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“As per Deadline, Mr. Freeze’s storyline will follow Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero‘s plot, where Mr. Freeze is motivated to find a solution to his dying wife Nora’s illness. This eschews the currently canon backstory laid out for him in the New 52, where Mr. Freeze was never married at all and instead fell in love with a cryogenically frozen woman.”

The New 52 makes everything it touches worse.

Welp, this is a no brainer. Last time Bendis and Maleev hooked up I loved it. Plus, you know, Maleev. Instant pick up just for that.

An extra layer of icing? How about an extra patty? I want substance, not empty calories.

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Her writing has been amazing thus far. i really loved her Demeter.

I keep trying to quit Marvel, and they keep pulling me back in!

Okay, how awesome is it that we have Becky writing this??

Too awesome, that’s how much awesome is in this. I cannot wait!

Dillon again?

I mean I like his art, but what, is he unable to get any other kind of work now?

I find it pretty disconcerting that Marvel is re-launching a character that glorifies gun violence in the current US political climate.

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McKeever actually did both Miniature Jesus in 2013 and The Superannuated Man in 2015 for Image. Check ’em out!

While Image’s biggest handicap is the lack of an editorial focus, their commitment to publishing comics can’t be denied. Hopefully, fans will respond, and the big two will have some market competition at last!

Correction: FX to Produce Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s “Y: THE LAST MAN” for TV.
Unless you were mentioning just the one man to be ironic.

Whatever happened to Pia?

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[…] Now, in a special push to celebrate Local Comic Shop Day on November 28th, DeConnick, De Landro, and Image Comics have partnered with ComicsPRO, a retail association comprised of comic book shops, to release a special limited hardcover edition of Bitch Planet‘s first volume. According to the Image press release, “participating retailers will have exclusive, and in some cases, limited items debuting from supporting publishers.” This special hardcover edition of Bitch Planet features cover art by artist Filipe Andrade and is limited to only 750 copies, so good luck in getting a copy; to quote another female-centric dystopian tale, “may the odds be ever in your favor.”  [Comics Beat] […]

Well technically, the reason Hayden is not returning to Heroes is because she is on a different show now. It’s not because they killed her off. If Hayden was available they would not have killed off her character.

Am I the only one who read this headline thinking that Death was going to be a character in the series?

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Doesn’t this rip off that other dude’s Little League of Justice, Adventures in the Third Grade web series?

By Yale Stewart, I mean

Dave Miller-lad,

Here is an update on Yale Stewart…apparently, he has other issues to worry about….

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/08/22/dc-comics-seeks-to-prevent-yale-stewarts-money-making-jl8-wallpapers/

We need to put out another Dark Knight Returns book this year! Let’s call it a trilogy!! Like we planned it all along!

Cool. I don’t buy the non-Mignola stuff though. It’s not bad, but not good enough for my cash. And there’s way too much of it.

That was…really too long an exchange of Twitters to digest for an article. I would have found a summary with one or two excerpted tweets more effective.

And, not to ignore the wider problem this article presents but enquiring minds (well, mine) want to know…will Batman ’66 and Sensation will continue to be released digitally, or will they be cancelled as well as the floppy reprints?

DC is still publishing comic books? ;)

Hi John,

Thanks for your comment. I got overzealous with the tweets– didn’t realize how long the conversation was because it seemed much shorter in my head! I’ve parred them down some.

According to solicits, the December issues for these titles will be the final issues for all formats. I will look into this further and clarify if I hear anything to the contrary.

I doubt that the Digital First comics will continue.
The numbers seem to have been calculated from “can we sell enough via digital + paper + graphic novel?”
If those numbers don’t add up to a profit, then it’s not going to continue with just one format.
In the old days, it was “newsstand + direct market + subscriptions”. Many marginal titles had better profits when newsstand copies were omitted (Ka-Zar, Micronauts, Moon Knight).

How well did DC market these new titles?
Why did Ms. Marvel become an overnight sensation, but not Prez?

I see the point TalesOfRacShade is making — I’m one of (I assume) many people who pick stuff up late, or purchase and then read late. I picked up a couple of the relaunched titles in June and didn’t get to reading any of them until Labor Day. (That’s what happens when your to-read pile is taller than the nightstand it sits on.) Now I’m going back to catch up on the ones I liked, but the damage has been done and the books that didn’t show strong interest by August will be canceled. Because most books simply don’t get a fighting chance, they’re often gone by the time their audience finds them.

It’s just the nature of the beast, though. I think it’s more of a general issue with monthly superhero comics and its sales channels than any bad decisions made at DC.

A lot of ground covered here:

Sad to see both Batman ’66 and Sensation Comics go. I bought both occasionally, but they were pretty confused packages.

The Batman book had the trappings of the TV show and good likenesses of the actors involved, but *unlike* the show it was played straight, not camp. So what audience was this for? I assume the nostalgia crowd (and in this day and age, that can’t be a very big crowd), but then it didn’t go all in. Sort of like putting on a production of Grease and taking out the songs. The stories were fine, but without the parody, it ended up being pretty mild (though the Kevin Smith/Ty Templeton mini with the Green Hornet was fun and the Len Wein/Harlan Ellison/Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez special was quite beautiful.)

Sensation Comics had a similar schizophrenic profile. Some of the best, accessible, all-ages Wonder Woman stories in a long time, unfortunately behind covers that often portrayed The Amazon Princess as a crazed warrior splattered with blood. I know covers in comics have a long history of not reflecting the exact contents, but I can’t imagine the audience for either one of those types of books being satisfied with that combination.

It makes me both sad and angry to hear these stories of sexual harassment behind the scenes. Especially when it involves people who are working on characters that are supposed to be heroes — examples of our best ideals, not our worst demons. DC, if this is going on, please get to the bottom of it and root it out. Not only for the sake of your workplace, but for Superman, Wonder Woman and all the other inspiring icons that the world looks up to.

And Torsten, I think Ms. Marvel had the advantage of a lot of media coverage outside of comics *and* being a superhero comic in the Marvel Universe. Prez is on its’ own in its’ own little corner of the world with no capes and tights.

The problem with DC is that they don’t give the smaller books a big marketing push. Although, I did notice that there was some attempt for The Omega Men with it having a big spread in the back pages for a month or two. Hopefully this is the kind of title that does alright in TPB and warrants a new miniseries in the not too distant future.

All of the Digital First titles have had limited lifespans, such as Adventures of Superman and Legends of the Dark Knight. Sensation had 48 digital weekly releases. That’s no small potatoes. After each one wraps up, a new one with a new character comes around the corner. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Flash or GL anthology Digital First series next up to bat.

For the record, Cullen Bunn confirmed on Twitter that “Lost Army” ends with issue six.

@Hardy: Ouch. So Lost Army wasn’t just cancelled; it was stealth cancelled. That must hit hard for the creators, to say nothing of readers who invested in the story.

Yeah, the Omega Men news hit me kind of hard, particularly after having been geared up for a twelve-issue run with a clearly laid out beginning, middle, and end. Add my voice to the choir of being cheated as a reader to be paying money for what will never be more than half a story.

And Alex DeCampi’s remarks just make me sad as a consumer. I loved Sensation Comics for its diverse storytelling, its introducing me to the work of a number of spectacular creators, and its being the iconic Wonder Woman book that I’ve felt had been missing from the stands since Gail Simone’s run on the title ended. (Azzarello and Chiang are a good “alternate” take, but separated from their storytelling, the N52 character is Generic Warrior Woman #49, not Wonder Woman.) Agreed with the poster who lamented the covers never matching the tone. That’s been a real sticking point for me with the book.

Basically, what made Sensation distinct is that between its covers, it was a feminist book. De Campi’s revelations about the Superman office at DC… I sincerely wish I could say I were surprised to hear her statements out loud. And it saddens me. The DiDio / Lee / Harras regime needs to topple. It feels to me like they set this new direction up for failure from the get-go, between the timing, the horrifyingly awful marketing, and now the company’s failure to see through on their own promises to their readers…

Is there any good news to come out of DC? I mean… Batgirl, Black Canary, and Doctor Fate are cool, and they’re still going. There’s that, right…?

I would assume Spider-Man will follow the comics and flip-flop, but they’ve never been slavish to the comic stories.

Peep Hawkeye’s shoulder. There’s your Ant-Man.

Marvel’s artists are a little too clever for me, Victor.

Hahaha, not at all. After having seen Ant-Man in the Civil War footage shown at D23 I thought, “If I were Marvel how would I Easter egg this?” Took me a bit to find it

One might say you need a…falcon’s eye to spot Scott Lang.

I would think that Scarlet Witch will end up on Cap’s side with the distrust of Stark she had. Also with Vision seemingly on Stark’s side they need a heavy hitter to off set him which would point to her vs. Spiderman.

COOL A DVD BOXSET CAN I PUT IT NEXT TO MY HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE

Please be on Blu-ray..please be on blu-ray… :)

One word, and the word is SQUEE!

They aren’t paying these people are they? That seems like a terrible idea that would open a huge can of worms for Marvel. Such a bad idea.

Sarah Jean Maefs and Kevin Spooner look a lot alike in the pictures above.

Considering that the whole “Disney Princess” merchandise juggernaut began when a Disney exec saw girls in their homemade costumes and realized there was money to be made, how long before these people get slapped with C&Ds and Disney starts its own Marvel costume line?

This reminds me of how much I used to love the old Sandman Mystery Theatre covers from the 90’s. Or that old Ray ad from back in the day that looked like a bad FOX pilot waiting to happen.

Great idea.

Ms Marvel and Spider-Gwen FTW

I like that not every one of these is perfect, showing you don’t have to have a fortune or body builder body to have fun cosplaying. Cosplayers make cons a lot better with their presence and this feels like a nice celebration of that.

Amazing that it took them this long to pursue this idea. On the other hand, I’ve seen better costumes. I wonder how they came to select these particular photos.

A fun idea, though some of the costumes *do* look a bit on the droopy side. And as for a couple of the poses, would someone please get Doc Strange those two drinks he’s ordering.

Now Captain Marvel on the other hand — she wears her uniform with the right attitude!

Kewl I love the breaking bad comic