Remake/Remodel: DC Rebirth so you don't have to

here's the map from the DC Heroes game.

It's not just Jersey, it's the abandoned Oyster Town part of Jersey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Norris%2C_New_Jersey

Metropolis is in Delaware(!?)

Ah, damn, I misremembered. But i was close!

The worst part of this is, when I went to go see Batman vs. Superman, me and my friend chuckled about Gotham was so close to Metropolis, it was basically Newark to NYC. Turns out he was right!

Johnsiverse Supergirl was set in the Lower East Side.

Current Titans (Dick & White Wally Time Displaced Ones) are in Manhattan.

Green Arrow is in Seattle.

Green Lanterns is in Detroit.

So the Northeast Corridor is like twice as crowded in the DCU... holiday traffic on I-95 must REALLY stink!

All that said we've arrived at the age where the best book DC are publishing is probably The Flintstones.

Speaking of which, there's a full-on DCU/Hanna-Barbera crossover in a couple of months seemingly in continuity.

We have a recent copy of "Scooby-Doo Team-Up: Featuring Martian Manhunter [and other alien heroes]" that my son likes to read... it is indeed pretty good, and has a more likable version of Starfire than I've seen in other media lately (including that goofy cartoon). If not for the Scooby-Doo content (which is "whatever"), I could see reading stuff like this from time to time; it's light, fun, and well done.

...speaking of which, ran into this business on the DC website; check out the talent involved, haha(!) -- http://www.dccomics.com/comics/scooby-apocalypse-2016/scooby-apocalypse-1

y would they write this - Flying and crushing coal into diamonds may come easy, but try popping a Kryptonian zit!

as the first sentence promoting the first issue of a series

why

(http://www.dccomics.com/comics/supergirl-being-super-2016/supergirl-being-super-1)

I actually want to read that! Mariko Tamaki is good.

xp wow that's a crazy team for Scooby Apocalypse

A very average book. Original premise was fun, took a really weird diversion that went nowhere, has spent two issues parodying Trump. And it's only a year old.

The changes to the last page of Detective is an odd one.

DC finally acknowledging they have a problem with Titans (by which I mean they are going to try and DiDiosplain it):

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4192/34607782426_ec87968a7d_m.jpg

I should also say this comes at the end of an issue of Titans which wraps up the last 6 issues of Deathstroke OFF-PAGE (he gets an eye transplant, no biggie, so he can see again) and in the process becomes an immensely powerful being with time altering machines and the ability to be the Psycho Pirate of the Rebirthiverse (or the Deadpool or Gwenpool if you like, that he knows his writers have just made up some incoherent bollocks).

I've been "DC-curious" lately, but not sure what (if anything) to read... and this thread hasn't "helped"!

Avoid most of the past decade! Lots of good stuff before then.

I'd like to read something current (as not much at Marvel is currently floating my boat)... maybe I'll try an issue or two of something. That Supergirl series looks potentially up my alley; assuming that "Kryptonian zits" doesn't reflect the actual content.

Looks like the LSH crew is returning... but only in this "Holy flight rings, Batman" context (not sure what to make
of that): http://www.dccomics.com/comics/batman-%E2%80%9966legion-of-super-heroes-2017/batman-%E2%80%9966legion-of-super-heroes-1

DC Books I can recommend: Flintstones, Batman, Savage Things... otherwise it's pretty grim!

Thanks... Yabba Dabba Doo

https://mobile.twitter.com/geoffjohns/status/863940804091363329

This can't be good.

wow that's a crazy team for Scooby Apocalypse

the critically-acclaimed team that set sales skyrocketing on Justice League 3000

didn't even know that book existed! but it sounds like a semi-Legion comic at heart so of course it bombed

that geoff johns tweet has filled me with clammy dread

we should start a pool on which watchmen character (or characters, i guess) is going to get a limb torn off in a lovingly-rendered closeup during doomsday clock

oh geoff :(

7. About that title

"It takes the iconic elements of both Superman and Watchmen, and the DC Universe. It felt like the perfect title. I like the “DC.” It used to be called “The Doomsday Clock,” but I took “The” off. Obviously people know who Doomsday is, but he’s not a part of the story, but I like the implications of it. People will think the last time they heard Doomsday and Superman, he died, so what is this going to be? What is he going to go through this time? And how will it affect them going forward?"

Deep sigh, followed by a pensive moment of reflection upon moments of innocence, when we still knew how to hope and to dream, and then another, deeper sigh.

Has Alan Moore weighed in on all this Rebirth/Watchmen business?

afaik he refuses to know anything about it

Yeah it's hard to imagine any upside from his point of view.

i don't think so, but then i assume he's become inured to dc's continuing efforts to fuck his creations to death

wonder what dave gibbons thinks?

xxp there

Dave G claimed at MCM Comic Con last year that he hadn't been consulted at all about either Rebirth (which is odd because he was a consultant on the Snyder film and Before Watchmen) or the apparently upcoming HBO tv series.

wait waht

a tv show?

Yes, because a stunningly terrible idea would be out of character for DC at this point.

Yes, apparently HBO want Snyder to make a full-length Watchmen. They're waiting his slate to get clear of filming BlackSuitGuy vs GreySuitGuy: Dusk of Vengeance so he can give the series his full attention.

jesus god

yeah, the only thing wrong with snyder's watchmen was that it wasn't long enough

I rewatched Suicide Squad on hbo and it wasn't as bad as I remembered

Jared Leto's Joker is still horrible though

it is with great regret i must announce that mh's most recent post itt has made me break the glass on the 'flag post' emergency button i keep on my desk

I think you misunderstand how bad I remember it being

i can brook no praise, no matter how backhanded, for suicide squad

a man must have his principles

the snyderverse is anti-principles

In Jack Kirby's Fourth World setting, the Snyderverse is a formula for total control over the minds of sentient beings, that is sought by Darkseid . . . The Snyderverse has been defined in different ways, but a common interpretation is that it is a mathematical proof of the futility of living.

I believe the Johnsverse is often employed in a similar fashion.

It's ironic (doncha think?) how Moore originally wanted to use the Charlton characters for "Watchmen," and DC was all, "No, please use analogues; we don't want you doing this crazy sh*t with our beloved third-tier acquired characters"... and now, 30 years later, they're jacking up the Watchmen crew in their cray-cray mainstream continuity.

(which is odd because he was a consultant on the Snyder film and Before Watchmen)

given his artfully-phrased slagging of Before Watchmen, and everything else about the Nelson era, it doesn't seem odd at all

Could give a rats ass for DC continuity these days but they're publishing the Young Animals line which is damn good. Also Tom King's Batman and Bane stories are as good as Batman's been in a while.

The first issue of Bug (as done by the Allred clan) is pretty darn good... lots of Kirby genuflection and fun times. Brute and Glob!

Yeah, enjoyed Bug! a lot.

Batman, ASBatman, Superman, WW, Super Sons, Teen Titans (the Damian Wayne one) are all worth reading imo.

The Young Animal line is great apart from Mother Panic, which I can't get to grips with.

Flintstones still the best book on the DC roster, although all the Hanna Barbera/DC Annuals crossovers were surprisingly readable in either the main or backup feature.

I quite liked both Unfollow and Clean Room, and Sheriff of Babylon was great. In fact, I'm tempted to say the Vertigo output over the past year or two is as good as it's ever been.