DC Comics Reboot

[coyote6]

For those of you who are disappointed/unhappy with the reboot, I'm curious about how many DC comics you currently buy each month.

23, give or take. Most of which appear likely to be heavily affected by DC Heroes Reborn, and I am not sanguine about the changes being improvements. In fact, it seems likely that my favorite books won't exist (Simone's BoP & Secret Six, Power Girl, etc.).

When was the last time Jim Lee drew a monthly book, on time, for more than a handful of months? The Clinton administration?

I agree with Villano- Didio promises a lot, but the delivery & execution haven't always been there. They haven't been able to get away from stupid big event crossovers, with the requisite deaths of one or more B-characters (often minorities), or any of the other clinches that have been running through comics for the last decade or two. It's the same guys at the top, so why should this be any different?

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[Relique du Madde]

Part of the reason is because DC lost the rights to superman's origin story to the point were Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Daily Planet, Krypton, Supernman's Iconic S uniform, etc can no longer exist (but DC created elements of the characters related to Superman can).

The court's ruling goes into effect in a few months, so if the Flash Point triggered universe write is a perminant lasting change its only so that DC can properly own all of their origin stories/characters and prevent an other family's estate from regaining control of a character huge parts of a character's mythology. If not, then this is only part of the DCU retcon process and things will be back in about 5 or 10 years as per DCU's various "Crisises."

 

[jonesy]

Part of the reason is because DC lost the rights to superman's origin story to the point were Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Daily Planet, Krypton, Supernman's Iconic S uniform, etc no longer exists.

Really? That's hilarious. No, wait, I mean confusing. Who got the rights?

 

[Relique du Madde]

Really? That's hilarious. No, wait, I mean confusing. Who got the rights?

Jerry Siegel's and Joe Shuster's family estates. What makes things confusing is that understanding what their ownership entitles since "Superman" is owned by DC, but that superman is essentially the same as the Superman DC lost the rights to since the DC IP was added ontop of the Siegel/Shuster IP.

 

[Klaus]

Part of the reason is because DC lost the rights to superman's origin story to the point were Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Daily Planet, Krypton, Supernman's Iconic S uniform, etc can no longer exist (but DC created elements of the characters related to Superman can).

The court's ruling goes into effect in a few months, so if the Flash Point triggered universe write is a perminant lasting change its only so that DC can properly own all of their origin stories/characters and prevent an other family's estate from regaining control of a character huge parts of a character's mythology. If not, then this is only part of the DCU retcon process and things will be back in about 5 or 10 years as per DCU's various "Crisises."

That's wrong in a variety of levels. First, the rights issue is strictly about Action Comics #1. That means Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, the Daily Star, period. Most of what we associate with Superman, like Luthor, Kryptonite, Perry & Jimmy, flying, heat vision, etc, was create much later. And second, the (vicious) legal battle is ongoing.

 

[Welverin]

So, does this mean we'll never see Action Comics #1,000?

Of course not, they'll just pull a Marvel, which is what this stinks of, and when it's time for the anniversary issue they'll just go back to the original numbering.

 

[Pinotage]

Of course not, they'll just pull a Marvel, which is what this stinks of, and when it's time for the anniversary issue they'll just go back to the original numbering.

Like they did with Adventure Comics? Rebooted to Issue 0 with something like issue 512, and then not even 10 issues later reverted back to the original numbering.

Pinotage

 

[Klaus]

Like they did with Adventure Comics? Rebooted to Issue 0 with something like issue 512, and then not even 10 issues later reverted back to the original numbering.

Pinotage

... and Wonder Woman, who merged all of her volumes in time for issue 600.

Personally, I don't understand the problem with high issue numbers. Never stopped me, as a kid, from buying a comic, be it The Incredible Hulk, Visionnaires or LoSH.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Personally, I don't understand the problem with high issue numbers. Never stopped me, as a kid, from buying a comic, be it The Incredible Hulk, Visionnaires or LoSH.

I think it comes down to a small number of people deciding not to start a comic as a result of wrongly thinking that they would neee to buy 769 issues just to know what's going on. In reality it often comes down to going onto a message board and asking "what trades should I read to know what is currently happening?"

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Dammit. I was rather enjoying picking up the trades for Secret Six.

Brad