The NZA Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 newsarama DC Co-Publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee have tweeted out an ominious image with the word "Rebirth" over a set of blue curtains, with the DC Comics trademark below. Take a look: Given sales attrition of their line since 2011's "New 52" relaunch and the wholesale embracing of frequent title and line relaunches by market leader and DC's closest rival Marvel Comics, speculaton will immediately turn to some sort of large-scale relaunch on DC's part this year. doesn't look like they're scorching the earth of Nu-52 so much as possibly just a renumbering, so maybe not that big a deal - as long as Dido & Johns are still dicking things up (with assists from Lobdell) i imagine it'll be relatively the same? If anything, i wonder if they're taking notes from ANAD marvel & prepping their universe to more readily integrate the movie (and more importantly, show) stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbie Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 It's been 10 years of meh for me with DC at this point. Saw an interview with Phil Jimenez where he perfectly explained why these reboots lose many fans: Basically you're severing the connection between fan and character and then hoping it regrows just as strong. At some point, the fan just gets tired of being cut and moves on. Building off that, my own take is that the mental connection grows only when a fan puts in the mental investment/energy to feed that connection and after a while nobody wants to feed a thing that has a short or uncertain future. Also...DiDio is fulla crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Is that official? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 it comes from Johns & Lee's twitters, so yeah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I bet they just roll everything back to right before the New 52. REBIRTH NOT A REBOOT GET IT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 DC scoops up Tom King with exclusive contract i'm told he's done fine work on Grayson, and he's a Kyle Rayner fan so i'm cool. my only concern was losing him on Vision (a great book baytor rightfully called horror), but he had this to say: As to Vision, I'm on through issue 12. We're finishing the story we set out to tell without a single compromise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Visitant Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 DC Really needs to figure out what it is they are doing with their titles. It's all reboot, not a reboot every few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted May 30, 2016 Author Share Posted May 30, 2016 ...so did anyone read last week's Rebirth premier? new books & creative teams, with some good talent (king on batman, jurgens on supes, etc) and a lotta names i'm looking forward to learning about. Wally's back, and the massive wholes from New 52 are looking to slowly be patched. i know Cap # 1 and Civil War II stuff is bigger for most right now, but the reveal at the end of the villain seems controversial, but i'm interested in seeing where it goes, as a way of explaining the troubled timeline & lost years IT WAS DIDIO ALL ALONG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Just read it: This is going to piss so many people off, so so many people. Nobody tell Logan. Alan Moore is probably literally on fire right now or at least will be when he finds out. They've been trying to drag Watchmen into the DCU for a while but I never actually thought they'd do it. The hubris, holy shit. It's nice the way they handled the two Wally's with nearly as much bending over backwards as Marvel did to get Miles Morales into the 616. Was wondering how they were going to bring him back without shoving him under the bus. Makes me wonder how they're going to handle Huntress and Green Lantern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Wait what!? I got some comics to download buy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Me too :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Duuuuude, people are getting pissed at Cap when this just happened?? Look, Im not one to get up in arms over this stuff, especially as a casual reader, but goddamn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted May 31, 2016 Author Share Posted May 31, 2016 Batsy's rebirth preview - really not getting people hating on the costume, it's not enough of a change/deviation for me to feel either way on it, personally this other guy, however, might take some getting used to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Batman looks like Batman (It's a small detail, but I like that yellow outline on the chest symbol). It's barely noticeable though, and not that big a change like you said. That Supes looks like Shazam though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted May 31, 2016 Author Share Posted May 31, 2016 right? i keep looking at it just to see if i missed anything beyond that yellow outline, which really just kinda makes it feel like a nod to the 80's movie costume that dominated for a while too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 That's not Superman, it's "New Superman", he's a Chinese man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Ted Kord is alive again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 was happy to see that, too. most people were on about you-know-who returning, so that kinda got overlooked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I forgot he was dead to begin with in the first place. I didn't know y'all were so deep into DC B-listers. Happy for ya though. As for the new Bat symbol. I dig it more than I probably should.All this return of the Supermen stuff seems groan worthy though. I'm so behind with my DC & Batcomics anyway that I'm only just now reading Flashpoint. Thomas Wayne ain't nuthin' ta fuck with, y'all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorelei Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Might give all of them a go, starting with The Flash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbie Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 (edited) Been reading recaps to decide if I want to take the trouble of trying it out and it seems like they did exactly what I was hoping the would NOT do. They are making things more messy before they make them clean, with no indication it will be cleaner in the end anyway. I never got into New 52 because they decided to do the '5 years in the future' thing with some titles and not with others and it just felt like I was being forced to read everything to understand anything and I quit. Pretty much for good. I don;t begrudge them the attempt to do what crossovers usually do and make you buy books, but I'm too old for that crap. I even respect that they tried to launch a universe with history. But it didn't work for me. When I heard about Rebirth I figured they had realized the New52 did lose too many people like me and everything I heard was that they understood the need to make things inviting for us to come back so I figured they'd do their shake up and present a clean jumping in point. But nope. Take this stuff going on with Superman or Wonderwoman's origins. They're actively readjusting the timeline on the fly in the relaunched books which is like trying to make a bridge with only one riverbank. New readers like me are lost immediately not knowing what's changing into what. The whole thing is demanding too much knowledge that a lapsed reader like me doesn't have. Again, the NUMBER 1 Books are supposed to be the 'easy' books where the new readers get oriented and DC's not providing it. So, I'm staying out again. Edited June 9, 2016 by Jumbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 This is why I've stayed away from DC for years now. With the exception of Batman, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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