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Jason Fliegel
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My reaction was something along the lines of "Jim Lee drawing a rebooted version of a major publisher's flagship titles? I feel like I've seen this movie before..." But the post Aaron linked to makes the point a lot more elegantly.
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Craig Jackson
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52 new comic series with 52 new number one issues! Holy cow! I would have hoped they would cut back their number of titles to a more manageable, more reader-friendly amount. But no. They're carpet bombing the comic book world with a tsunami of crap. Wouldn't they have gotten more interest from new readers if the number of titles had been reasonable. I can't imagine any new potential readers thinking to themselves "hmm, 52 new titles. What a great time to start reading DC Comics!" And I pity the poor comic book store owners who have to take a wild guess at what the demand will be for this onslaught of new number ones.
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Brad Krawchuk
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The 52 titles bugs me. Honestly, if there were 20 max, I might even buy all the #1's just on a lark to try them out. 52? That's a whole lot of comic all at once.
I'll more than likely just stick with trades for the stuff I'm already getting in trade - Green Lantern titles, Flash, Secret Six... I'd keep Birds of Prey, but Simone is leaving... I'd start Superman or Batman again, but of all the titles DC puts out those are the ones most likely to require me to also collect every book in the family at some point. I've been burned too many times by that... Plus, Wonder Woman is still in that ridiculous new costume...
Jim Lee on Justice League inspires no confidence - he'll be gone in 6 issues, max, and those six issues will take almost a year (maybe more!) to come out...
James Robinson on Hawkman would interest me if not for Cry For Justice, which made me not a James Robinson fan, ever again.
Maybe if I get an iPad this summer I'll try a few...?
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Tim O Neill
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Fifty two "#1" issues? That kind of market saturation may be the first time that the "Issue #1 - Collector's Item" gambit does not work. I admit that i tend to check out #1 issues if it looks interesting, but that's a lot of ones!
I don't read much DC, but when I do it tends to be written by Geoff Johns - I think he's terrific. So I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt that something good is afoot here. Maybe there is something we don't know here. If this is part of a larger plan that targets young readers, then I am all for it. What we geezers think does not matter if it can get younger readers.
Does renumbering give them a chance to hit the "reset" button and break any distribution contracts that would get the books into more diverse venues? That would be a solid reason to green light something this radical. I'm just trying to figure out if this creative sea change is tied to marketing and distribution in some way.
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Eric Smearman
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52 titles. 52.Another thing that suggests to me that this is a stunt of some kind.
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Michael Todd
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I miss the days of National Periodical Publications, they knew how to publish comic books.
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Doug O'Loughlin
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Ha! I remember Heroes Reborn.
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Randy Lahey
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Re-numbering all to #1's will really illustrate their erratic publishing schedules. Twelve months later, some will be at #8, some #9 a few at #10.
I imagine as fake milestones are hit, books will be renumbered back to the original numbering like marvel has done many times.
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Keith Thomas
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And Jim Lee redesigned 50 Characters...
I foresee lots of short jackets and buckles
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Francesco Vanagolli
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Alright. I can deal with this.
I was waiting an "ending" to some of the series I'm following (I wanted to cut off some books at the end of their current storylines), surely I couldn't expect someting so radical... As told before, I hope new readers can enjoy this new DC just like I enjoyed "my stories".
If there are new readers out there, of course.
Let's see the new creative teams, I could give some books a try. Aquaman, for sure, being drawn by Ivan Reis.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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I thought Lee's Wonder Woman design was bad. And then I saw this Superman costume...
In the famous words of Samuel Goldwyn: Include me out!
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Thanos Kollias
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In the 90s I would never have thought the day would come I'd actually dislike Jim Lee. The guy is bad news. I haven't enjoyed ANYTHING from him after he left X-Men. I don't even consider him that good an artist anymore.
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