Huge DC Announcement

Had an interesting conversation yesterday with the the local guy who runs the closest thing this town has to a comic book shop (general collectibles shop). He's already mentioned that DC sells better than Marvel for him as the college students seem to prefer it here. However he is NOT looking forward to this New 52 as most of his customers are unhappy about it and he himself as a man that has been selling comics for twenty-something years, as a retailer he does not see this as something that across the nation will last for DC.

The funny thing about this revamp is the fact that its not really much different than what DC policy seemed to be anyways. While there are writers like Johns or Morrison there (and Carey and such at Marvel) that like to look to the past and use past stories and such, there were more that just lived in the moment with their stories and pretended like the past wasn't really there outside the basics of the character. This revamp is just like that except there will be a lot of cosmetic and historical changes made to the characters with the snap of a finger and we have to just learn what those changes are and if they fit into anything. While I was rolling my eyes at first, it's here and its not going away so I'm just gonna dive into the stories that I'm excited for and go on. Far easier than being an angry fanboy shaking a fist at the company that won't change just cause of that shaking fist lol.

I will forever miss the Six - but I'm also hoping that at some point, we might see more. ; ) Give the book a rest, let things set for awhile and maybe...just maybe...

As for the rest of it, I'm GREATLY looking forward to the revamp. As much as I love Marvel and it's history, DC's history has never been anything I wanted to read about - and so I avoided getting into their books. I understand that most of the continuity is being kept, but if the writer's are treating this like a fresh start, then I'm hoping the baggage will say in the attic.

I'm looking forward to WAY TOO MANY titles to give a crap about the "old" DC.

I'll miss Wally as well...no idea how Bart fits in when Barry isn't married and hasn't been to the future...yet Wally won't lol. Should have made Wally Kid Flash. Though whats funny is that they say that whole thing of "Who's to say that the original Teen Titans and the New Teen Titans aren't still in continuity" yet if you are subtracting a major player from those runs....sort of does mess them up quite a bit I'd say.

I'll also miss Connor Hawke. And alas poor Secret Six...I shall miss you most of all. Well that and the current Batgirl. Shame they couldn't find ways to bring those over instead of bringing back the greatest hits in a new form (aka Barbara Batgirl and Suicide Squad). Oracle was the best stories with Barbara IMO.

Goodbye Oracle, goodbye Gotham City Sirens.

So any last words to the old DC Universe?

I will miss Wally West...probably my favorite DC character. Waid's run is one of my favorite comic runs of all time...

THAT looks amazing EMP. I have never purchased an actual Batman book, but I'd give that a shot.

Because I'm willing to shell out a few bucks to see Greg Capullo draw a Wonderland themed arc with more than the Hatter and a couple of goons. I think I saw 'White Rabbit' and just made up my own story for her, which is why I find her interesting. I'm sure the story itself will be 'meh'.

Is it ironic that the solicitions freebie book thing I got for the "New DC 52" solidified my desire to have nothing to do with this instead of interesting me in the books?

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/09/dc-comics-new-villains/

So it looks like DC doing this so quickly and haphazardly is back firing in many areas on them. Already there are a ton of creative team changes when it comes to artists, which might affect certain books sales as we are in the time where there are equal amount of those that get a book for the writer as those that get them for the artist. The latest casualty of the late bug is Action Comics which has a fill in artist already for issue #2 which was already solicited with Rags drawing but now it is Brent Anderson.

Also it was revealed that how Batman has so many Robins is that...being Robin is an intern position. So instead of it being that he took these youths in because they were hurting and such like him or that they used great detective skills to find him like Tim...he cruises around trying to find young men to be his interns? That is...odd.

That is the funny part. They are looking for fresh new takes that will speak to the kids of today and then went and gave the books back to people that have been writing for them for years or old school talent that hasn't been part of the big two in years lol. Cornell is newer, but DnA are not so much as they have worked at the two companies off and on since the 90's where they did Legion and Resurrection Man stuff for DC before. It'd be like saying you want fresh and new and hiring Claremont :p. It will be interesting to see if they can make things 'fresh & new' and not fall back into trappings. Cause according to DiDio they have 5 years of this planned out now and there will be no events for quite some time. Many are skeptical that will last, and sadly I agree cause Marvel has a big X-Event and Marvel Universe event planned for next year they've been hinting at and when money rolls in for that I'm sure DC is gonna have to think of something cause by then the titles won't be so 'fresh' anymore as they'll be getting close to double digit numbers.

Someone should tell them they need to jump on the Handbook bandwagon. Marvel has made money off them. Even the Walking Dead now has one. Invincible has one too I think. Powers got one too. Be the perfect way for us to see the history of the new DCU without them having to show it all in the books since they are against that idea.