I think this is a bad idea, and will turn out to be DC's version of Brand New Day... 52 number 1s is ridiculous... Plus there is Action Comics 1000, which is only 8years away... The only thing so far I like is Jim Lee on Justice League...

Where can I find out more about this before I vote

A link to the news about the HUGE changes at DC:

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/DC-Univ ... 10531.html

Read it first, then vote and share an opinion. Thanks for bringing this up thejim.

I applaud *any* effort to get more attention paid to comic books by the major publishers.
To do this they have hired a lot of writers, editors, pencillers, inkers, colorists and letterers. This is good.
That's why I'm hoping this promotion does well for them. That way they will keep hiring and spending money on artists!

Terry

To be honest, a reboot was probably inevitable given that DC has once again managed to write most(if not all) of their characters into corners. I think the success or faliure of the whole project rests on four points:
1. Is the art any good?
2. Is the art any good?
3. Are the stories entertaining or is it the same stupid writing that got you into this situation in the first place?
4. And finally, is the art any good?

Guess we'll have to see what September brings.


-J

The thing is the reboot can either work for or against them... If you read a lot of the comments on Facebook, and I imagine Twitter, more people are against it than in favor of it...

Then there is the resigns of Superman, and Wonder Woman, both is are HORRIBLE... Jim Lee must be stopped...

I just hope that DC doesn't pretend that it's a popular decision, because it is so far from it...

Flashpoint group
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/hom ... 69069&ap=1

The DC Comics Relaunch Support Group
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pag ... 2120808829

With any popular media there will be people who think it sucks.
I'm not sorry to say I'm an optimist and look forward to changes as a good thing. If it doesn't work out - so be it. But I'm not dissing them for trying.
T

A lot of the dislike about it is the renumbering of series like Action Comics, and I asume Detective Comics which are nearing 1000 issues... Plus from what i understand Dick Grayson will be Nightwing, and more shocking Barbara Gordon will once again be Batgirl...

Plus there are other things like the Superman Earth 1 (I didn't read it), which was a huge sell for DC, and the upcoming Batman Earth 1, and the state of the multiverse...

When DC rebooted Superman they never restarted every Superman series at number 1, the fact they are doing 52 number 1s, is plan ridiculous... I have a friend who runs a comic book store, and hates ordering number 1s, because of the uncertainty factor to ordering them...

I worry about the local comic shop owners. We as a people are becoming too non-social. Now I do believe that people are prone to do more stupid things that they used to be, but I also believe that we have been culturally conditioned to rely too much on ourselves for advice, aid, and guidance in this age we live in. Children are being raised by Youtube and cable T.V. (as well as other things) and lack important social skills. This will only add more to the wound. Being able to download comics and not have to interact with others at a comic shop is robbery of one of the best experiences of being a comic fan--finding and talking to others who have some of the same interests as you do.

I worry that this does not bode well for our culture. I hope that I am wrong and that this is a boon to comics and to our culture as a whole. Wouldn't it be great IF it is comics that plays a hand in helping our society regain respect for our fellow humans.

I wish I could keep an open mind on this, but so far there is nothing good about this pr stunt of a "relaunch"... Dick Grayson back as Nightwing wearing black and RED?!? Barbara Gordon can walk again (after Didio said that would never happen) as Batgirl...

"Upload" to gallery!
The AH is there. Right?

Actually someone already uploaded the Batgirl...

Here are the titles so far

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…

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I'm really hoiping one of these books is Power Girl...

Wow - great list.
Put me down for the Swamp Thing that's for sure.

News about SUPERMAN (Clark Kent) and his seemingly doomed marriage:


http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43316213/ ... ?gt1=43001

That was from Newsarama, giving reasons why Superman should be single...

I was sharing that DC will reboot and make changes that we may not like. I like SUPERMAN as a married man...what better woman goes with him other than Lois?

Here's an updated list so far... I sure do hope that Dan Didio, and Jim Lee have a back-up plan... I bet a lot of these titles don't last a year....

1. Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee.
2. Wonder Woman #1 by writer Brian Azzarello and artist Cliff Chiang.
3. Aquaman #1 by writer Geoff Johns and artist Ivan Reis.
4. Flash #1 by Francis Manapul, who shares the scripting and art duties with Brian Buccellato.
5. The Fury of Firestorm #1 by writer Gail Simone and artist Yildiray Cinar.
6. Savage Hawkman #1 by writer Tony Daniel and artist Philip Tan.
7. Green Arrow #1 by writer JT Krul and artist Dan Jurgens.
8. Justice League International #1 by writer Dan Jurgens and artist Aaron Lopresti.
9. Mister Terrific #1 by writer Eric Wallace and artist Roger Robinson.
10. Captain Atom #1 by JT Krul and artist Freddie Williams II.
11. DC Universe Presents #1, anthology book with the first story about Deadman from writer Paul Jenkins and artist Bernard Chang.
12. Green Lantern #1 by Geoff Johns, Doug Mahnke and Christian Alamy.
13. Green Lantern Corps #1 by Peter J. Tomasi, Fernando Pasarin and Scott Hanna.
14. Green Lantern: The New Guardians #1 by Tony Bedard, Tyler Kirkham and Batt.
15. Red Lanterns #1 by Peter Milligan, Ed Benes and Rob Hunter.
16. Detective Comics #1 by writer/artist Tony Daniel.
17. Batman #1 by writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo.
18. Batman: Dark Knight #1 by writer/artist David Finch.
19. Batman and Robin #1 by Peter Tomasi and Pat Gleason.
20. Birds of Prey #1 by Duane Swierczynski and Jesus Saiz.
21. Catwoman #1 by by Judd Winick and Guillem March.
22. Batgirl #1 by Gail Simone and artists Ardian Syaf and Vicente Cifuentes.
23. Batwoman #1 by J.H. Williams III, Haden Blackman and Amy Reeder.
24. Nightwing #1 by Kyle Higgins and Eddy Barrows.
25. Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 by Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort.
26. Batwing #1 by Judd Winick and Ben Oliver.
27. Swamp Thing #1 by Scott Snyder and Yannick Paquette.
28. Justice League Dark #1 by Peter Milligan and Mikel Janin.
29. Animal Man #1 by Jeff Lemire and artists Travel Foreman and Dan Green.
30. Demon Knights #1 by Paul Cornell and artists Diogenes Neves and Oclair Albert.
31. Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE #1 by Jeff Lemire and Alberto Ponticelli.
32. Resurrection Man #1 by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, and artist Fernando Dagnino.
33. Vampire #1 by Josh Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino.
34. Voodoo #1 by Ron Marz and Sami Basri.
35. Legion Lost #1 by Fabian Nicieza and Pete Woods.
36. Legion of Super-Heroes #1 by Paul Levitz and Francis Portela.
37. Teen Titans #1 by Scott Lobdell and artists Brett Booth & Norm Rapmund.
38. Static Shock #1 co-written by John Rozum and Scott McDaniel, with McDaniel also illustrating along with Jonathan Glapion.
39. Hawk and Dove #1 by Sterling Gates and Rob Liefeld.
40. Stormwatch #1 by Paul Cornell and Miguel Sepulveda.
41. Blackhawks #1 by Mike Costa and Ken Lashley.
42. Sgt. Rock and the Men of War #1 by Ivan Brandon and Tom Derenick.
43. All-Star Western #1 by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti and illustrated by Moritat.
44. Deathstroke #1 by Kyle Higgins and artists Joe Bennett and Art Thibert.
45. Grifter #1 by Nathan Edmondson with art by CAFU and BIT.
46. OMAC #1 by Dan DiDio and co-written and illustrated by Keith Giffen and Scott Koblish.

Not apart of the September "relaunch"
(2012) Batman, Incorporated #1 by Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham.

Thanks zenos and the jim for the great lists!

While I'm not sure whether or not the launch is going to be a long-term success, DC is certainly bringing some real talent to the titles, and that's never a bad thing.

I'll probably take a look at Hawk & Dove if Rob Liefeld's drawing it. Ditto for JLA, of course. There's a number of other titles that might be interesting as well.

I wonder if Adam Hughes will do the covers for Cat Woman again? He has said in interviews that he had had more cover ideas when the series was canceled.


-J

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 and Jesus Merino

4. Superboy #1 by Scott Lobdell and R.B. Silva and Rob Lean

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. 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, Travel Foreman and Dan Green

20. Swamp Thing #1 by Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette

21. Legion Lost #1 by Fabian Nicieza and Pete Woods

22. Birds Of Prey #1 by Duane Swierczynski and Jesus Saiz

23. Teen Titans #1 by Scott Lobdell, Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund

24. Savage Hawkman #1 by Tony Daniel and Philip Tan

25. Blue Beetle #1 by Tony Bedard and Ig Guara

26. Supergirl #1 by Michael Green and Mike Johnson

27. Wonder Woman #1 by Brian Azzarello #1 and Cliff Chiang

28. Fury Of Firestorm #1 by 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 (read more)

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 by Nathan Edmondson and…

36. Legion of Superheroes by Paul Levitz and Francis Portela

37. OMAC #1 by Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen

38. Batman: The Dark Knight #1 by David Finch

39. All-Star Western #1 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Grey and Meridat. (Vigilante #1 by Darwyn Cooke inside?)

40. Justice League Dark #1 by Peter Milligan and Mikel Janin

41. Demon Knights #1 by Paul Cornell, Diogenes Neves and Oclair Albert

42. Frankenstein: Agent Of SHADE #1 by Jeff Lemire and Alberto Ponticelli

43. Resurrection Man #1 by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning and Fernando Dagnino

44. I, Vampire #1 by Josh Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino

45. Voodoo #1 by Ron Marz and Sami Basri.

46. Static Shock #1 by John Rozum, Scott McDaniel

47. Hawk And Dove #1 by Sterling Gates and Rob Liefeld

48. Sgt Rock And The Men Of War #1 by Ivan Brandon and Tom Derenick.

49. Stormwatch #1 by Paul Cornell and Miguel Sepulveda.

50. Deathstroke #1 by Kyle Higgins, Joe Bennett and Art Thibert.

51. Suicide Squad #1 by Adam Glass and Marco Rudy

52. Blackhawks #1 by Mike Costa and Ken Lashley

(Bold titles are the books I'll be picking up)...

What title do you think will be the first to get cancealed

My money is on Red Hood And The Outlaws

I'm actually a little curious, as primarily a Green Lantern fan. It seems that, despite Abin Sur being alive in this new reboot/relaunch, Earth still has all four of it's Green Lanterns, and DC's going ahead with its Red Lanterns title.

They don't seem to be too worried about being consistent bookofoa. I hope you do enjoy the book anyway.

Abin Sur is only back for Flashpoint...

Looks like a lot of interesting titles and creative teams. Some of those are deifinitely worth checking out.

I'm gonna go with Frankenstein: Agent of Shade as first title cancelled.

-S

Instead of revamping the whole universe why don't they just follow MARVEL and do something like the Ultimate MARVEL stuff?! That way there is no need to change the existing thing and thus the longtime fans will be happy as well. I just saw the September art, I really don't like the Superman's costume.

It may have something to do with the lawsuit.. they have to change the Superman's costume. It is inevitable and thus they wanted to change everything not just Superman. Sorry if I'm wrong.

I hadn't heard about the Superman lawsuit. What was that all about?


-J

I have read some comments regarding that lawsuit somewhere on the DC forums or on Facebook. Please check these links for full details,

http://dietrichthrall.wordpress.com/200 ... s-in-2013/

http://comics.cosmicbooknews.com/conten ... on-origins

Cheers!

Very interesting. This certainly puts the reboot in a different light.

Thanks for posting the links!


-J

Comic Book Resources took a online pole on what titles people were going to buy, and the results were surprising...

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=32809

A link to an article about Superman's new look:

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/usmovies.t ... elaunch?nc

Me I always liked the Kandor outfit from SUPERMAN:godfall

Or the Justice Lords outfit from Justice League (the animated series).

You're welcome.

Superman's new outfit.. he looks really awkward without the red shorts! Godfall outfit looks pretty epic.

Here's a video I made expressing my feeling abput the "relaunch"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFfEbcyB3hs

Very direct. I like that in a Youtube video.


-J

A belated thanks to thejim for the link to the comicbook resources online pole.

It was an interesting article, although I doubt that the online pole results are particularly indicative of what the actual sales are going to be.
While I certainly think that JLA will be DC's hottest title(at least as long as Jim Lee is drawing it), I'm a little skeptical that Aquaman is really going to be one of their top 5 best selling titles(outselling the Bat books? Really?).

On the other hand, the poll's prediction that Sgt. Rock will be one of DC's poorest sellers is probably on target. To be fair, has anyone besides Joe Kubert ever cared about that book?


-J

Well...it's obvious how you feel jim.

Yeah, I just a tad against it, lol...



Thanks J... I did leave out one title though, just because I really don't count it as part of the "relaunch"...

Haha good one Jim..

Have y'all seen the "Relaunch Justice League" pic uploaded by Jim?

It looks like Jim Lee took inspiration from BATMAN: Arkham Assylum designs.

What do you think

Wonder Woman is a bit differnt....

Batman isn't that much of a change....

The others, I don't see any big changes....

SUPERMAN though...will take some getting used to...

And you

I think my veiws are clearly stated... Still Cyborg looks very odd standing next to DC's BIG 6...

Here is my proposel for a replacement title when a title gets cancels...

I think there are enough former Robins to warrent a Robin Corps title, lol... You can have Dick Grason in the Earth 2 Robin costume, Jason in the classic Robin costume, Tim and Stephanie in their Robin costumes... Plus just for kicks have Carrie Kelley join them, lol... Oh and Damian too, lol...

I wish, I was able to go to the San Diego Comic-Con

http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/06/29/an ... ent-645368

I read a good idea on Facebook, if DC wanted new readers, and keep their current readers, they should have created a DC version of Marvel Ulimate Universe…

I thought I heard once that DC was going to do their own version of MARVEL's "ultimate universe." They could have kept things as they are and then tried out all this new stuff in an alternate version and I think less people would be upset.

I thought that was the origional purpose of the All-Star line, but sadly nothing really became of that...

There is a poll in Newsarama to what you think of the "relaunch"
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dcnu-re ... 10704.html

This is offtopic and I'm sorry to spam.. I'm so excited to show you guys my latest drawing of Batman.. the title is inspired by the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns novel by Frank Miller.

here is my drawing..

http://strangeillusion.deviantart.com/a ... -216257672

hope you like it.

Excellent work!


-J

coming from you, thank you so much!!

And the good news just keeps coming... Not only will Superman be single, but the Kents will be killed off... This "relaunch" is the worse idea EVER... The more I read of this abomination the more ticked off I get... Grant Morrison is rewiting Superman's origin (just because that's what world needs is another Superman origin story)...

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dcnu-di ... 10718.html

Let's see... Clark's single.... The Kents are dead....

Yep, sounds like Morrison's work.


-J

My DC spending has been cut down to 2 books tops... Batwoman, and maybe Batgirl... I do find it funny that Wonder Woman went from wear pants to waering shorts, lol...

This what I wrote on a group: