Heh! Good question.
Yeah, Black Lightning and Black Panther. Those two characters probably were created around the same time, 70s?
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Yeah, Black Lightning and Black Panther. Those two characters probably were created around the same time, 70s?
So Falcon was the first. I did not know that!
Maybe that's what got Adams so interested in creating John Stewart.
I've read about them but haven't read them yet.
I'll wait for the first trades, but, yeah, I want to read them.
I did read the first Earth 1 Superman book, the first Earth 1 GL book, and all 3 of the Earth 1 Batman books and I thought they were all great, so I'm up for checking out these iterations.
Y'know, in that sense, wasn't James Robinson's Earth 2 series kind of a page from The Ultimates too?
How does he afford all his wonderful toys?
So far there have not been too many super expensive things, so no Bat Satellites, Batwings, Batmobiles and all that. The last issue had a big surprise in the end but it kinda makes sense he'd have access as a civil engineer.
Black Panther was mid-60s. 66 or 67 I believe. Black Lightning was about 10 years later.
Thanks for the info!
That would be Lion Man from 1947's All-Negro Comics. A single appearance, but still should count.
Sounds like DC is trying way too hard to be edgy.
Absolute Batman is certainly super 90's Image edgelord.
Both DC and Marvel are pivoting away from what made them fun in the first place..
People in skin tight costumes beating the crap out of each other?
I could understand this attitude if the Absolute books were all DC put out these days. But they're not. They're three books among dozens of monthly titles. Seriously, I've more of a problem with the Bat-titles taking up such a big share of DC's output, but even there I understand why they're doing it.
Seriously, DC does so much more, and they have titles that are pure superhero fun, like the Superman books, SHAZAM!, World's Finest, ... hell, I don't need to list all of them, they're the majority of DC's output. I mean, they just relaunched Justice League with Mark Waid and Dan Mora.
This isn't the New 52, this is just a tiny corner of DC's monthly comic releases.
So, if you don't like it, okay. I haven't read them yet, so I don't know whether I like them. But even if I don't, I won't judge DC's whole company policy on them.
Seriously, DC does so much more, and they have titles that are pure superhero fun, like the Superman books, SHAZAM!, World's Finest, ... hell, I don't need to list all of them, they're the majority of DC's output. I mean, they just relaunched Justice League with Mark Waid and Dan Mora.
This isn't the New 52, this is just a tiny corner of DC's monthly comic releases.
So, if you don't like it, okay. I haven't read them yet, so I don't know whether I like them. But even if I don't, I won't judge DC's whole company policy on them.
CBR has an interview with David Dastmalchian about his comic book and memorabilia collection and at the end of the interview he announced that he will be writing the upcoming "Creature Commandos" comic that will tie in with the animated series and that he's been working closely with James Gunn to keep it in continuity with the new James Gunn universe.
I'm have to take a look. I'm really not that familiar with the group other than reading their first appearance a long time ago I don't think I've seen any book with the group in it.
I think I didn't add it to my subscription box at my trusted dealer, probably because DC launches quite a few new titles at the moment, plus I knew I'd go to the Stuttgart ComicCon and get another shitload of comics.
Somehow it didn't register that Dastmalchian was writing the book. I like him both as an actor and a comics writer (though, admittedly, I only read his Count Crowley book at DH and the first issue of Knights vs Samurai, with the second one already in my reading pile).
I'll probably get the Tpb.
Somehow it didn't register that Dastmalchian was writing the book. I like him both as an actor and a comics writer (though, admittedly, I only read his Count Crowley book at DH and the first issue of Knights vs Samurai, with the second one already in my reading pile).
I'll probably get the Tpb.
