DC Comics Reboot

[Dire Bare]

A few years ago DC was rumored to do a "Ultimates" version of their universe. The closest that became was All-Star which was very limited in scope. Now they are doing it this way.

I don't buy comics like I used too (4 dollars apiece now!) but I hope they do well with it.

When Marvel did a similiar thing but kept it seperate (Ultimate series) it was very good. Maybe the same will happen here.

Actually, DC's comics are $2.99 both in print and virtual. Older back issues are sometimes $1.99.

 

[Klaus]

Actually, DC's comics are $2.99 both in print and virtual. Older back issues are sometimes $1.99.

New digital titles will drop from 2.99 to 1.99 after a month. Still too expensive, IMHO, but it's a step in the right direction.

As for "Ultimate DC", it happened in 1956.

 

[megamania]

Course it could be said they rebooted in 1985 with Crisis of Infinite Earths also.


As for price.... I rarely buy DC these days anyway.

 

[Klaus]

Course it could be said they rebooted in 1985 with Crisis of Infinite Earths also.


As for price.... I rarely buy DC these days anyway.

Re: Reboot in Crisis: the original plan was for the DCU to be totally relaunched from ground zero after Crisis. But that didn't happen. We had the Superman relaunch, we had Batman finding Jason Todd anew, but at the same time, we had the New Teen Titans going to Tamaran for Starfire's political marriage, Wally West being the Flash. And every time a DC icon would get a new "origin" miniseries (like Hawkworld), instead of setting it in the past, DC chose to launch a new series with the character being brand new to the DCU (in the case of Hawkman, this invalidated pretty much every post-Crisis appearance he had).

 

[Gentlegamer]

No cheesecake in the nuDCU?

Black Canary, Huntress . . . POWER GIRL!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Ron]

I hope DC know what they are doing. By releasing digital issues simultaneously with their paper counterparts, they will lose the push from the direct sales vendors. The move was unavoidable anyway but I am curious to see how this will work out.

On regard of the editorial direction, I am not thrilled. DC have great creative minds. However, they seem to be too concerned in bringing back the Silver Age concepts. I guess they read too many comics from the late 60s and early 70s when they were kids and are trying to recover that magic. Problem is I read those same comics when I was a kid and I hate them. I guess they are seeing with nostalgic eyes. As such, considering I could only return to DCU after the major clean up after Crisis, I don't think they will be able to capture my interest anymore.

It is also possible that I grow up and moved to be mainly a Vertigo reader that enjoy to rant over my old preferences.

 

[Villano]

Some more updates: Newsarama.com : DCnU | DC Revamp | UPDATE 7: More DCnU BATMAN Reveals, BATMAN, INC. Info

Lots of new info on upcoming bat-titles. It seems Batman, Inc is part of continuity, Bruce is back under the hood, Dick is Nightwing again, Damian is Robin and Jason Todd is the Red Hood.

Also, Gail Simone writing Batgirl = Good. Judd Winick writing Catwoman = Bad.

And I'm still confused by this reboot. I'm still not sure what is in continuity, what's actually been rebooted, who was made younger, and who's been erased. And what happened to Tim Drake?

 

[Villano]

I'm not sure if all of these have been confirmed, but here's a list of 43 of the 52 comics:

1. JLA#1 by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee
2. Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison and Rags Morales
3. Superman #1 by George Pérez
4. Superboy #1 by Scott Lobdell and…
5. Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.
6. Detective Comics #1 by Tony Daniel
7. Batgirl #1 by Gail Simone, Ardian Syaf and Vicente Cifuentes.
8. Batwoman #1 by J.H. Williams III, Haden Blackman and Amy Reeder
9. Catwoman #1 by Judd Winick and Guillem March
10. Red Hood And The Outlaws #1 by Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort
11. Batwing #1 by Judd Winick and Ben Oliver
12. Nightwing #1 by Kyle Higgins and Eddy Barrows
13. Batman And Robin #1 by Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason
14. Adventure Comics DC Universe Presents #1 by Paul Jenkins and Bernard Chang
15. Green Lantern #1 by Geoff Johns, Doug Mahnke and Christian Alamy.
16. Green Lantern Corps #1 by Peter J. Tomasi, Fernando Pasarin and Scott Hanna
17. Green Lanterns: New Guardians #1 by Tony Bedard, Tyler Kirkham and Batt.
18. Red Lanterns #1 by Peter Milligan, Ed Benes and Rob Hunter.
19. Animal Man #1 by Jeff Lemire and…
20. Swamp Thing #1 by Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette
21. Legion Lost #1 by … and Chris Batista?
22. Birds Of Prey #1 by Duane Swierczynski and Jesus Saiz
23. Teen Titans #1 by Fabian Nicieza Scott Lobdell, Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund
24. Savage Hawkman #1 by James Robinson Tony Daniel and Philip Tan
25. My Greatest Adventure #1 by Kevin Macguire and Aaron Lopresti (possibly for October)
26. Supergirl #1 by Brian Wood
27. Wonder Woman #1 by Brian Azzarello #1 and Cliff Chiang
28. Fury Of Firestorm #1 by Brian Clevinger Gail Simone, Ethan Van Sciver and Yildiray Cinar.
29. Aquaman #1 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis
30. Mr Terrific #1 by Eric Wallace and Roger Robinson
31. Flash #1 by Brian Buccellato and Francis Manapul
32. Green Arrow #1 by JT Krul and Dan Jurgens
33. Justice League International #1 by Dan Jurgens and Aaron Lopresti
34. Captain Atom #1 by JT Krul and Freddie Williams II
35. Grifter #1
36. Unnamed Legion book by … and Chris Batista?
37. OMAC #1 by Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen
38. Batman: The Dark Knight #1 by David Finch
39. Vigilante #1 by Darwyn Cooke?
40. Justice Society of America #1
41. Justice League Dark #1 by Peter Milligan and…
42. Demon Knights #1 by Paul Cornell and…
43. Frankenstein: Agent Of SHADE #1 by Jeff Lemire and…

Reading this list, one thing really stands out to me: We've got 4 Superman related titles, 10 or 11 Batman ones (if Birds of Prey counts), 4 GL books, and 4 Justice League/Society series. That's about half of the announced titles just in those four concepts. And I wouldn't be surprised if 4 or 5 of the remaining 9 series are related to Superman.

EDIT: Some more titles...

44. Resurrection Man #1 by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning with art by Fernando Dagnino.
45. I, Vampire #1 will be by Josh Fialkov and artist Andrea Sorrentino.
46. Voodoo #1 by Ron Marz with art by Sami Basri

 

[Kaodi]

See, this is why I feel like I could never seriously get into Marvel and DC Comics. Their universes are just so convoluted such that it is literally not worth the time.

The comic world needs new heroes who are not subjected to hideously inconsistent and non-sensical crossovers. Seriously, take a damn lesson from the Japanese manga industry.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

So the only confirmed Wildstorm character in the DCU is Voodoo, so far. Though it certainly looks like that's Rose Tattoo who happens to be in Birds of Prey.

Grifter and other characters are rumours very likely to be true, but they haven't been announced in any of the official previews yet.