time :)

It was worth doing. Just kind of sad looking through 7 longboxes of GL comics I acquired over 30+ years as I get ready to end my collecting habits. Knowing there are two GL titles that I won't be buying? When I have every issue from 1959 to today? Feels strange.

57 years of GL comics?

Damn Dave!!

Well, I liked (not loved) the Rebirth issue, but even if I didn't, it wouldn't bother me more than Winick's run. That was the lowest point in GL history for me and I got past it.

Interesting, didn't Winick write GL when Kyle had that Jim Lee designed costume?

I don't remember it being as bad as Vendetti's GL

A bad as Winick' run was (and the whole run wasn't bad, just most of it), I always felt like there was a light at the end of the tunnel for me as a fan. That I would be rewarded for hanging on, which I eventually was with Rebirth in 2005. Now I just feel like DC itself has lost it's way, not one creative team.

Anyway, I'm going to pick up the Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps rebirth issue to give it a chance, but seeing they are keeping the same writer, I'm not expecting to be impressed with anything other than the art.

Yeah. I'm only missing a few variant covers from the last couple of years where I stopped giving a crap. I have every issue from Showcase #22 to today.

Fuck that's a lot of comics

The reality is, you haven't missed much since Blackest Night, so there's that.

I didn't. I actually quit my subscription at that time (though it was also because I was in college and low on funds). Before vol. 3 ended I came back and spent a lot more money filling in all the missing issues. I decided I wouldn't quit again.