New cosmic ongoing series THRESHOLD from Giffen and Raney. Spins out of the GLNG Annual. Stars characters like the Omega Men, Blue Beetle (his series is ending), Star Hawkins, and the star is the new Green Lantern Giffen is introducing in the annual. A re-imagined Lady Styx is the villain. Larfleeze stars in back ups.
Cool. With the heavy GL slant, I guess I'll be picking it up.
While it sounds like they want to try something new, I still get the feeling that they'll fall back on the old "earth is the center of the universe" idea that's so ingrained within DC.
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I just don't get the appeal of the jeans and shirt. It works as a year one, first time on the job thing. But after a while you're not being blue collar, you're just being a bum, Clark, the Kents didn't raise you to be a bum. And the new armor is too much in the other direction. If only there was a middle ground....
(I never cared for Superboy's black shirt and jeans either compared to his other outfits, it just worked better as he was a teen)
New cosmic ongoing series THRESHOLD from Giffen and Raney. Spins out of the GLNG Annual. Stars characters like the Omega Men, Blue Beetle (his series is ending), Star Hawkins, and the star is the new Green Lantern Giffen is introducing in the annual. A re-imagined Lady Styx is the villain. Larfleeze stars in back ups.
Cool. With the heavy GL slant, I guess I'll be picking it up.
While it sounds like they want to try something new, I still get the feeling that they'll fall back on the old "earth is the center of the universe" idea that's so ingrained within DC.
Apparently the series takes place all in one space sector that isn't in Guardian Space.
The plot is basically that a bunch of these guys are on Styx's shit-list and so she enters them into this galaxy-wide sporting event/bounty hunt, where they're basically able to be hunted by anyone and everyone that wants to collect the prize on their heads. They're celebrities and convicts at the same time.
New cosmic ongoing series THRESHOLD from Giffen and Raney. Spins out of the GLNG Annual. Stars characters like the Omega Men, Blue Beetle (his series is ending), Star Hawkins, and the star is the new Green Lantern Giffen is introducing in the annual. A re-imagined Lady Styx is the villain. Larfleeze stars in back ups.
Cool. With the heavy GL slant, I guess I'll be picking it up.
While it sounds like they want to try something new, I still get the feeling that they'll fall back on the old "earth is the center of the universe" idea that's so ingrained within DC.
Apparently the series takes place all in one space sector that isn't in Guardian Space.
The plot is basically that a bunch of these guys are on Styx's shit-list and so she enters them into this galaxy-wide sporting event/bounty hunt, where they're basically able to be hunted by anyone and everyone that wants to collect the prize on their heads. They're celebrities and convicts at the same time.
Having a story set far away has never stopped DC from awkwardly shoehorning in earth or random humans who become important for contrived reasons.
I hope that they at least have a better sense of scale.
I just don't get the appeal of the jeans and shirt. It works as a year one, first time on the job thing. But after a while you're not being blue collar, you're just being a bum, Clark, the Kents didn't raise you to be a bum. And the new armor is too much in the other direction. If only there was a middle ground....
(I never cared for Superboy's black shirt and jeans either compared to his other outfits, it just worked better as he was a teen)
The difference is, Superboy's costume looked like an apathetic teen, whereas Superman's t-shirt and jeans looks like a kid who wants to be a superhero
Which is perfect for Superman
It humanizes him, makes him optimistic and welcoming looking, and is just plain fun.
But I will agree that it works better for a "new" Superman than one who's been around and is the world's greatest hero.
I kind of like the t-shirt and jeans look, just because it feels like a sort of pulp costume. I mean, Doc Savage mostly wore jodhpurs and a shredded shirt, 90% of the time.
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Oh man. Just announced at the NYCC New 52 panel: Forthcoming All-Star Western story where Jonah Hex travels to 2050 and teams up with Adam Strange.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
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New Aquaman artist: Paul Pelletier.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
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Picked up Green Arrow Year One on the .99 cent sale, it's a really good read. At six bucks it's one of the best stories up on Comixology, and would even be worth it's usual 12 dollar price. It could have also carried over easily to be the DCnU Ollie's origin, the only thing that would need to change is reversing the clean-cut to hippie hair shift.
I also like Ollie's first trick arrow, it didn't feel forced and kept with the theme of scrounging and surviving. Simple but effective. I was kind of expecting
the island girl to die and that was actually Connor's mother, and Ollie just saved him, but the pregnant girl actually living and not dying was a nice flip of the usual tale
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Liefield was right, Frankenstein, Blue Beetle, Grifter, Legion Lost canceled, and DC Comics Presents seems to have cut the Black Lighting/Blue Devil story by an issue.
Van Sciver is drawing Dark Knight, with the first appearance of DCnU Mad Hatter
Rafa Sandoval on Catwoman, that's a loss for Marvel and a gain for DC in terms of a good monthly artist.
Snyder's Black Mirror finally gets a trade release, for February 27. Even by DC standards that seems slow.
I'm excited. I'm actually going to use this next wave to drop some titles, as it seems like a number of books not being canned will be going through creative changes or into new arcs either in January or February. As always, I'll give the new titles one issue, and I expect Threshold to entertain me mightily.
As it stands though, at the year mark my experience with the New 52 is that it became so irritatingly dull on most fronts that it finally convinced me to check out a number of indie titles and licensed books from other publishers, as well as setting me up to jump aboard Marvel NOW, which I don't expect to be nearly the popular success that the New 52 was, but a much larger critical success.
I do kind of hope they'll cull some more titles soon, or at least let under-performing books like I, Vampire come to organic conclusions.
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Who's this Michael Alan Nelson guy taking over The Ravagers? Will it be good now?
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Some spoilers for tomorrow's books seem to have made the round, one was on a slide at NYCC:
WW #13:
Diana kills Ares after refusing to kill the Minotaur as a kid and having him abandon her.
Red Hood #13:
Joker's last page reveal looks like he's going to be Red Hood again, and seems to have a helmet similar to Jason. I guess they might be going for a Deathstroke imitating Batman moment like in Outsiders and TT years back?
Just blew about $50 on catching up on New 52 stuff. Now I'm up to current on Action Comics, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Batman is next, and a big ol' pile of #1 issues get to duke it out to see who's next in line.
I finally got Rose and Thorn
Now it does plainly say on the cover under the Issue one is the words ONE SHOT so there is not confusion but sadly the story for me was a meh
I like the writing. I like Superman's personality here. And I love the art. I guess I'm jumping into the Superman mix after all.
This new character Doctor Veritas is basically Leo Quintum from All-Star Superman except instead of a moonbase she has a science lab in the core of the Earth. And she was making Superman lift a big machine-thing just like Quintum did in one of the first scenes of All-Star Superman.
Oh and the title of the episode is taken from that bit of dialogue Jor-El gave to Clark in issue 11 of All-Star Superman, the same line they used for the Man of Steel trailer
Oh AND both Veritas and Quintum talk about testing the "upper limits" of Superman's strength
I'm okay with this. If you're going to mimic anything, by god make it All-Star Superman- and with Kenneth Rocafort art even!
it could have been any number with any amount of zeroes on it and it still wouldn't be important at all because he's always as strong as the plot needs anyway
I don't care how strong he is. It's just that the more powerful they make a character, the more inconsistencies there tends to be. It's kind of like how they gave the Green Lantern ring all these awesome powers like mind control, time travel, manipulation of all four fundamental forces, etc., but then they never have the GL's use any of those powers.
The problem is that making Superman this strong limits the kind of conflict you can use in his stories. It takes a skilled writer to handle it well, and I don't know that Lobdell can do it.
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While it sounds like they want to try something new, I still get the feeling that they'll fall back on the old "earth is the center of the universe" idea that's so ingrained within DC.
(I never cared for Superboy's black shirt and jeans either compared to his other outfits, it just worked better as he was a teen)
Apparently the series takes place all in one space sector that isn't in Guardian Space.
The plot is basically that a bunch of these guys are on Styx's shit-list and so she enters them into this galaxy-wide sporting event/bounty hunt, where they're basically able to be hunted by anyone and everyone that wants to collect the prize on their heads. They're celebrities and convicts at the same time.
Having a story set far away has never stopped DC from awkwardly shoehorning in earth or random humans who become important for contrived reasons.
I hope that they at least have a better sense of scale.
I like Rocafort.
The difference is, Superboy's costume looked like an apathetic teen, whereas Superman's t-shirt and jeans looks like a kid who wants to be a superhero
Which is perfect for Superman
It humanizes him, makes him optimistic and welcoming looking, and is just plain fun.
But I will agree that it works better for a "new" Superman than one who's been around and is the world's greatest hero.
But, I still prefer the classic suit.
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Neat history of the Justice League vid.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
I also like Ollie's first trick arrow, it didn't feel forced and kept with the theme of scrounging and surviving. Simple but effective. I was kind of expecting
Liefield was right, Frankenstein, Blue Beetle, Grifter, Legion Lost canceled, and DC Comics Presents seems to have cut the Black Lighting/Blue Devil story by an issue.
Van Sciver is drawing Dark Knight, with the first appearance of DCnU Mad Hatter
Rafa Sandoval on Catwoman, that's a loss for Marvel and a gain for DC in terms of a good monthly artist.
Snyder's Black Mirror finally gets a trade release, for February 27. Even by DC standards that seems slow.
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
As it stands though, at the year mark my experience with the New 52 is that it became so irritatingly dull on most fronts that it finally convinced me to check out a number of indie titles and licensed books from other publishers, as well as setting me up to jump aboard Marvel NOW, which I don't expect to be nearly the popular success that the New 52 was, but a much larger critical success.
I do kind of hope they'll cull some more titles soon, or at least let under-performing books like I, Vampire come to organic conclusions.
it's going to suck!
Really
He also wrote Hexed and Dingo, which were much more action-adventure in tone, and which I quite liked.
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WW #13:
Red Hood #13:
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I think Daniel has rreeeeaaallly improved as an artist
Now it does plainly say on the cover under the Issue one is the words ONE SHOT so there is not confusion but sadly the story for me was a meh
Preview for Superman #13 under Lobdell's pen
I like the writing. I like Superman's personality here. And I love the art. I guess I'm jumping into the Superman mix after all.
This new character Doctor Veritas is basically Leo Quintum from All-Star Superman except instead of a moonbase she has a science lab in the core of the Earth. And she was making Superman lift a big machine-thing just like Quintum did in one of the first scenes of All-Star Superman.
Oh and the title of the episode is taken from that bit of dialogue Jor-El gave to Clark in issue 11 of All-Star Superman, the same line they used for the Man of Steel trailer
Oh AND both Veritas and Quintum talk about testing the "upper limits" of Superman's strength
I'm okay with this. If you're going to mimic anything, by god make it All-Star Superman- and with Kenneth Rocafort art even!
Sigh. I see DC still continues to learn nothing from the DCAU.
Wait, so Superman's strength increased by at least a factor of several quadrillion from when he first became Superman and the present time?
he's Superman. He's really strong. That's it.
it could have been any number with any amount of zeroes on it and it still wouldn't be important at all because he's always as strong as the plot needs anyway
That said, he might surprise us all.