DC's New 52: Reviews and Discussion (Spoilers welcolme and likely)

[Derishton]

Admiral_Young wrote:

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@Deriston...is the President's identity clearer under a second read? I have to confess that it is going right over my head LOL.

Not really.

[Professor Zoom]

Not nu52 related, but DC related. Karen Berger, executive editor at Vertigo, has stepped down.

She's responsible for some of the best, most influential comics... well... ever.

Sad to see her go.

[Admiral_Young]

Wow. That's a huge departure...I wonder what she will do next?

[Admiral_Young]

Routine meetings or something else? Anyone have any guesses, just for fun?

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/...-at-dc-comics/

[Icemizer]

Usually about the time of the year people get let go.

[Vendikarr]

Icemizer wrote:

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Usually about the time of the year people get let go.

Yes, corporations do love to give people the gift of a job search for Christmas.

[theenglish]

I'd bet money it is the end of Vertigo.

[JD]

^Hmm, I wonder if that was why they decide to end Hellblazer?

[Admiral_Young]

^ More than likely. Slowly integrating Vertigo into the 52'Verse like they've done already with the Wildstorm universe.

[Hound of UIster]

Admiral_Young wrote:

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^ More than likely. Slowly integrating Vertigo into the 52'Verse like they've done already with the Wildstorm universe.

Most of Vertigo was already slowly integrated back into the main DCU. Constantine and Hunter were the last two holdouts. The rest of Vertigo such as Fables isn't owned by DC Comics.

theenglish wrote:

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I'd bet money it is the end of Vertigo.

They say that Berger also picked her successor so that doesn't mean the end of Vertigo yet. However Vertigo/Wildstorm really suffered from:

1) the reworking of creator contracts that WB forced on them and which helped cement Image as the biggest publisher of Independent and Creator Owned Work

2) Levitz axing Wildstorm's new direction and partnership with Garth Ennis.

Now if we are lucky, Paul Levitz will be the next one to go.

[Admiral_Young]

I seriously want him off Legion of Superheroes. I am still a little sad that I finally had to drop that book. Just got so frustrated with his erratic story telling. I don't know if it has improved. It needs a new writer though.

[Hound of UIster]

Hopefully that'll be the Christmas surprise.

He can always go and teach or write a book and leave it to younger folks. Heck even Hickman has said that LoSH is his favorite franchise.

[Admiral_Young]

Oh don't tease about that Also don't put Scott Lobdell on as his replacement. That would also get me not to pick it back up.

[Allyn Gibson]

Vaguely related to the New 52...

I've been buying Eaglemoss' DC Comics Chess Collection Magazine, and this week I got the Huntress piece.

The magazine that comes with it is... interesting. It tries to massage the history of the New 52 Huntress with the pre-Flashpoint Huntress, and what it creates is an interesting muddle -- the Earth-2 backstory, then "No Man's Land" and the Helena Bertinelli persona, and then Worlds' Finest. It makes sense, sort of, except that it's not clear to me at all that anyone in the New 52 Batfamily, except Damian, is even aware of Helena's existence.

It's a cool chess piece, by the way. I like this collection. It's pricey, but it looks great.

[Turtletrekker]

Admiral_Young wrote:

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I seriously want him off Legion of Superheroes. I am still a little sad that I finally had to drop that book. Just got so frustrated with his erratic story telling. I don't know if it has improved. It needs a new writer though.

Too bad. You're not getting a "new" writer. You are, however, getting an old one. I think that this will be considered good news to Legion fans.