Comments on: Should Auld Crisis Be Forgot: DC Comics Solicitations for January 2009

By: Julius Brown

Julius Brown — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:10:46 +0000

Oh no DC Editorial is having their very own internal real life mini-series: Write In Hell. So you’ll be getting Geoff Johns’ Scalphunter; Grant Morrison’s Sugar & Spike; Jason Aaron’s Fox & Crow; Mark Waid’s The witching Hour; Larry Hama’s return to Batman; and Bruce Jones on whatever your favorite character is.

I am actually curious what Aaron would do with a Tito & his Burrito back-up story in Fox & Crow.

By: Chris Rice

Chris Rice — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:12:38 +0000

Hey Tom, some short comments…

Reign in Hell & Tangent both have two teams of creators, because they have back up stories, the same as Trinity.

Grundy may well be Justice Society-bound, but I wouldn’t bet against him turning up in James Robinson’s Justice League.

Robinson’s Vigilante is absolutely worth picking up in it’s own right, simply because the art is a rare appearance by incomparable Tony Salmons, one of the finest artists around. I’m still waiting for a Dakota North collection…

I hope that isn’t the last hardcover collection of the 80′s (or early nineties by this point) Justice League, as there’s Adam Hughes & Linda Medley’s runs to come. I’d like to see it collected right up to Breakdowns (and the best of the JLE & JLQ stories – particularly Justic League Antarctica)).

One last little bit of snark – I’m thoroughly looking forward to Cully Hamner on Black Lightning – but only if he actually manages to complete all 6 issues on his own, without a fill-in.

By: Dhaise

Dhaise — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:47:20 +0000

If Geoff Johns wrote Manhunter, he’d just throw her into the JSA with the 4500 characters appearing in that title every moth who don’t do anything but stand around and make Kingdom Come references- so Kate may as well be on hiatus anyways.

By: David Uzumeri

David Uzumeri — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:15:02 +0000

I swear, if Geoff Johns took over Manhunter, he’d create a new character with unseen links to the Justice Society and then slowly reintroduce all the previous iterations of Manhunter and tie them together into one big story that’s steeped in DC history.

Oh wait.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:23:56 +0000

Oh… You asked what looks good to us. Sadly, very little on this list. I’ll go for the Dini two-part Hush story, because I’m still following Detective (for now) at least for the Hush storyline. I loved the original Loeb “Hush” run, but I don’t feel like there was ever a satisfying follow-up/conclusion for the character. I figure, if anyone’s going to do it justice it might well be Dini. I wish I knew how RIP was going to wrap up, but I’m hoping to see the Hush story through to the end.

I’m also going to give the Kevin Smith Batman story a try. I know the first two scripts are done, and that all bets are off for the third, but at least it’ll be something that’s not going to be out of continuity and not affected by whatever Morrison does to Bruce Wayne.

I love V For Vendetta, but I also question what the new coloring is all about. Seems like a pointless stunt to me.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:16:03 +0000

Tom, you’re right about not seeing any Foster’s on CN for quite some time… Sort of like when, suddenly, The Powerpuff Girls just vanished from the channel. They’d been, probably, CN’s hottest commodity for years, with merchandising all over the place (my daughter even had a PPG-themed birthday party and she, along with two of her best friends had costumes; I went as Prof. Utonium). Then it just disappeared, along with all the merchandising, and they don’t even show reruns on Boomerang. Hmph. It was a great show. So was Foster’s (though I liked PPG better), but it looks like that show has ended with little or no fanfare too. Perhaps it’s ended for yet another new McCracken project?

You’re also right about how un-essential The Outsiders (with or without The Bat) is… I was all over the new B&OUT title, and I thought Chuck Dixon got things off to a great start. He even handled the lesbian characters with far greater sensitivity than I thought he would. Then he got the boot from DC, and the book went into a tailspin. He should’ve been allowed to wrap up the story arc he started, or at least found someone to wrap it up in a reasonably satisfactory manner. Instead, his last issue (#10) ended with something of a cliffhanger and then it went – clumsily – right into a lousy Batman RIP crossover.

I’m not reading RIP (I’ve really, really disliked Morrison’s Bat-run), so I don’t even know if Bats’ disappearance in #10, riding off on that winged “parasite” monster, is even at all related to the happenings in RIP. Is it? Next thing we know, an imposter Batman tries to lay a trap for the Outsiders in #12, and everyone’s talking about The Black Glove, even though TBG had never mentioned in the book during Dixon’s run. Sloppy.

Yet another DC title I’m dropping, and there aren’t very many left on pull list. They need to just cancel that book and put it out of its misery.

By: Michael Hoskin

Michael Hoskin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:46:21 +0000

Geoff Johns’ Manhunters of Three Worlds?

By: Vinnie Bartilucci

Vinnie Bartilucci — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:05:16 +0000

The DC Cartoon Network comics are a treasure trove of wonderfulness. Cartoonists like Mike Kazaleh (“Adventures of Captain Jack”, anyone?) and Gary Fields have done Camp Lazlo comics, and Mr. Warburton himself has done a few Kids Next Door stories. Joe Staton shows up in Scooby Doo more often than not. Great books to get for the kids, but read through them yourself first for fun.

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:06:00 +0000

Geoff Johns’ MANHUNTER!