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Post by The Doctor on May 31, 2011 22:30:11 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 1, 2011 0:27:10 GMT
To be honest I am looking forward to this.
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Jun 1, 2011 7:06:04 GMT
Hahahaha what
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 1, 2011 8:24:50 GMT
It's 1991 all over again!
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 1, 2011 8:48:36 GMT
52 #1's just screams inaccessable to me.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 3, 2011 19:26:15 GMT
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 10, 2011 14:07:04 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Jun 10, 2011 14:31:46 GMT
Are they literally rebooting everything from scratch, or is it just a renumbering of titles? |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 10, 2011 14:35:13 GMT
It is as clear as mud at the moment. Some saying a reboot, some saying more a relaunch.
We'll know nearer the time I guess.
Andy
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Post by legios on Jun 10, 2011 21:14:28 GMT
The things I have been reading seem to suggest it will depend on the title. For example the Green Lantern stuff appears to be playing with basically the same status quo, but Teen Titans seems to be based on the idea that there has never been a Titans team before.
I'm a bit lost about the whole thing to be honest. I suspect that the new Legion book will be a reboot and one the one hand the Legion has now been rebooted to death I think (seriously, I can no longer remember off the top of my head what version number, let alone volume number we are on for that), on the other hand I believe that Abnett and Lanning are on it and they have done sterling work on the Legion previously. I have resigned myself that I will pick up the launch issue of the new Legion book, as I have done for every version since Zero Hour, but I'm pretty much ignoring the rest of the whole thing because it currently seems to be an impenetrable mess.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 10, 2011 21:20:52 GMT
Sadly not. Abnett and Lanning are not on the Legion book. Levitz has a book set in 30th century and Legion Lost set in the present day written by Fabian Nicieza.
Still Grant Morrison on Superman - looking forward to that immensely.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2011 22:26:20 GMT
I just can't plough through information on 52 titles launching in one month. DC couldn't have turned me off more if they tried and I'm the type of reader they should be trying to interest as I currently buy none of their titles but might be interested in some new takes on their characters! I wonder if this is the kind of thing that will get a lot of interest amongst existing readers and be soundly ignored elsewhere.
Had this been a sliding scale relaunch: say 5 or so books a month I would be paying attention but...no.
Marvel's renumbering gimmicks are just as daft but at least they don't do it 52 times in one month!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jun 11, 2011 0:08:06 GMT
I just can't plough through information on 52 titles launching in one month. DC couldn't have turned me off more if they tried and I'm the type of reader they should be trying to interest as I currently buy none of their titles but might be interested in some new takes on their characters! I wonder if this is the kind of thing that will get a lot of interest amongst existing readers and be soundly ignored elsewhere. Had this been a sliding scale relaunch: say 5 or so books a month I would be paying attention but...no. Marvel's renumbering gimmicks are just as daft but at least they don't do it 52 times in one month! -Ralph I used to buy tons of DC stuff but not any more. 52 relaunches though, what? What is going on I am so confused. |
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Post by legios on Jun 11, 2011 9:59:26 GMT
Sadly not. Abnett and Lanning are not on the Legion book. Levitz has a book set in 30th century and Legion Lost set in the present day written by Fabian Nicieza. Andy Oh well. I'll not bother then, not that impressed by Levitz' third run at the Legion and I think the point of a Legion book set in the same century as I am in somehow misses the point. Karl |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 24, 2011 1:21:37 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 24, 2011 6:58:35 GMT
I'm pretty sure images load automatically even in spoilers so I've changed it to a link rather than an embedded picture!
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Post by blueshift on Jun 24, 2011 8:17:49 GMT
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Post by primenova on Jun 24, 2011 11:45:39 GMT
I've never followed Jim Lee's work at DC - but when he was wokring on HR for Marvel, he got the comics out every month. He did stop doing the art for Fan4 at #6 - with havign to take over the 2 comics that RobL was meant to do but where behind.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 31, 2011 13:43:26 GMT
I've read it. The art - as you would expect from Jim Lee and Scott Williams is top notch. In a move that will wind Ralph up no end. The Justice League doesn't feature in issue 1. Indeed it is the GL/Batman story. However, Hal is being given a personality for the first time. We see a pre Cyborg Vic Stone, and Superman at the end. Oh and a Parademon. Darkseid is involved in this.
I enjoyed the issue, and will pick up the next few and see where this leads.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 15, 2011 9:43:40 GMT
Been getting quite a few of the new 52 books from DC.
So far the only misfires out of the two I have purchased have been Justice League 1, and Green Lantern 1 (Red Lantern comes close). JL didn't have enough content in it. GL is a continuation of the previous stories, and as such despite having a new GL as opposed to Hal - in no way feels like issue 1 of anything other than the latest story arc.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2011 17:52:46 GMT
Avoiding all of DC. The whole reboot thing is so off-putting. However, it seems to be doing well which can only be good for comics in general.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 23, 2011 11:48:18 GMT
Do not read Catwoman issue 1.
That is all.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2011 12:21:09 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 23, 2011 12:23:13 GMT
I read it.
I wish I hadn't. The goodwill DC established with some of the 52 books has been exhausted already. A few folks are doing good things, but the creeping sensation is more of the same.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2011 17:18:36 GMT
I really wish DC would just fuck off. I couldn't care less now if they went under. Editorial has completely lost sight of what is acceptable in a medium essentially derived from a children's product and sold where children can buy them (on or off-line). Heads should roll.
Warner Bros: just do us all a favour and shoot the patient.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Sept 23, 2011 17:36:44 GMT
Holy crap
STAY CLASSY DC
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2011 17:44:12 GMT
You couldn't make this up, could you?
This is their big relaunch???
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 23, 2011 19:26:31 GMT
Yeah, read those links earlier this evening and my thought was "Errr.. What?" My second thought was "um, No DC."
Marvel, with their Heroic Age thing managed to do this whole thing much better - relaunching their universe with a new status quo and a return to a bright, optimistic heroism in a lot of their flag-carrier titles which made them reasonably all ages friendly. DC just seem to have decided to relaunch their universe for the purposes of going right back to speaking to the folk who were already reading it beforehand, by doing exactly the sort of thing they were previously doing. Making the whole thing seem rather pointless.
The specific material in the dock looks to me to be markedly gratuitous and unnecessary - especially the Catwoman pages. That just looks like pandering. I am not impressed, and am not likely to be picking up any mainline DC books as a result.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2011 10:30:28 GMT
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Post by verity on Sept 25, 2011 12:43:25 GMT
Wonder Woman, thumbs up, Catwoman and Red Hood, thumbs down. I've read erotic comics that had more class.
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