The DC Comics Thread vol. 2

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Yeah, but they have already shown with the New52 that they aren't great with preparation. Hell, before then they knew JHW3 is the slowest artist on the planet and they still made him do a zero issue for Batwoman. And David Finch had constant delays despite a known 6month lead time(though he was trying to write as well).

The one good thing about Cully potentially doing this Shazam series is that the costume will probably look better. I usually HATE his designs, but if he's the guy who designed this horrid new costume, then at least it'll be perfected.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

Im just hoping that Billy won't be written as the asshole he is now. The way he is now he doesn't even deserve an ounce of super powers

[Marvelous Iggy God Of Turtles Find all posts View Profile Close Marvelous Iggy]

Im just hoping that Billy won't be written as the asshole he is now. The way he is now he doesn't even deserve an ounce of super powers

Hero's journey man. He's gonna be humbled before the Wizard and learn what it means to be a good hero and a good person .

Sure he won't say "GOLLY GEE MR.ARNOLD" but I'm also sure he won't be a dick.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

That's true and all but sometime I think it's way overboard but that's just me.

[Marvelous Iggy God Of Turtles Find all posts View Profile Close Marvelous Iggy]

That's true and all but sometime I think it's way overboard but that's just me.

It is comics, everything is a bit exaggerated

Also I love Black Adam's redesign.

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...Sure he won't say "GOLLY GEE MR.ARNOLD" but I'm also sure he won't be a dick.

I'd still like to see one of those characters. You know how everybody laughed at Christopher Reeves when Clark said "Golly"? It was funny and endearing then because it was already outdated and OTT. I'd like at least one perfect boy scout in the DCnU

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BEDARD READIES FOR THIRD ARMY & SCARAB HISTORY IN "NEW GUARDIANS" AND "BLUE BEETLE"

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And the NEW GREEN LANTERN's Name Is...


According to a solicitation of October's Green Lantern #13, found on Diamond's retailer website, his name is apparently Baz.


http://www.newsarama.com/comics/new-...erns-name.html

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This has already been posted yesterday

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This has already been posted yesterday

i checked in this thread before i posted and it wasnt

[Agent Purple The Illustrated Man Find all posts View Profile Close Agent Purple]

That's because you didn't bother checking the Third Army thread.

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IAN EDGINTON VAMPS UP "NATIONAL COMICS: LOOKER"

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Greg Rucka on Renee Montoya's Future

Given what I'm told was said at SDCC this past week, I don't imagine you'll see it any time soon. The few conversations I've had with DC folk over the past year made it very clear they had no interest in seeing Renee continue, either as the Question or not.

I'd be lying if I said it didn't seem a short-sighted and foolish decision on their part. It's a waste of a good character, and from a business standpoint if none other, that's just dumb; why cut something out of the universe that was filling a void? Instead, they're just retreading, in my opinion. But ultimately, it's their right and their decision to make.

Rucka on Batwoman

I would love to work with Jim again, and would do so at the drop of a hat, provided the hat dropped in the right place.

As of this time, I have no plans to work for DC on Kate or any other character.

Rucka on DC's direction & creator rights

This is a hard one to answer, honestly, because I love so many of the Big Two characters, and it is, more often than not, a true honor to get to work on them, and to work with people who are so passionate in their defense.

That said, most of my best work, I think, has been in the creator-owned arena, and it's an arena where I get to tell the stories I want to tell, the way I want to tell them. Working for Marvel or DC or, frankly, any company on a work-for-hire character, you by necessity sacrifice that to one extent or another. From my perspective - and please understand that my perspective currently is very much from the outside at DC and even at Marvel - I'm perceiving, what is to me, a dangerous resurgence of editorially-driven story. When management starts dictating to creative, the work almost always suffers.

I won't speak about DC specifically, other than to say I think they've got some books very much worth reading, and others that should be recycled for fertilizer.

Options do exist for greater creator-ownership in this day and age, but the downside is that most of those are veering further and further from "traditional" print comic book storytelling and publishing. Outside the very legitimate issues of production and distribution costs, the publisher is always looking to make a profit. One of the ways they do that is by reserving creator rights, or by taking a percentage of them. Sometimes those percentages, that ownership, is grossly problematic. In other cases, it is, in my opinion, entirely fair.

Understand, I've nothing against publishers wanting to make a profit. But, yeah... when that profit motive excludes the creators themselves? Things become very, very dicey.

Rucka on abandoned Batman plans

Oh, hell yeah. There was a Riddler "event" I wanted to do that would've been tied into a website. I wanted to do more with Ivy. The Batman rogues gallery are some of the richest characters in the entirety of the DCU, in my opinion.

Joker was always hard for me - I think Ed had a better handle on him than I did, honestly. My feeling was that he should be scary almost always, and make you laugh at all the wrong things; the kind of laughter that makes you feel dirty for laughing afterwards.

Rucka on potential Gotham Central TV Show

As to a GC show, I have no doubt that WB will be rolling one out in the next couple of years. Whether it bears any resemblance to the original series Ed and I wrote, I've no idea.

Rucka on working with Grant Morrison

Frankly, working with Grant on 52 and working for him on Final Crisis was worlds apart, as you can tell from the with/for difference. Grant, I think, was tremendously over-worked, and was nearly impossible to reach for consultation, so I was working with Eddie Berganza as the "conduit" there almost entirely.

This is not to lay blame at Grant's feet - Grant had a story, and he wrote his story. I think a lot of what dressed up Final Crisis was more a result of Editorial looking for ways to exploit the core story, and thus there were a lot of books that seemed only marginally connected.

I can't speak for others. I've had terrific experiences working with Grant; he's one of the most kind, generous, and sweetest people I've met in the industry (at least, he was to me, as I said, I can't speak for others).

[Fearless Agent Orange Find all posts View Profile Close Fearless]

Well, gosh, Rucka sure has a lot of opinions...

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It was one of those Redditt question thingy...fans asked him a bunch of question and these are the interesting responses that related to DC. so I figured why not post them. There's some Punisher stuff in there too.