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Sam Karns
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Despite what a lot of members here think of the new FireStorm, i love that character and I hated what was done to him in the last annual gimmick series. Just unreadable.

Looking at this new version I have zero interest in this.

Another thing, I'm surprised Jim Lee continues to lie to his loyal readers about why his All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder is not finished yet. I claimed it was because his video game development, then it was his new role as a big wig, but TA-DA!! He's been ACTUALLY working on relaunching the DC Universe.

I mean Jim Lee has never had a track record in completing anything he's started. Other writers and artists had to be hired to fix, redress everything he's touched. Why should readers trust him in any project he's interested in when he works as if his material is a motion picture.

Jim Lee has never earned the reader's trust, and the ONLY new readers who's going to buy this are the declining comic book readers, and the ones who are the occasional comic book reader. Lee only has 10 - 12 issues in him. Once he leaves the surface will collapse because his projects tend to never have much substance in them because they all feel like "short-term" projects to me.   

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I don't think that's Firestorm; or rather the Firestorm. Another pic
shows the Ronnie Firestorm, the new guy Firestorm (both in new
costumes) and this guy. I don't think we say what is what until we see
what the final Firestorm looks like.
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To those who just watch this page: There's on the previous page of this thread another Firestorm pic with both Firestorms fusioning in this one.
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Stéphane Garrelie
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That pic:



Edited by Stéphane Garrelie on 02 June 2011 at 4:48pm
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Emery Calame
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Apparently Amalgum has returned because Auqaman and Daimon Helstrom seem to have fused into "The Son of the Water Devil!" (Under the mail he has a tattoo of an upside down spiky anchor on his chest!)

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I would have preferred a reboot that returned characters to a point closer to
their original forms.
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Brennan Voboril
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Those uniforms are terrible!
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Sam Karns
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So Firestorm is like Voltron or something.
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Mike Farley
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Wonder Firestorm-Twins Powers: ACTIVATE! Shape of: A big, ugly mook!"
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Bill Mimbu
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No interest at all with this...

I like Stanley "Artgerm" Lau's work, especially his Pepper character, but having him doing covers for this reboot is not enough to get me to buy the books...

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Brad Krawchuk
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Too bad, too - I was becoming a fan of Firestorm in his modern incarnation. Ah well, at least DC is also releasing a trade of classic Firestorm material this fall. 

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Bill Mimbu
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So Firestorm is like Voltron or something.

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"... And I'll form the Head!"  

That combined Firestorm pic almost reminded me of CRISIS's Anti-Monitor...

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