September 2011
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A while back I wrote up some predictions for what I thought DC might do with the Superman franchise in the DCnU. A great deal of what I hypothesized was, of course, wildly off-base… but Grant Morrison and I seem to see eye-to-eye on the relationship between Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen.
What Grant Said:
Nrama: Is Jimmy different in this world?
Morrison: Yeah, I mean, I like a capable...
June 2011
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DCnU: The More Things Change.. →
Y’know, I was really really hoping that the DCnU relaunch would mean that we’d get a good Teen Titans book, which we haven’t had for years. Absolutely nothing I’ve seen so far about Teen Titans #1 — from the cover to the costumes to the weird S-tattoo on Superboy’s arm from Wonder Girl’s new “bad girl” attitude to having a new character named...
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DCnU: Superrelationships To Come
(I started writing this post late last week, before I realized that DC would be announcing all of their launch titles this week. I don’t know that I can say this is done, because I haven’t really gotten around to talking much about Superman/Clark himself, but I wanted to get it out there before DC officially announces the Superman titles, which should be Friday.
Oh, and my...
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– Ron Perazza, recently departed VP of DC Comics Online (via Twitter)
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Five Predictions About the DC Universe Reboot
1. The “new” Superman will be somewhere around 20 years old.
Those of us in our thirties and forties and older have a very specific vision of how old Superman should be, and that vision is largely informed by the portrayals of George Reeves and Christopher Reeve and the drawings of artists like Curt Swan and John Byrne. To us, Superman is an Adult. Even though DC tried to peg his age...
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Some questions that popped into my head about DC’s Universal Reboot, and some answers I thought up for those questions based on what we know so far:
The most obvious question: is this a stunt?
Is this something they’re going to revert in a year, something that just leads up to some other event where they’ll return to the current status quo?
I sincerely hope not. That’s...