DC Comics Solicitations for April 2011

[NightBeetle]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30424

 

[Mystirious]

Batwoman issue one is what I am most excited about. Cannot wait to buy the first issue of her ongoing this april

Birds of Prey looks like fun on a bun and Secret Six looks too looking forward to reading them

And Action Comics 900 looks like it will be fab Superman written by Paul Cornell

Looking forward to Wonder Woman too Hester is using one of ny favourite Wonder Woman rogues

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Action Comics #900 sounds like it's gonna be pretty epic.

I'm really looking forward to Brightest Day winding down and hopefully other things afterward that'll focus 100% on Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter. I certainly wouldn't mind Firestorm or Aliveman comics, either.

The Red Robin/Catwoman/Batman comic sounds interesting. You'd think Zauriel would've put in a good word with the angels for his fellow Leaguers, though, like, "Hey, guys, let's try to keep the 'judging to damnation' thing to a minimum with my buddies, all right?"

 

[Mystirious]

I'm not sure about the Red Robin/ Batman/ Gotham City Sirens crossover

Does not really sound like my kibd of thing

I normally buy Red Robin and Sirens so i might check it out

 

[Drz]

The Red Robin/Catwoman/Batman comic sounds interesting. You'd think Zauriel would've put in a good word with the angels for his fellow Leaguers, though, like, "Hey, guys, let's try to keep the 'judging to damnation' thing to a minimum with my buddies, all right?"

It's actually an army of Azraels.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Lies!

I'm not sure about the Red Robin/ Batman/ Gotham City Sirens crossover

Does not really sound like my kibd of thing

I normally buy Red Robin and Sirens so i might check it out

I normally only buy Red Robin, but I like it when comics go all religious on me. I'll most likely pick up the issues of the other two series for that month.

 

[Mystirious]

Drz be telling the truth

Ras Al Ghul has an army of Azraels. He bought them off ebay

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Wait, are you guys being serious?

 

[Mystirious]

I am being serious about Ras having lots of Azraels

Not about ebay

 

[Drz]

Wait, are you guys being serious?

Yeah this crossover seems to be DC letting Fabien and Hine finishing the Michael Lane arc. You know, YOU could probably like this if if it had the original Azrael return and ***** slap Ras' around, but alas Blackest Night ruined that.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Eh, whatever, hopefully Poison Ivy kills this new Azrael *****e or something.

 

[Mystirious]

The Legion issue looks kind of neat too I have been digging that comic book

It is really fun and I like the Legion characters

And Shrinking Violet and Lightning Lass are a couple again which makes me because they are cute togetger

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Mark Waid ruined the Legion for me. Everything else I've read from the Legion after his run has paled in comparison.

 

[Mystirious]

Paul Levitz is doing a really fab job writing the Legion right now you should check it out Corp

 

[yenaled]

Mark Waid ruined the Legion for me. Everything else I've read from the Legion after his run has paled in comparison.

Yeah same. Just feels like they will never be that interesting again.

 

[Mystirious]

Mark Waid's run had some interesting stuff going on but right now Levitz is writing some fab Legion comic books in Legion of Super Heroes and Adventure Comics

 

[Tron Bonne]

Just now noticed Tom Strong and The Robots of Doom is only being a paperback release. I have the rest of the series in HC. Curses.

 

[flash13]

How come Marcus To is not doing the art for Red Robin? I'm disappointed, I hope it's just for this April.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Mark Waid's run had some interesting stuff going on but right now Levitz is writing some fab Legion comic books in Legion of Super Heroes and Adventure Comics

Yeah, I've been really liking Levitz's return to the Legion. It's a good follow up to what Johns did while still being it's own. Also, there just really is no need for the Legion to have been constantly rebooted.

 

[The Eagle Host]

I'm trying to be more positive about DC Comics, but there isn't a whole lot in April's solicitations to fill me with much hope.

I'm excited for DC's new crop of writers that appear to be primarily influenced by Grant Morrison, including Paul Cornell and Nick Spencer, and to a lesser degree, Chris Roberson. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents has been great, and Action Comics has been one of my favorite comics. I was skeptical when it was announced Superman would be taken out of Action Comics, but now I'm genuinely disappointed that he'll be coming back.

I have absolutely no hope for Reign of Doomsday. Unlike most crossovers, good or bad, I can't seem to identify any sort of overall plot structure or congruence; it actually reminds me of the Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul in the Batman books or the Other storyline from the Spider-Man books -- a crossover for crossover's sake with no real organization. It doesn't help that the first issue (Steel #1) was awful. The hero getting his ass kicked for an entire issue didn't work in the Titans: Villains for Hire special and it certainly didn't work here; to take a line from an old SHH poster that probably three people remember, it was a shameless example of jobbing.

I'm looking forward to Brightest Day ending just so I don't have to suffer through it anymore. (Yes, I'm aware I don't "have" to do anything, but I still kind of do.) Because of my effort to limit hyperbolic rhetoric, I won't call it terrible (which is a word I reserve exclusively for books written by JT Krul or James Robinson, whose sole redeeming quality is a seeming penchant for slipping Zauriel into panels of art, although that might be the artist's doing, so I won't give him credit), but it bounces between boring and insultingly pandering. It pains me, but I can genuinely say that, if they are going to be written anything like they have been, I absolutely hope DC does NOT put out a Martian Manhunter, Aquaman or Firestorm book.

I think it's hilarious, and hilariously awesome, that DC is puting out a special collection of, of all things, Ninja Boy. I've always been a fan of Ale Garza's art and, if the kid could manage to keep a regular schedule for more than half an issue, I think he'd do well.

Despite everything, though, at the end of the day, at least I can tell myself Grant Morrison is still writing a Batman book.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Haha, "jobbing." Good times. I kind of miss that guy sometimes...

 

[The Eagle Host]

I wonder what he's up to these days. For all I know, he's joined the great convo in the sky. And is finding it boring.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm sure he found another message board or chat thingamawhatsit more suited to his tastes. Like one where talking about anything other than super-obscure characters' stats is a bannable offense.

 

[The Eagle Host]

That does sound nice.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I guess, if you're really, really into how Dr. Bong would totally pwn Paibok.