Irony intended?
DC Comics: Rebirth
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Ever since I did translation work for a couple of years, I've been completely turned off reading any translated entertainment. I mean, if it's originally Russian or Swahili or something, I'll do it, but anything I can actually speak I want to read in the original version. There just really is no such thing as a perfect translation. Even a truly great and wildly entertaining translation is still *different* from the original to at least some degree. It has to be because no two languages work exactly the same way.
Haha no, but that's great!
I don't know if they still do, but I think with some older books they would also change cultural references that people from the country it's being translated for won't understand.
I do still read translated stuff, like I read the first story in the Russian Day Watch book a while back, but it's always in the back of my head that what I'm reading is not exactly the same as the original.
As separate people? Please tell me that they're different people.
In the revised continuity, Hawkman reincarnates across space and time and has lived simultaneously as more than one person in some eras. The current series is about him learning that this has always been the case--and discovering his previous incarnations including as Katar Hol.
Damn it. I'll never forgive the editors who screwed everything after Hawkworld...
LOL--I do know how you feel. I stopped reading DC (except for the Death to Reign of Supermen arc) for twenty years after COIE.
I was super into post-Crisis DC, actually, I just wish Hawkworld stayed the Man of Steel/Batman Year One/first arc of Perez Wonder Woman/Emerald Dawn style origin it was meant to be. The golden age Hawks (the reincarnated royalty) in the Justice Society, the silver age Hawks (Thanagarian cops) in the Justice League. What could be simpler?
It's true, his history is so messed up because of them but this current arc really does an amazing job of making it all work. The first 12 issues were so good, I was giddy and smiling ear to ear with the climax in issue 12, it was just so good. Haven't had that happen in a comic in a LONG time.
First few comic news from DC Fandome:
- John Ridley is writing a 4-issue Batman mini-series with a POC Batman (Luke Fox?)
- Milestone is getting a relaunch in February of 2021, with a Hardware OGN, a Static Shock digital-first ongoing, as well as a new Icon & Rocket series by Reginald Hudlin and Denys Cowan.
- John Ridley is writing a 4-issue Batman mini-series with a POC Batman (Luke Fox?)
- Milestone is getting a relaunch in February of 2021, with a Hardware OGN, a Static Shock digital-first ongoing, as well as a new Icon & Rocket series by Reginald Hudlin and Denys Cowan.
They didn't specify. But one thing I forgot to mention is that they'd also do new characters.
One thing I'm disappointed about is that the classic Milestone material will be made available again over the coming months digitally, but so far nothing in print. I really want those Icon and Static collections.
One thing I'm disappointed about is that the classic Milestone material will be made available again over the coming months digitally, but so far nothing in print. I really want those Icon and Static collections.
My bad, the OGN isn't Hardware, but also Static Shock. I got confused because Hudlin expressed on the panel how much he wanted to do Hardware. The team on the Static OGN will be Hudlin & Kyle Baker.
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Jim Lee has confirmed the John Ridley Batman mini-series will feature a black Batman during a panel with Goldhouse's Bing Chen, and he also hinted that Ridley would draw upon his own relationship with his two sons in it. This really seems to indicate Luke Fox, whose father Lucius Fox is obviously a major Bat-character, as well.
I'd be interested in a Static comic, but I'm betting it will be more like the original comic then later versions of the character, and honestly I thought that the Static from the original comic was kind of crappy (the cartoon did the character really well and comics made after it took at least some inspiration from that version, at least based on the bit I've read of Static in various comics).
There's going to be a "Milestone Returns Zero" re-introduction oneshot, with previews of the three different announced projects, as well as a few other projects, to be released in February, but a 17-page "Milestone Returns" #0 will be available to read digitally for free during the second DC Fandome event on September 12, but only for those 24 hours. Here's the cover:
Further preview pages on Bleeding Cool (link).
Further preview pages on Bleeding Cool (link).
I forgot to give you a break down of what the newly revised (again) continuity is. If you are interested, here are the broad brushstrokes that summarize the first year of the Hawkman series so anyone interested in buying these stories should not read further:
Hawkman was originally a Kryptonian in his first life thousands of years ago. He was a member of an ancient cult that required sacrificing millions of lives in order to bring about the return of a malevolent entity. Shayera appears to him over and over eventually causing him to repent and to bring down the temple of the Deathbringer at the cost of his own life in battle with one of his underlings. Hawkman is now considered the great betrayer. He is returned to life, doomed to be reincarnated across time and space (not necessarily in chronological order, and it appears that multiple Hawkmen can exist in the universe at the same time) and is cursed to do so until he saves as many lives as he took as a Deathbringer. The first year's issues end with Carter having his memories mostly returned and having to defend earth against the Deathbringer cult he used to be the leader of. He is able to summon all of his previously incarnated selves to act as an army of Hawkmen in defense of Earth--it is unclear if these are only summoned because he is fighting against the cult or if he could summon the army again at some point.
Someone, please feel free to correct me if I have made an error or omission. Also, the mystery of the connection with Shayera and Kendra are still to be resolved in subsequent issues.
Someone, please feel free to correct me if I have made an error or omission. Also, the mystery of the connection with Shayera and Kendra are still to be resolved in subsequent issues.
New teasers for the December event "Endless Winter":
