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Kelly Sue DeConnick was approached for DC Revamp

I've never actually read anything by her so I don't know if this is a good or bad thing.

[Razorgod Anti-Monitor Find all posts View Profile Close Razorgod]

I've never actually read anything by her so I don't know if this is a good or bad thing.

She worked on Osborn: Evil Incarnate, which was really good. I enjoyed it.

[Ωmega Man Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Ωmega Man]

She sounds like a stand up kinda chick. Wonder what it was they wanted her to pitch for....

~KL~

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Dan Didio on lack of JSA

Taken From Dan Didio's Facebook

AS for JSA, we have decided to rest this concept while we devote our attention on the launch of the three new Justice League series. As for other characters and series not part of the initial 52, there are plenty of stories to be told, and we're just getting started. best, DD

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Those 52 Issue One Solicitations In Full…

So from reading a couple of these the perception I'm getting that in the DCnU we're getting the first appearance of actual metahumans (aka why Superman is 22) but the batfamily has its continuity relatively the same, I'm guessing because they're not metas? If that's true dunno how I feel about Bruce being considerably older than the rest of the league. Oh well don't really care as long as the stories are good.

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BULLSHIT! [re: resting the JSA concept]

With Superman I would imagine the pants/patches look is a new origin series for the character while Superman is the modern day stuff with him a few years older, yet still younger than what he was before.

~KL~

[Hypo Lil' Leaguer Find all posts View Profile Close Hypo]

BULLSHIT!

~KL~

Before we all go flying off into a rage let's keep in mind that those are just my thoughts based off of 3 sentence descriptions. lol.

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If DC really want to to write stories about younger versions f their popular heroes then they should take a tip from Marvel and publish a DC equivalent to the Ultimate universe; Something which was, until Ultimatum and the 616-isation of the Ultimates, pretty damn good.

Yeah I agree with this, i thought thats what the Earth 1 series were going to be, what DC are doing makes no sense to me.

I thought things were going fine as is, why fuck up a good thing?

This new era will either be a massive success for DC.....

Or it will be a new 90s DC Era, where after its done, people will look back on it as a joke.

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Or it will be a new 90s DC Era, where after its done, people will look back on it as a joke.

The 90s in general were a joke.

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Yeah in the new DCU Bruce Batman would have been the first costumed hero. We know that because Clark will be 22, Damien Wayne is 12 or 13 roughly half of Clark's age. Along with Dick Grayson being roughly the same age as Clark, I'm sorry unless they do the "Superman was Superboy when young" thing it means Bruce was first.

I really don't know how much I like that idea.




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DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio Speaks on JSA

While the Green Lantern books seemed to have made it through Flashpoint without much change, the magical Green Lantern Alan Scott is left without a Justice Society of America book. DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio took time to address the JSA via Facebook. Read what he had to say below:

AS for JSA, we have decided to rest this concept while we devote our attention on the launch of the three new Justice League series. As for other characters and series not part of the initial 52, there are plenty of stories to be told, and we're just getting started.

best, DD

When a fan mentioned that this news saddened him, DiDio followed with:

who said we weren't going to see the characters?

So there may be a place for JSA characters to spring out of limbo but there are currently no plans for a JSA title.

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If Action is a new origin type of series it could be set a few years in the past. I knew having two different types of Superman at the same time would be confusing....

~KL~

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If Action is a new origin type of series it could be set a few years in the past. I knew having two different types of Superman at the same time would be confusing....

~KL~

Well I'm sure they'll clear it up before the relaunch. It's only June afterall. Going back to the possibility of Action being set in the past, it can't be TOO far in the past since the Justice League solicit cleary says:

.JUSTICE LEAGUE #1
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS
1:25 Variant cover by DAVID FINCH

RETROSOLICITED • On sale AUGUST 31 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US RATED T • Combo pack edition: $4.99 US

Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for more information.

Comics superstars Geoff Johns and Jim Lee make history! In a universe where super heroes are strange and new, Batman has discovered a dark evil that requires him to unite the World Greatest Heroes!

This spectacular debut issue is also offered as a special combo pack edition, polybagged with a redemption code for a digital download of the issue.

The more I think about it, the more likely it seems that while metahumans are just emerging the Batfamily has likely been operating out of Gotham for years.

For those of you who hate this idea, what exactly don't you like about Batman being the first costume hero? I'm not trying to be an ass, I actually wanna know why it's such a big deal to y'all. Does it change the DCU in some fundamental way you can't stand?

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If Action is a new origin type of series it could be set a few years in the past. I knew having two different types of Superman at the same time would be confusing....

~KL~

Maybe to someone who can't read two books at the same time...Certainly not for the average comic book reader who has dealt with continuity for even a month.

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I'm not trying to be an ass, I actually wanna know why it's such a big deal to y'all. Does it change the DCU in some fundamental way you can't stand?

It's not so much about whose first, to me, but a question of the age gap between Superman and Batman. There's a certain dynamic between the Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel, where they stand on equal ground but represent two different sides of the crime fighting coin. Throw in an age gap, and you run the risk of turning that relationship into a mentorship instead of a friendship. Especially since we've had the new Superman described as angry and proactive.

I like the age gap and the relative experience level being equal but different.
Which has resulted in some really good clashes over approaches to the same problem.