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Andrew W. Farago
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I'm definitely picking up Batgirl, the Superman books and JLA, and I'll probably pick up a number of others once I get to flip through them on the racks.
I was initially looking at this as a big "jumping off" point (although it is for a number of titles--this is the first time I won't be buying the monthly Batman title in 20-something years), but the $2.99 price point is actually a big factor in retaining my interest. A $3.99 Marvel title makes me inclined to wait for the trade paperback collection, but a $2.99 DC book means that I can still take home a decent number of books for $20.
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Josh Goldberg
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"I still look back with some degree of wonderment, at the fact that for most people a true event like the first SUPERMAN/SPIDER-MAN crossover was something they didn't know about until they saw the house ads or, in some cases, actually saw the book on the rack!" **** I was in Grade School when that came out, and by the time I found out about it, it was already sold out at all the local newstands in town. Heck, I still haven't read it to this very day.
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Kevin Brown
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| Posted: 26 August 2011 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | 3
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So, which books are in line fior the first week? ************************************ Here's the list: 
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Ok, so Sept 7:Action comics, Batgirl, Detective Comics, Swamp Thing and maybe Animal Man. Sept 14: Batman & Robin and maybe or not Batwoman, Demon Knght and Resurection Man. I'll browse and possible buy Suicide Squad. Sept 21: Batman, Supergirl, maybe Catwoman Sept 28: Aquaman, Blackhawks, The Fury Of Firestorm, Justice League Dark & The Savage Hawkman. Maybe Superman. Of Course the only ones that are for sure are Batgirl, Firestorm and maybe Hawkman and Batman.
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Stéphane Garrelie
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I may get Justice League Of America too.
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Jason Larouse
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Aug 31:
JLA
Sept 7:
Action Comics
Sept 21:
Batman
Sept 28:
Superman (Maybe)
That's it :\
Four more than I was buying before the reboot though. If one of them is good enough for me to keep reading I'll consider the reboot a success.
Edited by Jason Larouse on 26 August 2011 at 2:37pm
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Mike Bunge
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Is this the most diverse regular lineup either DC or Marvel has put out in at least 20 years or what? Yeah, there's at least 2 or 3 too many Bat-titles and probably 1 too many Green Lantern books but...Men of War? Blackhawks? OMAC? I, Vampire? Resurrection Man? Mike
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Brian Miller
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JUSTICE LEAGUE, AQUAMAN, and GREEN LANTERN for me. Or Jim Lee, Ivan Reis, and GREEN LANTERN for me.
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Fabrice Renault
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Man, I want a time-machine to go back
- when publishers were concerned with the inside of a comic-book, and not its cover, reboot or number.
- when reading a comic book was fun.
- when I did not know what was the story about 3 months in advance.
- when I had to pick it up at my newsagent's store.
- when artists were more concerned by the characters rather than changing the characters.
- when publishers were concerned about their characters rather than their artists.
- when a comic book contained a full story and was not part of a multi-part story.
- when super heroes had thoughts.
- when super heroes were fighting against super villains.
- when super heroes were heroic.
- when comic books were aimed at kids, and enjoyed by adults too.
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Joe Hollon
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Grant Morrison on his new ACTION COMICS series:
" I'm not using the costumes, just jeans and t-shirt, a Bruce Springsteen Superman. The original champion of the repressed Superman, the socialism and stuff, I wanted a bit of that."
It is completely beyond me why anyone would be interested in that. To each his own I suppose but DC continues to save me a lot of money.
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Mike Norris
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He's using some of the concepts seen in the first few issues of Action Comics as written and drawn by Siegal and Shuster. ( Not the Springsteen, t shirt and jeans of course). Champion of the oppressed. The guy who would slap around a wife beater or expose a corrupt politician or slumlord. The guy who has been called a "Super-Roosevelt". Will it work? Can Morrison pull it off? I dunno.
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Josh Goldberg
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| Posted: 26 August 2011 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | 12
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Fabrice, I'll gladly join you in that trip back through time.
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