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Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006



What's up?
DC just unveiled the creative teams for their 2016 line-wide relaunch, DC Universe Rebirth.

Watch this two-hour video of that event!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeclvTBvADI

What's a Rebirth?
Geoff Johns used the word to bring back Hal Jordan and Barry Allen. Supposedly it's about bringing LEGACY back to the DCU.

Is it a reboot/de-boot?
Nah. Blimmin' Convergence is still a factor with Ye Olde Lois and Clark and their kid running around. Superman has the S curl back. That's about as good as you'll get. Maybe that's the Legacy Johns means?

What else!
Quite a few notable LEGACY!! creators returning/arriving at DC, most books are twice-monthly with rotating artists and arcs, Action Comics and Detective Comic are back to original LEGACY!! numbering, every damned thing is $3, there's a whole nother crazy Hanna-Barbera thing, a couple handfuls of folks signed exclusive contracts.

Okay. I didn't watch the video. What's what?

DC Universe #0

Writer: Geoff Johns
Artists: Gary Frank
Ivan Reis
Phil Jimenez
Ethan Van Sciver

Mysterious 80-page One-Shot Special that transitions the N52 to this thing.
Not many details. There's a guy's arm on the cover. Dan Didio reckons it contains THE most controversial scene in DC history. Hoo dawgy!


Batmans

Batman

Writer: Tom King
Artists: David Finch, Mikel Janin
Twice-monthly
2015's comic book superstar Tom (Grayson/Omega Men/Vision) King is taking on Mr. Dark Knight with a brand new Greg Capullo designed suit!

Detective Comics

Writer: James Tynion IV
Artists: Eddy Barrows, Alvaro Martinez
Twice-Monthly
Batman Eternal showrunner JTIV's got this one and it's a crazy team book! Bruce, Batwoman, Tim Drake (in a traditional Robin style costume), Spoiler, Cassandra Kane and Clayface

All Star Batman

Writer: Scott Snyder
Artists: Everybody
Twice-Monthly
You thought Scott was done with Batman? No way!!
Here he is using all sorts of artists to match Batman up with all sorts of villains. Not just The Joker this time!

Nightwing

Writer: Tim Seeley
Artists: Javi Fernandez, Marcus To
Twice-Monthly
Tim Seeley brings Dick Grayson back to his LEGACY!! role after being a super-spy in his co-written 'Grayson'

Batgirl

Writer: Hope Larson
Artist: Rafael Albuquerque
Monthly
Batgirl's outta Burnside and traveling around 'Asia.' She's still got that cool DCYou costume, though!

Batgirl & The Birds of Prey

Writers: Julie Benson, Shawna Benson
Artist: Claire Roe
Monthly
A couple of TV writers from 'The 100' bring you the new BOP. There's an 'Oracle' pretender out there and it's Batgirl, Black Canary and Huntress Vs whoever!

Batman Beyond

Writer: Dan Jurgens
Artist: Bernard Chang
Monthly
They know they hosed up. This stars Terry.


SuperWonderbooks

Action Comics

Writer: Dan Jurgens
Artists: Patrick Zircher, Tyler Kirkham, Stephen Segovia
Twice-Monthly
Stars pre-New52 Superman and Lois (see Jurgens' Lois & Clark) facing off against Lex Luthor who's taken the role of Metropolis' Superman for himself. Also Doomsday cause, y'know.
Will get to issue 1000 in a couple years!!

Superman

Writers: Peter J Tomasi, Patrick Gleason
Artists: Patrick Gleason, Doug Mahnke.
Twice-Monthly
Team-N52-Batman+Robin are doing Superman with Doug Mahnke. My dream comic.

Wonder Woman

Writer: Greg Rucka
Artists: Liam Sharp, Nicola Scott
Twice-Monthly
Fuckin' Greg Rucka is back at DC somehow working with some guy and also Nicola Scott (Who he was just working on Black Magick with. Read that comic!)

New Superman

Writer:Gene Yang
Artist: Viktor Bogdanovic
Monthly
A new Chinese character, 17 year old Kenji, with Superman's powers. From the DCYou era's 'Superman' writer.

Supergirl

Writer: Steve Orlando
Artist: Brian Ching
Monthly
Midnighter scribe Steve Orlando gives Supergirl back a skirt and her dad, Cyborg Superman!!

Trinity

Writer/Artist: Francis Manapul
Artist: Clay Mann
Monthly
No info!

Superwoman

Writer/Artist: Phil Jimenez
Artist: Emanuela Lupacchino
Monthly
No info on who this is.

Super Sons

No creative team announced, but that cover sure is by Jorge Jimenez.
Monthly
Damian Wayne and Jon Kent (the son from 'Lois & Clark') doing stuff!


Leagues, Lanterns, etc

Justice League of America
No info! Some team way too cool to announced along with the rest of these comics!

Justice League

Writer: Bryan Hitch
Artists: Tony Daniel, Fernando Pasarin
Twice-Montly
Two newer GLs replace Hal on the team. Weirdly uninteresting creators to take over Geoff's comic.

The Flash

Writer: Joshua Willamson
Artist: Carmine Di Giandomenico, Neil Googe
Twice-Monthly
Birthright's writer might give us a good Flash comic. Can we hope?

Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps

Writer: Robert Venditti
Artists: Ethan Van Sciver, Rafa Sandoval
Twice-Monthly
Venditti's sticking around.

Green Lanterns

Writer: Sam Humphries
Artists: Robson Rocha, Ardian Syaf
Twice-Monthly
Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, the GLs from Justice League star in this from traditionally Marvel writer Sam Humphries.

Cyborg

Writer: John Semper
Artists: Will Conrad, Paul Pelletier
Twice-Monthly
I dunno why this is twice-monthly either.

Aquaman

Writer: Dan Abnett
Artists: Brad Walker, Jesus Merino, Phil Briones
Twice-Monthly
Abnett's sticking to Aquaman.

Titans

Writer: Also Dan Abnett
Artist: Brett Booth
Monthly
Picks up from Titans Hunt.


Also

Harley Quinn

Writers: Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner
Artists: Chad Hardin, John Timms
Twice Monthly
Good 'ol Harley.

Suicide Squad

Writer: Rob Williams
Artists: Jim Lee, Philip Tan
Twice-Monthly
Rob Williams is coming off of the great DCYou Martian Manhunter, so give it a poke.

Green Arrow

Writer: Ben Percy
Artists: Otto Schmidt, Juan Ferreya
Twice-Monthly
Percy is sticking on from DCYou GA, but the goatee is back!

Red Hood & The Outlaws

Writer: Scott Lobdell
Artist: Dexter Soy
Monthly
:allears:

The Hellblazer

Writer: Simon Oliver
Artist: Moritat
Monthly

Deathstroke

Writer: Christopher Priest
Artist: Carlo Pagulayan, Igor Vitorino, Felipe Watanabe
You read that right.

Teen Titans

Writer: Ben Percy
Artist: Jonboy Meyers
Monthly
Damian Wayne leads the TTs.

Blue Beetle

Writer: Kieth Giffen
Artist: Scott Kolins
Monthly
Ted n' Jaime.

Strangely absent

Gotham Academy: Next Semester, Earth 2 and The Super-Man were all previously listed Rebirth titles, which didn't get mentioned at the showcase.
It's possible that The Super-Man turned into New Superman...
... but what about Gotham Academy? :(

The end?

No!
There's also DC's weird Hanna-Barbera revamp comics!

Scooby Apocalypse

Writers: Jim Lee, Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis
Artist: Howard Porter
Scooby talks through enojis and Jim Lee mentioned Burning Man the other day. Jinkies!

Future Quest

Writer: Jeff Parker
Artist: Evan "Doc" Shaner
The team behind Flash Gordon and Convergence:Shazam gather all of HB's adventuring characters together. In other words, perfect.

The Flintstones

Writer: Mark Russel
Artist: ???
The designs look weird, but Mark Russel did Prez, so I guess we'd better read it.

Wacky Race Land

A hard-edged re-imagining of Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Penelopy Pitstop and the gang by people who worked on Mad Max: Fury Road.

And Gotham Academy is crossing over with Boom Studios's Lumberjanes.



Also, Grant Morrison reckons there'll be a "Multiversity Too" and "Batman: Black and White" coming from him.

Okay.

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 08:27 on May 2, 2016

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Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Best OP ever.

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

Haha. Extra 30min countdown.

algebra testes
Mar 5, 2011


Lipstick Apathy
lmao a 30 minute countdown timer for a 30 minute countdown timer

That is literally THE MOST DC COMICS thing.

WickedHate
Aug 1, 2013

by Lowtax
I stand by my dread that this is gonna suck even worse for Harley. They're divebombing her so hard, and I thought being Girlpool was as bad as it could get.

Love the new Superman costume tho.

ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009

Teenage Fansub posted:

Haha. Extra 30min countdown.

Nah it was announced for 9:30 their time, it's normal. They're on time.

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

Take a load off for 20mins



e: We back.

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Mar 26, 2016

Dunbar
Feb 21, 2003

Just saw Batman v Superman, got some beer and a frozen pizza and I'm ready for disappointment. I think I'm doing this right!!

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
I've fallen behind on my comics news. So is this just a re-shuffling of creative teams into a new way, the start of a new lead-up to a big event, or are they actually no-poo poo rebooting the DCU again?

quote:

“At DC we believe in superheroes, and what makes them great,” said Dan DiDio, co-publisher of DC Entertainment. “And, we also believe in the direct market and the core comics fan. REBIRTH is designed to bring back the best of DC’s past, embrace the stories we currently love and move the entire epic universe into the future.

Stuff like this sounds like it might be. Was the New 52 that much of a mess?

Edit: Okay not a reboot. Huh!

Pierson fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Mar 26, 2016

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




I'm confident that this will be the relaunch that succeeds where Infinite Crisis (2005), One Year Later (2006), Final Crisis (2008), Earth-One (2010), the New 52 (2011), and DCYou (2015) floundered.

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
Jim Lee is more of a genuine dude than Dan Dildo

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx

Squizzle posted:

I'm confident that this will be the relaunch that succeeds where Infinite Crisis (2005), One Year Later (2006), Final Crisis (2008), Earth-One (2010), the New 52 (2011), and DCYou (2015) floundered.

Infinite Crisis was moderatly successful if only because of 52 and a few key titles (Morrison Batman, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, etc.)

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Jim Lee seems so likable. 😘

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

Squizzle posted:

I'm confident that this will be the relaunch that succeeds where Infinite Crisis (2005), One Year Later (2006), Final Crisis (2008), Earth-One (2010), the New 52 (2011), and DCYou (2015) floundered.

That's called tradition!

Dunbar
Feb 21, 2003

Pierson posted:

I've fallen behind on my comics news. So is this just a re-shuffling of creative teams into a new way, the start of a new lead-up to a big event, or are they actually no-poo poo rebooting the DCU again?
There's no reason to think it will be a true reboot in any sense. Best guess based on what has come out so far is a reshuffling of current creative talent to new books, bringing back some fan favorite characters/teams/costumes, and hopefully one or two high profile signings for new creative (Greg Rucka and Jonathan Hickman have been loosely rumored).

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
lmao still denying New 52 was a reboot 5 years later.

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

DC Universe Rebirth Special


Costume montage. Supergirl's got a skirt, Green Arrow's got a goatee. Some Chinese Superman or Something.

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Mar 26, 2016

WickedHate
Aug 1, 2013

by Lowtax
God I hope the Justice League lineup will finally not be absolute garbage.

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
"In the new 52 maybe we went too far with the art "

yea no kidding

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Supergirl looks skinny af. I approve this Gangly Tween Powerhouse look.

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

King - Batman
JT4 - Det
Tim Seeley - Nightwing
Hope Larson - Batgirl
Julie Benson + Shawna Benson - Batgirl BOP
Scott Snyder - All Star Batman






Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Mar 26, 2016

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
WOMEN COMIC CREATORS?!

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Alucard Nacirema posted:

"In the new 52 maybe we went too far with the art "

yea no kidding
It's like when Lucas saw the final cut of the Phantom Mencace for the first time.

'I may have gone too far in a few places'.

Also: What's going on with the new Batgirl creative team?

And where is Cassandra Cain in all of this?
Edit:Oh, I guess in Detective Comics? Although that costume looks like hot garbage compared to her Batgirl & Blackbat ones.

Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Mar 26, 2016

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
No BS. These covers look loving awesome so far.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Alucard Nacirema posted:

WOMEN COMIC CREATORS?!

Intolerable. Who does DC think they is.

SonicRulez
Aug 6, 2013

GOTTA GO FIST
Wait, so is DC like...scrapping the New 52 and folding it back into the old continuity or are they throwing everything into the trash and starting over again?

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
What happened to Huntress skin???!!!!!

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
A Climactic Encounter Ending on 1 Negate and a Dream

SonicRulez posted:

Wait, so is DC like...scrapping the New 52 and folding it back into the old continuity or are they throwing everything into the trash and starting over again?

Seems like they're not writting out the Nu52 but they're bringing everything back to where it was before the Nu52.

So maybe?

WickedHate
Aug 1, 2013

by Lowtax

Tim Drake! As Robin, not Red Robin! The stars have aligned in my favor.

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx

SonicRulez posted:

Wait, so is DC like...scrapping the New 52 and folding it back into the old continuity or are they throwing everything into the trash and starting over again?

Folding New 52 back into the old continuity

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx

WickedHate posted:

Tim Drake! As Robin, not Red Robin! The stars have aligned in my favor.

It says Red Robin right on his costume. Look at the circle.

Dunbar
Feb 21, 2003

Scott Snyder with John Romita Jr. is some pro-tier trolling, DC :golfclap:

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
Scott Snyder is taking over ALL STAR BATMAN! Frank Miller Wept!

Scott is such a bullshitter "I never got to work on Mr.Freeze"

WickedHate
Aug 1, 2013

by Lowtax

Alucard Nacirema posted:

It says Red Robin right on his costume. Look at the circle.

Well...poo poo. At least it's still mostly the classic costume.

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx

WickedHate posted:

Well...poo poo. At least it's still mostly the classic costume.

I'm assuming Damian is just going to be the regular Robin going forward. I guess that makes sense.

WickedHate
Aug 1, 2013

by Lowtax
I've learned to live with Damian by pretending he's Dick and every panel he's in is set in the distant past.

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
A Climactic Encounter Ending on 1 Negate and a Dream
Take a shot every time someone says "Batman is the greatest hero/DC's best hero."

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
Scott Snyder's first arc of All-Star Batman involves Batman and Two Face teaming up driving Monster Trucks cross country.

Dan Jurgens is back on Superman YAHHH BOI my childhood never ended!

Sentinel Red
Nov 13, 2007
Style > Content.
Fair play, Batman and Two-Face cross country channelling Midnight Run is the sort of odd idea that I'd be inclined to check out. All the other Bat stuff sounds garbo though.

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Dunbar
Feb 21, 2003

Steve Orlando on Supergirl!!

And.... Liam Sharp on Wonder Woman :confused:

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