DC to REBOOT???

[23skidoo]

And I'd hope they're going to take a hard look at what it actually means to "work for a newspaper" in 2011.

Contrary to what many are trying to get out through their propaganda, there's still plenty of "working for a newspaper" jobs out there, including writing for the web, specialty projects, etc. Plus we still have a good decade or so before all the people who care about physical media die. That should keep Clark busy until the next reboot.

Either that, or they could just revert to the 1970s continuity in which Clark and Lois and Jimmy worked for WGBS TV. Or, given how clueless DC seems to be with this whole Reboot thing, they could just abandon Clark Kent altogether and make Superman a full-time superhero. (Even though the comics established years ago that Superman is the secret identity, but I don't expect DC to remember that.)

Hell, I'd say most of the stuff Geoff Johns has done is pretty safe, though the big question mark will be Wally.

I've been meaning to make a comment on this sort of thing. I can't imagine every DC writer is going to be cheery about their storylines and hard-established continuity being destroyed by the reboot. Of course money talks, but if they don't want certain writers to walk (I know I'd quit if storylines I'd written were suddenly retconned only months later), I can't imagine they'd do a wholesale "none of this really happened". Would they?

Alex

 

[Admiral_Young]

Apparently a lot of the writers aren't happy about what is currently going on at DC and if we go by what Bleeding Cool has revealed over the last month about the relaunch, most of them didn't know or weren't told about this.

 

[JoeZhang]

Those are mainly hack writers who know that if they don't like it, DC has plenty of warm bodies to take their spots, so the vast majority will put on their best shit-eating grins and tell Newsarama and the various churnalism sites how great this all is. That's what it's nice when you get people like Joe Casey who have other fires (and therefore income) who can actually say "editorial shit all over my stories and I don't like it".

 

[Admiral_Young]

DC has announced their Oct Bat Family solicits.

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dcnu-october-2011-batman-titles-110711.html

 

[Captain Craig]

Huntress revealed.

Now, about Cass and Steph

 

[davejames]

Geez, I know he's a popular character, but do we really need four Batman titles? That's not counting all the times he'll probably show up in the other Bat-family books either.

 

[Admiral_Young]

If all of Batman Inc is intact for next year then we should still have Cassie as Black Bat and I could see Steph returning to her Spoiler role in a redesigned Spoiler costume...which would be really lame. We'll have to wait and see though.

 

[JD]

Do we know if we'll see Babs taking the Batgirl title back Steph? Or will it probably start up with her already Batgirl again?

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ No. No one knows Cassandra Cain or Steph's status in the DC relaunch. That's why Captain Craig posted what he did.

@davejames Batman has always had a lot of books. Unlike other companies though who saturate they're popular characters, Batman normally has top notch creators attached to his titles. With the exception of David Finch's Book which I have no interest in I'll be checking out the others.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Geez, I know he's a popular character, but do we really need four Batman titles? That's not counting all the times he'll probably show up in the other Bat-family books either.

DC has all their top and upcoming talent monopolized on the batbooks. Snyder, Morrison and Capullo. The books involving Batman thus are a much higher quality usually and it's only fortunate that we are getting more of them.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

And I'd hope they're going to take a hard look at what it actually means to "work for a newspaper" in 2011.

Contrary to what many are trying to get out through their propaganda, there's still plenty of "working for a newspaper" jobs out there, including writing for the web, specialty projects, etc. Plus we still have a good decade or so before all the people who care about physical media die.

None of which really has much to do with the way the Daily Planet is portrayed in the comics (and even less so in the occasional movies).

 

[Admiral_Young]

It would seem we have our first spoilers regarding the relaunch...

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/green-lantern-covers-revealed-110713.html

It appears that

Spoiler: Green Lantern

Sinestro

has been welcomed back into the fold!!!

 

[Icemizer]

And well he should be.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ This might actually get me to read that comic now.

 

[Captain Craig]

It would seem we have our first spoilers regarding the relaunch...

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/green-lantern-covers-revealed-110713.html

It appears that

Spoiler: Green Lantern

Sinestro

has been welcomed back into the fold!!!

Well, why not.
I mean Jason Todd's sins have been white washed to the point he's the straightest arrow in the Outsiders book he's in.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Um actually Jason Todd is still going to be portrayed as the gun slinging vigilante he has been since he was brought back in "Red Hood and the Outsiders". The point of that book is that all of these characters have had violent checkered pasts as they come under Jason's leadership (which from the brief things I've read on the book seems to still not want anything to do with it at first) so nothing's been "whitewashed" away. It's more like they're embracing those qualities for this book. Jason has been Judd Winick's baby since Lost Days anyways so there is no way he's going to give up what makes him a bad ass character.

 

[scnj]

So excited about the Green Lantern news. Definitely picking up that book.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yay, Thaal!

He was far more entertaining as Hal's would-be mentor in Secret Origin or as Soranik's unwelcome father than as a moustache-twirler...despite having the 'stache for it.

 

[JoeZhang]

It would seem we have our first spoilers regarding the relaunch...

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/green-lantern-covers-revealed-110713.html

It appears that

Spoiler: Green Lantern

Sinestro

has been welcomed back into the fold!!!

Well, why not.
I mean Jason Todd's sins have been white washed to the point he's the straightest arrow in the Outsiders book he's in.

It's not quite what it appears and the event itself pleases nobody.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It's not quite what it appears and the event itself pleases nobody.

Sinestro or Jason? If Sinestro, yeah - I can't imagine the others would be at all happy...and in fact it'd be wasting a dramatic opportunity if they were.