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With all this news from DC, I am really contemplating pulling the plug. After 13 years of DC-centric collecting. Maybe until all this #1 money-grab stuff settles down after a year(?). Fifty-two new #1s by fall? WTF!
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Oh, and in typical DC fashion, Batwoman which was supposed to be out months ago, will now get pushed to Fall. 'Let us tease you about a story for 6-12 months and then not publish it'. Sorta like A-S WW w/ Adam Hughes from 2 years ago.
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Yeah, it seems pretty obvious that this is little more than a $$ grabbing event. I look forward to some of the books, but, really, I don't think rebooting or whatever was really necessary. I would have bought an Azzarello/Chiang Wonder Woman comic regardless of the issue number.

I'm sure it'll be pretty successful numbers-wise, but I still get the feeling they're going to end up taking back some of this.
 
DC Relaunch [UPDATE 2]: John Constantine In The Justice League? Paul Cornell, Jeff Lemire, Scott Snyder, Peter Milligan And More Bring A Darker DCU Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Then there’s also the BleedingCooled Justice League Dark #1 teaming up John Constantine (really?), Deadman, Shade the Changing Man and Madame Xanadu written by Peter Milligan.

Then there’s another new book, Demon Knights #1, superheroes in medieval times, written by Paul Cornell.

And Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE #1 again written by Jeff Lemire, SHADE standing for The Super Human Advanced Defense Executive, from his Seven Soldiers mini-series.

Entertainment Weekly didn’t seem minded to name artists yet. But the Bleedingcooled Swamp Thing #1 cover was by Yanick Paquette … anyone recognise the Animal Man #1 artist here? It’s a little bit Sienkiewiczy…

[UPDATE: On twitter, Scott Snyder has named Yanick Pacquette as main artist on Swamp Thing with Francesco Francavilla filling in occasionally]

[UPDATE 2: Jeff Lemire has named Travel Foreman as the artist of Animal Man, and Alberto Ponticelli (Unknown Soldier) as the artist of Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE]
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Scott Snyder is writing Swamp Thing.

The Animal Man cover:

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As far as money grabs go... they're definitely getting more of my money than I'd have guessed.
 
DC Relaunch: More From DC’s Dark Side, Including Wildstorm! Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

The DC Source blog gives us above and beyond what we learned at EW.com and then on tweets, Mikel Janin is the artist on Justice League Dark #1, written by Peter Milligan, Diogenes Neves and Oclair Albert will be drawing Demon Knights #1, written by Paul Cornell starring the Demon, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning are bringing back Resurrection Man #1 with artist Fernando Dagnin, Josh Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino bring us I Vampire, described to me as a grand gothic DC universe vampire romance, and here?s a look at previously mentioned Frankenstein: Agent Of SHADE.
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I like all this 'Dark' stuff and I have always loved ol'Etrigan.
 
adgy-san said:
Unless it's yet to be announced.

But it's probably dead. :(
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Odd, because they have that Flashpoint:Secret Seven w/Shade. Hopefully they will combine the two. I like the direction they are going with folding the mystical/magic characters back into the DCU...and Milligan being on board helps. The rest of the relaunch, meh. I will reserve judgement.
 
jerseydevil said:
DC Is Out of Their Goddamned Minds - Topless Robot

Adgy you NEED to read this...as a matter of fact I am not sure you didn't write it.
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I couldn't agree more (surprise!).

I was actually reading an article about the whole Batgirl thing the other day, written by someone who was very upset about the whole Barbara Gordon not being in a wheelchair anymore, and it's understandable. I'm sure handicapped comic fans of all sorts liked having someone they could at least sort of relate with. Plus, Oracle had become, in my opinion, a very good character.

I'm not entirely sure this is what's happening, though. In recent issues of Batman Inc, Batman mentioned to Oracle about giving her an "avatar" and showed her a drawing of herself in a Batgirl outfit that looks very similar to the one on the cover there.

Anyway.

Beyond all that, I don't understand why you'd want to **** with the bat-books when they're all selling like hot-cakes (especially Batman Inc) and Grant Morrison is in the final stages of his epic, over-arching storyline whose seeds were planted years ago.

Morrison said he'll be able to continue it, but now we have to wait for however many months and apparently a whole lot of **** that just happened in it is going to be different? ****ing great.

I really think DC could have just changed the creative teams and announced the new Dark stuff without all this reboot nonsense.

It probably wouldn't make as much money, though.
 
FRINGE’S Brad Caleb Kane to Write Fox’s DAREDEVIL Reboot

20th Century Fox has hired Fringe writer/producer Brad Caleb Kane to pen its Daredevil reboot. Per Heat Vision, the studio wants Kane to adapt Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli?s classic 1986 arc (spanning issues #227-233) ?Born Again? for director David Slade (30 Days of Night). In that run, Daredevil?s nemesis the Kingpin discovers his secret identity by virtue of Matt Murdock?s former secretary, Karen Page, in exchange for a shot of heroin.
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DC Relaunch: The Dark Side of DC Comics | Geeks of Doom

Except for Voodoo I am pretty interested in these books and the direction DC is going, at least as far as the non-main heroes. Deathstroke, Blackhawks, all-Star Western, Sgt. Rock and all these new horror-centric titles it seems DC is going old school. Now all they need is a return to the original House of Mystery w/Cain & Abel and we're all set.
 
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