Neil deGrasse Tyson helps Superman locate Krypton

[Hound of UIster]

Good story. Too bad Fisch won't be writing after Morrison leaves.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I thought it blew up.

It still did. But light travels at a certain speed... so... on Earth...

Superman and Wonder Woman are an item now. Lois Lane has pretty much been made a background character. These kids in charge now have no clue, only that to them, changing things is the only way to make them "better."

And they might be right. The nu52 has been selling VERY well.... and really, isn't that what a business wants to do, sell its product?

I think the changes in Supes' costume also has something to do with the settlement that finally happened between DC and the estates of Siegel and Schuster.

I hadn't heard that. And I don't know why it would matter to any sort of settlement--which hasn't happened, litigation is still going on. I think they just thought, why is there underwear on the outside?

If anything, they did it to tie in with the movie's costume. But, there's no evidence of collaboration on it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

There was a settlement in the S&S heirs vs Warner/DC case? Even if true, I doubt that would cause a costume change. Most of the licensed product I see uses the pre52 costume.

 

[Admiral_Young]

The heirs are getting ready to appeal the decision, but yes there was a settlement reached last month. I posted the link in the New 52 thread if you wanna go back a few pages to read it.

 

[Professor Zoom]

The heirs are getting ready to appeal the decision, but yes there was a settlement reached last month. I posted the link in the New 52 thread if you wanna go back a few pages to read it.

I'll have to go back, but your sentence doesn't make sense, if the two parties have reached a settlement, what is there to appeal?

From what I understood there was a settlement years ago, but because of the change in copyright law, they used that as an opportunity to relitgate and essentially break the previous settlement.

 

[Roshi]

Should we start calling that star 'Rao' now?

 

[DEWLine]

In that corner of the larger DC multiverse, apparently so.

Previous backstory versions in other parts of that multiverse have referenced - in reverse chronological order - a star in the Andromeda Galaxy, an unidentified red dwarf 50+ lightyears away, and Antares.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Here's an article on the appeal.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/superman-heirs-dc-comics-appeal-copyright-case.html

Pretty sure the star is still called Rao in the New 52. I recall the word being stated by Clark's ship in the first arc of Action Comics, while addressing Clark it says "El-Rao".

 

[Professor Zoom]

Here's an article on the appeal.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/superman-heirs-dc-comics-appeal-copyright-case.html

Yeah, that was stuff I knew. You had mentioned there was a settlement made a few months ago they were appealing... That's what confused me. There's no settlement. There's ongoing litigation.

There was an agreement a while ago... but that's what's being appealed.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

I've been out of the comics loop for awhile, but...what the hell happened to Superman's costume?

The New 52

Basically another universe reboot. Here's the whole Justice League:

Hmmm. So I guess 1930's wrestling shorts over tights are now out of fashion.