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Barry Convex posted:Morrison's Action Comics run will end with #16. This is a huge letdown. I would've thought Morrison would have had FAR more to say about Superman than only 16 issues worth, considering he always professed he was a much bigger fan of Superman than Batman, yet his Batman run lasted 5 years. I really hope DC puts a top-tier writer on the title once he leaves. Definitely not another old-guard writer hamstrung by editorial, that's for sure.
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Space_Butler posted:Beat me to posting it here, I'll just post my comments from the general DC thread. I totally agree. I thought he would be giving us a 5 year epic like Batman. I hope they don't start throwing in any editorial interference like they do on the Superman book.
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Jul 24, 2012 00:33
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Space_Butler posted:I really hope DC puts a top-tier writer on the title once he leaves. Definitely not another old-guard writer hamstrung by editorial, that's for sure. Lemire's talking about some new projects hes got in the works at DC. With Sweet Tooth wrapping up, I'm willing to bet he's going to have the time for Superman. Would give it some interesting synergy considering his working relationship with Snyder who is on Batman. Semper Fudge fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jul 24, 2012 |
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Jul 24, 2012 03:35
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That's a real shame. It seemed like he was foreshadowing a lot of future storylines, the way the first few arcs of his Batman run set-up things that are still paying off now.
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Jul 24, 2012 06:17
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I can respect his decision to want to get into other things besides superhero comics, but I'm still sad to see him go. But I do wonder if the Wonder Woman thing he mentioned is All-Star Wonder Woman.
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Jul 25, 2012 16:27
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horsepeen posted:I can respect his decision to want to get into other things besides superhero comics, but I'm still sad to see him go. All Star is dead. It's probably Earth One.
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Jul 25, 2012 22:00
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Newsarama made a list of their 10 candidates they'd like to see pick up writing duties on Action after Morrison leaves. The list is about 1/3 great, 1/3 awful, and 1/3 total fanboy choices, but isn't that how it always breaks down? That said, if DC could somehow wrangle Mark Waid over for a Superman run, I'd honestly buy 2 copies every month just to have a copy to throw at friends. But we're probably more likely to see Grant change his mind and announce he's staying on for 50 issues than for that to happen anytime soon.
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Jul 27, 2012 07:17
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I would love to see Mark Waid writing Superman, but only if they gave him carte blanche to write the book the way he thinks he ought to. I doubt this will happen with DC in the shape it's in - Bob Harras is not a man known for his light editorial touch - but it could happen. It does feel like there's a hole in the universe where a classic Mark Waid Superman run should be.
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Jul 27, 2012 07:50
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I already said it in the DC thread but Sholly Fisch has my vote of confidence. A lot of his backups are great, but the one that really sticks out for me was the one about the Kents trying to have a baby before they found Clark.
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Jul 27, 2012 08:25
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Magic Love Hose posted:I would love to see Mark Waid writing Superman, but only if they gave him carte blanche to write the book the way he thinks he ought to. Didn't Perez say most of his job was rushing to edit his stories to keep in line with what world building Morry wasn't letting anyone in on? If that's the example, they could use some tighter control.
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Jul 27, 2012 08:30
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Teenage Fansub posted:Didn't Perez say most of his job was rushing to edit his stories to keep in line with what world building Morry wasn't letting anyone in on? No, because that's not Morrison's job, it was the editors Perez was 'calling out' and quite rightfully so. They didn't seem to have any idea what was going on in their own titles despite putting some pretty severe restrictions on what he could and couldn't write.
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Dan Didio posted:No, because that's not Morrison's job, it was the editors Perez was 'calling out' and quite rightfully so. They didn't seem to have any idea what was going on in their own titles despite putting some pretty severe restrictions on what he could and couldn't write.
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Space_Butler posted:This is how I understand it as well. I also believe there's been no editorial changeover despite the reboot, so the same people that were in editorial during New Krypton/War of the Supermen/Grounded are still in charge now, which begs the question exactly what does an editor have to do to get fired at DC? Allow a cartoon that makes fun of a former employee murdering a woman. That is what got Waid fired.
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bobkatt013 posted:Allow a cartoon that makes fun of a former employee murdering a woman. That is what got Waid fired. Whoa, you can't just leave it at that
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Jul 31, 2012 07:19
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Some DC editorial / artist dude was accused of taking a hammer to his wife's skull. At the end of some issue, there was a one-page cartoony thing that advocated the use of hammers to solve problems, with the guy's first name referenced.
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FilthyImp posted:Some DC editorial / artist dude was accused of taking a hammer to his wife's skull. The artist was Greg Brooks if memory serves. The name dropped in that "ad" is Lee Travis, the name of the Crimson Avenger the book Brooks drew.
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Jul 31, 2012 15:10
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So the Action Comics hardcover comes out tomorrow and I can't wait because now I'll have a solid book I can start shoving in my friends faces that I can force them to read. Fingers crossed that DC bothered to put the issues in order so that the Collector/origin arc goes straight through without the Legion interlude in the middle, instead of just reprinting them in the order in which they were published. Especially since that's the way Morrison intended the issues to come out in the first place before Rags fell behind on art.
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Jul 31, 2012 22:59
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Space_Butler posted:Especially since that's the way Morrison intended the issues to come out in the first place before Rags fell behind on art. Are you sure about that?
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Lord Krangdar posted:Are you sure about that? Cut to a few issues in, Rags is falling behind tremendously (I mean, by issue 2 there were a couple fill-in pages), and suddenly that idea for the follow-up story ended up becoming an interlude drawn by Andy Kubert while Rags got caught up. It ended up being a neat bit of unintentional nonlinear storytelling, but that's exactly what it was: unintentional.
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Space_Butler posted:So the Action Comics hardcover comes out tomorrow and I can't wait because now I'll have a solid book I can start shoving in my friends faces that I can force them to read. Fingers crossed that DC bothered to put the issues in order so that the Collector/origin arc goes straight through without the Legion interlude in the middle, instead of just reprinting them in the order in which they were published. Especially since that's the way Morrison intended the issues to come out in the first place before Rags fell behind on art. I think you're going to be please with the hardcover. The Legion interlude is collected after the main arc and the book ends with the backups.
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Rhyno posted:I think you're going to be please with the hardcover. The Legion interlude is collected after the main arc and the book ends with the backups.
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Space_Butler posted:This just made my week. Thanks for the info. No prob man, it was my most anticipated book this week so I was really curious to see how the final product looked.
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#12 was dense, but I really got a kick out of it, especially that crazy poo poo at the end with his landlady.
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The next author had better be able to pick up what Grant is putting down with the last few pages of concepts. Id hate for the title to turn into a monthly fight and save people book now.
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That was insane. I can't wait for the annotations on THAT one. So the Little Man is NOT Myxy, but might be something far worse because he managed to hurt Myxy, who is an ally of Mrs Nxly. That was unexpected. And I loved Superman pulling the classic read-every-book-on-a-subject-in-10-seconds-and-now-I'm-amazing-at-it trick from the silver age. I really am dreading what's going to happen to this book once Grant leaves. Also, they really should give Rags the boot and put Cafu as the primary artist, his pages were pretty great looking. Space_Butler fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Aug 2, 2012 |
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Aug 2, 2012 01:56
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Just a reminder that the big Kryptonian super-equation was called the EOEO, which is vowels, which the 5th Dimensionals don't have.
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I'm amazed that Grant Morrison got away with referencing the marriage. I wonder if the old universe is as dead as we think it is.
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Magic Love Hose posted:I'm amazed that Grant Morrison got away with referencing the marriage. I wonder if the old universe is as dead as we think it is. I'm sure it's a logical fantasy future for him to be trapped in. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Aug 2, 2012 |
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d00gZ posted:Just a reminder that the big Kryptonian super-equation was called the EOEO, which is vowels, which the 5th Dimensionals don't have.  Everything is beginning to line up now as we're nearing the end. The multitude that Jor-El fought off was probably some kind of invasion from the 5th dimension, and he repelled them using the EOEO, which is probably why the little man is trying to screw with him so badly. I have absolutely no idea how he'll be able to wrap all this up in 4 issues, but I can't wait. Side note: upon re-reading issue 12, I noticed that when Batman put his arm around Clark, he planted a bat-tracer on him. Space_Butler fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Aug 6, 2012 |
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Space_Butler posted:
Oh man, I didn't even put THAT together! Bam!
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In the DC books this week they were running ads for the upcoming annuals and I noticed something weird: it says that Annual #1 is written by Scott Lobdell. I thought to myself "I could've sworn that the vanilla annual book was written by Giffen", so I checked. It was.DC Comics posted:SUPERMAN ANNUAL #1 However, proving once more that DC editorial has no plans/goals/ideas for Superman, apparently they decided to throw all that out to get Lobdell started a month sooner. Newsarama posted:SUPERMAN ANNUAL #1 now features a story written by Scott Lobdell and Fabian Nicieza and art by Pascal Alixe, Marco Rudy, Tom Raney, Elizabeth Torque, Mico Suayan.
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Fabian's out of nowhere. Maybe he's the new Action author.
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Crossover for Superman/Girl/Boy (and not Action) in #14s Features a grey skinned antagonist wearing a backwards 'S' symbol...  http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2012/08/10/announcing-hel-on-earth posted:This fall, there will be an electrifying crossover occurring in SUPERMAN, SUPERBOY and SUPERGIRL. Spanning across all the series’ #14 issues, “H’el on Earth” will put these super-beings into battle with the maniacal alien, H’el.    at the end Superman discovers the villain was talking in opposites and it was all a misunderstanding. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Aug 10, 2012 |
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This interview with Lobdell highlights how useless and terrible editorial is.quote:In a "this is how sausage is made" kind of way that I would only share with my friends on Comicvine... when I wrote the original proposal I was focused on updating Superman's roster of villains because I felt that ACTION had gotten to play around with The Classics, that it was time for SUPERMAN to be able to play with some of the characters that Grant hadn't re-imagined for the New 52. Kenneth and I worked up one particular character... Edit: This reminds me of the clusterfuck involving Zod in post-crisis. Namely the number of times that DC said "oh that wasnt THE Zod it was just A Zod". Space_Butler fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Aug 10, 2012 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Crossover for Superman/Girl/Boy (and not Action) in #14s Oh how I hope this is some kind of return of Superboy Prime, only Flashpoint made him temporarily retarded until that part of him heals up and just starts smugly wrecking poo poo up knowing that the universe shifted all because of Barry Allen.
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Space_Butler posted:This interview with Lobdell highlights how useless and terrible editorial is. Hopefully they decide it isn't Bizarro because that design looks dumb as all hell.
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That design looks like some Elseworlds Castlevania Superman.
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I'm not really sure which is a stupider idea. Redesigning Bizzaro to be more serious and with a S carved into his flesh or creating a new antagonist who is a grey-skinned anti-Superman but having it not be Bizzaro but rather Original the Character.
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I'm sure this character/interpretation will enjoy a long and interesting life and not be totally useless and forgotten like Lobdell's villain for that Teen Titans/Legion crossover whose name I can't even remember.
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