Remake/Remodel: DC Rebirth so you don't have to

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I don't have any sense that things will continue to get better, just that they've reached a comfortable plateau of just-about-averageness for the first time since 2009-ish.

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 20 January 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link

All that said we've arrived at the age where the best book DC are publishing is probably The Flintstones.

Speaking of which, there's a full-on DCU/Hanna-Barbera crossover in a couple of months seemingly in continuity.

Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Friday, 20 January 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link

Why the hell not, we already have a presumably in-continuity comic of John Constantine battling Dark Orko.

"Nay" (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 January 2017 14:30 (seven years ago) link

Flintstones _IS_ really good btw

A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 20 January 2017 14:30 (seven years ago) link

psyched for george jetson vs batman tbh

i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 January 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link

The cognitive dissonance of mostly decent creators working on comics adapting Hanna Barbera properties (which I always considered the nadir of childhood entertainment) for DC (which has largely been a dud of a company for a while) which are somehow good against all odds is doing my head in.

"Nay" (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 January 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link

pictures of minor riots and skirmishes and police with pepper spray in washington being shown on the bbc right now

i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 January 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link

Crisis on Earth-2

A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 20 January 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link

i leave it to your imagination as to whether i posted in the wrong thread

i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 January 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link

WHITHER HAWKMAN WHEN WASHINGTON NEEDS HIM

i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 January 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link

This is Earth Prime

EZ Snappin, Friday, 20 January 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link

I dunno what cable news channel YOU'RE watching but i beg to differ

A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 20 January 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link

Just because we elected Per Degaton doesn't mean it's changed.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 20 January 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

Both DC and Marvel have been in a big rut for the past few years. I'm trying with the Batman titles, but they swing from doing a scene that might be cool to some of the dumbest Batman comics I have ever read and I have read a few.

It's definitely a different era of comics when they have Batman both getting it on with Catwoman in a current story and put out a movie where he gives it to Batgirl. The nurds definitely have taken over the temple.

Charles Soule's current run on Daredevil has been pretty good.

earlnash, Monday, 23 January 2017 05:09 (seven years ago) link

A new level of customer contempt from DC saw no less than 4 regular books clock in at under 20 pages.

Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link

Seriously? That's fucked.

EZ Snappin, Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link

I only noticed when I got to the end of Superman and was confused because it felt like I'd just started reading it. And at 18 pages, I had.

Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link

How bizarre.

EZ Snappin, Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link

the food is terrible - and such small portions!

the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:40 (seven years ago) link

Dr. Manhattan farted, and rebooted the DCU for the 52nd time...

morrisp, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link

Huh, guess I missed that news about the DC pagecount. What turds. IIRC, Marvel pulled that nonsense under Jemas (the era that also brought us ads indiscriminately plopped between the pages of what was intended to be a two-page spread).

Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:54 (seven years ago) link

If last week's issue of New Super-Man is true and Ching Lung from Detective Comics #1 is actually the creator of the Rebirthiverse then I could almost see my way to forgiving everyone involved.

Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Monday, 13 February 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link

Does anyone know about current plans for the Legion of Super-Heroes? Weren't they teased in the "Rebirth" one-shot?

morrisp, Thursday, 16 February 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link

I think the plan is to have them come back, still be boring and have no readers, and then cancel them again.

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 17 February 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link

why should anything ever change?

Nhex, Friday, 17 February 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link

there's your slogan for the next reboot

removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Friday, 17 February 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link

The next line-wide reboot should just be a thing where everybody trades costumes for a while. Whoooa, Batman dresses like Booster Gold now, and hey look, is that Beast Boy dressed like Wonder Woman, how fun.

Donkeysauce McFannypack (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 February 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link

Saturn Girl is in Arkham Asylum as seen in Batman. There's an unknown link to Emerald Empress who was rebooted into the alternative Suicide Squad in JLvSS and Batgirl is going to bust her out of Arkham in her forthcoming annual leading to a Supergirl team-up which presumably will lead to a Legion reveal.

I've got a soft spot for the Legion but they'll get cancelled if they get their own book. Remember, they had not one but TWO Johnsiverse books. And also remember that Deathstroke has a Rebirthiverse book so baffling editorial decisions are clearly a speciality.

Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link

Thx for the info. I also have a soft spot for the LSH, but missed both the reboot and "threeboot." I checked out the New 52's "Legion Lost," and it was (without exaggeration) one of the worst comics I've ever read.

morrisp, Friday, 17 February 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

batman has been pretty good with Tom King, shame they've fucked it sideways with all this Dr. Manhattan nonsense.

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, it's good. Even the Watchmen stuff isn't as awful as I would've expected - and it's only two issues.

I wish he could lose David Finch, though. They should prize Francesco Francavilla away from Snyder and put him on the main title. Best Batman artist since Norm Breyfogle, maybe?

Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:09 (seven years ago) link

breyfogle is def my batman artist in the way that neal adams might be for readers a generation before - he was so great

i haven't been keeping up on recent developments in the dcu because, amazingly, even i have better things to do with my time; is there a decent primer somewhere on what's going on with the watchmen shenanigans?

gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:13 (seven years ago) link

Don't light the Aldo-Signal!

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link

my first post was a suggestion that we might need to stage an intervention itt for his own benefit, so that's a fair point

i'll do some googling of my own and no doubt i'll be back shortly to go 'lol wtf'

gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link

let's see if my theory of "you should be able to follow a plot without reading every back issue" holds up here, considering I've only read some news blurbs, Batman, and I think some sort of pre-event one-shot:
- There was something called Flashpoint, where Flash tried to save his mother from this other bad Flash guy (Thawne?) that created another timeline where Bruce's dad became Batman
- Something is screwed up and Batman found a letter from his dad that shouldn't have existed
- Apparently screwing with history in DC doesn't create alternate timelines, according to the Flash, it just rewrites the past and changes the present. So the Flashpoint universe should be gone and someone's held it there to screw with heroes
- Comedian button in Batcave? Watchmen? Something killed that Thawne guy with radiation and I've heard something about Dr. Manhattan being in the DC universe so idk?

a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link

i did some googling of my own

lol wtf

gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link

the idea of bringing the remnants of previous reboots into your current reboot is utter fucking madness

gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link

as far as I can tell, the whole New 52 thing where all the heroes have been doing their thing for a much abbreviated period yet have a bunch of history makes no sense to them in-universe either, and it wasn't a bad editorial decision in the real world but a godlike character from Watchmen that did this

a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link

I take back my previous statement, I did read some stuff on io9 about the two Supermen and how they've now merged and have both continuities wrapped into one guy

I thought at first they were going to switch to a Marvel model where changing the past creates an alternate dimension but uhhh apparently not

a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:54 (seven years ago) link

imo the only real option is to just say that everything that happened in any DC comic, ever, is now in canon

a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link

they already did that like 15 years ago! it was called hypertime and it was working fine!

ffs dc you are a total shower of clueless bastards

gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link

Man, if only DC had been aware of its genetic predisposition when it took those initial, furtive nips of Crisis back in the '80s, maybe it wouldn't be slouched in an alley, desperately guzzling that off-brand Rebirth mouthwash today.

Jigsaw Pizzle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link

I demand they rebuild the DC universe but Batman is the one from that comic based on the 60s tv show

a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link

also Tom King will still write him

a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link

xxpost Watchmen being, I guess, the TV they stole from their brother in this metaphor.

Jigsaw Pizzle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link

occasionally peeling open a grimy floor-length trenchcoat to reveal tattered copies of red hood and the outlaws stapled to the lining, croaking 'hey kids! comics!' at passersby xxxp

gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link

GASP! As I swing into action!

Tom King's gone already, isn't he? This week's Batman is by someone else and clearly ghost written by the architects of the Johnsiverse.

To summarise:

Everything that ever happened to Superman has happened to this Superman, even the things that didn't. All his histories were merged into one in a battle against Mr Mxyzptlk after he (Myxy) escaped from the prison created by Mr Oz (who is increasingly looking not to be Ozymandias).

The button in the wall in Batman was activated by the Psycho Pirate's mask and brought the Reverse Flash into continuity before he was killed by someone who may or may not be Dr Manhattan (but certainly didn't seem to be). Batman got Flash to use the Cosmic Treadmill to try and find where Reverse Flash came from, and instead creates a new Flashpoint and they end up with Thomas Wayne. No idea where it's going.

Wonder Woman may be realising she's a fictional character, except in the books where she isn't. And the issues of her own book where she isn't.

Every other book has ignored Rebirth except where it creates their entire plot, for better or worse, which means we still have two Wally Wests, two Dick Grayson etc.

Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link

oh aldo :(

gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link


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