This week sees the release of DC’s National Comics: Madame X, the latest and seemingly-final issue of the National Comics series of one-shots that was announced this May. With no National Comics issues solicited for November through January, it appears that the series of books put together by the West Coast division of DC Entertainment to retool obscure characters and provide them with pilot episodes in comic book form has quietly disappeared after publishing the four titles announced at launch.
It’s possible that National was always intended to be released in short waves, with breaks in between, and as such it’ll return at some point. But considering that the line/series has never broken the Top 100 in terms of sales, it’s even more likely that the plug has been quietly pulled on the experiment. If that’s the case, it’s a shame; I like the “pilot” format one-shot, and even moreso, like the chance to see non-marquee creators and characters get their day in the sun. If National Comics has gone away, I hope something similar comes up to replace it soon.
October 22nd, 2012 at 9:52 am
I agree, it’s interesting to see hit-and-run tryouts. Thinking on, didn’t the editor recently move to a different company? Maybe it’ll return when his replacement is settled in.
I’m looking forward to Madame X heaps.
October 22nd, 2012 at 9:55 am
It is too bad as I liked the creators involved, then again, it seems to be repeating what DC is already doing in DC Presents.
October 22nd, 2012 at 12:55 pm
There were never concrete plans to do more than those four issues. I know, because I begged to do more.
Hope to see more down the road, in any event.
-BCM
October 22nd, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Cheers for the info!
October 23rd, 2012 at 1:16 am
or it could be the fact that graemecracker has no clue what he is talking about and again write a column without all the information at hand…..
stop writing blog dumbfu..ck
October 23rd, 2012 at 9:47 am
“Hey guys, our copyright is about to expire on the name ‘National Comics’ unless we do something with it. What do we do about that?”
“How about we put out four issues with that name on it, and then quietly ignore the project is going on?”
“Sounds great!”
October 23rd, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Hey ThePlainTruth:
Does someone force you to come to Newsarama.com, click on “Blog” and then click on the articles that Graeme writes?
October 24th, 2012 at 4:59 am
No but it would be nice if almost every other comics site didn’t employ this useless jack graeme cracker for no reason since he has little or no knowledge and he cant seem to post anything that isn’t isn’t in the form of a question
worst bloggger ever…..
October 24th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
As of NYCC there are more National Comics on the way: http://geek-news.mtv.com/2012/10/13/nycc-2012-dcs-new-52-panel-recap/
October 25th, 2012 at 10:05 am
That’s good to hear. The much missed Ben Abernathy edited the first round.
I’m not sure how concrete those plans are, but I love seeing revamps of old characters.
-BCM
October 25th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
more on the way i guess graeme cracker is wrong again… that isn’t really a surprise….