DC RELAUNCHING entire Universe in September

[isis101z]

If that's real, then somebody's trying too hard.

 

[The Mike]

I am interested in reading the reviews for Action Comics more than anything else. Superman seems to be one of the major heroes they are "revamping".

 

[IrishJedi]

Okay, Detective Comics #1 was fantastic. Just finished it. Instantly removed the bad taste of JL #1. Thankfully, it reads like an other great Batman story... no real revamp crap here.

DiFabio, you should put a Spoiler warning on that image. It's the reveal and final frame of the issue. Not cool.

I am interested in reading the reviews for Action Comics more than anything else. Superman seems to be one of the major heroes they are "revamping".

Going to read it right now...

 

[IrishJedi]

Okay, Action Comics #1... Eh.

Spoiler

It's interesting that we're seeing a younger Superman in Metroplis just really beginning to hone his abilities. He literally can only leap tall buildings with a single bound at this point, not quite fly. But everything else. Meh. It appears Supes is starting out as a vigilante wanted by the authorities. While probably realistic, it's just too dirivivate for my tastes. The art isn't that great, either. As Clark, he's flat-out fugly. And I'm not getting the idea behind him wearing his Supes shirt and cape... with blue jeans and work boots.

So far, the New 52 is 1 for 3 with me.

Now onto Men of War, Batgirl, Swamp Thing, and perhaps Green Arrow.

 

[IrishJedi]

Thumbs-up to Batgirl #1. Very good read and an interesting, promising new villain (or anti-hero?)

Spoiler

I like that they're not rebooting what happened to Barbara Gordon in "The Killing Joke". That's still canon. Now the status quo is that she started to regain feeling after 3 years and eventually was no longer paralyzed. We're following her as she's just getting back to being Batgirl again. She's both reinvorgated and traumatized by her experience, and that already plays out in this first issue.

This could be a very interesting book.

 

[The Mike]

Spoiler

It's interesting that we're seeing a younger Superman in Metroplis just really beginning to hone his abilities. He literally can only leap tall buildings with a single bound at this point, not quite fly. But everything else. Meh. It appears Supes is starting out as a vigilante wanted by the authorities. While probably realistic, it's just too dirivivate for my tastes. The art isn't that great, either. As Clark, he's flat-out fugly. And I'm not getting the idea behind him wearing his Supes shirt and cape... with blue jeans and work boots.

Looks like Morrison was watching Smallville for the last two seasons.

Spoiler

I like that they're not rebooting what happened to Barbara Gordon in "The Killing Joke". That's still canon. Now the status quo is that she started to regain feeling after 3 years and eventually was no longer paralyzed. We're following her as she's just getting back to being Batgirl again. She's both reinvorgated and traumatized by her experience, and that already plays out in this first issue.

I'm interested to see how traumatic that event was for her. Strangely that means:

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Jason Todd was "killed" as Robin at that time and within two years is now running around as Red Hood? So at best Tim has had one maybe two years as Robin before moving onto Red Robin and Damien what? A matter of months?

 

[Kamandi]

So this reboot isn't even a month old and event from the old DC universe are already being acknowledged?

Yeah, I can see this is going to last.

 

[IrishJedi]

Not just acknowledged, but even shown in flashbacks.

 

[The Mike]

So this reboot isn't even a month old and event from the old DC universe are already being acknowledged? Yeah, I can see this is going to last.

That is the operating procedure, that is why they call it a relaunch and not a reboot. Stuff that was popular still happened (ie: Sinestro Corps War, The Killing Joke). Stuff that wasn't was thrown out. The rough part is that everything in 70 years that was popular has now happened within the past 5.

All the titles will be referencing things of old, save the Superman family which seems for all intents and purposes to have been given a clean slate.

 

[Kamandi]

If this still ties in then I wish they had handled the issue re-numbering differently. To see Action and Superman and Detective and Batman lose their issue numbers...

This is probably going to sell for a few months, but what does DC do when this runs out of steam? These stunts keep feeling more and more desperate.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I'm beginning to think this reboot is gonna turn out to be some huge elseworlds type of event

 

[IrishJedi]

If this still ties in then I wish they had handled the issue re-numbering differently. To see Action and Superman and Detective and Batman lose their issue numbers...

This is probably going to sell for a few months, but what does DC do when this runs out of steam? These stunts keep feeling more and more desperate.

Simple... They'll start over, again, using the issue #'s the titles left off with last month. I guarantee you this will happen within the next year or two... and they'll bill it as another tentpole "event".

These events are now more important to them than the actual characters and their legacies.

This is one of the many downsides of DC & Marvel being owned by huge media conglomerates beholden to stakeholders.

 

[thenammagazine]

Simple... They'll start over, again, using the issue #'s the titles left off with last month. I guarantee you this will happen within the next year or two... and they'll bill it as another tentpole "event".

These events are now more important to them than the actual characters and their legacies.

This is one of the many downsides of DC & Marvel being owned by huge media conglomerates beholden to stakeholders.

They should've just done what Marvel did with the Ultimate universe. Who gives a ____ if they're copying Marvel. Both companies have been copying each other in one form or another for decades now so it shouldn't have really mattered.

 

[KBA]

Okay, Detective Comics #1 was fantastic. Just finished it.

Agreed. I picked up AC#1 as well. Time to read

**Enjoyed Action Comics. I didn't think it was half as good as Detective Comics, but I'll buy next month.

 

[Agent0028]

So Batman and Green Lantern are pretty much moving forward business as usual with very little, if any change in past events, except for making them happen in a shorter amount of time. Is that more or less correct?

I'm interested to see what's going on with Green Arrow. That will pretty much round out the three DC heroes I read.

 

[Grange Wallis]

Just read Action Comics and Detective Comic #1 - Loved them both! I love seeing a younger determine Jim Gordon! I like the Superman reboot more than I expected... Can't wait for more of this!

So far I've read the big 3 issues those too and JL#1 Liking it! But I do agree JL#1 read like a Marvel book!

 

[NosferatuBill36]

ALL of you need to run out and purchase Animal Man #1. Seriously.

The comic was that ******* good.

Animal Man. Occult/Supernatural. Just awesome, awesome stuff. Great writing, great artwork.

You won't be disappointed.

 

[Biojex]

Picked up Action and Detective comics #1 today. Let's see how this reboot is

 

[fanger54]

Action comic was kind of weirdly written in the sense that its not feeling like a no1 , more like no2 of an ongoing story.

but with detective comic, its kind of the same but with a greater sense that the story i just read was the start of something great, and that it will have an ongoing effect on whats coming.

plus the ending to detective comic was not something that would be expected from anyone, you cant call it half way in like you can with stories from various media.

bottom line i say get both but you might enjoy detective comic more then action comic for the moment.

 

[cjf28]

ok, so, how far in the past is Action Comics #1?