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

I DEMAND FEALTY TO THE ALMIGHTY BAT-CAN(N)ON!

Crucially this Batman is the Batman from the Lego Movie, so most of your objections are not really on very solid ground.

Yah - but he's not dating "Wyldstyle" and fighting the "kragle" in this one... he lives in the Batcave, protects Gotham City, interacts with tons of other DC characters, etc. It gets close enough to being a "real" Batman production, that the odd ways in which it deviates are highlighted; making it (for me) fall into a kind of "uncanny valley" of "off-brand Batman." I've said my piece!!

fudd/batman xover has my full attention

The Lego Batman Movie is at least the second-best Batman movie

The last Nolan movie is definitely less plausible than the Lego one

"You should use your given name more often... ROBIN"

mask of the phantasm still pretty good

just got a blu-ray release too

Chuck is right, the BatFudd book is really good. I actually think I like the backup more, but well worth your time.

Backup was also good! And considerably less pitiful than the wile e coyote issue.

The Facebook mobile app is letting you, er, cosplay as the justice league right now

BatFudd is solid

I didn't think 2017 could get much more surreal, but I was wrong.

Found a Justice League mini-comic (focusing on Aquaman) inside a box of Honey Nut Cheerios. Is it "canon"?

Not Rebirth I guess, but I'm excited about a DC comic for the first time since, hm, Seven Soldiers I guess -- maybe Morrison on Batman. Tom King's Mister Miracle series. First issue was a great appetite-whetter.

I've become a real King believer the past year

I loved it but wish King had tried a *teensy* bit harder to make it accessible to new readers.

Also I hope/assume loveable supporting character *redacted* isn't actually dead

Not really enjoying the new King story on Batman (except the Kite man oneoff) which is a shame as the art kills whenever it's not David Finch

Throughout the debut issue of Mister Miracle, the new 12-issue limited series from superstar team Tom King, Mitch Gerads and Clayton Cowles, two words recur:

“Darkseid is.”

Those words, colored white and in contrast to a stark black background are bone-chilling at best, truly harrowing at worst. As the issue progresses, they become more defining on the page, darting around a nine-panel grid, slowly, but surely occupying more and more panels. It’s a testament to exactly how good Clayton Cowles is as a letterer that these words alone are enough to invoke a sense of feeling trapped.

lads

Glad I've been preordering it (haven't read it yet), based pretty much entirely on how much y'all have talked up King. Which I guess makes it the first mainstream DCU book I've bought since Multiversity (although I'm not sure to what extent either book really counts as mainstream DCU).

i kinda hate any repetitive bullshit in comics for the sake of pretense (full page black, double page spread recaps) and the "darkseid is" stuff is egregious but the new miracle man isn't half bad. needs a few more issues to tell.

I enjoyed the issue but sic’s quote there is indeed lol

METAL! It reminds me of a *slightly* more readable 90s Jim Lee comic

Not as good as those Justice League backups in Cave Carson, though

man the ads for metal make it look like the absolute worst...

i went to my local and bought #1, sounded silly enough

i read it. not very good. art kinda lackluster too

..but it's snyder so i'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now

If I hadn't personally witnessed the decline of DC over the past six years or so, I would've been somewhat aghast at their attempt to paint this Metal thing as an actual event rather than the ignorably-tertiary blip (a la, say, the Batman/TMNT crossover) that it so clearly is.

I wonder what will need to happen for mainstream DC to approach must-read status again. DiDio retiring, at the very least.

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"VERY METAL"

i'd honestly rather have these "blip"-style events vs the omega clusterfucks DC/Marvel put out every year, all year long, now. i mean is Secret Empire over yet? even Generations has like 20 tie-ins or something

also these are much easier to read 6 months after the fact from the library

i just read Civil War II, that story made like no goddamn sense

wait this is the DC thread sorry

why don't they just do this shit as some elseworlds thing

bring back elseworlds

Heads up, fucking sandman (g not k) is in this thing

because multiversity means everything is fair game for the dumbest iteration :/

This is kind of a dumb question but - what's up with the appearance/skin color of Helena Bertinelli/Huntress? She had a darker skin tone for GRAYSON, and I just read the first arc of BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY and she's back to being lily-white?

So Superman #32, published this week, suddenly announces that it takes place before Deathstroke #21, published 4 months ago. I'm sure that won't have any implications at all, I mean, not unless you were planning a massive event book that will have huge repercussions for your entire universe continuity and centred around the Superman line of books.

(also the Mr Oz reveal seems to have been in line with the late rumours and is k-rub.)

Do you find yourself enjoying enough of these books to offset the damage you're doing to your constitution?

Of course not.

we need to start a therapy/electroshock fund for aldo

You love the pain, admit it

Rebirth is gonna get Bendisy

Interesting. I bet he just got real, real paid.

I assume so. Also probably a big role in DC film and tv.

I'm trying to think of who I'd like to see delivering Mametesque dialogue -- Damian Wayne and Alfred having a big argument is all I got.

I'm seeing sassy Lois Lane, too many speech bubbles

Tom Spurgeon suggested Legion of Super Heroes and I can see them going full Bendis with ease.

I fear there will be a Barbara Gordon goes Alias comic.

This might be a good thing for everyone involved. Bendis has seemed pretty uninspired for a while now (nb, haven't gotten around to reading his more recent street-level stuff eg Jessica Jones and Defenders), and he doesn't seem built for stuff like X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy. I hope for DC's sake, though, that they aren't bringing him in as like a 'show runner' because that is really not his strong suit at all. His books have long been the spanner in the works of continuity because he seems terminally incapable of staying in step with what's going on in associated titles (or maybe just unwilling).