May 2013 Update

  I, Vampire and DC Universe Presents replacements are announced

I previously reported that "I, Vampire" and DC Universe Presents  had been Canceled.

DC has replaced them with two political based books.  One of which, "The Green Team" is a new take on title they published In First Issue Special #2,  May of 1975.

For more info on the follwoing titles, Consult the link below:


1. The Green Team

2. The Movement

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/green-team-movement-dc-comics.html


More Canceled titles Announced

DC Comics has reported that the following titles end in May:

1. Deathstroke
2. Fury of the Firestorm
3. The Savage Hawkman
4.Ravagers
5.Sword of Sorcery
6. Team 7

Here are my thoughts on what is coming in June:

1. New Gods. Orion is showing up in different titles even in May.

2. Another Teen Titian title.  Raven has been showing up in various titles as well.  DC has already said the New Teen Titans title will be lead by Raven.

3.  The Creeper.  The rumor has it that he shows up in Nightwing's April issue.

4. Another Young Justice Title. Either an individual or a team.

5. Freedom Fighters related title. It would be ashamed to have gone through 3 Freedom Fighters related series so far to just drop the idea.

6. Secret Six. I personally would like to see a different take on the team that incorporates ideas   from the classic and most recent versions of the team. 

That is all I have for now.

Go Forth and Do Well

Shane.

Young Justice and Green Lantern Animated Canceled

All the Reports I have read tell me that Young Justice and Green Lantern: the Animated Series (GLA) are canceled on Cartoon Network.

I also heard that Warner Bros made a deal with Netflix for shows that included the Green Lantern show.

Is it it possible that Netflix, in its effort to put new programs on their service, may be adding this to the list of original programs?

Only time will tell.  Nevertheless both programs may have a new home on Netflix.

May's new DC titles...my take

As I said in a couple of prior posts, DC is dropping  I, Vampire and DC Universe Presents.

The following is further exploration of what may come out in May.  I will do this by reviewing Newsarama's choices, by talking about what DC has already hinted, and by making my own recommendations.

Newsarama's Choices

1. New Gods.  Any revial of a Kirby title is something I would enjoy.  The fact that Orion is being featured in Wonder Woman does give this title some steam, but I really think that DC is going to wait until sales figures show that it could happen.

2. The Atom.  Both the old Atom (Ray Palmer) and the New Atom (Ryan Choi) had been mentioned in the New 52.  Ray was featured in the now canceled title Frankenstein, Agent of Shade. I don't think it is likely that The Atom is going to be one of the titles.

3.Lobo.  He has appeared in Deathstroke. So him coming back is possible. But I don't think that the time is right to give him a title.

4.The Creeper.  He is one of my favorite characters. I would love to see him in a book, but I think DC has to find the right writer and artist to make a viable title for him.  Plus I would rather have him appear somewhere else first.

5. The Doom Patrol.  Niles Caulder is currently in Ravagers so it is possible that a version of the Doom Patrol could follow.  I think it is really dependent upon Ravagers becoming successful.  In my mind they are not there yet.

6. Blue Devil.  Why newsarama?  He is just finishing a story with Black Lighting in DC Universe Presents, a title that being canceled in April.  I don't think it likely.

7.The Losers. The first question is what version. The second question is why would DC devote resources to either version when both were canceled?

8.Shadow Cabinet. This a good idea, but I think that the team should be introduced in several other magazines first.  My reason behind that is that a lot of us didn't embrace Static Shock either.

9.Sun Devils. Not that memorable.

10.Kamandi. As much as I would like to see this title, I don't think DC is ready to do this one.

What I think DC is going to Do.

1. New Teen Titans title.  A Raven lead Titans title has already been announced, so I think that would be next.

2. Not a real clue, but Freedom Fighters ( The Ray, Phantom Lady, and Human Bomb), The Doom Patrol (My Greatest Adventure and Ravagers), all have been building in various titles.

What I hope they will Do.

1. The New Teen Titans title.

2. Freedom Fighters title.

3. Either a Doom Patrol title or New Gods.

That is all I have for now.

Go forth and do well.

Shane

April Solicits part 2

Apparently I missed the final issue of  "I, Vampire" being in April.

Newsarama speculates what the titles will replace "I, Vampire", and "DC Universe Presents"

See the attached link for their choices:

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-third-wave-predictions-new-52.html

I am thinking of my own recommendations, but won't have them for the next post.

Go Forth and Do Well


Shane

April Solicits...Another one Bites the Dust

Here is what I see from the the Solicits:

1. DC Universe Presents Ends it Run at Number 19.  That means the line will be down to 51 again.
I have not seen what will replace it yet, but hopefully it will be good

2. Something building. If you look at the solicit you will also see that some things are starting to build.

3. Cool Covers.  If you are fan of cool covers, April is the month to pick them up.  Many of the titles have variant fold out covers. I like them because it makes the cover a lot grander.


Here are two sites that have the full listing.

.http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=43166

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-comics-april-2013-solicitations.html


If you prefer to get it straight from DC, then go to the link below.  It gives you each of the DC groups separately

http://www.dccomics.com/blog

That is all for now.

Go Forth and Do Well.

Shane...

April Solcits

From what I am seeing on the various sites, April sounds like it is going to be a very big month.

Spider-man Rejected for JLA in 2013.. still no

DC's 5.2 Reason why 2013 will be hot.


http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2013/01/03/52-reasons-to-look-forward-to-2013-so-far

The Death of Team UP Books

The Death of OngoingTeam-up Books

Where have all the Team up Books gone.

DC practically created the genre.  I learned more about DC Comics characters through those titles than anywhere else.  The same was true of the Marvel books.

Marvel and DC had long standing team up titles.  They even had special event cross overs with each other and minor publishers.  Then the genre started to dry up.

Brave and the Bold died then came back briefly only to die again.

Now, to my knowledge, not one title exists.

Below is a list of ongoing team up series from Marvel and DC.

 

1. World's Finest (mostly Batman and Superman-with an occasional guest star) From issue 198 to 214 It featured Superman and a guest-star. That title was canceled at issue 323. It is a new 52 title now featuring Power Girl and Huntress.
2.Brave and the Bold (In the beginning all sorts of  characters, then Batman and a guest-star. That title was canceled with issue 200.  DC brought the title back in 2007, but it ended after 35 issues.)
3. Super Team Family ( reprints of teams in the begining, then team-ups. The  total run was only 15 issues)
4.DC Comics Presents (Superman and guest stars)  It Lasted 94 issues or just under 8 Years.



Marvel Team-Up (This featured Spider-Man and a Guest star.  This title lasted 150 issues).
Marvel Two in One ( This featured the Thing and a Guest Star.  This Title lasted this lasted 100 issues)
Super-Villain Team-Up ( It lasted 17 issues).
Ulitimate Marvel Team-Up (It last 16 issues, and only a year)


The following is a list of what Wikepedia defines as team-up comics:

A+X

Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine

Avenging Spider-Man

Batman/Hellboy/Starman

Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham

Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity

Batman/The Spirit

Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame

• Spawn/Batman
• Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four
• Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do
• Superman & Batman: Generations
• Superman and Spider-Man
• Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man
• Superman/Batman
• Superman/Fantastic Four
• Superman/Shazam: First Thunder
• World's Finest Team

DC Comics 2012 Review

Another year is over for all of us.

If you are a DC fan, 2012 was good one.

My Top Ten Favorite titles of 2012 were the following

1. THE OTHERS story line in Aquaman. It not only added back story to Arthur Curry, it drew me to a title that I hadn't been reading prior to that story line.

2. Justice League. That is all I need to say.  The Flagship title leads the charge and takes no prisoners.

3. Earth 2. Being a big fan of  The Golden Age DC characters, I love Robinson's take on them.

4. Sword of Sorcery

5. DC Universe Presents. This title gives me my "First Issue Special" and "Showcase" fix that has not been filed for years.

6. Birds of Prey

7. Red Hood and the Outlaws

8. Suicide Squad

9. Green Lantern

10. Red Lanterns

My Top 10 Disappointments of 2012

1. Frankenstein, Agent of Shade.  The art and the stories drove me away from the title.  I loved the old Spawn of Frankenstein series, but I have never really liked the idea of "Shade".  I am, however,  starting to like his addition to Justice League Dark.  We will all see if he works out in that title.

2. National Comics.  There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to who they introduced.  The constant draw of First issues only panders to collectors who buy comics only to make money off of them.

3. Justice League International. I really had hoped for old DC villains to show up in that title, but all we got is villains that seemed like they were rejected by Marvel.

4. Hawk and Dove. Bought every single issue, but the stories seemed to be lacking something that I never could put my finger on.

5. Mister Terrific- I had hoped for better stories on this title, but was left wanting more.

6. The Freedom Fighter's titles: The Ray, The Phantom Lady and Doll Man, and The Human Bomb.  I liked the new physical take on them, but the villains just don't appeal to me.  I feel, that knowing about what quality had to offer in terms of names of villains, that that DC could had done better.


I also enjoyed the following story regarding 2012 on the Newsarama, the link is below

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-comics-2012-year-in-review.html

Comic Book Resources is doing there top 100 comics of 2012. The link listed below:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/tag/top+100+comics+of+2012

Comic Vine doesn't seem to have a review for 2012.

2013 Looks promising for the following reasons:

1. Justice League of America
2. Threshold
3. Justice League "Trinity War"
4. The Bat Titles finishing up the "Death of the Family" story line.
5. Earth 2 continues to evolve with the introduction of Fury and other new version of the Earth 2 heroes.
6. Earth 2 continues to evolved with the re-introduction of Golden Age villians such as Wotan.
7. Lady Luck, an old Quality comics character is getting new life.
8. Element Woman. She was introduced in FLASHPOINT in 2011  Who seems to be based on Element Girl,a fictional DC Comics superhero,  who first appeared in Metamorpho#10 (Jan-Feb 1967)

May plans for 2013 for this blog include the following:


1. A video version of this blog on YouTube.
2.A more in depth discussion of particular topics
3. An actual fan story of how Spider-Man is rejected by the Justice League.

That is all I have for now

Happy New Year

Go Forth and Do Well

Shane

Young Justice Trailer, what I missed the first time

Young Justice fans if you missed the new trailer for the 2013 return of  "YOUNG JUSTICE" here it is:

http://youtu.be/aoQEdi3sCSs

If you are a fan of the Old Teen Titans, you will briefly see that Mal Duncan becomes THE GUARDIAN.  A brief scene show the team, and a person wearing the THE GUARDIAN's uniform with his back to the audience.

I could be wrong, but why would the producers have Mal, unless they wanted to explore that character?

Don't know.

Go Forth and Do Well

Shane