Bustronaut Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Oh my, Batwoman must be amazing magazine sized. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Austin Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Disappointed in the ending of Trinity War, but like that, the beginning of Forever Evil is off to a good start, though, I'm not confident it'll end as good as it started. Wondering if I should get the Earth-2 tie in, thankfully it's a .1 and not a full next issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 All of these editorial decisions came at the last minute, and always after a year or more of planning and plotting on our end. Now my question is, did they actually bother to tell DC about these plots ahead of time or did they just show up in the submitted scripts? They likely told their editors. This is coming from the top (Lee/Johns/Didio) and has now happened repeatedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 The world is a much better place, if you just pretend DC stopped publishing comics in October 2011. Granted some good creators have disappeared off the face of the planet, but it's not worth thinking about what happened to them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 I realized last night that we're a couple of years away from the 1998 MASK OF ZORRO being the right age to be the movie that influenced Bruce Wayne to become Batman, rather than the 1920 MASK OF ZORRO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Here's a list through May of the goings and other missteps since Nu52. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Ape Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 I go one farther and say DC went out of business in 2011. A sequel to Dark Knight? The hell you say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 That list is so damning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellsworth Toohey Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Could we actually maybe get a lesbian comics writer to handle Batwoman now, instead of two men? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 How do I work the ignore function again? I have to manually enter something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellsworth Toohey Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 And the new Batwoman writer should be really political. I want Kate Kane to be totally "in your face" with her homosexuality and Judaism towards the other members of the Bat-Family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Territorial Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Could we actually maybe get a lesbian comics writer to handle Batwoman now, instead of two men? Eh, the two men were doing a nice job on the book. That doesn't seem the problem. I think the better solution would have been to keep the writers and get a lesbian editor (though the problems are probably coming down from the top, moreso than from the book's actual editor). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Here's a list through May of the goings and other missteps since Nu52. This is all very sad, but I wasn't really bothered until I saw what they had done to Lobo. Poor Lobo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MushroomJones Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 And from May to now: 7/9/2013 – Ales Kot is removed from Suicide Squad after two issues: "Since the solicitations for October’s DC titles came out, I was repeatedly asked if I am no longer writing Suicide Squad. Yes, Matt Kindt is writing SS #24 and I am no longer writing Suicide Squad. Matt’s “3 Story” is one of my favorite graphic novels I read in the last few years and I look forward to reading “Mind MGMT” when I finally find the time to buy the first hardcover collection, which you can find here. Matt Kindt is a very capable storyteller who is doing exciting things in the comics medium and I wish him great things. I killed my deadlines, I wrote my best, and I have no regrets whatsoever. Thank you for the ride, for your support, for everything." 7/27/2013 – Justin Jordan leaves Superboy: "Since you all have asked – still on New Guardians, and I did leave Superboy. Obviously, since I am still on NG, this was totally amicable." 8/9/2013 - Kevin Maguire leaves Justice League 3000, causing book to be delayed to December: "Well, I don't want to make any big deal about it but I suppose I should say something. This is, as I tweeted, very humiliating. Obviously, I was looking forward to working on a fairly high profile book. I haven't had a top ten book since the 80s and I thought this would finally be my shot at doing one. But it's DC's book, it's their property, they can do whatever they want with it. They don't owe me anything. I've been told they wanted a book that was "dark and gritty", so I'm perplexed as to why they chose us for that. We did exactly the kind of book you would expect from us. Lots of action and humor. AND I turned down a Bendis X-Men project to do JL3K. As for my doing other projects with DC, they offered me a four page story and a 10 page digital first story. They're paychecks, so I'm grateful for that, but they're no Justice League #1. I really don't want to do back ups and fill-ins for my career. So, right now, I'll do the four pager and then I think that'll be it for me and DC for a while. I've received some interesting offers from other companies. Marvel generously offered me an issue of a cool book, so I'm going to do that for now, then see what happens. I was supposed to do Baltimore Comic Con next month with Giffen and DeMatteis, but I'll be canceling that for obvious reason. Apart from the fact that I no longer have a project to promote with them, Giffen's Newsarama quote, which I'm certain had no intended malice, still kinda stung. That's it. That covers all I have to say about this. It'll be forgotten news by next week and we all move on with our lives." Am I missing anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tele-Viper Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 I swear I'm gonna wake up one morning and find all this DC stuff to have been one long bad dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 So it has to be Bob Harras right? These types of arbitrary changes were his big thing on the X books and as EIC at Marvel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tele-Viper Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 It's Harras but its also Didio. This shit's been going on since long before the New 52. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Read the Death of Superman. It was...a fight. Its not bad or anything, but it didn't come off like the pic end to the Man of Steel that I think they wanted it to be. It was a bit bloated, being a least 3-4 issues longer than necessary, while the actual fight with Doomsday is nothing amazing. You never really get to learn anything about Doomsday either, and the build to the encounter itself was just kind of there. Its decent, but not a particularly great story. I can't help, but feel it could have all been done better. It felt very much more like the beginning of something rather than the end which makes the bloated length a little worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 6, 2013 Author Share Posted September 6, 2013 I swear I'm gonna wake up one morning and find all this DC stuff to have been one long bad dream.It's still 1985 and the Pre-Crisis Universe still exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Read the Death of Superman. It was...a fight. Its not bad or anything, but it didn't come off like the pic end to the Man of Steel that I think they wanted it to be. It was a bit bloated, being a least 3-4 issues longer than necessary, while the actual fight with Doomsday is nothing amazing. You never really get to learn anything about Doomsday either, and the build to the encounter itself was just kind of there. Its decent, but not a particularly great story. I can't help, but feel it could have all been done better. It felt very much more like the beginning of something rather than the end which makes the bloated length a little worse. It is. The fight and death are merely a lead in to "Funeral For A Friend" and "Reign of the Supermen" which are both fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APO Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 I swear I'm gonna wake up one morning and find all this DC stuff to have been one long bad dream.It's still 1985 and the Pre-Crisis Universe still exists. I'd be happy to just go back before that awful Identity Crisis story came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Can we go back back to Pre-Zero Hour at least? My loathing of of DnA Legion is pretty intense James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Read the Death of Superman. It was...a fight. Its not bad or anything, but it didn't come off like the pic end to the Man of Steel that I think they wanted it to be. It was a bit bloated, being a least 3-4 issues longer than necessary, while the actual fight with Doomsday is nothing amazing. You never really get to learn anything about Doomsday either, and the build to the encounter itself was just kind of there. Its decent, but not a particularly great story. I can't help, but feel it could have all been done better. It felt very much more like the beginning of something rather than the end which makes the bloated length a little worse. It is. The fight and death are merely a lead in to "Funeral For A Friend" and "Reign of the Supermen" which are both fantastic. this. i always found "Funeral for a Friend" to be the real shining point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 6, 2013 Author Share Posted September 6, 2013 Can we go back back to Pre-Zero Hour at least? My loathing of of DnA Legion is pretty intense JamesNot for me, since that means no Starman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Can we go back back to Pre-Zero Hour at least? My loathing of of DnA Legion is pretty intense JamesNot for me, since that means no Starman. Ditto. Also, I like the DnA Legion, myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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