DCU gets remade - all books are #1s, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee on Justice League, more

Originally posted by Q99
New Cancelation

Mostly no surprises- I doubt anyone here's going to shed a tear for Firestorm or Savage Hawkman. Heck, did anyone know Firestorm was still coming out?

But among them, and more surprisingly, is Sword of Sorcery, the Amethyst book (issue #7 will be the last- right now it's on 5).

That attempt to get female readers certainly didn't last long! They didn't even wait to see how the collections did.

Female readers often transfer over from manga and like digest formats, resulting in high sales there. That's in large part how Marvel's Spider-girl stayed around for 130 issues despite having quite low-but-steady comic sales.

Heck, now I think JLD will be the only DC book I read consistently. I feel... Empty.

Originally posted by Golgo13
What? They're not cancelling Aquaman! 😛

They're lucky.

Did you see this, PR?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-young/exclusive-dc-comics-revea_b_2641445.html

HMMMMMM...

It could either be excellent, or a complete disaster. I believe in Gail Simone, though.

Yeah, Simone makes me curious about it. Probably a carcrash waiting to happen though.

Just read the Valentines issue:

Catwoman story: Utter shite bar Bruce's "lesson" to her at the end.
Aquaman/Mera: Below average. Instantly forgettable.
Batgirl: Passable.
Nightwing: Probably the best of the bunch, only for how bad you feel for Dick at the end, which I hope gets explained at some point.
Superman/Diana: For a story that will probably get forgotten down the line, they made some pretty big statements.

All in all, a generally poor issue, though if there was one real highlight, it was some of the cards at the end. Most were corny as shit, but this one literally had me laughing out loud:

That one is good indeed 😂

We should totally do romantic comic memes

"Whoever lifts this hammer will have the love of Thor"

Damn I literally just started subscribing to Sword of Sorcery.

I'm guessing Dial H and The Phantom Stranger probably aren't too safe either?

Quick question, out of these titles are these basically all pretty much guaranteed not to ever get cancelled: justice league, aquaman, the flash, wonder woman, detective comics, batman, action comics, superman, green lantern, stormwatch, animal man, swamp thing, justice elague dark, and demon knights?

Those are all the ones I subscribe to.

Originally posted by Galan007
Damn, I Vampire and Sword of Sorcery are among the only books I avidly read and enjoy in DC. Hate to see them go. 🙁 However, I'm sure Amethyst will be sticking around in JLD, so that's a plus I guess.

Heck, now I think JLD will be the only DC book I read consistently. I feel... Empty.

Have you tried Animal Man or Swamp Thing? I get the impression these are the best out of all the dark titles. Oh as well as the upcoming Constantine.

Originally posted by Bentley
That one is good indeed 😂

We should totally do romantic comic memes

"Whoever lifts this hammer will have the love of Thor"

😂

They better not touch the Phantom Stranger!!!!!! I enjoy the PS action every month! It's to bad about I Vampire, maybe if they did a better job at advertising it, it would have sold more. Maybe add a couple first pages of I Vampire into the back part a few of the more popular comics in DC would have helped? Shazam has a few pages in JL and people love it, I'm sure it wouldn't have hurt. 😬

lol Bentley "Whoever lifts this hammer will have the love of Thor"

Originally posted by kevdude
They better not touch the Phantom Stranger!!!!!!

Oh God I hope he can go back to the way he was.

He does more in a single issue now than in his entire history previously. That's not how the Phantom Stranger works. If you want to show off some badass moves, pick someone else.

And, of course, they've removed the intrigue as to who or what he is by basically telling us point blank in the first panel.

Everything that he was, everything that made him unique and different, has been replaced by painfully obvious fanservice. RIP 🙁

Fanservice usually implies that you're giving fans something they want. In this case...

Originally posted by Cogito
Oh God I hope he can go back to the way he was.

He does more in a single issue now than in his entire history previously. That's not how the Phantom Stranger works. If you want to show off some badass moves, pick someone else.

And, of course, they've removed the intrigue as to who or what he is by basically telling us point blank in the first panel.

Everything that he was, everything that made him unique and different, has been replaced by painfully obvious fanservice. RIP 🙁

I think they have left a little bit of room to go back to what he was like before the new 52, him and The Spectre go back and forth about his pretend family. He still does have a mysteriousness about him, which is cool. I think its something they have to do in order to keep readers tho (about the badass moves).

I was going to buy The Phantom Stranger #1 1969 on eBay, I knew it would be valuable but people are asking a lot for it! He's a popular guy!

Originally posted by SebastianisI
Damn I literally just started subscribing to Sword of Sorcery.

I'm guessing Dial H and The Phantom Stranger probably aren't too safe either?

Quick question, out of these titles are these basically all pretty much guaranteed not to ever get cancelled: justice league, aquaman, the flash, wonder woman, detective comics, batman, action comics, superman, green lantern, stormwatch, animal man, swamp thing, justice elague dark, and demon knights?

Those are all the ones I subscribe to.

I can't reassure you on that whole lost.

Stormwatch and Demon Knights are probably going to be on the next wave of cancelations judging by their low sales. Dial H and Phantom Stranger are both doing better than them, and in turn aren't in the safe zone, but I suspect have a bit more time.

JLDark, Animal Man, and Swamp thing are doing pretty good and are safe for now but they're not guaranteed long-haul.

Originally posted by SebastianisI
Have you tried Animal Man or Swamp Thing? I get the impression these are the best out of all the dark titles. Oh as well as the upcoming Constantine.

Seems like anything I enjoy gets cancelled. 🙁

Originally posted by Cogito
Oh God I hope he can go back to the way he was.

He does more in a single issue now than in his entire history previously. That's not how the Phantom Stranger works. If you want to show off some badass moves, pick someone else.

And, of course, they've removed the intrigue as to who or what he is by basically telling us point blank in the first panel.

Everything that he was, everything that made him unique and different, has been replaced by painfully obvious fanservice. RIP 🙁

Originally posted by Galan007
See, I'm actually enjoying PS for what it is... And I really didn't think I'd like it at all.

The character has lost everything that made him what he was. I think that's undeniable.

Originally posted by -Pr-
Just read the Valentines issue:

Catwoman story: Utter shite bar Bruce's "lesson" to her at the end.
Aquaman/Mera: Below average. Instantly forgettable.
Batgirl: Passable.
Nightwing: Probably the best of the bunch, only for how bad you feel for Dick at the end, which I hope gets explained at some point.
Superman/Diana: For a story that will probably get forgotten down the line, they made some pretty big statements.

All in all, a generally poor issue, though if there was one real highlight, it was some of the cards at the end. Most were corny as shit, but this one literally had me laughing out loud:

Cyborg's card was hilarious.

I sort of liked Batgirl's story. only because I could relate to the guy being all over Batgirl. Dem statuesque girls dressed as giant bats. Damn the Bat Family overwhelms everything. A Bat, Batgirl and Nightwing story in the same book.

Originally posted by Zack Fair
Agreed on Supes/Diana's story.

Cyborg's card was hilarious.

I sort of liked Batgirl's story. only because I could relate to the guy being all over Batgirl. Dem statuesque girls dressed as giant bats. Damn the Bat Family overwhelms everything. A Bat, Batgirl and Nightwing story in the same book.

lol. Yeah, the batgirl one was all right. And it'll continue in her book, which is cool.

Nice!