^ I agree. We could see this finally come out next spring and end late summer/early August. I'm just glad that it's still coming out.
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I don't expect Multiversity to come out until he's either done with his run on Action or he's finished with Leviathan. I don't think Grant can write three books at a time (unless any one of them is already written (which may be the case for Multiversity since it's been in the works forever. Maybe Leviathan too.)
I dunno. Geoff Johns is his co-writer on "Multiversity" (or at least was) with I believe art by Andy Kubert (unless that's changed). This has been in the works since 09 and I believe last year Johns said a number of the scripts were already complete.
Well, I went and bought the second trade of the Threeboot Legion, Death of a Dream. It's still awesome. 
The title is a total fucking spoiler, though. But that's appropriate, because of what it spoils. It's meta. Get it?
It's not quite as fun as the first. The internal power struggle is resolved too quickly--it is resolved sensibly, and really the characters might have had to have been idiots not to resolve it, so this isn't a complaint, per se, just that it was my favorite part. Brainiac outsmarting Cos is classic.
(I will admit that Kitson's art, in parts, either 1)starts to get a little rushed or 2)is actually not Kitson's. The trade credits are really terrible in letting you know who's drawing what. It just says "additional art by" with no page numbers. Hell, the book doesn't have page numbers. Fair enough, I guess, $15 for 200 pages is, as Alfred E. Neuman might say, cheap, and you oughtn't expect frills like "proper attribution of work" in a cheap collection. But overall it is still a great-looking book, and the cover gallery includes a really swell one featuring Invisible Kid.)
The title is a total fucking spoiler, though. But that's appropriate, because of what it spoils. It's meta. Get it?
It's not quite as fun as the first. The internal power struggle is resolved too quickly--it is resolved sensibly, and really the characters might have had to have been idiots not to resolve it, so this isn't a complaint, per se, just that it was my favorite part. Brainiac outsmarting Cos is classic.
(I will admit that Kitson's art, in parts, either 1)starts to get a little rushed or 2)is actually not Kitson's. The trade credits are really terrible in letting you know who's drawing what. It just says "additional art by" with no page numbers. Hell, the book doesn't have page numbers. Fair enough, I guess, $15 for 200 pages is, as Alfred E. Neuman might say, cheap, and you oughtn't expect frills like "proper attribution of work" in a cheap collection. But overall it is still a great-looking book, and the cover gallery includes a really swell one featuring Invisible Kid.)
^ That particular character death and the way it was handled made me tear up. It was a very emotional arc and I loved how Waid wrote Brainy.
Only five or so years old, so...
Edit: oh, I forgot to mention an incredibly petty point! I wonder why Kitson took away her star tattoo? That's like making Brainiac blue or giving Element Lad a haircut that isn't preposterous.
I think she knew all along? That would make sense; I mean, her race, they're all precogs, and they're all mortal, so the part you can't see past is pretty obvious to them, if not--immediately--to us.
Poor Brainy didn't figure it out, but probably because he didn't want to.
I'm pretty sure I recall reading on wiki or somewhere that she comes back though. I think the only time a "dead" person got put in a tube and they failed to bring them back ever was when anti-zombifation advocate Battlestone hypocritically put Stasis in a Project Born Again revival unit in Brigade, but the Bloodstrike team (specifically Shogun) blew it up before Battlestone could finish the resurrection. Damn, now that's an obscure reference. I was an Image kid, it's true.
I am kind of surprised there was enough left of Dream Girl to put in a tube. I'm pretty sure corpses don't look that good after you drop a building on them.
Poor Brainy didn't figure it out, but probably because he didn't want to.
I'm pretty sure I recall reading on wiki or somewhere that she comes back though. I think the only time a "dead" person got put in a tube and they failed to bring them back ever was when anti-zombifation advocate Battlestone hypocritically put Stasis in a Project Born Again revival unit in Brigade, but the Bloodstrike team (specifically Shogun) blew it up before Battlestone could finish the resurrection. Damn, now that's an obscure reference. I was an Image kid, it's true.
I am kind of surprised there was enough left of Dream Girl to put in a tube. I'm pretty sure corpses don't look that good after you drop a building on them.
Edit: oh, I forgot to mention an incredibly petty point! I wonder why Kitson took away her star tattoo? That's like making Brainiac blue or giving Element Lad a haircut that isn't preposterous.
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This is an interesting article.
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/10-stories-that-might-not-fit-in-the-dcnu-110708.html
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/10-stories-that-might-not-fit-in-the-dcnu-110708.html
There's an awful lot of overthinking in that article. Most of the questions raised there aren't likely to come up in any significant form.
Maybe DC will finally figure out what network soap opera writers and producers have been doing for decades - it's called "retiring continuity." Basically, soap characters live in a world where over the years dozens of people known to the main characters have been murdered, characters have been married and divorced and married and divorced, contracted fatal diseases...
...so after a while, they just stop remembering things that happened long enough ago. They don't mention them at all.
Crisis On Infinite Earths? No reason the subject should ever come up. Etc, etc and so forth...
Maybe DC will finally figure out what network soap opera writers and producers have been doing for decades - it's called "retiring continuity." Basically, soap characters live in a world where over the years dozens of people known to the main characters have been murdered, characters have been married and divorced and married and divorced, contracted fatal diseases...
...so after a while, they just stop remembering things that happened long enough ago. They don't mention them at all.
Crisis On Infinite Earths? No reason the subject should ever come up. Etc, etc and so forth...
I too thought there was a lot of over thinking in the article but there's still a lot of speculating being done with regards to the relaunch so these kinds of pieces are pretty much what the websites are up to until we get more information, or the books come out.
Here's what I want to know: what's Clark Kent like, and does he work for a newspaper at any point?
^ That was my point a few posts ago. I want the nitty gritty and DC isn't giving that yet for whatever reason. They're probably being vague as possible to get us to buy the books lol. I'm pretty sure Clark is going to be a reporter and working at the Daily Planet and be working with Lois Lane. Everything else though is what I want to know.
And I'd hope they're going to take a hard look at what it actually means to "work for a newspaper" in 2011.
I get that the Newsarama article was going for a different angle, but my guess is most of what is left out will be what DC has already pretty much ignored: "Emerald Dawn," the Electric-Superman, Man of Steel/[/i]Birthright[/i], etc.
As far as Blackest Night, I'd say that definitely will be in the new continuity, given its importance for Green Lantern and the rainbow Corps. Also, it's been referenced in Flashpoint: Abin Sur as an event currently happening in the Flashpoint Universe due to Atrocitus killing William "Black" Hand earlier due to Hal not being a GL.
Hell, I'd say most of the stuff Geoff Johns has done is pretty safe, though the big question mark will be Wally.
As far as Blackest Night, I'd say that definitely will be in the new continuity, given its importance for Green Lantern and the rainbow Corps. Also, it's been referenced in Flashpoint: Abin Sur as an event currently happening in the Flashpoint Universe due to Atrocitus killing William "Black" Hand earlier due to Hal not being a GL.
Hell, I'd say most of the stuff Geoff Johns has done is pretty safe, though the big question mark will be Wally.
Haven't they been saying from the beginning that Green Lantern will be staying pretty much the same? If it's not changing that much, then I would assume that would mean BN is remaining. I'll admit I haven't read it yet, but everything I've read about it makes it seem like it's a really big part of the GL storyline, and that getting rid of it would bring about a lot of changes.
I think the article was commenting on the deaths that occurred regarding the characters who became Black Lanterns would be negated. We know though that DC has said that Death of Superman happened...at least I think they said that.
Maybe Supes will take rescue requests via Twitter.
@Superman Giant gorilla attacking subway at Centennial Park station. #OHGODWEREGONNADIE
@Superman Giant gorilla attacking subway at Centennial Park station. #OHGODWEREGONNADIE
I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but DC's The Source blog has been running a series of interviews with the writers and artists behind The New 52. They asked each of them the same questions:
You have to scroll down past all of the Flashpoint stuff to get to the first (or last I guess since they go forward in time as you go up) interview, which was with Fabian Nicieza.
Interesting I think that's the first time Fabian has been interviewed on Legion Lost. Paul Levitz's commented a bit about it earlier last month but not on the plot details.
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