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That one guy on the lower right in the green body armor looks a LOT older than the rest of the Legion. Team Dad?

Maybe. Then again it's not uncommon for teenagers in superhero comics to be drawn looking more like adults.

Jonathan Hickman says that he would have loved to write Teen Titans. And honestly, I would love to see what his run would be like, considering how great his FF run and the first issue of House of X was.

CBR.COM founder Jonah Weiland becomes the latest Ascended Fanboy, becoming vice president of marketing and creative services for DC

Edited by Zarius on Jul 28th 2019 at 1:21:48 AM

Would anyone like to see Will Harper from Young Justice brought into the comics? If so, how would you go about it?

I had two ideas.

One has Will being part of a villain project to clone and replace several heroes. The League and the government shut it down but Jim Harper adopts him and passes him off as Roy's cousin.

The other has Will created by Vandal Savage as a back up body and having enhanced physiology. When he starts showing signs of independence, Savage tries to kill him but he is rescued by Scandal Savage and secreted away to live a life free from Savage until he and Roy cross paths one day.

Is it me, or did DC make a pretty disappointing showing at SDCC this year?

Yeah, nothing much came of it besides Didio's bizarre "Reason We Suck" speech.

He has a history of making dumb/nonsensical statements at convention appearances. Maybe he should simply stay home from now on. He's shown he isn't a good brand ambassador.

Forbes questions if AT&T has any real interest in keeping DC the publisher open or if they plan to convert it into a “lifestyle brand”.

Looking at how Marvel is diversifying its characters (plays, books from other publishers, etc), what could DC do?

Edited by Beatman1 on Aug 6th 2019 at 1:02:05 PM

This year's DC Writer's Summit was held in Scott Snyder's home town

Where they decided to kill more of the 2nd '3rd' generation of heroes!

DC Comics' Top Brass Discuss What Happened to the Imprints and Mad Magazine

So I just checked the July marketshare for DC and the top ten...and, yikes, this is a bit embarrasing, but Batman#75 didn't even crack it, Batman#74 barely managed it, climbing in at #10, but was still beaten by regular nemesis Immortal Hulk and issue two of Black Cat.

What the Hell is going on at DC? Is all the recent nonsense due to the AT&T buyout?

Forbes the other day predicted DC may be mothballed as a conventional publisher and be turned into an “idea factory” where the idea is to create IP for the family of characters that they own.

Essentially, sales like this (amidst the continual decline of the comic industry) show that AT&T doesn’t really care about legacy properties if they aren’t making them money consistently vs what’s being spent.

Edit - Jim Lee recently had ill news for digital comic sales on their own while remaining positive about DC Universe as a service for subscribers.

https://www.newsarama.com/46434-jim-lee-talks-future-of-dc-universe-streaming-service.html

Edited by Beatman1 on Aug 9th 2019 at 2:29:04 PM

1. House of X #1
2. Powers of X #1
3. Amazing Spider-Man #25
4. Walking Dead #193*
5. Batman: Last Knight on Earth #2
6. Batman: Curse of the White Knight #1
7. The Batman Who Laughs #7
8. Black Cat #2
9. Immortal Hulk #20
10. Batman #74

Comichron has more about it here, basically saying that the comic book market is "unchanged." Whether or not that's a good thing is questionable.

The reason Batman#75 didn't crack the top ten was due to DC dividing sales between two seperate covers, each cover had a different price. Blame the stupid Year of the Villain branding and stock card variants.

This has led to Diamond being pressured by DC to consider a combined chart for these issues. If you combine the sales of these divided variants, then Batman#75 actually outsold the MJ heavy ASM#25

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I still think it's impressive that Immortal Hulk has been on the top ten best sellers list for months now. When was the last time that happened with the Hulk? And this all appears to be due to good word of mouth about how great the book is.

Oh yes, it's not really my cup of tea, but from what I have read, it's very high brow and focuses on body horror and existentialism, and reconnects Bruce with his usual circle of loved ones in macabre ways. It's a very engaging story.

I gave DCeased a trope page.

PSA: Comixology currently has a sale going for Rebirth stuff. Personally snagging some Tomasi/Gleason Superman collections.

And I already miss Beacon and Nobody...

Green Lantern is taking a three month break after issue 12, billed as a "season finale", but Liam Sharp assures readers that it will be back for at least ten more issues.

In it's place will be Blackstars, a three issue mini-series by Morrison and Xermanico

Edited by Zarius on Aug 14th 2019 at 8:01:42 AM

So has anyone been following Doomsday Clock. The delays are annoying but as a story it's actually really good. Not as good as the original Watchmen but it actually is fairly faithful to the source and had a lot of time and craft put in rather than being just a cheap knockoff. The next issue is coming out in September so it is winding down to a close.

Yeah, Doomsday Clock is really good and I really enjoyed the last issue, but the fact that it's been two years and it's only on issue 10 is a problem.