DC Comics General

The Dark Knights were just the start.

The rest of the nightmare comes.

Wonder what the Dark Multiverse has for Diana or Arthur.

Is this a mini or an ongoing?

They are one-shots.

Another rumour regarding 2020...a two-month break from the regular output similar to what was done with Convergence

Edited by Zarius on Oct 28th 2019 at 1:39:05 AM

they are one shot what ifs but it seems that its tieing into the beginnings of the super crisis that will lead to 5g

It's interesting that they are doing this so in order to, basically, "catch up" and have more time to make the comics. Like Saga going on a break for a few months so that the artist can draw six more issues.

What is weird is that I can see DC making this an annual event: a two-month break for them to catch up and also put out a series of two-part books tied into a weekly crossover event. It could get tedious after a while, but if the crossover and tie-ins are interesting (like the Convergence main book was bland, but the tie-ins were amazing), it could be a good thing.

A few editorial shake-ups at DC

-Ben Abernathy replaces Jaime Rich as Batman Group Editor

-Jaime Rich becomes Superman Group Editor

-Alex Carr becomes DCU Group Editor

-Bryan Cunningham becomes Senior Story Editor

And Didio still employed. Change the other editors all you want. Nothing is changing until he is gone for the better.

It's not like he got the job to make fanboys miserable.

How did he get the job anyway? He was a TV producer with no relevant comic book experience when he was hired for a top editorial position at the company. He has never seemed to be a good fit for DC.

This article about the Dark Multiverse oneshots building up to an evil Justice League makes a lot of sense.

Knightfall was alright but the ending soured it for me Saint Batman was a more interesting concept then yet another Evil Bruce Wayne

Death of Superman felt too compressed liked a cliff notes version of the story but it atleast stuck to its premise Lois in grief becomes the Eradicator and lashes out at a world that cost her Clark and Clark's resurrection only to be killed by Henshaw's kryptonite bomb felt like a wasted chance to show how far gone lois was

with Blackest Night up next I expect it to end with Sinestro being killed by Dove and Dawn turning into a crazed version of Unity/Extant with powers over life and death essentially mirroring Hank's descent into Extant

Speaking of Tales of the Dark Multiverse and Green Lantern, are they gonna do the Emerald Twilight story?

Huh. I would love a Tales of the Dark Multiverse: Zero Hour, where we see what a Parallax-infected Hal would have made his new rebooted universe like.

I don't think a single writer GETS Wonder Woman as absolutely as George Pérez did during his run with her. And this is just from what I've seen in volume one. Holy shit. Absolutely Godlike.

Related to , what are the "essential" Wonder Woman runs? There's obviously Perez, but what other writers "get" Diana?

I think I would've liked it more if they didn't have the Amazons raped and dragged around naked en masse (which was not in the myths, case you were wondering), but that's just me.

Edited by kkhohoho on Nov 2nd 2019 at 5:03:13 AM

The only one I can say with certainty is Rucka, both post-crisis and Rebirth. Do not, under any circumstances, read Wonder Woman: Earth One.

I mean, yeah, not a great look. But in the grander scope of the story and how long these characters live, it's a pretty brief hardship. Plus, as terrible as it is, it still comes full circle at the end when Hippolyte and Heracles share one another's pain and Herc is able to realize just how horrible of a person he was. He's willing to die to hold up Themyscira and keep the Amazons from dying, and then he openly admits he was in the wrong and what he did was horrible, and begs for forgiveness.

That's why I love it so much. The importance of the themes like love, and compassion, and forgiveness, and really driving home how those things are integral to Diana, her character, and the Amazons as a whole, by bringing them up again and again, and reinforcing them within the narrative itself. It's not just window dressing to cover up a scene of Diana decapitating fifty centaurs in a row or whatever. They define who the Amazons are. It isn't just "Oh, Diana is a daughter of Zeus, so she's obviously super-badass" or "Oh, she's got Athena and Artemis, so she's wise and a great warrior and a hunter." The gifts of Aphrodite, Demeter, and Hestia are just as important to Diana and her triumphs, if not more. All of Diana's greatest triumphs, at least in book one, are victories won by her compassion.

And it's helped by those who are forgiven actually taking it to heart, and those who see Diana's forgiveness and kindness actually being changed by it. Otherwise, it just makes her and the Amazons look like rubes. Ares cries and admits defeat and surrenders, for God's sake. I mean, even Zeus and Heracles learned not to be assholes!

That is, until he becomes a dick again and essentially undoes all that, becoming a minor part of Diana's Rogues Gallery.

Hercules' redemption did not really stick at all.

It's fairly clear PEREZ' intent was a redemption for Herc. Not his fault later writers undid it.

The cyclic nature of the Big Two really sours some great stories, doesn't it?

This is why I always preferred Marvel’s Hercules.

It’s amazing how Linkara’s rant about how writers don’t get Wonder Woman still rings true.

It is bizarre just how bad a hand Wonder Woman gotten in the post crisis era

Her spot on the trinity is largely honorary and well for optics since if we're being honest She's below Flash and Green Lantern

The slow degradation of the Amazons 'Where they were technologically advanced, like on par with Atlantis they are now largely sword, sandal and magic only.'

Steve Trevor is still largely undefined

Diana constantly suffering from Soft Reboots... and just genuinely keeps getting writers who don't give a shit or don't get the character... or if they do the audience basically zones out the moment they try to switch gears and course correct

Robinson can be a decent writer though I think he's past his prime/glory days but He pretty much mangled any potential with the Jason Storyline -Yet another Geoff Johns idea that died cause of Geoff's Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! habit of setting up a million plot hooks but only really gonna follow two himself-

Robinson even admits he took the book as a favor

There's pretty much been just THREE really good writers post crisis: Perez, Rucka and Simone. You could MAYBE chuck Byrne in there, but his run was a mix of good ideas and awful execution.