Pak's Action Comics is quickly climbing up the list of my favorite DC books. It's not at the level of Wonder Woman & Earth 2 at the top*. But it's reaching that 2nd tier Animal Man/Swamp Thing level if this greatness continues for issues upon issues.
*I had Batwoman right up here too, but fuck DC Editorial.
Greg Pak just get's Superman. Really enjoying Action Comics.
Right? It's perfect. Just the right amount of old Superman, but with the headstrong nature of Morrison's early New 52 Superman. Lana's great too.
Also in superman/batman somebody tells him there is no other way to save the day but killing and something weird happened. Instead of not being able to respond or argue and proving the pessimist correct in the end superman says "there is always a way" and then hefinds another way.
Weird.
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
oh hey, new information about Justice League Canada, and suddenly I'm more interested in an upcoming DC title than I have been in a long time.
He’s now bringing the superhero gang, Justice League of America, to Canada. Justice League of Canada launches in May, much to the chagrin of some American readers, who can’t understand why their fearless defenders must head north for an extended stay.
It’s a geeky controversy likely to bring more eyeballs to the series. They’ll see their heroes put in a good day’s work against alien invaders, in an environment Lemire hopes will deepen their understanding of Canadian culture and identity.
The action takes place in northern Ontario, in the largely Cree communities of Moosonee and Moose Factory, just south of James Bay. Isolation, a theme that runs through Lemire’s work, is a fact of life in these towns, which are not accessible by road.
Lemire won’t reveal the complete makeup of the superhero team just yet. Animal Man and Green Arrow will be there, and the big three — Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman — won’t. The iconic characters that do appear will be helped by a new Canadian superhero Lemire has created.
She’s a 16-year-old Cree girl attending a Moosonee high school. It’s too early to divulge her powers, name or costume, but a recent trip Lemire made to the area gave him the idea for her qualities.
He discovered what First Nations call the “Teachings of the Seven Grandfathers,” based on the words wisdom, love, respect, bravery, honesty, humility and truth.
“I thought, Oh my God — that’s the archetype for a great superhero,” he says, sitting in his cosy Toronto studio in Leslieville.
“If I’m going to do something in Canada, addressing our First Nations is important because it’s a side of our Canadian identity that’s often overlooked,” adds Lemire, who has a 5-year-old son. “I also felt that First Nations youth could use a positive role model — they have so many hardships.”
Lemire visited schools in Moosonee and Moose Factory. He helped students draw and got their thoughts on the kind of superpowers his Cree hero should have. They’ll be based, he says, on the myths of First Nations along the James Bay coast.
DC Comics also plans a contest in which Moosonee and Moose Factory students draw their favourite superhero and write the traits and powers they should have. The work will appear at the back of the Justice League of Canada comic books and on DC’s blog.
“When I was growing up, I didn’t know anyone involved in the arts,” says Lemire, who heads to James Bay for more research in February. “It didn’t seem like a realistic goal. Everyone was either a farmer or a factory worker.
“It’s important, especially in isolated communities, for people to come in and show kids that, yes, you can tell stories for a living; you can be creative for a living.”
Lemire works at a frantic pace, juggling several projects. For DC alone he’s writing three comic books a month, a total of 60 pages. So far, he’s produced six Justice League of Canada issues..
“If I create a cool character,” he says of his Cree hero, “50 years from now there could be other writers still writing this character. That would be neat — they’ll live on past me.”
And if one day that character lives through a writer from a First Nation, “That would be the biggest win of all.”
A properly researched and non-stereotyped First Nations character is as badly needed and potentially cool a concept as the new Ms. Marvel, to me, and those seven Teachings do sound like a fantastic superhero archetype.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Eh, just sounds a lot like mixing Alpha Flight in there.
Just have Will Sasso and Dave Foley show up as gangsters, that's a side of Canada that hasn't been explored yet.
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A properly researched and non-stereotyped First Nations character is as badly needed and potentially cool a concept as the new Ms. Marvel, to me, and those seven Teachings do sound like a fantastic superhero archetype.
As much as DC has fucked up in the past few years and given me every reason to want nothing to do with them anymore, when I see something like this there is still a part of me that hopes "Maybe this is DC finally getting their shit together and turning things around," instead of the more likely "Well, even a broken watch is right twice a day...let's hope they don't ruin it within six months."
I just hope it works out better than their last drawing contest.
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
this isn't a drawing contest in a sense of "YOU can be the next person to ape the DC house style in objectifying a female character", it's giving a bunch of kids from remote and often quite impoverished villages a chance to not only see a superhero that looks like them, but to have their drawings in the back of a major comic book.
I figure that if DC actually does shuffle up most of their books and creators for April, pure probability will give us at least 2-3 good ones.
Also, I'll give the Sinestro book a try but I'm getting a little burnt out on Lantern titles these days.
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They should get rid of Larfleeze and do a Rogues ongoing
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Werewolf2000adSuckers, I know exactly what went wrong.Registered Userregular
One of those people who poke around the DC website looking for advance info says we're also getting Aquaman & The Others, Secret Origins and Justice League United.
BC is reporting that John Laymanis off Batman Eternal
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
To show how out of the loop I am with DC these days, what was the big deal about Detective #27 this week? So it's the first appearance of Batman in the old universe, we see Batman all the time in the DCNU where none of that shit matters anymore.
Seems stupider when you remember that they didn't use the reboot to make a big deal about a new Action #1.
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The new Detective #27 is significant because it's the 75th anniversary of the original Detective #27. They didn't make a big deal about Action #1 because they missed the 75th anniversary of the original Action #1 by two years.
The Vendetti/Van Jensen team has done pretty well on GLC, to a point where they've very much fixed John Stewart and made him a real, 3-dimensional character again. I do think the GL books are a little stale right now, but the character restoration of John has been my favorite thing about them by far.
At the same time, I am not at all sure I want to pick Flash back up for this, although I may grab an eventual trade.
New origins for characters who have had origin arcs (Superman, Supergirl), origin issues (Zero issues), flashback issues (Zero Year tie-ins), and even occasionally flashbacks in Villain's month issues. So, so dumb.
DC is not batting very well with these announcements so far. Although I'll pick Superman up again for JRjr art, unless the writer is truly awful.
Secret Origins? Didn't we get the origins when DC relaunched....do we need them already?
Nice to see that Wally is finally coming back....sadly I got zero faith in DC doing anything proper with him since he's not the icon that Barry is in Didio's view.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Yeah, Tex. He said so last summer during convention season, but it's been up in the air which title he would land on. Bleeding Cool says it will be Superman in April, which... pretty much unless he's taking over Unchained after Lee is done (and that book isn't just cancelled like it had been a limited series), that's the only real option. The new twist is that BC said he was getting a AAA writer a week or so ago. But I expect we'll hear the reveal tomorrow, because I think solicits are supposed to be out tomorrow.
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
I love JRjr, but I do think he only works on certain franchises. Still, Superman is definitely up his alley, all the Kirby-esque stuff is there for him to tackle (New Gods, Nu52 OMAC, Frankenstein, etc.), he could probably do a decent full Justice League if the story was right, and in moderation I think he would work really well on a short, single Batman or Wonder Woman story.
All in all, he's the only "new" thing DC has left that I'm excited to see in play.
Yeah, Tex. He said so last summer during convention season, but it's been up in the air which title he would land on. Bleeding Cool says it will be Superman in April, which... pretty much unless he's taking over Unchained after Lee is done (and that book isn't just cancelled like it had been a limited series), that's the only real option. The new twist is that BC said he was getting a AAA writer a week or so ago. But I expect we'll hear the reveal tomorrow, because I think solicits are supposed to be out tomorrow.
Yeah, Tex. He said so last summer during convention season, but it's been up in the air which title he would land on. Bleeding Cool says it will be Superman in April, which... pretty much unless he's taking over Unchained after Lee is done (and that book isn't just cancelled like it had been a limited series), that's the only real option. The new twist is that BC said he was getting a AAA writer a week or so ago. But I expect we'll hear the reveal tomorrow, because I think solicits are supposed to be out tomorrow.
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Right? It's perfect. Just the right amount of old Superman, but with the headstrong nature of Morrison's early New 52 Superman. Lana's great too.
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Weird.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/12/29/jeff_lemire_brings_justice_league_superheroes_to_canada.html
A properly researched and non-stereotyped First Nations character is as badly needed and potentially cool a concept as the new Ms. Marvel, to me, and those seven Teachings do sound like a fantastic superhero archetype.
Just have Will Sasso and Dave Foley show up as gangsters, that's a side of Canada that hasn't been explored yet.
As much as DC has fucked up in the past few years and given me every reason to want nothing to do with them anymore, when I see something like this there is still a part of me that hopes "Maybe this is DC finally getting their shit together and turning things around," instead of the more likely "Well, even a broken watch is right twice a day...let's hope they don't ruin it within six months."
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Also, I'll give the Sinestro book a try but I'm getting a little burnt out on Lantern titles these days.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Given Bunn's past history of writing company characters I wonder what uninteresting subplot from the previous writer he's going to run into the ground
all writing duties fall solely to Scott Lobdell now
Wally West is back
and he looks SUPER dumb.
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Maybe it'll look okay when drawn by a good artist and not Brett Booth?
No, probably not.
At the same time, I am not at all sure I want to pick Flash back up for this, although I may grab an eventual trade.
Also, Secret Origins sounds fucking idiotic.
New origins for characters who have had origin arcs (Superman, Supergirl), origin issues (Zero issues), flashback issues (Zero Year tie-ins), and even occasionally flashbacks in Villain's month issues. So, so dumb.
DC is not batting very well with these announcements so far. Although I'll pick Superman up again for JRjr art, unless the writer is truly awful.
Nice to see that Wally is finally coming back....sadly I got zero faith in DC doing anything proper with him since he's not the icon that Barry is in Didio's view.
I love JRjr, but I do think he only works on certain franchises. Still, Superman is definitely up his alley, all the Kirby-esque stuff is there for him to tackle (New Gods, Nu52 OMAC, Frankenstein, etc.), he could probably do a decent full Justice League if the story was right, and in moderation I think he would work really well on a short, single Batman or Wonder Woman story.
All in all, he's the only "new" thing DC has left that I'm excited to see in play.
Does DC have any AAA writers left?
Scott Snyder, Jeff Lemire, Brian Azzarello
That's probably something that would keep me off a JRjr Superman book.