DC to REBOOT???

[Misfit Toy]

Yes, but we are not talking about world events here that will affect someone's life. We're talking about comics. Stories. Clearly, DC had a plan on how they were going to reveal this information, and Bleeding Cool decided to blow it.

I kinda see it along the lines of a news site spoiling a movie ending.

The sites are either news sites or shills reprinting PR releases. What Bleeding Cool did was completely appropriate, and as a result they're now on my short list of sites to check during the day.

Agreed - I added them to my list after the story broke too.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

With the way the generations of younger characters have kind of got caught in a bottleneck - hampered by the inability to have the core characters age beyond a certain point - I wonder if they're not going to rework things so that the original generation of sidekicks are closer to being contemporaries of the big gun heroes, leaving the teen roles to the follow-on generation.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yes, but we are not talking about world events here that will affect someone's life. We're talking about comics. Stories. Clearly, DC had a plan on how they were going to reveal this information, and Bleeding Cool decided to blow it.

I kinda see it along the lines of a news site spoiling a movie ending.

The sites are either news sites or shills reprinting PR releases. What Bleeding Cool did was completely appropriate, and as a result they're now on my short list of sites to check during the day.

Agreed - I added them to my list after the story broke too.

I see that "DC Reboot" is now an item on the site's main menu bar.

 

[Shazam!]

Hopefully a DC reboot will remove the 1 million superheroes that no-one gives any kind of shit about and just gives us the 10 or so that people do.

 

[Icemizer]

^Unless of course they remove the one superhero you like that noone else does. The huge size of the DC universe has always been a strong point for me.

 

[Misfit Toy]

I wonder if the changes will bring about an co$tly update to DC Universe Online...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

DC announces ten of their new post-Flashpoint series.

It's interesting that Batman is in both Justice League and Justice League International. Could we still have two (or more) Batmen in the post-Flashpoint world?

 

[Thestral]

Yes, but we are not talking about world events here that will affect someone's life. We're talking about comics. Stories. Clearly, DC had a plan on how they were going to reveal this information, and Bleeding Cool decided to blow it.

I kinda see it along the lines of a news site spoiling a movie ending.

The sites are either news sites or shills reprinting PR releases. What Bleeding Cool did was completely appropriate, and as a result they're now on my short list of sites to check during the day.

Agreed - I added them to my list after the story broke too.

I'm with Broccoli. I wouldn't appreciate it if somebody broadcast where everybody can see the ending of, say, Harry Potter 6, or what happened to Rory Williams at the end of Cold Blood. It's not real life, it's storytelling.

 

[Misfit Toy]

It's not real life, it's storytelling.

When websites make $$ from running news stories, it's news. IMO, anyway.

DC announces ten of their new post-Flashpoint series.

It's interesting that Batman is in both Justice League and Justice League International. Could we still have two (or more) Batmen in the post-Flashpoint world?

I also noted the Fury of Firestorm title returning. I wonder what he's furious about this time?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The sites are either news sites or shills reprinting PR releases. What Bleeding Cool did was completely appropriate, and as a result they're now on my short list of sites to check during the day.

Agreed - I added them to my list after the story broke too.

I'm with Broccoli. I wouldn't appreciate it if somebody broadcast where everybody can see the ending of, say, Harry Potter 6, or what happened to Rory Williams at the end of Cold Blood. It's not real life, it's storytelling.

Lots of people don't appreciate news reporting when it's news that they don't want to hear for some reason or another. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with reporting news, and there's nothing wrong with what BleedingCool did.

This is news about a major change in the business practices of a corporation. It is not about "spoiling" some story for someone (and frankly I think people who are horrified by spoilers would do better to get off the Internet than expect the world to coddle them).

Simone is going to Firestorm, huh? And Carter Hall is an archaeologist again...

 

[Thestral]

Bah. Just another reason why deep down I'm naively opposed to capitalism. And if (hypothetically, because comics readership isn't big) mass numbers of people were to walk away disgusted because they don't know the whole story?

Sweet, Mr. Terrific's got his own series! Not sure about the costume, but he deserves his own book.

ETA: Yeah, they may not appreciate it but it's typically not done for self-aggrandizing reasons. You tell somebody they have cancer not to steal the cancer's thunder but because they need to know they have cancer. It's not a big deal ultimately in any way, but I can understand being miffed an incomplete or ill-prepared version of the news was reported.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I'm surprised DC managed to keep a lid on news this big for so long. The odds that they'd keep it secret until June 11th were slim.

Green Arrow still has his goatee. I thought they might ditch it and go back to the clean-shaven look. Hawkman is Carter Hall, archaeologist, again. That Cliff Chiang cover for Wonder Woman #1 is awesome.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yeah, most of the art accompanying these announcements is at least interesting.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Green Arrow still has his goatee. I thought they might ditch it and go back to the clean-shaven look. Hawkman is Carter Hall, archaeologist, again. That Cliff Chiang cover for Wonder Woman #1 is awesome.

The cover for Justice League International features what might be a black haired Black Canary...

 

[I Grok Spock]

I am curious to see how Marvel responds. I've subscribed to their online service for about a year, and have found it a cost-effective and convenient way to read back issues. I'm currently working my way through the early 60s, month-by-month. My initial guess would be a premium-level subscription to access new issues on day and date.

I see that DC sells digital copies individually through some sort of reader app. Can you re-download issues once you've purchased them?

 

[FreezeC77]

Wow are people really complaining because a web site reported this before DC got to make their big announcement to the press?

What's next? Complaining about CNN announcing someone is running for President before they hold an official press conference?

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I see that DC sells digital copies individually through some sort of reader app. Can you re-download issues once you've purchased them?

DC uses Comixology. It's an app whereby you pay for a comic and then you can access it via Comixology any time you want. You can read the comics in full page mode or in a guided mode which enlarges panels.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Two concerns about the digital side of this story:

1. A comic book page is a piece of art. It isn't a bunch of individual, unrelated frames stuck together on a page randomly. There is flow and composition to the entire page, as well as to the individual frame. I think that often gets lost when viewing digitally.

2. I don't know what format they're going to use, but in the past Marvel has released their archives in pdf format, which looks terrible. Why don't these companies embrace .cbr format, which looks so much better and is actually designed for the viewing of comic books online?

 

[Checkmate]

What are you on about? A ".cbr" is nothing but a RAR file full of jpegs, and "comic book readers" are nothing but a slideshow for those jpegs. PDF files can be much higher quality, much more convenient, can easily be printed and reformatted, and set to display in any number of methods.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Ultimately PDFs are the superior format.