DC Comics to relaunch everything with #1s in June 2016
#401
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I think DC has already decided it's getting retconned and it wouldn't surprise me to see it classified as an Elseworlds in the future.
#402
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Re: DC Comics to relaunch everything with #1s in June 2016
It will simply be ignored, kinda like Identity Crisis and Zero Hour are today
#404
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I really don't want to start collecting monthly comics again, but they're finally bringing back the Legion (and the JSA):
https://www.newsarama.com/45584-legi...w-ongoing.html
https://www.newsarama.com/45584-legi...w-ongoing.html
#405
DVD Talk Hero
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I really don't want to start collecting monthly comics again, but they're finally bringing back the Legion (and the JSA):
https://www.newsarama.com/45584-legi...w-ongoing.html
https://www.newsarama.com/45584-legi...w-ongoing.html
#406
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I enjoyed a lot of Bendis' Marvel work but I read his Man of Steel mini-series and hated it. Here's hoping the Legion turns out better. My biggest concern is that I haven't read the Legion since the 90s and may not recognize it with all that's gone on since.
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So, I just purchased the first 2 Justice League of America Omnibus collections, covering the Silver Age.
Can't wait to get the 2 Bronze Age volumes as well.
I'm so disappointed to hear that Bronze Age Volume 3 has been cancelled by DC!
That sucks, sucks, sucks!
Can't wait to get the 2 Bronze Age volumes as well.
I'm so disappointed to hear that Bronze Age Volume 3 has been cancelled by DC!
That sucks, sucks, sucks!
#409
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Supposedly it may get out broken up into smaller trades. The wave of cancellations were largely due to a huge drop in trades sales in the bookstore market during 2018. Apparently sales at Barnes & Noble dropped a ton.
#410
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I was surprised that one got canceled. DC overloaded the market with questionable omnibuses and declining value propositions. The problem is that it's the same small base of hardcore buyers getting all of them, of which I am one. But I had to start cutting back when DC started releasing too many in a short timespan.
Supposedly it may get out broken up into smaller trades. The wave of cancellations were largely due to a huge drop in trades sales in the bookstore market during 2018. Apparently sales at Barnes & Noble dropped a ton.
Supposedly it may get out broken up into smaller trades. The wave of cancellations were largely due to a huge drop in trades sales in the bookstore market during 2018. Apparently sales at Barnes & Noble dropped a ton.
#411
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Yes, dumping all those books at once at Ollies definitely made trade shoppers think twice about buying new trades. I just never expected to see trades hit that pricing en masse.
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I was surprised that one got canceled. DC overloaded the market with questionable omnibuses and declining value propositions. The problem is that it's the same small base of hardcore buyers getting all of them, of which I am one. But I had to start cutting back when DC started releasing too many in a short timespan.
Supposedly it may get out broken up into smaller trades. The wave of cancellations were largely due to a huge drop in trades sales in the bookstore market during 2018. Apparently sales at Barnes & Noble dropped a ton.
Supposedly it may get out broken up into smaller trades. The wave of cancellations were largely due to a huge drop in trades sales in the bookstore market during 2018. Apparently sales at Barnes & Noble dropped a ton.
I hope DC does release a Justice League of America continuation in some archival manner at some time. I guess that's all we can do - hope.
#413
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Re: DC Comics to relaunch everything with #1s in June 2016
I was surprised that one got canceled. DC overloaded the market with questionable omnibuses and declining value propositions. The problem is that it's the same small base of hardcore buyers getting all of them, of which I am one. But I had to start cutting back when DC started releasing too many in a short timespan.
Supposedly it may get out broken up into smaller trades. The wave of cancellations were largely due to a huge drop in trades sales in the bookstore market during 2018. Apparently sales at Barnes & Noble dropped a ton.
Supposedly it may get out broken up into smaller trades. The wave of cancellations were largely due to a huge drop in trades sales in the bookstore market during 2018. Apparently sales at Barnes & Noble dropped a ton.
#414
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Re: DC Comics to relaunch everything with #1s in June 2016
One character that keeps getting screwed over and over for the past 10 years has been Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. He died pre-New 52, killed by Maxwell Lord. Then he reappeared in 2014 during the New 52 as a teen in college, around the Forever Evil storyline, but it was just a cameo. Then, at the end of the New 52 run, an adult Ted shows up in Grant Morrison's Pax Americana. Rebirth happened and Ted Kord shows up in the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle series. After that, he is helping Booster Gold run from the Justice League because Booster apparently had killed a lot of heroes. Months later, he had a brief but memorable appearance in Doomsday Clock, fighting Dr. Manhattan. From then on, he's been MIA until today. Suicide Squad #5, released today, has Ted Kord
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One character that keeps getting screwed over and over for the past 10 years has been Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. He died pre-New 52, killed by Maxwell Lord. Then he reappeared in 2014 during the New 52 as a teen in college, around the Forever Evil storyline, but it was just a cameo. Then, at the end of the New 52 run, an adult Ted shows up in Grant Morrison's Pax Americana. Rebirth happened and Ted Kord shows up in the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle series. After that, he is helping Booster Gold run from the Justice League because Booster apparently had killed a lot of heroes. Months later, he had a brief but memorable appearance in Doomsday Clock, fighting Dr. Manhattan. From then on, he's been MIA until today. Suicide Squad #5, released today, has Ted Kord
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Other candidates for most screwed over by constant reboots:
Wally West. What they did to him is criminal (I have no idea if they reverted it)
The entirety of the Teen Titans. Because they are by definition legacy heroes, so removing legacy screws them over
The JSA. They were stuck in literal limbo for a long time, and again, legacy heroes. Somehow they thought it was a great idea to make them a new generation of heroes in New 52 Earth 2.
The Legion of Superheroes. The future always gets messed up when you mess with Superman and such. They were almost untouched by the New 52 as far as premise goes, but split into two books and both got canned. And now I hear Bendis isn't doing them any favors.
#416
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Re: DC Comics to relaunch everything with #1s in June 2016
It seems that the story that was supposed to be part of the FCBD DC book featuring Wally West has been released as part of the TPB of Flash Forward. I guess the story ties-in now more with Dark Knights: Metal that moving forward with the 5G concept. Spoilers ahead
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#417
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So Wally West plays Editor in Chief and picks and chooses continuity? Didn't we just have a Flash do this and muck up the universe only for them to unmuck it?
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Re: DC Comics to relaunch everything with #1s in June 2016
Based on a Bleeding Cool article today, 5G may be retrofitted to a DC imprint showing a possible "future" of the DCU.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/goss...athan-kent-5g/
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/goss...athan-kent-5g/
#419
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Re: DC Comics to relaunch everything with #1s in June 2016
Based on a Bleeding Cool article today, 5G may be retrofitted to a DC imprint showing a possible "future" of the DCU.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/goss...athan-kent-5g/
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/goss...athan-kent-5g/
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#421
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#422
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Not saying that's what it is, but I'd love to be proven wrong. I mean we just got like 8 or so evil versions of Batman crossed with various superheroes, and now that's basically the majority of what Todd is producing in his toy line.
#423
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will skip, just like Metal.
#424
DVD Talk Hero
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Wait, is that a... bat symbol on WW's belt buckle?