Warren Ellis SUPERPOWERS Relaunch at Dynamite

[Keith]

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Couple of thoughts on this:

1) I'm a little intrigued, as I read the Superpowers title for it's first few issues in the previous iteration, and didn't think it was too bad. Once it became apparent they were going to have never-ending spinoffs, I fell away. Also, I loved newUniversal... thought Ellis did a great job on that and puty it didn't last. Basically, I was reading both in search of a new Valiant-esque experience. So, these two together? Intriguing.

2) Is this wise? Dynamite doesn't exactly have the best track record for keeping titles going, and this feels a bit "Oooooh, shiny penny!!!" and taking their eyes off the just launched Gold Key titles. Not that I'm reading them.

Regardless, I doubt I'll be picking these up, or certainly won't be paying cover price to read them. Not too keen on Dynamite since finding out their shenanigans duing the Valiant auction.

[The Spider]

2) Is this wise? Dynamite doesn't exactly have the best track record for keeping titles going, and this feels a bit "Oooooh, shiny penny!!!" and taking their eyes off the just launched Gold Key titles. Not that I'm reading them.

In a way it might be; the vast majority of characters they're using for Project Superpowers are based on public domain Golden Age superheroes. The Gold Key characters are licensed titles while Project Superpowers might be something they'd own outright (since its their distinctive revamp of public domain characters)

[BugsySig]

So divided on this. Loved PSP...though the solo titles fell a bit flat for me...and Ellis seems like a good fit, but DE's track record is not encouraging. PSP and Kirby Genesis had so much potential, but they just weren't followed through on. They'd ship late and were eventually cancelled. If DE can't find a way to ship and continue licensed properties, which they have paid for, what makes anyone think they'll do it for original properties?

[Cyberstrike]

So divided on this. Loved PSP...though the solo titles fell a bit flat for me...and Ellis seems like a good fit, but DE's track record is not encouraging. PSP and Kirby Genesis had so much potential, but they just weren't followed through on. They'd ship late and were eventually cancelled. If DE can't find a way to ship and continue licensed properties, which they have paid for, what makes anyone think they'll do it for original properties?

I wish they would have one (or two) superhero universes right now they got the Project: Superpowers, The Gold Key, Pulp Heroes (i.e. the various The Shadow, The Green Hornet, Black Bat, and Miss Fury books), The Kirby: Genesis Universe, The Warren/Harris Universe, and The Chaos! Universe. Just one (or two) of those universes/lines would be enough to build a solid universe/line of books. (And that not counting every other linence properties they got like John Carter, Red Sonja, Battlestar Galactica, The 6 Million Dollar Man and others).

My GUESS is that they're trying to lock up a number of possible valuable linence properties from other publishers.