more DC reboot news...

[meowminx]

Some Batman news here. Looks like Bruce is the only Batman and Robin is... Damian! I wonder if he'll still be Talia's kid.

Also:

Batgirl cover (no more Oracle?)
Nightwing cover (looks more like Dick than Jason to me...)
Catwoman cover (yay!)

Discuss/rant/etc?

ETA:
Batgirl: written by Gail Simone, art by Ardian Syaf
Birds of Prey: written by Duane Swireczynski, art by Jesus Saiz
Catwoman: written by Judd Winick, art by Guillem March
Batwoman: written by JH Williams III and W. Haden Blackman, art by JH Williams III and Amy Reeder.
Batman: Written by Scott Snyder, art by Greg Capullo
Detective Comics: Written and drawn by Tony Daniel
Batman and Robin: Written by Peter Tomasi and drawn by Patrick Gleason
Batman: The Dark Knight: Written and drawn by David Finch

Comments

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

Unsure about that purple in Bab's cape
but I always liked her costume best of all the batgirls so I'll take it over the giant thigh pouches

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

I actually didn't notice the purple. I was too busy being weirded out by her face. Not AH's best.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

That Batgirl cover had better be a fakeout. It had BETTER.

[professorlionface]

if that is babs then fuck everything
fuck. everything.

also that nightwing design is miserable and i'd rather damian be his sidekick instead

GRUMPIN LIKE A GRUMPY GRUMP EXPERT WHO IS GRUMPY

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

It's extra scary grumpy with that icon.

Although I don't mind the Nightwing costume so much. He's ribbed for our pleasure!

[olesia]

/looks at this flashpoint map



... Why is the entire continent of DC Africa controlled by Gorillas

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

Because everything in Flashpoint is screwed up?

[foreverbouncing.livejournal.com]

This makes me even more convinced Charlie is just going to cease to exist.

But now I'm rather worried about Tim too. And Steph and Cass.

[professorlionface]

tim is the specialest snowflake in the batfam
you won't need to worry about him

rassin frassin motherfuckin tim drake
grump grump grump grump grump

[xuffasch]

S C R E A M S


no i won't be more coherent than that
although i'm glad damian still exists i guess
8|

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy Damian exists. And now he's Robin to his dad's Batman.

...I bet Damian's the one who rebooted the whole universe.

[lyntergalactic]

that's it. i give up on hoping any of this will be any good at all.

especially if that really is babs.

[emeralddarkness.livejournal.com]

So Ravanger is back a...pparently? And Babs is suddenly 10 years younger again.

Oh.

Why is Dick wearing his evil costume anyway. Wouldn't that be bad to relaunch a series with?

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

A lot of people think that's actually Jason. I'm waiting for the announcement I guess.

[foreverbouncing.livejournal.com]

*stares at the map for a while*

...

I think I give up.

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

I think that's just for Flashpoint at least...

[shadowinari.livejournal.com]

Selina, that is not a smart or responsible way to play with diamonds. You're just letting them fall off the side of the building. You're ridiculous.

My only real thought on this is that I'm a bit bummed they're breaking up Big D and Little D, but the rest... *shrug*

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

Maybe she's throwing the little ones back? Or distributing them to the poor? IDEK.

[foreverbouncing.livejournal.com]

Actually, here's a random question. if someone plays batman, or nightwing, or any of these characters getting changed so much...made ten years younger, for instance, or ten years younger and not a cripple...

How does one canon update to that?

[incywincyhero.livejournal.com]

... Can we not throw words like "cripple" around? I know you didn't mean it that way but it's a pejorative that's pretty widely used to hurt and dehumanize people. (Barbara Gordon-specific example! (http://www.google.ch/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=batgirl+%22cripple+the+bitch%22))

[hexappeal]

Oh, Selina. :(

Also, the artwork on the Batgirl cover illustrates everything I just don't care for from Adam Hughes (aside from the awkwardly small waists coupled with huge boobs). Sameface, samenose.

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

SHEHASHEROWNTITLEAGAIN I'm pretty much focusing on that so as to stay positive!

[bedeviledspider.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go scream now. Or ANGRILY REVISE the paper I wrote on Oracle, I don't know which yet.

[bedeviledspider.livejournal.com]

also that Catwoman cover is gorgeous

[shadowinari.livejournal.com]

Is Batwoman going to be the Batwoman title that kept getting pushed back ad nauseum, or is it a reboot/revamp as well?

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

I think it's the former!

[girlverine.livejournal.com]

And here's proof. (http://comics.ign.com/articles/117/1172944p1.html)

Babs is Batgirl again.

[wrong-sometimes.livejournal.com]

ohjesusfuckingchrist

[girlverine.livejournal.com]

And this is the new Birds of Prey? (http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/117/1172826/exclusive-the-women-of-gotham-city-20110606055450367-000.jpg)

...I don't even have a clue what to say about that.

[deadthenred]

Duane S.'s run on Black Widow had problems, but they mostly weren't his fault. I think he can possibly fit this book in a nonfacepalmist fashion

Although the strings of editorial loom large and ugly

[wrong-sometimes.livejournal.com]

Dick is Nightwing (http://comics.ign.com/articles/117/1172824p1.html)... and Jason Todd's getting his own series.

"In it, Jason Todd finds himself as a leader of a team of antiheroes – including "Green Arrow's rejected sidekick Arsenal and Starfire, a former prisoner of intergalactic war."

...shoot me now?

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

I actually really like the art for Red Hood and the Outlaws cover. Although Outsiders might have worked better if they don't have other plans for the name.

[deadthenred]

MAYBE IT'S GOOD TO BE DEAD

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

Well this is rather unexpected. (http://comics.ign.com/articles/117/1172825p1.html)

[foreverbouncing.livejournal.com]

Okay now I'm confused.

If stuff from batman inc is still around, and Dick was Batman, is this a reboot or just another 'everything changes but it doesn't and oh look all #1's' crisis?

[batghoul.livejournal.com]

No Cass or Steph? Fucking Batwing instead of a book with two very popular characters?

Fuck the new DC. I'm done.

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

Hopefully there are more announcements coming. Nothing's been said about Tim either :/

[bigreveal.livejournal.com]

aggggggh i'm reading gail's fucking announcement and just getting madder and madder at her

SHE BROKE INTO THE COMICS SCENE THANKS TO WiR, TAKING ISSUE WITH THE STATUS QUO TREATMENT OF WOMEN

SHE'S BEEN ONE OF THE MOST WELL VOICES IN CRITICIZING DCU AND COMICS IN GENERAL FOR NOT BEING MORE INCLUSIVE/DIVERSE IN THEIR CHARACTERS OR STORIES

WHY IS SHE SO FUCKING PSYCHED TO MAKE BABS BATGIRL AGAIN, WHY IS SHE SO OKAY WITH THIS

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

There has to be more to the story because it isn't making any kind of sense at the moment.

[supergabbie.livejournal.com]

The only thing I like about any of this is Damian as Robin, Batwoman, and some of the writer/artist choices. I do like the new Nightwing costume though and the Catwoman title seems promising.

I fucking want Cass, okay. And Renee. And I don't Renee around only as an adjunct to Kate she needs to be legit. And that Batman cover is awful. And "Bruce Wayne will once again be the only character to be wearing the Batman costume" isn't that against the point of Batman Inc????? And hugely problematic issues with erasing Babs's disability aside, why are they eliminating a character role to do it? Or would Steph or Cass take over the hole that a lack of Oracle would open up? Because again, problems aside, what the fuck is anyone going to do without Oracle?

Ugh I am too tired to get properly annoyed. /slides out

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

Artist agrees with you on the cover. (http://gothamspoilers.tumblr.com/post/6272440862/apparently-greg-capullo-wasnt-happy-with-his)

[batmantled.livejournal.com]

I actually dig the Nightwing suit, but I want my Dick in Gotham and I'm terrified this will mean he'll be shunted back off to Bludhaven or New York or another team book for another decade instead and god fuck damnit he has earned the right to be a fully functioning member of the batcast :c



and words can not describe my heartbreak over my little dynamic duo ;_;

[terra]

ikr. I'm pleased Damian is not being shunted out of existence but I am still skeptical of this partnership with Bruce. How can it ever compare??

[doubleoohbaby.livejournal.com]

At least Selina is still hawt.

Spilling diamonds on her boobs is just asking to be a poster Bond girl.