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The Daily Planet - Superman News and Speculation Thread (🚨TAG SPOILERS🚨)

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Here's the entire list released. Fandango poll'ed over 3,500+ ticket buyers for the newest units. This is one helluva summer slate overall. Could be the beginning of huge BO returns for cinemas. These lists, at the end of the day, won't always be accurate when it's go-time.

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The previous 2 years:

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Actual Top 5 of the Summer 2023 (domestic):
1.) Barbie
2.) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
3.) Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3
4.) Oppenheimer
5.) The Little Mermaid

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Actual Top 5 of Summer 2024 (domestic):
1.) Inside Out 2
2.) Deadpool & Wolverine
3.) Despicable Me 4
4.) Twisters
5.) Bad Boys: Ride or Die
(Random note: aside from the top 2 or 3 here, it’s crazy how much bigger 2024’s spring and fall movie seasons were than its summer. What a weird year!)
 
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This is why I like Elseworlds, One-shots, and contained stories the most in the comic book world and with my readings. I am in the process of going through hundreds of my comic book collection to donate and having trouble kind of setting myself up as a collector to move forward on how I will buy (probably Absolute and Omnibuses while picking up issue 1's of floppies). But the constant reboots, retcons, and storylines that never seem to end in a satisfying way especially when books are $5 a pop with 20 pages with adds..curating is the way to go.
As former shop worker (who because of discount collected most of the DC line) I get it. Collecting is too dang hard. It is expensive and takes up a lot of space. Moving is impossible! Not I trade wait or buy digital. (Stopped that cause of Bezos)
 
Wasn’t Bendis the one who revealed Clark’s identity to the world?
Seriously? God I worked at the shop when Spidey did that in Civil War and boy did that suck. It was so bad they nearly killed the Spiderman line by retconning it with One More Day! (Which tanked almost as bad as the Clone Saga)

DC tried way to hard to court mediocre Marvel writers. Bendis was overrated at best and a complete hack at worst.
 
I just sense no hype for JW. And F4 seems kinda lukewarm at most right now... but this is just from my perspective. I guess Fandango has some sort of stats to back it up lol.
No one I know is talking about either at the moment. Hell I bet most of my friends and acquaintances even know either exist which is odd.
 
Here's the entire list released. Fandango poll'ed over 3,500+ ticket buyers for the newest units. This is one helluva summer slate overall. Could be the beginning of huge BO returns for cinemas. These lists, at the end of the day, won't always be accurate when it's go-time.

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I think at least 4 of them are way inflated. Ballerina is not going to be that big (the Continental series went nowhere) and who was asking for another Lilo and Stitch or Freaky Friday sequel? I also don't think Thunderbolts does well at all.
 
Ballerina has John Wick in it, unlike The Continental, so it should do fine. Not as well as #4, but still quite well. That audience needs their John Wick fix at this point. Lilo & Stitch will be huge, honestly. Unless it’s just a total a disaster.

Mission: Impossible gets inflated on these polls and I have no idea why. Just hoping this one does better than the last one because that’s one of the most consistently well-made franchises around that always delivers imo.
 
This is why I like Elseworlds, One-shots, and contained stories the most in the comic book world and with my readings. I am in the process of going through hundreds of my comic book collection to donate and having trouble kind of setting myself up as a collector to move forward on how I will buy (probably Absolute and Omnibuses while picking up issue 1's of floppies). But the constant reboots, retcons, and storylines that never seem to end in a satisfying way especially when books are $5 a pop with 20 pages with adds..curating is the way to go.
Speaking from experience, be careful going down the Omnibus path. Those things are addictive (they’re just so beautiful on a shelf!!) and are brutal on the purse strings. :funny:

I now read pretty much everything online first and then only buy the stories I love as omnis, deluxes or compendiums.
 
Ballerina has John Wick in it, unlike The Continental, so it should do fine. Not as well as #4, but still quite well. That audience needs their John Wick fix at this point. Lilo & Stitch will be huge, honestly. Unless it’s just a total a disaster.

Mission: Impossible gets inflated on these polls and I have no idea why. Just hoping this one does better than the last one because that’s one of the most consistently well-made franchises around that always delivers imo.
It's a cameo I believe...I just don't think it matters. It will make money but hardly set the world on fire.

MI should do well but it's obviously nearing the end of its dominance.
 
It's a cameo I believe...I just don't think it matters. It will make money but hardly set the world on fire.

MI should do well but it's obviously nearing the end of its dominance.
The last trailer made it look like more than cameo to me. Seems the Ballerina vs. John Wick is a big 3rd act conflict now. But I mean, none of these movies are setting the world on fire lol. But a lot of them will do well and that's almost certainly one of them, imo.

After the last movie, I don't think MI is guaranteed to do well at all, but I sure hope it does.
 
Ok where do I send my angry letters to get this t-shirt made available for adults? :o


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Also, I wonder if that bit in the lower left corner is an actual quote from Superman in this movie? It reminds me a lot of that Supes quote from the prop newspaper about how while others were debating what he should do, people were in need and he "had to act."
 
Ok where do I send my angry letters to get this t-shirt made available for adults? :o


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Also, I wonder if that bit in the lower left corner is an actual quote from Superman in this movie? It reminds me a lot of that Supes quote from the prop newspaper about how while others were debating what he should do, people were in need and he "had to act."
A former poster has a direct line to Gunn!
 
That's fair. I view Elseworlds as its own canon since those stories are contained with a beginning, middle, and end (acting as its own head canon with no breakage in storyline, retcons, or reboots). Following the main continuity titles with constant crossovers, big event stories that lead into one and then the other without a payoff that eventually resets to new #1's has left me in burnout city. I tend to enjoy One-shots and loose canon where the reader can decide the order before the timeline gets messy.

I advise you to forget completely about the so called "canon". Comic books as a medium has died in the late 90s and now it's 'niche' for people like us who just need to get their regular fix of the characters they love, hence why we have dozens of Superman, Batman, Spider-man and whatever-man number#1s.
What I do now is just take the stories as they come, if the story is good then it's 'canon' in my eyes. Take Kennedy Johnson's "warworld Rising" saga for example, I mean it's essentially a remake of a 30 + year old story from the Byrne era but it doesn't matter to me because the story is awesome! So to me it's canon while the original isn't.
Kennedy Johnson's Metallo arc doesn't fit with either the pre-crisis, new 52 or rebirth Metallo's 'canon' but I don't care because it's the best Metallo story I've ever read so to me it's the definitive Metallo story.

If someone asks me: "of the 1000s of Superman comics that you've read over the years, what do you recommend?"

Answer:

- Start with the Jeph Loeb/Joe Kelley era. Emporer Joker, Till death to us part (when Parasite kidnaps Lois and replaces her) and Joe Kelley's "the Harvest" (a great Zod story that sadly goes to crap at the very, VERY end).
Also, one cannot miss Action#775 and the team up issues with Wonder woman and Captain Marvel that Joe Kelley did.

- Jeph Loeb's Superman-Batman run (public enemies, Supergirl saga, new world order)

- "the search for Kryptonite" also from Superman-Batman (not Loeb).

- Greg Rucka's run on Action, great stuff that sadly was interrupted by the 'infinite crisis' nonsense.

- Geoff Johns (love him or hate him) has done some good work on Superman ('up, up and away' , Legion of superheroes arc, last son, Brainiac)
- The 'world of new krypton' 12 issue (by Rucka and Robertson) is a must for any Superman fan

- The new 52's Superman was not to my taste but Morrison's 18 issues on Action were fun, as was Scott Snyder's (SCOTT not Zack!) 'superman unchained' mini series (I'd like to see WRAITH again, a really solid antagonist) and Greg Pak's Action run (particularly #25-30).

- Rebirth was excellent, especially Tomasi's run.

And finally we come to the aforementioned Kennedy Johnson, J.Williamson and Mark Waid runs.
Pick'em up and enjoy 'em and don't worry about where Lena Luthor has been all these years after OWAW or how Silver Banshee is a good gal now and is dating Jimmy or how Metallo has as sister that we've never heard about.
 
The last trailer made it look like more than cameo to me. Seems the Ballerina vs. John Wick is a big 3rd act conflict now. But I mean, none of these movies are setting the world on fire lol. But a lot of them will do well and that's almost certainly one of them, imo.

After the last movie, I don't think MI is guaranteed to do well at all, but I sure hope it does.
I haven't seen the trailer so I may be out of the loop. Doesn't make much sense though I thought the story was she needed Wick to make her into a version of himself. I plan to see the film but I am not really into it like the other films. It feels unnecessary.

The last MI was very good but a bit much. By the end I was kind of tuning out because I knew it was divided into two films. Plus some of the story was a bit...meh. It's starting to remind me of the end of the Craig Bond films in the good and bad ways.
 
Speaking from experience, be careful going down the Omnibus path. Those things are addictive (they’re just so beautiful on a shelf!!) and are brutal on the purse strings. :funny:

I now read pretty much everything online first and then only buy the stories I love as omnis, deluxes or compendiums.

Definitely! Luckily, I have the majority of my favorite stories in trade or hardcover. But the collector in me wants to quadruple dip, much to my own disarray :smile: And I am so many stories behind that I want to read that it's almost time to drop a sledgehammer down. Loving Superman to this degree is incredibly expensive. I collect memorabilia, statues, figures, and cosplay as well, so I've been really trying to ground myself to focus on one thing at a time. Now that 'Superman' is coming out, along with the 'Summer of Superman' extravaganza to hit, I may just have to dig a hole and climb in it for my own good:hot:
 
I advise you to forget completely about the so called "canon". Comic books as a medium has died in the late 90s and now it's 'niche' for people like us who just need to get their regular fix of the characters they love, hence why we have dozens of Superman, Batman, Spider-man and whatever-man number#1s.
What I do now is just take the stories as they come, if the story is good then it's 'canon' in my eyes. Take Kennedy Johnson's "warworld Rising" saga for example, I mean it's essentially a remake of a 30 + year old story from the Byrne era but it doesn't matter to me because the story is awesome! So to me it's canon while the original isn't.
Kennedy Johnson's Metallo arc doesn't fit with either the pre-crisis, new 52 or rebirth Metallo's 'canon' but I don't care because it's the best Metallo story I've ever read so to me it's the definitive Metallo story.

If someone asks me: "of the 1000s of Superman comics that you've read over the years, what do you recommend?"

Answer:

- Start with the Jeph Loeb/Joe Kelley era. Emporer Joker, Till death to us part (when Parasite kidnaps Lois and replaces her) and Joe Kelley's "the Harvest" (a great Zod story that sadly goes to crap at the very, VERY end).
Also, one cannot miss Action#775 and the team up issues with Wonder woman and Captain Marvel that Joe Kelley did.

- Jeph Loeb's Superman-Batman run (public enemies, Supergirl saga, new world order)

- "the search for Kryptonite" also from Superman-Batman (not Loeb).

- Greg Rucka's run on Action, great stuff that sadly was interrupted by the 'infinite crisis' nonsense.

- Geoff Johns (love him or hate him) has done some good work on Superman ('up, up and away' , Legion of superheroes arc, last son, Brainiac)
- The 'world of new krypton' 12 issue (by Rucka and Robertson) is a must for any Superman fan

- The new 52's Superman was not to my taste but Morrison's 18 issues on Action were fun, as was Scott Snyder's (SCOTT not Zack!) 'superman unchained' mini series (I'd like to see WRAITH again, a really solid antagonist) and Greg Pak's Action run (particularly #25-30).

- Rebirth was excellent, especially Tomasi's run.

And finally we come to the aforementioned Kennedy Johnson, J.Williamson and Mark Waid runs.
Pick'em up and enjoy 'em and don't worry about where Lena Luthor has been all these years after OWAW or how Silver Banshee is a good gal now and is dating Jimmy or how Metallo has as sister that we've never heard about.

Yep, I totally agree. Great post. Canon to me is basically just head canon nowadays. I basically read everything as one and if the story is good and there are some great Superman moments, along with the natural tenderness of what the character brings, I'm happy.

I am big on Superman serving children, so my next phase of collecting is rounding up every single comic book cover or story of Superman either saving a child, with a child, or a story about such and highlighting those books in my collection. That theme means so much to me.
 
As former shop worker (who because of discount collected most of the DC line) I get it. Collecting is too dang hard. It is expensive and takes up a lot of space. Moving is impossible! Not I trade wait or buy digital. (Stopped that cause of Bezos)

I give you props brother! Working that medium is no joke and can be insanely intimidating givin' the millennia of material out the wazoo. It's tough to even talk out loud about these things givin' our vast knowledge..and I know about maybe less than 1% of what comic book properties bring. It's insane :smile: The reading doesn't stick to me much. I pretty much forget things the moment I close the books. It's more of an "in the moment" type experience for me. The art and interior designs (and mostly cover art) is what draws me in mostly, but when a story slaps? I can go on a binge for sure. A great arc is an added bonus and cherry on top.
 
I basically read everything as one and if the story is good and there are some great Superman moments, along with the natural tenderness of what the character brings, I'm happy.
This is basically me with just about every piece of media. I’m not too precious about something being super accurate as long as it’s faithful to the core of the original concept.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a great example of this for me. I’m pretty sure that there are several things in that show that go against previously established lore, but, while I’m watching it I don’t really care because I’m having a blast and can tell the people involved in making it really love and revere Star Trek, And, ultimately, that’s all that matters to me.
 
So in terms of comics, any Big Superman related titles coming during this,
Summer of, Superman?
 
So in terms of comics, any Big Superman related titles coming during this,
Summer of, Superman?

The Summer of Superman will be pretty big in April. They are doing a Summer of Superman special #1 that Involves Krypto and some stuff in the ongoing titles that will last through summer, but they are also doing a Superman: The World theme of what Superman means around the world with a compilation of writers, and also a big re-release on Superman Day on April 18th that repackages the most fan favorite stories like All Star Superman, Superman Unchained and For All Seasons.

I purchased a Dan Mora Superman cardboard cutout, about 6ft tall that has a sidecar of slots that will hold about 100 comics or up to like 40 traded or hardcovers. Depending if you have a LCS, you may see that standee that will hold all kinds of Superman fan favorite stories to stand out to customers that will be apart of the Superman marketing.
 
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