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DC Comics: Rebirth

I see a comics retailer and podcaster by the name of Ryan Higgins given as a source on several newssite on the news that DC is ending it's Walmart Exclusive line of 100-page comics, and replacing them with a new, similar line that will be more widely available. I don't know Higgins, who implies this news comes from DC, as he says he's been given the "go-ahead" with the news. Here are his tweets on this (and connected) topic:

"- The Walmart line is ending and replaced with 100 page specials available EVERYWHERE...48 pages of new material, with the rest being classic material. No price given. - There will be a reduction of collected editions. No other info given."

"- The Walmart longer arcs will be reprinted as graphic novels that comic stores will be getting, later this year. Shorter stories will be reprinted in some upcoming 100 page specials."

"Oh, an important note I missed. The 10-15% cut to the line was to make room for the all-ages/YA graphic novels and new 100 giant series, so DC is publishing mosty the same level of content, just in different formats."
 
That cover's actually not bad. I had very low expectations from 2 of my least favourite "superstsr" artists working in the biz right now (not including Liefeld).
 
So is this going to be canon to the rest of the comics? I thought the Black Label stuff was all supposed to be non-canon.
Pretty much everything I've heard about recent stuff Frank Miller has written has pretty much killed any interest I have in new stuff from him. He was great a long time ago, but it sounds like he's gone down hill a lot since his Batman: Year One and Daredevil days.
 
JD said:
So is this going to be canon to the rest of the comics? I thought the Black Label stuff was all supposed to be non-canon.
Pretty much everything I've heard about recent stuff Frank Miller has written has pretty much killed any interest I have in new stuff from him. He was great a long time ago, but it sounds like he's gone down hill a lot since his Batman: Year One and Daredevil days.
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Every origin story is canon until it's not. We'll get another definitive origin in a few years again.
 
Sure, but I thought the whole point of the Black Label stuff was that it was non-canon so they had the freedom to do more drastic stuff.
I'm a little afraid of the books having to use something Frank Miller wrote as the origin story for Superman.
 
JD said:
Sure, but I thought the whole point of the Black Label stuff was that it was non-canon so they had the freedom to do more drastic stuff.
I'm a little afraid of the books having to use something Frank Miller wrote as the origin story for Superman.
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I just hope DC can convince Frank to not make Lois Lane, or maybe Lana Lang if its an origin story, into a prostitute. It took an entire DC event to delete Frank Miller turning Catwoman into a prostitute (although, to be fair, DC didn't make Zero Hour to do that specifically, it was just a benefit).

You'd think after the shit that was Dark Knight Strikes Again, and the offensive shit that was All Star Batman and the (non DC, but fairly well known) Holy Terror that Miller would stop getting mainstream work. Then again, this is a company run by idiots like Bob Harras, so having a racist, misogynistic prick keep getting work because he was popular in the 80s checks out. Hell, DC has a history of keeping people they know are terrible employed (look up former DC editor Eddie Berganza to see what kind of people DC will employ)
 
Yeah I think this is just alternate universe stuff. Set in the same universe as the Dark Knight Returns trilogy.
 
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That Detective Comics 1000 was a massive disappointment. I was expecting a big, epic story. Not a series of boring mini ones. For a milestone, it felt very half arsed.
 
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