[Comics] DC's new 52 (Comics; Nick, help!)
- Thread starter Hailey Knight
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From iFan "DC will cancel six titles, so we still end up with a straight 52, which has been a hell of a marketing term for them. Readers can say goodbye to the following titles with their eighth issues:
Blackhawks, Hawk & Dove, Men of War, Mister Terrific, O.M.A.C., and Static Shock."
If I'm reading this right DC will only have 52 titles at any one given time? And Static Shock had a title? Wow.
Blackhawks, Hawk & Dove, Men of War, Mister Terrific, O.M.A.C., and Static Shock."
If I'm reading this right DC will only have 52 titles at any one given time? And Static Shock had a title? Wow.
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kaykordeath
52 regular "in universe" monthly ongoings.
There are also additional miniseries, all ages titles, DC Presents reprints, among others.
There are also additional miniseries, all ages titles, DC Presents reprints, among others.
Static's has a title at LEAST 4 times. His original run, his first DC run, then he was in the Teen Titans for awhile, then he had a second DC run. This makes 4.
What bothers me is that the comic is only failing because they fucking moved him away from Dakota. That meant all of his enemies were 7 states away, leaving him to fight some really stupid looking kids on flying bikes. Seriously... it's like they set him up to fail.
If they weren't we'd be torching DC headquarters right now...
It would be a particularly stupid move seeing as the Green Lantern runs starting with the Light War have been the best that DC has produced in decades.
As much as I hated them bringing back all the silver age incarnations just because, the Green Lantern titles have been consistently good.
You're not biased or anything there, are you, Mr. Hal Jordan Impersonator?
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Yes, I know that's actually Krona
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hawk and Dove was cancelled? What the fuck am I supposed to do without the two lamest superheros ever created? Not even Justice League Unlimited and Wayne and Kevin Arnold could make them not fucking awful and that show managed to make Vigilante and Shining Knight rad.
Holy Jesus Christ.
I hope whoever ok'd this however many years ago was fired from life.
Hawk and Dove was cancelled? What the fuck am I supposed to do without the two lamest superheros ever created? Not even Justice League Unlimited and Wayne and Kevin Arnold could make them not fucking awful and that show managed to make Vigilante and Shining Knight rad.
Holy Jesus Christ.
I hope whoever ok'd this however many years ago was fired from life.
Let's just put it this way. I've never bought any comic book swag sort of stuff before. I got those rings pretty much solely on the fact that those stories were some of the best comics I've ever read.You're not biased or anything there, are you, Mr. Hal Jordan Impersonator?
*Yes, I know that's actually Krona
Actually i'm pretty sure that if the criminals he was using as meat shields started killing aryans Hitler would be pretty pissed too...
Added at: 13:15
They also had someone that goes by Rob drawing it... i think someone at DC thinks the same about Hawk and Dove...
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kaykordeath
Actually, that's been the focal point of Sinestro in a Green Lantern uniform returning to his home planet and being confronted with just that...so I'd say he remembers fairly well...
The thing that's most upsetting for me, is that the GL titles are what I look forward to the most and I have NO idea where I should start to get the full back story.
I haven't read ANYTHING GL before 52 (other than wiki entries) and everytime I ask the question, I'm told I need to go back about 10yrs and hundreds of dollars. Something about the prophecy of the multiple light spectrums, then the actual Blackest Night/Brightest Day series which is broken up into so many different books I'd have no idea how to follow it.
I haven't read ANYTHING GL before 52 (other than wiki entries) and everytime I ask the question, I'm told I need to go back about 10yrs and hundreds of dollars. Something about the prophecy of the multiple light spectrums, then the actual Blackest Night/Brightest Day series which is broken up into so many different books I'd have no idea how to follow it.
War of the Green Lanterns was the last big GL event before the new 52 and contains the most important things relevant to the post-flashpoint GL (i.e. Sinestro as a Green Lantern again, Death of Mogo, everything involving the Guardians, etc.).
Yeah, the 10 year thing is kinda unavoidable, but you can skip the dollars part easy...
As i recall that's actually kinda late... you need to start a bit earlier, when the first of the other lantern corps shows up... i'm not sure if it's Sinetro War or even earlier then that...
Hell, you could even start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern:_Rebirth , it's pretty much where Johns started all this.
See, I have Rebirth and I still felt kind of lost.
I read up on the past (How Kyle, Guy, Stewart became Lanterns and the whole Paralaxx storyline) on wikis but I was wondering if that was really the point I should have started on. After Rebirth can I just get large collected trades on Sinestro Wars? Is that the next step?
I read up on the past (How Kyle, Guy, Stewart became Lanterns and the whole Paralaxx storyline) on wikis but I was wondering if that was really the point I should have started on. After Rebirth can I just get large collected trades on Sinestro Wars? Is that the next step?
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kaykordeath
While the large scape story telling of GL has been VERY tightly knit together, I'd wager that other than WANTING (and enjoying) the detailed history, you can take any of the above (Blackest Night, Brightest Day, even reboot) as a starting on point and the details DO fill in rather nicely.
Going off this:
http://stefanmesch.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/green-lantern-timeline-reading-order/
I'd say start at #54...2007...so maybe the last 4 years worth....
It only feels like 10 when you factor in Green Lantern plus Green Lantern Corps titles....
Going off this:
http://stefanmesch.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/green-lantern-timeline-reading-order/
I'd say start at #54...2007...so maybe the last 4 years worth....
It only feels like 10 when you factor in Green Lantern plus Green Lantern Corps titles....
Good god that was alot to take in. I think I'd want to start at Rebirth and work my way toward Blackest Night, then Brightest Day, then War of the Lanterns, but I'm wondering exactly what to pick up to accomplish this. I think I may have to give my comic book shop owner an annurism and ask him to help.
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@li3n...
Well i myself started with Sinestro War back when it came out, so i'm not sure... of course that was way after i learned a lot of backstory stuff from wiki, which helps...
Of course there's also a lot of retconning going on (the original paralax story had no yellow entity, just Hal going crazy), so frankly just going with the wiki and reading everything after Rebirth should do, with the missing pieces being slowly covered by retcons...
Really, if you're being a completist about it, you have to go all the way back to the death of Superman arc, which is the trigger point for Hal becoming Parallax, but honestly, Rebirth is a good place to start.
All you need to know going in is that Hal had gone rogue and killed off most of the lantern corps and Senestro, became a godlike entity and tried to restart time in his perfect vision of it. After that he started regretting what he'd done and sacrificed himself to restart earth's sun after it was consumed by a Sun Eater. Following that, he became the new host for the Spectre. That leads right into Rebirth.
After Rebirth, I'd jump right into the Sinestro Corps War, then Blackest Night, followed by Brightest Day, then the Lantern War. That will hit all the high points.
All you need to know going in is that Hal had gone rogue and killed off most of the lantern corps and Senestro, became a godlike entity and tried to restart time in his perfect vision of it. After that he started regretting what he'd done and sacrificed himself to restart earth's sun after it was consumed by a Sun Eater. Following that, he became the new host for the Spectre. That leads right into Rebirth.
After Rebirth, I'd jump right into the Sinestro Corps War, then Blackest Night, followed by Brightest Day, then the Lantern War. That will hit all the high points.
Not really. The most each collection covers is 6-7 issues. There's a complete Sinestro Corps trade now, whereas before they had it split into three volumes (stupid, if you ask me).
figmentPez
Staff member
I still want to know how that guy ever got a career in comics....
I have extra bile for him because he destroyed one of my favorite teams of all time. I used to love the New Mutants so much. He's even responsible for making them take on the EXTREME name X-Force. The only good things he ever did were created Deadpool and Cable, both of which were only made great after someone took them away from him and did their own thing.
I have extra bile for him because he destroyed one of my favorite teams of all time. I used to love the New Mutants so much. He's even responsible for making them take on the EXTREME name X-Force. The only good things he ever did were created Deadpool and Cable, both of which were only made great after someone took them away from him and did their own thing.
Honestly, I don't think his work on the 1988 Hawk & Dove mini or pre-X-Force in general was that bad. As seen here. The problems seem to have started after New Mutants rose up through the sales charts under his pencils and he became a star.
He is a case of right place right time, he hit at a time when new art styles were the popular thing. I really loved his jeans ad where he admitted to having no formal training... and was proud of that.
