Sorry, but we’ll be late with the results of last week’s contest. I forgot to update the forwarding address on the email account, and the entries all went to someone who’s on vacation this week.
Thoughts on the New DCU – Part 7: Superman
We conclude our series reacting to DC Comics’ relaunch announcements. After covering the Justice League, Green Lantern, Batman, Dark, Teen and Edge series, we look at DC’s flagship: Superman.
Action Comics · Superman · Supergirl · Superboy
Speed Reading
And some more weekend linkblogging! The final installment of our DC Relaunch reactions will be up this afternoon.
- Captain Cold Cosplay (via TRKA)
- Rainbow Raider Responds by Adam Withers (TRKA)
- Piper and Trickster by Dave Grote, Jr. (TRKA)
- Flash Motorcycle Jacket (FFA)
Speed Reading: DC Reboot Week Two
Some weekend linkblogging with articles on the DC Relaunch.
- Bully’s DC Reboot (humor)
- The Land of Canceled Heroes (Bully again)
- Time and Time Again The Complete History of DC’s Retcons and Reboots
- The Line It Is Drawn #44: OUR DC Number Ones! Damian as Batman! Flash as a race car driver! Goth Supergirl! Darkseid with an Afro! (CSBG)
- Reboot wishlist (Comics Alliance)
- The DC Relaunch Deadpool (no, not that Deadpool) at Bleeding Cool
- Batgirl/Oracle
- OP/ED: Oracle Is Stronger Than Batgirl Will Ever Be (Jill Pantozzi)
- Batgirl Triumphant: The Price of Restoring DC Comics’ Disabled Heroine (Comics Alliance)
- Gail, Jill and Babs: A Conversation about Batgirl & Oracle
- Oracle Create-a-thon
- The Only Answer (The Gutters) – a surprisingly touching installment from a webcomic that usually personifies snark..
- Trade-Waiting at the End of the Universe by Collected Editions
- When Words Collide: The First 15 – A Look at the New DCU – Comic Book Resources
- An interesting idea about Superman and Wonder Woman at Written World
- Agent of S.T.Y.L.E.: The Fashion of the DCnU! Part 1
- The New DC Universe: The M.I.A. List at Geekscape and Those 52 DC #1s, and who’s missing at Bleeding Cool
- Comics Nexus’ picks for the new DCU
- Kids These Days – Brett Booth talks about the redesigned Teen Titans costumes
- DCnU or DC no? (Robot6)
- New Firestorm: What do we know? at Firestorm Fan
- #1 Could Be the Loneliest Number (Tilting at Windmills) – What the reboot means to retailers (via The Beat)
- A Creator-Owned Call to Arms (Steve Niles) – what the DC relaunch could mean for artists and writers. (via The Beat)
- Comics Worth Reading’s New DC Pull List
Scott Kolins Talks Flashpoint: Citizen Cold
At Heroes*Con, Ken O of That F’ing Monkey interviewed Scott Kolins, the writer/artist of Flashpoint; Citizen Cold. Kolins talked how he ended up tweaking the various characters and their looks, including a funny story about the Weather Wizard:
I got to do something that Geoff Johns laughed about; I gave Weather Wizard that goatee. It’s a reference to when we had originally changed his costume in the Flash books years ago and made his pattern green with yellow stripes on it. At that time when I did sketches for him to show DC what we wanted to do I had given him facial hair; at that point it was a handle bar mustache. Geoff was like, “This looks great…lose the handlebar mustache.” So this time when he saw the goatee he was like, “All right, fine. You finally get to put it on him.”
He also mentions that he has his next project already lined up. It’s not one of the 52 relaunched books for Septemeber, so presumably we’ll see something from Kolins’ pen launching in the months to come.
There’s a lot more. Read the whole interview at That F’ing Monkey.
Thoughts on the New DCU – Part 6: The Edge
Our series reacting to DC’s September relaunch is almost complete. So far we’ve covered the Justice League, Green Lantern, Batman, Dark and Teen books. This time around we’re looking at the “edge” series.
Stormwatch · Blackhawks · Sgt. Rock and the Men of War · All-Star Western · Deathstroke · Grifter · OMAC · Suicide Squad · Blue Beetle