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Post by Legion on Oct 11, 2013 19:06:26 GMT -5
Well, we're getting lots of Batman stuff starting in January, to celebrate his 75th: - DETECTIVE COMICS #27, a 104-page book, with stories by Scott Snyder, Neal Adams, Dustin Nguyen, Francesco Francavilla, Paul Dini, Brad Meltzer and some dude named Frank Miller. - after that, Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato (FLASH) take over the series. - and a weekly series, BATMAN: ETERNAL, with writing credits being shared by Snyder, James Tynion IV, John Layman, Ray Fawkes and Tim Seeley. Yeah cos we get so little Batman at the moment....
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 11, 2013 19:41:19 GMT -5
Breaking news: Guess what question isn't gonna be asked at DC panels anymore? {Spoiler}Stephanie Brown returns to DC Comics in the Batman Eternal series. ETA on Dan Didio having a nervous breakdown and forcing Scott Lobdell to do something horrible to {Spoiler}{Spoiler}her?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2013 19:55:35 GMT -5
Breaking news: Guess what question isn't gonna be asked at DC panels anymore? {Spoiler}Stephanie Brown returns to DC Comics in the Batman Eternal series. ETA on Dan Didio having a nervous breakdown and forcing Scott Lobdell to do something horrible to {Spoiler}{Spoiler}her? Actually, as Lobdell openly announced at a panel today, {Spoiler}he'll be busy killing Superboy apparently.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 11, 2013 20:03:01 GMT -5
ETA on Dan Didio having a nervous breakdown and forcing Scott Lobdell to do something horrible to {Spoiler}{Spoiler}her? Actually, as Lobdell openly announced at a panel today, {Spoiler}he'll be busy killing Superboy apparently. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}maybe he can replace the all new all asshole Superboy with one whose not a total prick.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Oct 11, 2013 20:42:01 GMT -5
Breaking news: Guess what question isn't gonna be asked at DC panels anymore? {Spoiler}Stephanie Brown returns to DC Comics in the Batman Eternal series. It'll now be replaced by the much more important question "Where the f*** is Wally West?".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2013 14:32:29 GMT -5
So here's a big list of stuff announced at NYCC this past weekend:
- MIRACLEMAN is being reprinted by Marvel starting in January. And when that's done, Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham will do a revised final issue (the original final issue was never released, so it exists, with new material added).
- Stephanie Brown will return in a new (weekly) BATMAN: ETERNAL series.
- Marvel announced, like, a dozen new series. ALL-NEW X-FACTOR (Peter David writing Gambit and Quicksilver and others), LOKI: AGENT OF ASGARD, SILVER SURFER (by Slott and Allred), PUNISHER, ELEKTRA, ALL-NEW INVADERS, IRON PATRIOT, AVENGERS UNDERCOVER (a direct continuation of Avengers Arena) NEW WARRIORS, GHOST RIDER (a new character for a new series, and also Johnny Blaze joining the Thunderbolts), relaunched SECRET AVENGERS and CAPTAIN MARVEL series, BLACK WIDOW (by Phil Noto) and GLOBAL AVENGERS.
- Frank Miller, Neal Adams, Paul Dini, Brad Meltzer, Bryan Hitch and others will contribute stories & art to a 104-page DETECTIVE COMICS #27.
- FANTASTIC FOUR and FF end in January.
- TINY TITANS is coming back.
- the next Deadpool miniseries will be NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL.
- Kevin Smith is writing the sequel to BATMAN: THE WIDENING GYRE.
- Zack Whedon is writing a SERENITY series, in the vein of the BUFFY and ANGEL comic continuations; meanwhile BUFFY Season 10 and ANGEL & FAITH relaunch, both for 30 issue runs each.
- Priest & MD Bright are returning to write a new QUANTUM & WOODY miniseries for Valiant.
- Dark Horse is publishing a translated series of the LONE WOLF & CUB sequel by Kazuo Koike.
- the long published BETTY & VERONICA comic at Archie is.....ending, sorta, as the 2 characters are being replaced by newer female characters.
- Dynamite is reviving CHAOS! Comics, headed up by Tim Seeley (HACK/SLASH), and also new series for the Gold Key heroes (TUROK, SOLAR, MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER and DR. SPEKTOR).
- Avatar's GOD IS DEAD continues past its intended final issue (#6).
- Robert Kirkman is writing a new horror (exorcism-themed) series called OUTCAST.
- Matt Kindt is writing a new STAR WARS project for Dark Horse.
- Dynamite is releasing several LIL' DYNAMITE one-shots, younger themed versions of Red Sonja, the Bionic Man, Evil Ernie, Battlestar Galactic and Vampirella.
- IDW is launching a 2nd MY LITTLE PONY series, a TRANSFORMERS/GI JOE series by Tom Scioli and is releasing Artist Edition collections of Jim Steranko's SHIELD, Jack Kirby's NEW GODS, Charles Schulz's PEANUTS and Dave Gibbons' WATCHMEN art.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2013 17:58:42 GMT -5
I hate that FF is being cancelled.
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Post by Talent Name on Oct 16, 2013 18:42:58 GMT -5
I hate that FF is being cancelled. I am in the same boat but lately its been more of a side team Reed is doing his own thing with the Illuminati
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 17, 2013 9:04:57 GMT -5
like... the REAL Miracleman? because I could seriously give a f*** less about any "now this character's in the Marvel U even though it's impossible to fit him anywhere" continuation. if the Alan Moore stuff is finally avaliable again, it's a different matter entirely.
L'il Dynamite better icnlude L'il The Boys, if only for the inherent inappropriateness.
surprised anyone would want to touch the Chaos Comics label at all after the "Gene Simmons' Son blatantly plagiarizes Bleach and One Piece and gets published anyway" debacle.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 17, 2013 9:15:01 GMT -5
also, the last few weeks I haven't had much if anything on my pull list so I invested in picking up all the Scalped trades. man, this is a great series. much like 100 Bullets, it strongly reminds me of what The Wire or Breaking Bad would be if the writers weren't limited by their medium. Vertigo's mostly a dead label to me these days (there was a time when half my pull list was from them, now it's just Fables) but when they put something great out they really knock it out of the park. wish I'd been reading this when it was first published.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 9:22:53 GMT -5
like... the REAL Miracleman? because I could seriously give a f*** less about any "now this character's in the Marvel U even though it's impossible to fit him anywhere" continuation. if the Alan Moore stuff is finally avaliable again, it's a different matter entirely. They're reprinting the whole run, so it's Alan Moore, Gaiman et al. No idea if they plan to integrate him in with that new last issue, but I would think it'd be more beneficial for them to just reprint the old books and make the material available again. MUCH less critical denouncement will come from that, plus Moore (who's basically handed off royalty rights to the artists he worked with) won't have an axe to grind. Sadly, no. It's mainly just licensed stuff getting the all ages treatment.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 17, 2013 9:25:15 GMT -5
I will admit, though, seeing Marvel trying to justify how Marvelman's stories could possibly even make sense in the Marvel universe would be hilarious.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 14:34:16 GMT -5
Well, Miracleman #1 (officially that name; and of course they'll reprint in single issues and then again in TPBs later) is in the January solicitations........ Featuring the byline "written by The Original Writer". That'd be Alan Moore, who REALLY wants nothing to do with old comics of his being recollected anymore. (That, or he thinks he's some historical/eternal warlock who was around when the first words/communications were hand-written...) And yes, God bless 'im, Skottie Young is doing a variant cover:
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 17, 2013 20:36:40 GMT -5
Well, Miracleman #1 (officially that name; and of course they'll reprint in single issues and then again in TPBs later) is in the January solicitations........ Featuring the byline "written by The Original Writer". That'd be Alan Moore, who REALLY wants nothing to do with old comics of his being recollected anymore. (That, or he thinks he's some historical/eternal warlock who was around when the first words/communications were hand-written...) And yes, God bless 'im, Skottie Young is doing a variant cover: that's f***ing weird. I understand him not wanting his name on film adaptations of his work, but this is something he wrote himself.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 17, 2013 20:43:35 GMT -5
I love him, but Moore's a lil nutty.
Still, woohoo to this news, as I've never gotten a chance to read the originals.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 7:30:01 GMT -5
Well, Miracleman #1 (officially that name; and of course they'll reprint in single issues and then again in TPBs later) is in the January solicitations........ Featuring the byline "written by The Original Writer". That'd be Alan Moore, who REALLY wants nothing to do with old comics of his being recollected anymore. (That, or he thinks he's some historical/eternal warlock who was around when the first words/communications were hand-written...) And yes, God bless 'im, Skottie Young is doing a variant cover: that's f***ing weird. I understand him not wanting his name on film adaptations of his work, but this is something he wrote himself. Some years back, after Marvel made piece with him (over whatever old grudge he had against older regimes), they released a TPB of his old Marvel UK Captain Britain stories...........and they promptly f'd something up in the credits. I wanna say this might be more related to that than his more recent campaigns to expunge his names from comics that're made into movies. Although honestly, overall it sounds like (despite still writing his own comics now and then) he really wants nothing to do with comics anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2013 16:54:05 GMT -5
WB announced today that DC Comics is moving all operations to Burbank, CA in 2015. www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dc-comics-join-dc-entertainment-651599Most of the production side (DC Entertainment) and the big wigs (Didio, Johns and Jim Lee) went there a couple years ago, but this completely abandons the NYC presence DC has had for longer than most of us have been alive.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Oct 29, 2013 17:47:54 GMT -5
Marvel owns NYC.
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Post by Talent Name on Oct 29, 2013 19:39:04 GMT -5
I kind of gave up on Infinity, just got too boring for me that and the tie in's were making me broke fast
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 6:42:28 GMT -5
I kind of gave up on Infinity, just got too boring for me that and the tie in's were making me broke fast I like the idea of a crossover having a lot of backstory that helps in understanding it, but to then put it into practice this way - by handing it off to a writer who WRITES all that backstory himself over the course of 1-2 years, and ALL of it is vital to understand the crossover - it's pretty impenetrable. I'm lucky I remember regular series month to month anymore...
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