DC Solicitations for April 2008

Garlic Bread

http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/April08/solicitations.html

More solicits up tomorrow, full list on Tuesday (5PM EST)

Balefuego

when did Eclipso get a new host

Fencingsax

Last issue of Countdown to Mystery

The Muffin Man

What is wrong with Superman on that cover.

It's like he's taking a tremendous shit.

The Lovely Bastard

The Muffin Man wrote: »

What is wrong with Superman on that cover.

It's like he's taking a tremendous shit.

little known silver age power - super bowels

The_Lightbringer

It's said his ass cheeks could squeeze diamonds out of shit

psycojester

Thats how Superman makes money, swallows coal and then uses his super bowels to make diamonds.

DouglasDanger

I am worried and excited for the Death of the New Gods. Lots of potential either way there.

Bad Karma

DouglasDanger wrote: »

I am worried and excited for the Death of the New Gods. Lots of potential either way there.

Well it's been dynamite so far, I see no reason for that to change with the finale.

And damnit I hate to be a broken record but a Steve Gerber Dr Fate ongoing needs to happen.

dclee

Is that Darkseid on the 1st cover? Why so many Omega Beams?

DouglasDanger

He's probably bending the Omega Beams around to try and hit Superman. The beams don't have to go in straight lines.

Bad Karma

dclee wrote: »

Is that Darkseid on the 1st cover? Why so many Omega Beams?

Yes. He has the ability to change the direction of the Omega Effect at will. It's probably just one long ass beam.

psycojester

Darkseid trains to fight superman by playing countless hours of Snake on his phone.

Balefuego

Ok so who is the new Eclipso host

and what happaned to Jean

Bad Karma

Balefuego wrote: »

Ok so who is the new Eclipso host

and what happaned to Jean

The new (old) host is Bruce Gordon.

While Mary was fighting Eclipso, she unleashed all her power into Jean, forcing both women to lose their power completely. They both fell from the sky into the ocean. Mary washed up on Themyscira and Jean looks like she may end up as shark food.

Algertman

Kamandi--Last Badass On Earth

Garlic Bread

i don't understand the tangent universe at all

or why they keep bringing it up

what I get from it is: the heroes share the same names and that's where the similarities end

Bad Karma

Yeah, that's the point.

Garlic Bread

the point is that you're not supposed to understand it?

like, i've read some comics with the characters (although not the actual tangent comics)

and i've read the wikipedia

and i have no clue

smokmnky

psycojester wrote: »

Thats how Superman makes money, swallows coal and then uses his super bowels to make diamonds.

Literally a LOL moment. Good stuff..."super bowels"

Unco-ordinated

Bad Karma wrote: »

And damnit I hate to be a broken record but a Steve Gerber Dr Fate ongoing needs to happen.

Totally. The Eclipso half is generally pretty uninteresting but the Dr Fate half is magnificent.

Lux

I love all the Ryan Sook ads/covers with the title in big blocks that they've been doing for the last few months.

Blankspace

blankspace247: Man
blankspace247: is it wrong, that after seeing this:
blankspace247: http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/April08/ctdw_cv2_solicit.jpg
blankspace247: I want a comic remake of Entrapment with Darkseid in Sean Connery's role and Superman in Catherine Zeta Jones?
The Divan Kopile: no that is the correct response

Bad Karma

A new batch of solicits be up!

The rest will be revealed tomorrow at 5pm.

I'm more or less indifferent on Titans...as it's hard to tell with Winick these days.

Blue Beetle is well...odd.

a "Batman Manga tale"? Pass.

Finally a Justice League issue that will look good in the art department.

And Justice Society...well..it's Justice Society. No words are needed.

Furu

Death Mask's coming out already? Man.

Garlic Bread

I'm glad Justice League is finally saying, "where has flash been" since he re-joined the team back in June and hasn't shown up in any issues since. Although the pencils on that cover are terrible.

I think Blue Beetle's actually a neat idea, although I'm glad it's only one issue that they're doing it. My Spanish is awful at best.

I'm excited for Titans even though I expect at least one of them to be killed/hospitalized in the first issue.

Batman's got quite a beak on that Death Mask cover. I think I'll skip it and pick up the trade if it's any good.

"Kurt Busiek, gearing up for his insanely huge next project".
"While Bagley won’t reveal what his next project will be, he did reveal that “my old buddy Kurt Busiek and I are together again for what looks like a really great project."

I'm excited for this and I don't even know what it is!

Rans

Bet you it's the next weekly.

Bad Karma

That's the general consensus.

Desktop Hippie

Keith wrote: »

I think Blue Beetle's actually a neat idea, although I'm glad it's only one issue that they're doing it. My Spanish is awful at best.

Yeah, I think it's a fun idea, and they ~are~ providing the English translation to be fair. I wonder if the scarab alphabet will switch from English to Spanish too? Because remembering the letters is difficult enough as it is!

Munch

Titans will almost certainly be awful between Winick's ham-handed writing and Churchill's ugly art.

Spoiler warning for the first arc: Some cast members fuck and one dies. Also, Starfire's bi.

Nice to see Mike Norton on Blue Beetle, knowing he's a Ted Kord fan. I dislike the idea of an all-Spanish issue though, if only because DC always said they didn't want to club readers over the head with the fact that Jaime's hispanic. Though it could be a cute idea, and more Traci 13 is always a good thing. Though I'm not reading it anyways, so what do I care?

Van Sciver's JLA cover is really underwhelming. Also, I'm very surprised they revealed the JSA antagonist so early. Not that it wasn't expected, but doing it this early seems weird. Manga Batman might be interesting. The Batman: Child of Dreams book was kind of cool to look at after all.

Garlic Bread

Desktop Hippie wrote: »

Keith wrote: »

I think Blue Beetle's actually a neat idea, although I'm glad it's only one issue that they're doing it. My Spanish is awful at best.

Yeah, I think it's a fun idea, and they ~are~ providing the English translation to be fair. I wonder if the scarab alphabet will switch from English to Spanish too? Because remembering the letters is difficult enough as it is!

you can actually translate it?

i just assumed it was random letters

Desktop Hippie

Yeah. My brother pointed it out to me recently. It's actually translatable. In fact I had lots of fun going back over old issues and reading what the scarab said. It doesn't work for the very early issues, but from the one where Baby Alina is kidnapped by Bottom Feeder you can read what the scarab says.

Although funnily enough the first panel is gibberish, but in the second it says "Look! It's the Phantom Stranger!" in huge letters and it pretty much continues from then.

*edit* They actually use the same alphabet for the most recent issue of Booster Gold too, which is fun.

Bad Karma

Munch wrote: »

Titans will almost certainly be awful between Winick's ham-handed writing and Churchill's ugly art.

The thing is, Trials of Shazam and GA / BC have been enjoyable..so Winick is still a toss up in my book. Not looking forward to Churchill though.

Lux

Winnick's writing is above average, I just have a problem with what he does. For example, GA/BC is not a poorly written book, it's just the ideas are frustrating. Brain dead Connor Hawke, for example.

I think the Spanish-language Blue Beetle issue is a good idea. It's not beating us over the head with his ethnicity, for me, because that just seems realistic to have mostly Spanish in an issue that takes place during a family reunion. The thing is, this should be something that they should promote to widen the audience of not just BB, but comics in general.

Garlic Bread

at B&N I saw "Learn Spanish with Batman" and "with Superman"

I should buy them and read them before this issue hits

Bad Karma

It's good to be reminded that taking French in school was a giant waste of time. Anyone familiar with Middlesex County in Mass will understand.

Ah the memories.

Garlic Bread

I took two years of Spanish but damned if I remember much of it

I guess I actually needed to go to class to learn the language

Algertman

It's not the next weekly.

It's New Gods post final crisis

Balefuego

please no more weeklies

Garlic Bread

Balefuego wrote: »

please no more weeklies

if they go back to 52's style (which includes being $2.50 instead of $3), then I'm all for it

oh, it also has to be good

Bad Karma

Keith wrote: »

Balefuego wrote: »

please no more weeklies

if they go back to 52's style (which includes being $2.50 instead of $3), then I'm all for it

oh, it also has to be good

It's already been said that it's going to be a stand alone story.

Nobodies got a gun to your head Balefuego.