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Stéphane Garrelie
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 6:21am | IP Logged | 1  

I'll certainly buy Justice League  #1.

I'll do it next week when i'll get the book that really matters to me: Batgirl #1.

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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 6:44am | IP Logged | 2  

I'll buy JL#1 when I go pick up my copy of JBNM #39 . I don't want my retailer to be too dismayed at the scanty dollar value of my purchase. 
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Kip Lewis
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 6:51am | IP Logged | 3  

So, are the digital copies a new version of an evergreen book like tpb?
No longer are sales of JLA 1 limited to just one month, but people can
buy "forever"?
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I'm still going to be a skeptic on this...

     I think the big reason why is that the same people who've been bringing us the mess that kept us from enjoying the books will still be there, and that this is just one more "event" stunt in their repertoire intended to draw in speculators and fool old fans into thinking that the games have stopped.  I was pulled in twice over at Marvel.

     I won't do this again, until the names that're in the editorial and writers' columns are gone, and I see a definite change in policy for the new regimes.

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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 8:20am | IP Logged | 5  

Anyway, I tend to ignore reviews and prefer to read it for myself before judging it.

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You do that. I'll be over here judging it and not reading it. Or any of this crap.
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"I won't do this again, until the names that're in the editorial and writers'
columns are gone, and I see a definite change in policy for the new regimes."

That's the part that perplexes me....if the DC Universe needs fixing, why
would you hire many of the same people that messed it up in the first place
to do so? At least after Crisis, outside of Marv Wolfman you had mostly fresh
faces at the new DC.

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Charles Valderrama
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 9:01am | IP Logged | 7  

Couldn't sum it up any better. How many chances does editorial/management get to fix things before it's time to 'clean house'?

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JT Molloy
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 9:05am | IP Logged | 8  

The industry is still crazy about selling the "names". Even though only a handful of civilians in a certain age group know who Jim Lee is and NO ONE knows who Geoff Johns is.
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 9:16am | IP Logged | 9  

While driving home yesterday I listened to "Marketplace" and heard a report on the new DC stuff.  Jim Lee was interviewed and said that they wanted to visually show the DC superheroes belonged to today's readers and weren't "your father's superheroes" (I'm interpreting it that way for shorthand); e.g. Superman doesn't have the red trunks (as expected, a few attempts at humor were made at the expense of the trunks).  

Being 45 and one of the "fathers" whose superheroes the nuDC will not be, I'm going to miss "my" superheroes, trunks and all.

Lee also acknowledged that the bump in sales with all the new first issues would die down and that it would be up to the writers and artists to tell good stories and write and draw well.  Of course this begs the question: why just tell good stories and write and draw well in the first place?

On a tangential note, I read the Rucka post on Newsarama.com last night.  I thought he made some good points about Hollywood's "problems" with superhero movies and that some of those points could be applied to nuDC.  Specifically: Superman shouldn't be grim and gritty or brooding and angry.
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Trevor Giberson
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 9:21am | IP Logged | 10  

 Keith Giffen wrote:
You know what I’m not sorry to see go? Blown deadlines, late shipping, a snarl of continuity that was strangling creativity, people making excuses for why their book is roundly panned by pointing out “look what I was given from the last story!” (that whole excuse is gone, because it’s all brand new now)… mostly, the idea that set in somewhere at DC and Marvel that we were doing “fanzines” instead of publishing comics. I’m not going to miss that attitude.


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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 9:23am | IP Logged | 11  

It wasn't a classic, but I liked it enough to buy it.

Pros:

* This is written for the right audience - teenagers.

* Jim Lee did a great job on the art.  This comes froma guy who's doesn't care for Jim Lee's sequentials.

* Lots of over-the-top action.

* It does feel like a new universe.  I didn't need toknow anything about the characters to understand this.

* I liked the Vic Stone segment.

* I can live with the new costumes, at least the ones shownso far in this book.

Cons:

* QUICK read. There's really just four scenes padded withbig panels of property damage.  There's one double-page spread, two splashpages, and seven pages with three panels or less.  Sure, manga does it,but manga gives you a lot more pages for your dollar.

* Lantern's portrayed as an idiot.

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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 9:24am | IP Logged | 12  

RE: the Giffen quote...

I'll believe it when I see it.

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