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DC Comics to reboot heroes at issue Number one



DC Comics announced that it promises to reboot all its hero figures. Every comic will restart with issue number 1 starting in September. DC is home to Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and many other quickly well-known comic book icons.



Hope for the new DC innovative team



There are 70 years of storylines being left behind by DC's new creative team, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, leaving a clean slate to work with. The change will come with new origins, redone costumes and more modern plotlines. Lee explained it just a little better. He said it will "make characters more identifiable and accessible to comic fans new and old."



How the superheroes fight



There have been DC and Marvel Comics for years. DC has always come in second place. About 40 percent of the comic book industry goes to Marvel. Walt Disney Business owns Marvel. DC is 27 percent of the market. Time Warner owns it. Johns and Lee are hoping to narrow that gap.



The Justice League



The Justice League will start on August 31 with the new DC saga. The Justice League, which debuted in "The Brave and the Bold" magazine in Feb. 1960, is team of heroes including Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash and Aquaman.



Altogether, there will be 52 titles rebooted. In Sept, there will be 13 new titles released every week. Since there are 52 alternate Earths which "exist" in the "multiverse" at the company, fifty two has become a magical number at DC.



New digital strategy



A new marketing strategy will be put in place with the beginning of the "Justice League" reboot. A same day digital release for the rebooted titles in an app will occur with DC. DC's blog claims that "making DC Comics the first of the two major American publishers to release all of its superhero comic book titles digitally the same day as in print." Archie Comics started this strategy and is being followed.



Citations



National Post

-arts.nationalpost.com/2011/05/31/dc-reboots-entire-line-of-comic-books/



MSNBC

-today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43232629



Titans Tower

-titanstower.com/monitor/?p=3118

That's pretty cool!



gc.

Shit... Man I'd def get into some ipad subscriptions. Bold move from DC!

Interesting. I can't tell if this is spam or not?

Interesting. I can't tell if this is spam or not?

Seems like spam, but at least it's interesting!

:>

gc.

Damn, that IS big fkn news!

always be wary when a company (or any entity) turns its back on the past

underwhelmed

Comic book companies are finding it hard these days.

Marvel was almost bankrupt until disney bought them out.

I imagine they are

I think its a good/wise decision to release digital and print on the same day - actually it should be a no brainer

but the clean slate storyline angle doesn't make sense to me - sounds like some idea a marketing type would come up with - will they change the backstories one wonders - ie what planet is superman from now? Is Gotham City still the setting for Batman....

Yeah i agree, i guess they're desperate. Surely the lack of sales is because people are becoming less and less interested in comic books, not because people disliked the current story line.

Yes it's quite common for back stories to be changed in minor ways with the release of new editions, probably wouldn't change those two examples you gave though..

I'm not sure people have become less interested - I'd suggest strongly that there is a correlation between some media formats and peoples disposable incomes - ie comics, movies, music are all luxury items

I appreciate back stories change and mutate - its one of the great things about comics or should I say how some authors and artists have reinterpreted them (refer Dark Knight Returns) - but to do so on such a scale and across all tittles screams bad marketing gimmick

Oh, i just re-read the OP. Looks like they are changing everything, even the origins.

They must be desperate. Maybe they need to go the route marvel went, and get bought out by Disney and focus more on films.

Worst idea ever

Stop rebooting characters, just come up with new ones

Reboots are basically the equivalent of creative rape

Just have Alan Moore, Frank Miler, and Grant Morrison do everything. If you're doing reboots that need to brain-rape-with-awesome, those are your boys.

Miracleman, The Dark Knight, and Batman and Robin really are masterpieces of the form.

but the vast majority of those films suck

That's irrelevant really, and no they don't, they're getting better and better.

its relevant to me - only me and therefore I dispute your claim

hangon - I liked V For Vendetta and Watchmen... eats hat

Yeah those movies are great!

No love for any of the x-men or iron man films?

Newest Xmen, Iron Man...'s, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America were all decent, with Captain America being the best I reckon. Can't wait for Avengers to join up

i didn't see captain america, the new x-men or thor.. really want to see all of them.

I expected Captain America (it's that fucking "Flame-on!" cunt ffs!!) and Thor to be totally shit and they smashed my expectations, but don't wanna build them up at all as that may have been why I enjoyed them so much

Chris Evans isn't too bad, he was good in Sunshine.

(i accidentally wrote this on Skype with someone i'm having a conversation with, which is totally off topic and made the person i'm talking to say "HUH?"

Indeed he was. I loved his piss taking out of self cameo in Scott Pilgrim too.

Meh... DC characters are just so fucking uninteresting compared to their Marvel counterparts, Batman and Green Lantern are the only interesting ones. The reboot might change that but only if the Justice League tell Superlamecunt to fuck off.

Agree, DC seem to have much more "original" type super heroes and villains.