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...The date of the big announcement by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee regarding DC. Any guesses exactly what it will be?

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StarBrand wrote:...The date of the big announcement by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee regarding DC. Any guesses exactly what it will be?
Everything is starting over. Flashpoint isn't fake. It's real.

Dan Didio is god? (we'll have to check for brain slugs after this one)

Rob Liefeld is the best artist of all time? (we'll know they are on crack if that happens)

Superman is leaving DC.

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Disney Buys Time Warner

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BruceReville wrote:Disney Buys Time Warner
Then that would be the end of comics as we know them. Welcome to the days of "The Comic Book Company".

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xodacia81 wrote:
BruceReville wrote:Disney Buys Time Warner
Then that would be the end of comics as we know them. Welcome to the days of "The Comic Book Company".
It has been prophesied on page 1 of Magnus Robot Fighter 0 - note the Thing battling Superman at the bottom. Also note the boredom on the kid's face.

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xodacia81 wrote:
StarBrand wrote:...The date of the big announcement by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee regarding DC. Any guesses exactly what it will be?
Everything is starting over. Flashpoint isn't fake. It's real.
I think this is going to be correct. Will they really get rid of Bruce Wayne and other iconic characters like him, though?

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xodacia81 wrote:
BruceReville wrote:Disney Buys Time Warner
Then that would be the end of comics as we know them. Welcome to the days of "The Comic Book Company".
That would be cool for a few issues i guess but i have a feeling it would eventually be Deathmate bad. :(

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Probably Superman and the others characters get renumbered series' to new #1s. As a way to get ready for the Superman movie next year or something. Or to try to take the Marvel comic market share.

Maybe Geoff Johns and Jim Lee get on a new Justice League America #1. Or a Superman #1.

:hm:

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I don't know, but it happens on my birthday! And my sister is taking me to see Tesla that night!

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Heath wrote:I don't know, but it happens on my birthday! And my sister is taking me to see Tesla that night!
Pretty cool. :thumb:

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Good find. :thumb:

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An opinion on the matter posted at Newsarama. The article is about halfway down the page.

http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/05/25/ev ... ght-place/

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Interesting, but then again when Zero Hour happened and origins/titles were rebooted then they left a few plot threads dangling then as well. So is it possible that it could happen again? I mean DC has never left plots dangling before and still have yet to resolve have they? :P

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Such a shame that we are speculating more on how badly they may screw things up, over how cool they could be making things :(

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BruceReville wrote:Interesting, but then again when Zero Hour happened and origins/titles were rebooted then they left a few plot threads dangling then as well. So is it possible that it could happen again? I mean DC has never left plots dangling before and still have yet to resolve have they? :P
From looking at solicits, EVERY SINGLE storyline in EVERY mainstream DCU book wraps up in August.

This is going to be big.

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Tim wrote:
BruceReville wrote:Interesting, but then again when Zero Hour happened and origins/titles were rebooted then they left a few plot threads dangling then as well. So is it possible that it could happen again? I mean DC has never left plots dangling before and still have yet to resolve have they? :P
From looking at solicits, EVERY SINGLE storyline in EVERY mainstream DCU book wraps up in August.

This is going to be big.
I agree it is going to be big, but at the same time subplots may still be sacrificed unfinished -- DC has done that in the past.

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Tim wrote:
BruceReville wrote:Interesting, but then again when Zero Hour happened and origins/titles were rebooted then they left a few plot threads dangling then as well. So is it possible that it could happen again? I mean DC has never left plots dangling before and still have yet to resolve have they? :P
From looking at solicits, EVERY SINGLE storyline in EVERY mainstream DCU book wraps up in August.

This is going to be big.
I'm excited about it, and have a certain void left by Dark Horse/+ Gold Key. lol

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Tim wrote:
BruceReville wrote:Interesting, but then again when Zero Hour happened and origins/titles were rebooted then they left a few plot threads dangling then as well. So is it possible that it could happen again? I mean DC has never left plots dangling before and still have yet to resolve have they? :P
From looking at solicits, EVERY SINGLE storyline in EVERY mainstream DCU book wraps up in August.

This is going to be big.
Where?! JLA is just kicking off a big storyline. All of the Batman books are in the middle of things, particularly Batman Inc. Brightest Day Aftermath and the reintroduction of Constantine/Swamp Thing is just about to start, let alone end. I don't see a line wide reboot... are DC going to throw away the chance of a Detective 900 in the next year or so?

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ian_house wrote:
Tim wrote:
BruceReville wrote:Interesting, but then again when Zero Hour happened and origins/titles were rebooted then they left a few plot threads dangling then as well. So is it possible that it could happen again? I mean DC has never left plots dangling before and still have yet to resolve have they? :P
From looking at solicits, EVERY SINGLE storyline in EVERY mainstream DCU book wraps up in August.

This is going to be big.
Where?! JLA is just kicking off a big storyline. All of the Batman books are in the middle of things, particularly Batman Inc. Brightest Day Aftermath and the reintroduction of Constantine/Swamp Thing is just about to start, let alone end. I don't see a line wide reboot... are DC going to throw away the chance of a Detective 900 in the next year or so?
I think they simply want to build on the success of the drawing the line at $2.99 campaign, so i dont expect a reboot as such, just more confusion to add to the now pre crisis confusion, that they tried to hard to explain in the first place.

Brain melt :/

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Draco wrote:
ian_house wrote:
Tim wrote:
BruceReville wrote:Interesting, but then again when Zero Hour happened and origins/titles were rebooted then they left a few plot threads dangling then as well. So is it possible that it could happen again? I mean DC has never left plots dangling before and still have yet to resolve have they? :P
From looking at solicits, EVERY SINGLE storyline in EVERY mainstream DCU book wraps up in August.

This is going to be big.
Where?! JLA is just kicking off a big storyline. All of the Batman books are in the middle of things, particularly Batman Inc. Brightest Day Aftermath and the reintroduction of Constantine/Swamp Thing is just about to start, let alone end. I don't see a line wide reboot... are DC going to throw away the chance of a Detective 900 in the next year or so?
I think they simply want to build on the success of the drawing the line at $2.99 campaign, so i dont expect a reboot as such, just more confusion to add to the now pre crisis confusion, that they tried to hard to explain in the first place.

Brain melt :/
:lol: :thumb:

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They are going to announce that DC will only be producing electronic comics to be delivered to your Kindle or iPad. No one uses a Nook.

also, since they've been doing MAJOR crossovers in the DCU, now it's time for a crossover with Marvel or Image.

Wait. No. A crossover with Marvel AND Image.

Yeah. that makes sense.

You are going to need to buy the entire publisher solicit for the three publishers to get any sense of storyline.


:roll:


June 11 you say.

Lemme know what they say. :roll:

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Many people who come in to the library use Nook. The Kindle seems to be less popular here since you have to buy everything from Amazon, whereas with the Nook you can download for free using your library card.

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Both Nook and Kindle apps are on the iPad... free apps and pretty good ones. IMO, better than iBooks.

I recently downloaded one of my college textbooks to my iPad via the Course Ware app. (NICE, with only three classes left :!: )

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ian_house wrote: Where?!
Here are the storylines finishing up in August:

Action Comics Doomsday Arc
Brightest Day: The Search for Swamp Thing
Finale of Scott Snyder's Detective Comics
Last Issue of Gates of Gotham
Birds of Prey's "War and Remembrance"
"Grounded" in Superman
Superman / Batman's "The Secret"
"Odyssey" in Wonder Woman
Legion of Super-villains story in Adventure Comics / Legion of Super-heroes
Green Arrow

Teen Titans and Secret Six could go either way.

JLA, Power Girl, Zatanna, and Supergirl look like single issue stories.

The only titles that give no indication of story lines wrapping up are Batman, Inc. and Green Lantern.

Maybe I'm reading to much into it, but that does seem like a lot of ongoing stories ending the same month.

Still think this is going to be big. I'm excited for one. Just as long as at the end of Flashpoint, Superman is still married and Barry Allen is dead, I'm good to go.


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