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Friday, July 8, 2011

Justice is Coming to Comic-Con!

DC has announced that Dan Jurgens will be joining Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Eddie Berganza, JT Krul, Eric Wallace, Francis Manapul, Brian Buccellato, Philip Tan, and moderator Bob Wayne on the "Justice League" panel at the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 22. It's just possible that some real news will come from this star-studded panel, but don't expect to discover who the mysterious disappearing woman on the cover of Justice League International #1 is. Some secrets man wasn't meant to know.

For a complete list of the DC panels at this year's Comic-Con International, visit The Source.

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Dan Jurgens at The Source

[EDIT 4:09 PM EDT: Sorry, sorry. I worked a 12 hour day yesterday, started early this morning, and in between I just plain forgot to upload today's blog post. Please forgive me.]

Erin beat me to this news over in the forums, but Dan Jurgens took his turn in the DC reboot hype machine yesterday at The Source. Jurgens will be drawing Green Arrow and writing Justice League International, both titles that Jurgens has worked on in the past.

How and why are you shaking up the series' status quo?

In GREEN ARROW, we're getting back to the basics of what makes Oliver Queen work. He's accumulated a lot of baggage over the years and it's time for some of that to go.

In JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL, we're really dealing with an entirely new DC Universe. For Booster, Guy Gardner, Rocket Red and the rest this is a new adventure...

Will we see new character designs?

Green Arrow will absolutely have a new look, though he'll still be wearing green— naturally!

In JLI, several of the characters have cool, new looks!

This interview form-letter has been repeated over and over again at The Source for the new DC titles, and the questions say more about DC's approach to this mess than any of the artists have about their individual books. How do you have a "status quo" to "shake up" if you are starting from scratch in a new universe of stories? Why ask why the titles are being shaken up when the company mandated a number one relaunch for all series? Why ask about new character designs when the company has already widely promoted Jim Lee's redesigns? DC, I just don't understand you sometimes.

The full interview (and many other similar interviews) are available on DC's The Source blog here. If you have something to say about this interview or either of these two series (I won't insult you by asking which one you are most excited about -- it's the one with Booster in it, of course), consider dropping in on Erin's thread in the Boosterrific Forum here.

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Monday, June 13, 2011

Booster Gold Sells Out! Again!

Remember 3 weeks ago, when I wrote that mistake-filled blog post about the issue of Booster Gold that tied-into Flashpoint? Well, welcome back. DC appears to have really hit a home run with the Flashpoint event.

DC announced via The Source on Friday that Booster Gold #45 has sold out and would be going back to press in coming weeks. Flashpoint #2 was released a week earlier and also sold out of its initial printing. Does all of this sound familiar? It should, as the exact same scenario happened last month with Booster Gold #44 and Flashpoint #2.

I think I've made my disdain for alternate history stories perfectly clear, but I am going to have to accept that I am in the minority on this. Flashpoint and its tie-ins are doing exceptionally well. No doubt they will make a great springboard for DC's second Explosion or first Heroes Reborn or whatever shenanigans DC is planning to roll out at the Flashpoint conclusion.

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Friday, June 10, 2011

DC Stands for Dumb Committees

Last Friday, I made a fuss over Booster Gold's new costume. After careful contemplation of what I wrote, I stand by my original assessment.

This shitty costume is © DC Comics
THIS COSTUME STILL SUCKS.

However, I laid all of the blame for the vomit-inducing misguided costume redesign on DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee, largely because that's who DC blamed it on in their original announcements. However, yesterday Lee announced that he would not be taking the fall alone. On DC's The Source blog, Lee wrote:

Months ago, when the decision was made to launch 52 new number ones, Co-Publisher Dan Didio, Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras along with DCU Executive Editor Eddie Berganza and VP-Art Direction and Design Mark Chiarello and I went over the entire proposed DCU lineup and bookmarked the characters we felt would benefit the most from a visual redesign.
... Realizing the amount of time and effort it would take to complete the long list of designs, Mark Chiarello and I enlisted artist Cully Hamner onto the team, giving us not just another set of hands but another style altogether so we would have a variety of styles to literally draw from.
... And of course, all the designs were shaped and refined by the input of a series editor, writer and artist. In the end, we wanted to make sure all the key creators on a title were satisfied with the final look of the characters as the creative teams were the ones who had to live with and draw the new looks on a near daily basis.

So now that we've gotten an eyeful of the worst costume designs since the 1990s, Lee is being sure to drag everyone else down with him give "credit" to all the other artists involved. What a great guy.

Does this mean that Dan Jurgens, a "key creator" for the upcoming Justice League International title, was a significant part of the team that designed that Booster Gold costume? Being pretty familiar with Jurgens' artistic history, I somehow doubt it. Would Jurgens' involvement in the creation of that costume make me hate it less? I somehow doubt that, too. This would be at least the third Booster Gold powersuit that Jurgens had a direct hand in designing, and it is by far the worst.

© DC Comics

Not every costume in this entire shake-up is bad. The problem is that most of them are. And they are all coming at the same time, so rather than being given time to acclimate to the horrific appearance of, say, a Jersey Shore-Superboy or an anime-Deasthstroke, we readers are forced into making a snap decision: do we want to pay to look at these abominations Hot Topic-inspired fashions or not?

Jim Lee, I don't care whose fault it is, I just don't want to look at the comic books you are publishing anymore.

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Booster Gold Sells Out!

Remember 185 18 months ago, when it became very hard to find the issues of Booster Gold that tied-into Blackest Night? Well, welcome to Flashpoint. Love 'em or hate 'em, nothing sells books like a company-wide crossover.

DC announced via The Source on Friday that Booster Gold #44 has sold out and would be going back to press in coming weeks. Flashpoint #1 was released a week earlier and also sold out of its initial printing. The second printing of Flashpoint #1 is expected to be available on June 15. It is a safe bet that Booster Gold #44, 2nd printing, should be available no later than the following week.

Can't wait that long? May I suggest downloading the book from comixology.com? I'm pretty sure that they haven't yet sold out of pixels. [EDIT: Russ Burlingame points out in the comments below that my math sucks.]

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