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In New History of the DC Universe #1, published yesterday, Texas Ranger Jack Woods makes an appearance. It's just him posing with a nametag caption box in the collage of western-era heroes, but it's him: star of the very first story from the very first issue of the very first comic put out by the company that would become DC. Jack Woods is literally the first DC hero.

He made appearances across forty-or-so issues in the mid- to late-30s, last appearing in Adventure Comics #42, published on 15 August 1939. The story ended in a cliffhanger, and he didn't appear again until literally yesterday.

I'm not sure I'm making this clear enough: This character has been missing for 86 years. Most of the kids who read his adventures are probably dead. This is probably the deepest cut any comic writer has ever made.
 
In New History of the DC Universe #1, published yesterday, Texas Ranger Jack Woods makes an appearance. It's just him posing with a nametag caption box in the collage of western-era heroes, but it's him: star of the very first story from the very first issue of the very first comic put out by the company that would become DC. Jack Woods is literally the first DC hero.

He made appearances across forty-or-so issues in the mid- to late-30s, last appearing in Adventure Comics #42, published on 15 August 1939. The story ended in a cliffhanger, and he didn't appear again until literally yesterday.

I'm not sure I'm making this clear enough: This character has been missing for 86 years. Most of the kids who read his adventures are probably dead. This is probably the deepest cut any comic writer has ever made.
I was like "Who???"
 
In New History of the DC Universe #1, published yesterday, Texas Ranger Jack Woods makes an appearance. It's just him posing with a nametag caption box in the collage of western-era heroes, but it's him: star of the very first story from the very first issue of the very first comic put out by the company that would become DC. Jack Woods is literally the first DC hero.

He made appearances across forty-or-so issues in the mid- to late-30s, last appearing in Adventure Comics #42, published on 15 August 1939. The story ended in a cliffhanger, and he didn't appear again until literally yesterday.

I'm not sure I'm making this clear enough: This character has been missing for 86 years. Most of the kids who read his adventures are probably dead. This is probably the deepest cut any comic writer has ever made.


There’s a reason he hasn’t been seen in 80+ years. Not being seen for that long means no one cared about the character because he wasn’t good enough to continue
 
There’s a reason he hasn’t been seen in 80+ years. Not being seen for that long means no one cared about the character because he wasn’t good enough to continue

Because a certain flying rodent-themed individual and his gaudily-clad associates came along and diverted interest from such common, everyday protagonists.
 
Is anyone else reading Nightwing? I'm thinking of dropping it. I am really not enjoying the new creative team.
 
I shifted Nightwing from day and date purchase to wait to read in the app. Then didn't even do that.

I did the same to Batman for Hush 2. I'll go back to Batman when the book relaunches.

There are plenty of good books at DC competing for my eyeballs.
 
I just read the first few issues of Absolute Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Interesting takes on all the characters. I really like the take on Krypton, the way Batman operates without money, and how Wonder Woman is much more of a mystical character. I'm really not sure what the plan is for this universe, but I do like the idea that the heroes retain their core goodness and ethics in a very dark world.
 
Q&A with the legendary Mark Waid:
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DC Comics has canceled its Red Hood comic and pulled it from the shelves the day it launched (9/10) and fired its writer; after Gretchen-Felker Martin, a trans person, made jokes on social media about Charlie Kirk's death.
 
Unfortunate, as I can totally understand her feelings, but I can also understand DC Comics stance on principle considering they have to keep a generally family-friendly public image.

It also continues DC's streak of cancelling/delaying big Bat book projects. The Hush sequel is being delayed after four issues, when the narratively following Batman series has already started. The Joker/Harley book has been delayed without a new release date, as well, Gargoyle of Gotham has been interrupted without the continuation even in sight, and I'm still waiting for the Batman the Barbarian book to even start over a year after its announced release date.
 
DC Comics has canceled its Red Hood comic and pulled it from the shelves the day it launched (9/10) and fired its writer; after Gretchen-Felker Martin, a trans person, made jokes on social media about Charlie Kirk's death.
Amazing that individual even got the job in the first place given their past behavior.
 
Amazing that individual even got the job in the first place given their past behavior.
I’m not sure what “past behavior” you’re referring to, but for a trans person to be hostile toward Charlie Kirk — author of such gems as that trans people are a “throbbing middle finger to God” — seems pretty understandable to me.

(A quick Google search suggests she may also have had unkind things to say about J. K. Rowling. Same observation.)
 


Those are just the two I found first. I have zero knowledge of further incidents or details.

A quick read makes me think that she has tweeted in this manner for a long time.
Not knowing who any of these players are, and not caring to dive headlong into this rabbit hole, I’ll agree that some of Felker-Martin’s tweets seem excessive. I do have to wonder, however, if Singal’s representation that he has merely “written critically about the evidence underpinning youth gender medicine” is as blandly innocuous as he makes it sound.
 
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