Travis McClain

Maybe what happened is they started a year's worth of issues back in the 90s and it's taken them this long to get them ready for publication.

Timber

Guess they couldn't drag Joe Madureira away from the Playstation long enough to do 4 issues a year.

Sonic

That gives me flashbacks when Image comics started out and groups like Wildcats, Cyberforce, Gen13 were born.

PhantomStranger

Take away that Superman symbol and I would bet money that cover was from an old Image comic.

kgrogers1979

Another pic and more info on Teen Titans

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/...teen-titans-1/

So the long-standing relationships between Tim, Conner, Bart, and Cassie are going to be completely wiped away.

stingermck

At least thats better artwork...

stingermck

Marvel just announced Uncanny X-Men is ending with #544. So theres another long running title gone.

MBoyd

They will always be the uncanny x-men in my mind.

Timber

Now this is one that hits home for me. The largest run I have on any comic is Uncanny but seeing as I have collected since before the Austen run I won't complain too much.

fujishig

Read the article, it's about how Liefeld drew most of the last issue sideways (without telling anyone until the pages were done), and the editor had to cut them up to place them right-side up and Kesel had to lightbox them back onto pages. Basically, Liefeld had seen that the last time that "Chaos realm" was used, it was drawn sideways, so he just decided to do it without consulting the writer, editors, or anyone else. Years later, of course, he would have his sideways comic with that Spiderman/X-Force issue.

And it looks like they did take away that Superman symbol to make it more like an old-school Image comic!

The rumor is that Lee, at least, has been working on JLA for a while so there should be no delays/fill-ins in the first year. We'll see. What I find odd is that, following the Image model, they are giving a lot of artists first-time writing gigs. I wonder how many of these 52 they are really expecting to last. Even if that Voodoo book turns out to be incredible, who's buying that?

edited to add: Booth posted some answers about the Titans book:

http://www.titanstower.com/monitor/?p=3155

That's Bart and Cassie. Apparently the black mess is "Charcoal Girl" not sure if he's serious about that name. The little characters are after-image effects and the taped up paper on Conner's back is a Kid Flash joke, he put some "wildstorm" into that spider girl character, and he pretty much admits that this is like a throwback to the 90's, saying that the current pre-reboot stuff is like an '80s throwback, so keep an open mind. While there are good things about the 90's, I wouldn't count classic Image design sense and storytelling as one of them.

stingermck

Good article with Snyder about how Batman is not a relaunch, and everything will be explained in story:

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dcnu...ch-110609.html

fujishig

Martian Manhunter in Stormwatch with members of the Authority (but with Cornell writing)... and a Grifter title announced. I'll give them this, they certainly are going for a diverse lineup, since they have a western book, Sgt. Rock, and Blackhawks, and a Kirby throw-back in OMAC.

madcougar

This interview makes it sound much more like a relaunch than a reboot.

I for one continue thinking that with next year's company wide crossover, THIS entire... universe? will go kaput and most of the old titles will return from whence they came. Even if a handful of these other titles make it, then that's a bonus for DC as characters like Voodoo and Grifter were just sitting in a filing cabinet somewhere collecting dust.

kgrogers1979

Pics of Superman, Supergirl, and (a different?) Superboy have been leaked.

Is it me or does Superman appear to be wearing armor? Why does he even need armor? Superboy also looks very different from the one from the Teen Titans pics. Cyborg-Superboy? Superboy-Prime?

fujishig

Wait, so if those are 3 different books, that only leaves one book unannounced?

stingermck

Cyborg Superboy looks cool, but these other redesigns are just too damn 90's

kgrogers1979

As of today, 46 have been announced. 47-52 are still coming, so there are six titles left. Superman and Action will definitely be two of them. Supergirl and Superboy are apparently two others. That leaves two more. The JSA is absent so far, so that could be one. Also nothing has been said about Wally West.

It really sucks that Conner is getting his own solo book but Tim is not. Tim has had his own solo book since Knightfall when Jean-Paul kicked him out. To not have his own book now is a disgrace. Heck, its even worse that Jason Todd is getting his own book, but Tim isn't.

fujishig

Wait, that Superboy isn't the same as in Teen Titans, right? Was it Didio that said that all past Robins would get a book, and Tim's book was Teen Titans? Well, except for Stephanie, apparently.

I can't see Wally getting a second Flash book, seeing as how Johns pushed him to the side (and I don't remember seeing him again outside of that lame intervention they had) to make room for Barry in the first place. Also I don't think I've seen James Robinson in any of these solicits... granted, I didn't like his Justice League book, but I'm still surprised, since all the rumors were that he was going to get Hawkman. He would seem to fit in for a JSA book, but we'll see.

The current Superboy book is actually really good (I know the current Red Robin book is also really good), though that's all thrown out the window now. I'd be more ticked that Grifter, Voodoo, Batwing, Resurrection Man, and a Liefeld Hawk and Dove got a book before Tim did...

madcougar

Yep because George Perez is TOTALLY a 90s style artist...

Almost done with the announcements and no book for Dustin Nguyen yet... weird.

madcougar

I'll be damned. You're right - that looks like armor. Plus his traditional red outer-wear are gone!

MBoyd

Yah, look for an armor costume in the new movie. Thanks Snyder!

brayzie

Jim Lee designed the costumes.

I kind of like Image costumes from the 90s, some of them. Every era had something good about it. But these loos like the excessive, extreme, superfluous designs that ended up being generic, and soon-to-be parodied. Superman and Supergirl look almost like action figures.

The more and more I hear about this relaunch the less interested I am in actually even flipping through these books.

movieguru

Why are Supermans eye's alway glowing red when jim Lee draws him?

Timber

That's George Perez.

brayzie

It looks cool and he has heat vision, so I guess when he gets angry his eyes turn red, ready to burn someone.