DC to REBOOT???
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It will last longer than that "care bear" sounding GL: New Guardians.
What, Kyle Rayner won't pull them in? 
Dan "Turgid" Jurgens on JLI? DOES THIS MEAN THE LONG-AWAITED RETURN OF BLOODWYND?
Seriously, that's kind of crap. I was hoping against hope that this would be what Giffen and deMatteis were doing after Booster Gold. I didn't really expect it, because no one actually bought Booster Gold, because comics people are weak and vile creatures.
(And in fairness, Maxima was actually kind of cool.)
Anyway, after having thought about this for a while, I've come to make the following ovservations:
1)It's personally annoying that cape comics publishers are trying for new readers because of an aging/dying audience, despite the fact that our best actuarial science indicates that I won't meet the Black Racer for some forty years;
2)The DCU does in fact have a lot wrong with it, and so I understand why a reboot may be necessary or at least desirable--HOWEVER, almost everything that is wrong with the DCU has been inflicted upon it by the very same people who are now set to recreate the universe. While usually you want people to pick up after themselves, you don't task serial arsonists with cleaning your house.
3)It is absolutely true that DC doesn't owe me, personally, jack shit. They wouldn't even if I bought their entire line every Wednesday, but I have even less standing to really complain. I buy Secret Six and I bought Action Comics and I bought one more issue of Booster Gold than I meant to because Dan Jurgens caught me by surprise. And I buy trades of things I might be interested in. But overall, I am a very bad comic book buyer. So I cannot quite hate them.
However, like Pilate, I can wash my hands of the whole sorry mess.
4)That Jim Lee JLA cover is one of the most hideous images I've ever seen to headline a marquee comic. Good Lord. In fairness to Lee, it's mostly the coloring, but the blocking and the linework is not exactly "good" either. Also, I know backgrounds are boring, Jim, but when you're one of the top artists in the industry, and trying to push to the civilians, do you really have a valid excuse for that?
5)What happened to Grant Morrison, man? The Invisibles? The Filth? Hell, JLA was fun. The guy used to be cool. Now he wants to ruin Superman. All-Star was the shit, granted. All-Star was a self-contained story. No one wants to read Watchmen: The Adventures Continue. Why would anyone be excited about a Grant Morrison Superman?
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My interpretation was that they were simply giving these characters slightly younger and fresher outlooks, and not weighing them down with so much experience and continuity as before.
I mean, a lot of characters like Supes and Batman may still be drawn as if they're in their mid-30s, but their personalities often seemed to reflect someone who's been around MUCH longer than that (because, well, they have).
Admiral_Young said:
I have a vague theory--I don't really believe it, but it's fun to entertain--that Johns is now deliberately desecrating Alan Moore concepts, as a form of revenge against the old man for some comments a few years back, along the lines of "that guy whose name I can't remember can't do anything but recycle my old ideas."
Like I said, probably not true, but it's enjoyable to imagine Johns writing Brightest Day and shouting aloud to no one in particular, "Fuck you, grandpa, I don't need any 'Anatomy Lessons' from you!"
I guessing Denny O'Neill and Marshall Rogers are out of the question.
Maybe he saw Liefeld's success and wondered why he was busting his ass when any old shit will sell?
What old idea of Alan Moore's did Geoff Johns recycle again?
Johns borrows from Moore's GL story in setting up Sector 666.
Liefeld has success?
Hound of Ulster said:
At the time, not very much--Tales of the Green Lantern Corps concepts, like Mogo, Sodom Yat, the Five inversions, Blackest Night. Alan Moore was almost certainly commenting in ignorance, and being not a little bit of a dick. At the time, Johns was doing nothing but building on some of Moore's ideas, which of course is hardly dissimilar to what Moore did with, oh, every damned thing he's ever written.
Which is why I can see why Johns might've been pissed off, but was too diplomatic and/or well-positioned to just tell Moore to go fuck himself, ala Jason Aaron. Why insult someone in a blog when you can, with a little planning, eviscerate a man's art?
But like I said, I don't think this is really the case. It's just fun make-believe. Alec Holland is alive and John Constantine came back to the DCU for no more an interesting reason than Johns likes to rejuvenate intellectual properties that may at some point become profitable and/or fun for him to work with. Johns isn't actually evil, you see, just misguided.
If Johns ever did something with the Watchmen characters, though, I might actually come to believe in my own paranoid fantasy.
(Now if Morrison does it, it's because--as I understand it--Morrison actually does have a long-standing antagonism with Moore--at least on a professional level--which, while very much self-hype on Morrison's part during his formative years, is real.)
Since Rogers is dead, he is totally out of the question.
If any industry had the ability to bring their workers back from the dead after major decrees from top executives...
Rich posted this interesting article yesterday...
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06...-conspiracy-that-just-happens-not-to-be-true/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06...-conspiracy-that-just-happens-not-to-be-true/
Can somebody translate what is actually being said in that article?
Does anyone have a complete list of the comics that have been announced so far? Here is what I have found in no particular order:
1. Action Comics
2. Superman
3. Justice League
4. Justice League International
5. Teen Titans
6. Legion Lost
7. Batman
8. Detective Comics
9. Birds of Prey
10. Batwoman
11. Green Arrow
12. Firestorm
13. Wonder Woman
14. Aquaman
15. Mr. Terrific
16. Hawkman
17. Green Lantern
18. Green Lantern Corps
19. Red Lanterns
20. Green Lantern: Rainbow Force (kidding)
21. The Flash
22. Supergirl
23. DC Comics Presents
24. Adventure Comics
Bleeding Cool has mentioned several other titles, including Batgirl, Nightwing, Grifter, and Vigilante.
Going by the DC Blog, The Source the titles (and creative teams) DC has officially announced are:
1. Justice League by Geoff Johns, with art by Jim Lee
2. Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello, with art by Cliff Chiang
3. Aquaman by Geoff Johns, with art byIvan Reis
4. The Flash by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato, with Manapul on art
5. Firestorm by Ethan Van Sciver and Gail Simone, with art by Yildiray Cinar
6. The Savage Hawkman by Tony Daniel, with art by Phillip Tan
7. Green Arrow by JT Krul, with art by Dan Jurgens
8. Justice League International by Dan Jurgens, with art by Aaron Lopresti
9. Captain Atom by JT Krul, with art by Freddie Williams II
10. DC Universe Presents with the first arc focusing on Deadman by Paul Jenkins, with art by Bernard Chang
11. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, with art by Doug Mahnke and Christian Alamy
12. Green Lantern Corps by Peter J. Tomasi, with art by Fernando Pasarin and Scott Hanna
13. Green Lantern: The New Guardians by Tony Bedard, with art by Tyler Kirkham and Batt
14. Red Lanterns by Peter Milligan, with art by Ed Benes and Rob Hunter
1. Justice League by Geoff Johns, with art by Jim Lee
2. Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello, with art by Cliff Chiang
3. Aquaman by Geoff Johns, with art byIvan Reis
4. The Flash by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato, with Manapul on art
5. Firestorm by Ethan Van Sciver and Gail Simone, with art by Yildiray Cinar
6. The Savage Hawkman by Tony Daniel, with art by Phillip Tan
7. Green Arrow by JT Krul, with art by Dan Jurgens
8. Justice League International by Dan Jurgens, with art by Aaron Lopresti
9. Captain Atom by JT Krul, with art by Freddie Williams II
10. DC Universe Presents with the first arc focusing on Deadman by Paul Jenkins, with art by Bernard Chang
11. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, with art by Doug Mahnke and Christian Alamy
12. Green Lantern Corps by Peter J. Tomasi, with art by Fernando Pasarin and Scott Hanna
13. Green Lantern: The New Guardians by Tony Bedard, with art by Tyler Kirkham and Batt
14. Red Lanterns by Peter Milligan, with art by Ed Benes and Rob Hunter
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