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DC Comics: Rebirth

Yeah, now that I've gotten through to them, I really like both of Bendis Superman books, as well.

Meanwhile, DC announced a new "Batman & the Outsiders" series.
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Written by Brian Edward Hill, art by Dexter Soy, the book is set to launch in December.

Black Lightning, Katana, and Cassandra Cain. I'm so in for this.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
Meanwhile, DC announced a new "Batman & the Outsiders" series.
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Written by Brian Edward Hill, art by Dexter Soy, the book is set to launch in December.

Black Lightning, Katana, and Cassandra Cain. I'm so in for this.
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The number of shits I give about the modern version of Batman are so few that one TP roll would suffice for a lifetime. But I've been buying the current Detective Comics arc because of Black Lightning, and the writer's quite good. Plus I really like Cassandra Cain. So I'll definitely pick this up, and hope it's less "Batman" and more "and the Outsiders."
 
I'm a good ten issues behind on detective right now, but I have really been enjoying Detective Comics. As much as I'd like to pick this book up I just can't justify spending more on comics than I already do.
 
The e-book of the DC: Icons Batman YA novel Nightwalker by Marie Lu is only $1.99 right now.
 
Did they already start then? I've been keeping an eye out at my store, but I haven't seen any of them.
 
The article said that the line is sold in 3,000 of the 5,000 stores, but that Didio hopes to expand it to all Walmart stores. Maybe yours in one of those 2,000 not selling the books yet.
 
At NYCC, DC announced new imprint "Wonder Comics" curated by Brian Bendis.
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The focus is on the teenage heroes (outside the current Teen Titans, and Supergirl, she's a teen as well).

The flagship title of "Wonder Comics" will be a new "Young Justice" series by Bendis and Patrick Gleason, starring Tim Drake/Robin, Bart Allen/Impulse, and Connor Kent/Superboy, so the original YJ line-up. This will mark the first appearance of Connor Kent since Rebirth.
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Three more titles will be added to the imprint:

- "Naomi", written by Bendis & David Walker, with art by Jamal Campbell
- "Wonder Twins", written by Mark Russell and art by Stephen Byrne
- "Dial H For Hero", written by Sam Humphries and art by Joe Quinones

Bendis hinted at the introduction of two new characters, namely Ginny Hex (a decendant of Jonah Hex, and likely the gunslinging girl swinging on Robin's rope in the illustration above), as well as a teenage Lantern.

I am absolutely thrilled about the YJ title, as I got into comics in the late 90s, and these three characters (and judging by the art, Cassie's Wonder Girl will probably be joining them) are the one's I grew up with.
 
Well, Green Lanterns is done. The only really good GL book since 2011 in my opinion, cancelled so that grant Morrison's Hal Jordan book can be the only GL book. I haven't liked anything Morrison has done since before Final Crisis, so I won't be reading that. It looks like all the other GL's will be going into limbo so that Morrison can write some incoherent bullshit focused on the worst human GL, and Geoff Johns man crush, Hal Jordan (I used to like Hal, then Johns really drove him into the ground).

I'll miss Jessica Cruz and (to a lesser extent) Simon Baz. Hopefully Morrison flakes on his GL book sooner rather then later, and some of the other GLs can get a book again.
 
Okay, I just read the first issue of the new Superman series. I am really not enjoying Bendis's "Brand New Day" style of writing which is basically just bringing all the characters back to their pre-new 52 personalities. But in the first pages (SPOILER AHEAD) Superman just wipes out a Dominion Armada apparently killing everybody on board without a second thought. Then he goes back to whining about missing Lois and Jon as we see obviously dead Dominators floating in space. WTF?

Did I miss something here? Did I misread?
 
Well, having read only the first issue of "Heroes in Crisis" so far, I'm not a fan. One death in particular pisses me off, and that's ...

... Wally West. Seriously, what the fuck, DC?! First you bring him back in the Rebirth one shot, and everybody loves you for it. Then you put him in Titans, and it's slowly going somewhere, slowly, but okay, why rush things. Until he's seemingly killed there, but quickly brought back. But he can't use his speed safely, or something. Then he's taken off the Titans, gets a guest-starring part on the main Flash title for a couple of issues mainly meant to dismantle him. And now, you've put him in that Sanctuary, only to kill him off-panel.

This might be a bit consperacy theorist of me, but I get the feeling Dan Didio hates Wally. First, he's eradicated with the New 52, when even BART ALLEN was part of that, then re-introduced as the damaged black kid that nobody liked, and finally Geoff Johns brought back the proper Wally. But as soon as Johns steps down from his executive role and goes back to individual writing projects, Wally is, well, killed off-panel.
And what makes me kinda suspect Didio is an interview he did a while back for the DC Daily news show, where he couldn't praise Barry without a "Wally only became popular when he became more like Barry" dig. Something that longtime fans know not to be true, if anything, the current TV version of Barry has been pretty much described by anybody but Didio as integrating a lot of Wally's personality into Barry.

But as shitty I feel this is, I can't get worked up too much about it, as I feel that a lot of the current DCU will be retconned either by the end of Doomsday Clock or a following Crisis event.
 
I haven't read comics in awhile, but I still follow a bit of what's going on.

I'm not so into the current version of things, but what's going on with the multiverse? Anything?

One big problem I had was that it's virtually impossible to follow the worlds because they designated different Earths with the same name, so I don't know which is which. For example Earth 1 Superman could mean pre-Crisis Superman, or the one shot Earth One story that was a completely different Superman. Likewise, there was pre-Crisis Earth 2, and New 52-Earth 2, which were almost identical, making it that much harder to distinguish.

Last I heard, they did something called Convergence, and when that ended, COIE was essentially negated, and all Earths ever still exist.

I'm perfectly fine with that, but I'd like to see the consequences of that followed up.

For example, what is the status of Action# 1 Superman, aka Kal-L, who survived COIE, and died in Infinite Crisis (the dumb decision that is the main reason I stopped buying DC comics)?

Is he alive again? If COIE never happened, and his Earth exists, wouldn't he be ok now?

If COIE didn't happen, then Superboy Prime never would have been in that void, and never would have gone crazy, and could very well be a hero. All his damage would also be undone.

Pre-Crisis Superman could still exist as Earth 1 would still exist. Would he be Superman, or would he have lived the events of Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, and be living his life as Jordan Elliot?

If so, could Gold Kryptonite be reversed and could he get his power back?

If it were me, I would have a few titles dedicated to Earths 1 and 2, precrisis, so we can get updates on the characters' lives.

Is any event going to deal with this, or is this all a mystery?
 
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