I hadn't subscribed to a comic book series since I was a kid, and I'm about to turn fifty, but I did pick up a sub for Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam once Mike Norton started on the title. His work on that book had a nice Mike Parobeck kinda vibe and Billy Batson was one of the better Captain Marvel efforts that DC has fielded.

Of course,  the series was cancelled before my sub ran its course and I had the remainder of the issues transferred over to Teen Titans specifically for the Nicola Scott art. I enjoyed her work alot and the book wasn't too bad of a read, even though I struggled with the modern era makeup of the team.

So although I had made the same decision as Brad, to simply walk away from the nuDCU, hearing that Nicola will be doing a JSA series is the first bit of news that may entice me to sample one of their relaunched books. Knowing that it will be set on Earth 2 is heartening as well, BUT DiDio mentioning that they were hammering out the characters as late as the day before the announcement was even made doesn't bode very well.

Would somebody please slip Dan a suitable pill so he that can just mentally bake out for a few years?

Can they use 4th World characters for this (and any future) Earth-2 books, are did they completely lose that fight?

Well, I cannot find anything on it now, but I could have sworn that I read something around the time of Final Crisis about DC losing rights to use Apokolips and other 4th Worlders?  Did I dream this?

Considering that the reboot/relaunch is about to begin, could a helpful mod change the title for me to "DC relaunch discussion thread"?

Thanks!

DC was talking about not using the 4th World characters for awhile
post-Final Crisis. I think the rationale was that they had such a focus
on those characters building up to and during Final Crisis that I might
be a good idea to back off them for awhile.

Ok, wow.  Thanks Adam. I don't know how I hallucinated that.  Maybe the Kirby Estate lawsuit against Marvel news confounded with DC mentions of those characters... throw some bad sushi in the mix, blamo, complete cognitive chaos.

Wait a minute... so Batman RIP happened to Bruce, but not to Darkseid?  Mind = blown.  Then again, I guess we do not know that RIP happened until we find out for sure about Nightwing as Batman or not, etc.

I heard an interview with Jim Lee and Geof Johns last week on the Sirius/XM radio show Geek Time on the Howard Stern Channel. Johns let it out of the bag that Darkseid would be the first villian for the Justice League. He said he wanted the most powerful villian around to be the reason you needed to get all those super-heroes together.