DC's Countdown

Got this off of Newsarama:

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MattBrady

DC's NEXT WEEKLY SERIES "COUNTDOWN" TO DEBUT IN MAY
While DC apparently held it from the online release of their May solicitations last week, it appears as if the publisher’s next big weekly DC Universe project will debut in May, and will be released in reverse order for one year until another unnamed DC event.

Called Countdown, Direct Market comic book retailers have received the solicitation for the first four issues in a preview of the full Diamond Previews catalog arriving in stores next week. Here is the text sent to retailers…

COUNTDOWN 51-48
Written by Paul Dini and others
Breakdowns by Keith Giffen
51 written by Paul Dini; art by Jesus Saiz
50 written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray; art by Jim Calafiore
49 written by Tony Bedard; art by Carlos Magno
48 written by Adam Beechen; art by David Lopez
Covers by Andy Kubert & Tim Townshend

The event of the year is here! This brand-new, year-long weekly series features a cast of hundreds where anything goes! With head writer Paul Dini and a rotating team of some of the industry’s best writers and artists, COUNTDOWN will serve as the backbone of the DCU in 2007.

When a character dies in COUNTDOWN 51, it sets off an unexpected ripple that will touch virtually every character in the DC Universe.

The COUNTDOWN is on…so begins the end!
COUNTDOWN 51 on sale May 9
COUNTDOWN 50 on sale May 16
COUNTDOWN 49 on sale May 23
COUNTDOWN 48 on sale May 30
32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
This project presumably is the centerpiece of the teaser image released by DC a few weeks ago.

Look for more information on Countdown when it’s available.

So it looks like we have another weekly series coming our way...

I don't know if this has been posted yet. If it has then I apologize for double posting.

Wow, that's kinda crazy. I'm gonna be broke after all these weekly events.

I love countdowns. 😊

Plus...Paul Dini is going to be the writer? I'm sooooo there!

At least post the teaser image the article speaks of.

Originally posted by Validus
At least post the teaser image the article speaks of.

bah thats old look at this 😛

click here for a bigger image
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/preview2.php?image=litg/previews_countdown.jpg

Originally posted by Validus
At least post the teaser image the article speaks of.

http://www.theforbidden-zone.com/sounds/youmaniacs.wav

Originally posted by Evil_Ash
http://www.theforbidden-zone.com/sounds/youmaniacs.wav

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I wonder what it's counting down to. Hopefully not another weekly series.

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I love countdowns.

Plus...Paul Dini is going to be the writer? I'm sooooo there!

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-Paul Atreides

If you notice there are different writers and different artist in each issue. So it should be interesting.

But I wonder who is the character that gets killed.

I think its the Atom, since he is the only one in the teaser picture who appears dead but to the best of our knowledge is not.

T

Here is an update from Newsarama:

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=102192

It contains an interview with Dan Dido and Mike Marts.

Its obviously counting down to the worst thing to happen to the DC universe....

The return of Superman's Mullet!

Originally posted by Grimm22
The return of Superman's Mullet!

... spoilers... f*cked up soilers, but spoilers nonetheless...

http://www.comicartcommunity.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=23034

Spoiler:
killing jimmy... huh... that'd be... odd...

Notice the first issue is "51"

The number directly below "52"

Coincidence?

I think not.

Originally posted by SpunkySmurph
Notice the first issue is "51"

The number directly below "52"

Coincidence?

I think not.

yeah, i saw that... so is the whole thing really not, like, 103?

Originally posted by pr1983
... spoilers... f*cked up soilers, but spoilers nonetheless...

http://www.comicartcommunity.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=23034

Spoiler:
killing jimmy... huh... that'd be... odd...

Originally posted by Validus
Would anyone actually care? I can't see a good argument to keep him around other than tradition.

at first i was like 'omg they're really gonna do that'

but yeah, after about five seconds i realised i didnt really care... its not like they're killing lois or anything...

unfortunately...

They aren't gonna kill Jimmy.

That'd be like killing Superbo..............................oh.

But on the real, they wouldn't kill Jimmy.
That'd be like killing Perry, simply to get a new Editor on the Paper, and one who wouldn't be easy on Clark.
That way we get more character driven stories, that explore how Perry really saw Clark, and the favoritism of Lois thing. But that won't happen.

Originally posted by UniOmni
They aren't gonna kill Jimmy.

That'd be like killing Superbo..............................oh.

😆

But on the real, they wouldn't kill Jimmy.
That'd be like killing Perry, simply to get a new Editor on the Paper, and one who wouldn't be easy on Clark.
That way we get more character driven stories, that explore how Perry really saw Clark, and the favoritism of Lois thing. But that won't happen.

clark was demoted already... they gave his job to jim- wait a minute...

Originally posted by pr1983
... spoilers... f*cked up soilers, but spoilers nonetheless...

http://www.comicartcommunity.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=23034

Spoiler:
killing jimmy... huh... that'd be... odd...

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thats the cover to the april issue of Wizard.

Can you say april fools joke 😉

Originally posted by Devil Lance
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thats the cover to the april issue of Wizard.

Can you say april fools joke 😉

either way... meh...