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post #1 of 15
9/21/10 at 6:22pm
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And after reading and remembering all the crap which happened with DC and Wildstorm, it almost seems like they bought it just to neuter it and make it go away.

That and Paul Levitz apparently has some issues.

I wonder if DC is going to try and cram the Wildstorm characters into the DC Universe now. Maybe Elijah Snow can kick the Hypertime in the balls (god, they probably are thinking that).

Oh well, need to rebuy my Planetary trades before they are gone.
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post #2 of 15
9/21/10 at 10:55pm
But where will I get my tiny feet, g cup breasts, and lame Marvel rip-offs now?
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post #3 of 15
9/21/10 at 11:12pm
I could give a rat's ass about WS at this point, but the news of this...Made my year.
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post #4 of 15
9/21/10 at 11:17pm
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But where will I get my tiny feet, g cup breasts, and lame Marvel rip-offs now?
Call me crazy, but I think you will still have options.
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post #5 of 15
9/21/10 at 11:18pm
Casey Moore, The only, Wildstorm comic I will miss is...Gen 13. That would be the...original run, not the 2nd run.
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post #6 of 15
9/21/10 at 11:22pm
More seriously, the imprint had some good stuff. Authority, Planetary, Simone's Welcome to Tranquility. Sucks when something that allows for more looseness and inventiveness than the big 2 goes down.
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post #7 of 15
9/22/10 at 11:20am
The writing's been on the wall at least since DC editorial had Grant Morrison abandon his Authority and Wildcats revamps a couple of years ago. And they haven't had anything approaching a coherent universe since, what, the end of the first volume of Stormwatch?
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post #8 of 15
9/22/10 at 12:12pm
What I want to know is, how will this affect Astro City?
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post #9 of 15
9/22/10 at 1:38pm
Well, they said that "licensed" properties would simply be rebranded "DC," so I'd guess it'll continue just fine. I'd expect to hear something from Busiek about it shortly.
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post #10 of 15
9/22/10 at 2:57pm
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com...s-kurt-busiek/
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post #11 of 15
9/22/10 at 3:14pm
As long as all the Ex Machina trades I still need to get are simply rebranded under the DC banner and readily accessible, I'm cool.
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post #12 of 15
9/22/10 at 3:38pm
It's definitely curious behavior DC has been showing. They're also taking all (or most of?) the DC characters that have been hanging out in Vertigo for quite a while back to the DCU. At least Death and Swamp Thing are showing up in DC titles. Wonder if they'll try to bring Constantine back. I doubt titles like Fables will go anywhere, but I wonder if they're also trying to greatly simplify Vertigo, and put all their energies into the DC proper.

In regards to moving Wildstorm characters into the DCU, well they did try, or at least they seemed to try, to move Majestic over to the DCU only to send him packing back to Wildstorm, so I wouldn't be surprised if certain character jump over.
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post #13 of 15
9/22/10 at 4:30pm
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Creators react to the Wildstorm news. As usual, Warren Ellis is pretty funny:

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Well, The Authority do belong to DC. So they can do anything they want with The Authority. And presumably there's been enough editorial turnover that The Authority concept isn't actively hated by the New York office the way it was in 1999.

I don't think there's anything wrong with resting an idea. Let someone bring back The Authority in ten years, when there's something new worth saying about the subgenre and it takes a company-owned asset to say it with. Honestly, when *all* the superhero comics are about ripping people's bits off and rubbing dead cats over themselves while pretending to be on heroin, The Authority as originally executed really doesn't bring the different any more, does it?
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post #14 of 15
9/22/10 at 4:38pm
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Honestly, when *all* the superhero comics are about ripping people's bits off and rubbing dead cats over themselves while pretending to be on heroin, The Authority as originally executed really doesn't bring the different any more, does it?
In case anybody's unfamiliar with the reference (and you may wish you'd stayed that way): allow me to present Rise of Arsenal.

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Roy Harper (the hero known at various times as Speedy, Arsenal, Red Arrow, and apparently Arsenal again) and Cheshire (an international terrorist and assassin who once destroyed an entire country) are fighting each other because their daughter died. Despite the fact that Cheshire's entire deal is that she has poisoned fingernails, she scratches Arsenal up and he's none the worse for wear.

During the fight, he thinks about how she was a great lay (almost as good as Hawkgirl!) and then offers up the immortal line "You're a skilled assassin, but as a mother -- you sucked!" Then he ties her up -- because "she likes it rough anyway" -- and, overcome with grief over his dead daughter, tries to have sex with her, but can't get an erection.

This is not subtext. This is what actually happens in the comic.

Denied the pleasure of sex with a grieving mother, Arsenal instead suits up to find "release" beating up crooks in a sloppy literalization of the super-hero as a power fantasy for the impotent, and then decides to do some heroin -- or "china cat," as he calls it, having picked up drug lingo from an episode of "Dragnet." After hunkering down in an alley to smoke up the China Cat (which is apparently an extremely powerful hallucinogen in the DC Universe), he hallucinates a gaggle of Promethei, fights them off to protect the aforementioned dead cat, and then gets in a scuffle with Batman, who kicks him in the face while saying "I'm your friend," which -- admittedly -- is a high point in the narrative.
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post #15 of 15
9/22/10 at 9:22pm
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More reaction from The Beat.

When you look at some of what they put out, it was some pretty interesting stuff. I liken seeing a publisher go down to seeing a production company go down with movies: less jobs for below the line people and less venues for creative people.
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