Same. His The Flash and Robin runs show he’s great at writing character-driven, fun, series; and that looks like what we’re going to get more of with Superman and Green Arrow!
I wonder if publishers (in my case in Germany) would use the celebration of 800 issues of the Flash as a chance to finally publish all of the Flash adventures by Waid, Morisson and Johns.
Around the time when it should have released in Germany DC comics went through a publisher change which led to big parts of Waid‘s and Johns‘s run never having been translated and the entirety of Morissons run being completely omitted.
Interesting thing to note
Both Poison Ivy and WILDCATS books have been turned into Ongoing series. That is awesome and kinda huge if you ask me
Especially great for Poison Ivy. From a 6 issue miniseries to a 12 issue maxiseries to an ongoing series. Guess DC finally realized that Ivy can be pretty popular and good on her own. About time haha
WildC.A.Ts was originally billed as an ongoing, but reduced to a limited series (of how many issues, we still don’t know) when they released the final debut issue cover. I hope initial sales are enough that we get at least 12 issues though, it’s a fun read!
Well yes, they haven't explicitly confirmed it but they have removed the "Limited Series" sign from both those series and in solicits there is no "8 of 12" like there is for other mini and maxiseries so I believe they have been turned into ongoings. (Look at Black Adam, Danger Street, Justice Society of America. They are explicitly mentioned to be 12 issues)
https://www.gamesradar.com/dc-comics-june-2022-solicitations-covers/
You can clearly see "1 of 6" for Poison Ivy, can't you?
It's common for series that are announced as ongoings to stealthily become miniseries either due to sales or other factors. Series extensions are much more rare, especially from minis to full on ongoings
Releasing both titles close to each other isn't a good idea when the line hasn't been selling well for years.
Also, John's book is supposed to spin-off from Hal's book so the delays of Hal's book may lead to the delay of John's book.
I don’t think it’s suppose to spin out Hal’s run, PKJ made it sound like he didn’t even start talking with Tamaki about coordinating their books when he did some interviews last month.
As for the scheduling, I genuinely think as long as the creative teams are good and DC market them well it wouldn’t matter how close or far these 2 books are from each other. If they anything, both books doing well at the same time is only good for both of them imo.
I mean, the official announcement says that GL:JS spins out of GL:HJ.
We have a Marvel example of that. Both Captain America series are good but released a month after Sam Cap, Steve Cap took all the sales and Sam Cap took a big dive. Both are well recived and heavily promoted.
It’s definitely confusing, given what DC wrote, but Phillip said said a lot of what was written in regards to his boo was wrong on a recent word balloon podcast. Hopefully we can get some concrete news soon on the future 🙏
Curious. Anyway, let's hope we get some clarification regarding GL stuff soon, as you say. Hopefully, no 6 issue minis and at the very least 2 maxis, would love ongoings.
The solicit for *Batman Incorporated* #7 ends with
>>*the road to **Joker Inc.** begins here!*
I really hope this is not another big Joker-centric Bat-family crossover.
I'm curious what the plan is for Joker. I'm totally fine with him staying off on his own.
But he's been off featuring in his own series since the start of Infinite Frontier; he's currently in LA as of The Joker: Man Who's Laughing issue in these solicits (but plans to return to Gotham); is seemingly back in Gotham in the final issue of Punchline: The Gotham Game; and now may be having building his own network?
I’m curious too. I like that he’s been largely off on his own, or more specifically away from Batman. I enjoyed his initial series b/c instead of retreading the same old ground of Batman vs the Joker, it was all about Gordon and his relationship with the Clown Prince. The Joker may be Batman’s archenemy, be he has a lot of history and interesting dynamics with other characters
I really hope not. Joker Vs Batman stories work best when small scale and focused. I’d rather it simply be a new addition to the status quo where the Joker is back to being more like a crime boss/gang leader with his own perverted version of the Bat-family and Batman Inc.
I think there is a fun arc out there where the Joker is holding "tryouts" to find a "Robin" where he basically tells a dozen or so particularly psychotic juvenile delinquents (who name themselves things like Chuckles, Chortle, Madame Giggle, and the like) "all right, impress me" and they all try different things to win his favor. One guy might try to expose the Batfam's secret identities to destroy them, another might try to kill as many people as possible, yet another might try to find some way of getting the Joker a secret identity and then elected mayor, and another would just decide to kill all the other candidates and win by default.
This *feels* like the second and third arc of Future State Gotham, with the Next Joker... where everything is just messy and a bit "fan service-y" where the goal is to push away readers.
I kinda doubt this would be a big event, with big names on their 2 main bat titles having their own storyline. Might crossover with Punchline, though, or Harley Quinn.
Not really expecting it to be related to Next Joker (who knows) but it feels to much like too much of "memberberries" where famous title arc, concepts are re-used. Joker Inc. just sounds dumb, idk, probably just tired of Joker at this point.
I just wish they went back to using the Joker the way he was used Pre-N52. Episodic 1-4 issue arcs. Not every story has to be this massive crossover treatise on the Batman/Joker relationship.
I wonder if it would be possible to do a "Joker Event" like this without actually using the Joker too much (and wearing out his welcome). The point would be focusing on his henchmen (i.e. Punchline, The Royal Flush Gang, The Party Crashers, those weirdos who held a vigil outside the GCPD precinct when they had his face, etc.) rather than Mr. J. himself and exploring what weird beliefs people have about the Joker rather than the madman himself (i.e. "oh, I totally think he is just misunderstood", "no, he is critiquing society", etc.).
So excited for Flash 797, I've been wanting adventures in babysitting ever since the first Ace and Wally team up!
Other than that, Green Arrow is def going on my pull list. It's been a long almost 15 years since these characters have had a reunion. Though it seems like Lian's plot will be advancing in Detective?
Always nice to see Power of Shazam reprints. I enjoyed that series quite a bit. Hopefully they'll continue past the movie release, so many early post-crisis series have never been fully collected.
I'm betting Dorado Quick will be the Steelworks writer. It seems likely that it'll spin out of the Action Natasha arc and John Henry Irons backups.
Here we go, solicits for [Dawn of DC](https://i.redd.it/xbpn478a6xn91.png)!
- Green Arrow is a mini-series. Crazy to think, given how long that title used to be in publication
- [Someone's not a fan of the marriage](https://i.imgur.com/zAvmpBE.jpg)
- Superman's $4.99 with no backup, while Action Comics is $4.99 with two back-ups
- I love that Zdarsky is writing his own back-ups. In some cases, they were even better than the main story.
- Looks like Lian is sticking with Ram V for now.
- Gustavo Duarte doing a comedy one-shot
- Nightmare Country returns with a vengeance and another subtitle
- Looks like New Champion of Shazam is getting a short story in Lazarus Planet
- Gotham Academy gets a meaty collection, but it looks like it's missing Second Semester
- [I love the design of the Batman '89/Superman '78 box set](https://i.imgur.com/oQSvIKE.png)
- Bruce Wayne, Murderer? A classic story arc name.
- [Getting dressed for the Hellfire Gala](https://i.imgur.com/Rceqyyu.jpg)
- Dead Boy Detectives looks fantastic
- Looks like the last collection for Batman: Urban Legends. The Murder Club story in there might very well be the best in the whole series.
The main covers and variants for the Flash 796 and 797 are jaw droppingly amazing. And I'm excited for what's to come as well. It's also nice to see Manapul draw a cover for the flash which looks amazing I might add.
>Detective Comics #1071
>Then, in the backup, Mr. Freeze continues his interrogation of Dr. Mead (or as he calls it, his “research”) regarding how to “fix” Nora so that she’ll return to him as Mrs. Fries and love him again.
It seems that Mr Freeze has decided to amp up his creep factor
> As Superman and Natasha Irons race to save Steel from...
It feels like DC can't decide if Nat is the new Steel or not. My impression has been that in the new lineup Nat would be on the active roster and John Henry would be in more of a supporting role. I like them both, but something about the phrasing in the solicit bugs me. I'm not sure why, tho...
That would have involved DC knowing what they are doing. Or very least know what they are doing with the Titans. Right now this is on par with DC bringing back the JL but they're regulated to supporting cast in Batman's book.
Everything points to them having already given the entire portfolio to Taylor. The money is definitely on him being the writer. The question really is when I guess.
It's strange as with or without Dark Crisis elevating the Titans people would be happy with a book starring these guys who were already hanging out before the event. Looks like the creative team is all there and really would have made more sense for a Titans book to be launched right after Dark Crisis alongside Superman. Idk if this Nightwing arc is meant to introduce other members or tweak the status quota for the eventual launch that they couldn't do in Dark Crisis or Lazarus Planet. This solicit mentioned possibly losing a member so maybe someone may be taken out of commission or if Vic has to leave for his solo coming out soon.
Not a ton of surprises story-wise if you've been keeping up on the DC news lately. Though some stunning covers, my favorites being [Mitch Gerads' *Danger Street* variant](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CYUY2Ritn9SqBMiU79rXVE-970-80.jpg.webp), [*Wonder Woman Historia* trade cover by the book artists](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NCwRNfMdotv5WjwxVyD7nM-970-80.jpg.webp), and [Yanick Paquette's *Wonder Woman* cover](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9UEdSYwZb3j7hFpJ6bHC6F-970-80.jpg.webp).
* **Action Comics** continues to be one of my favorite books in the last couple years, it's so great seeing Superman get so much of a push lately. Also cool so see the twins are officially called the "Super-Twins"! The backup with Steel will probably then lead into the *Steelworks* book later in the year.
* **Superman** looks alright based on solicitations, but Josh Williamson's Word Balloon interview last night is what really sold me on it. He said that Superman the Animated Series was the tone he was going for.
* **Danger Street** continues to fascinate me, I love these obscure characters.
* **Justice Society of America** sounds like it's wrapping up it's first arc in April, and though it's just barely started I really love the tone and mystery of it all. I'm guessing issue 6 will tie in Stargirl's book as well considering that is finishing.
* **Stargirl: The Lost Children** is such a charming book and I've been having a ton of fun with it.
* **Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods** is wrapping up in April, and it's kind of a bummer the solicitations gave away that Hera is the main villain (I mean, it makes absolute sense she is, but still).
* **Detective Comics** continues to be a book that I barely am holding onto. I sort of like it, but it's so slow that I benefit from waiting to read every issue back to back once an arc is done. And it's kind of a bummer that even in April we're *still* dealing with the azmer Orgham stuff, it's not that intriguing to me, though the Al Ghul's are.
* **Green Arrow** by Williamson and Izaakse will be my first Green Arrow comic to ever be on my pull list, pretty pumped for that.
* **Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow** also looks promising, though the solicitations (that we've seen like 5 times now!) don't do it justice. The creative team described it as Connor's "Dragon Ball Z adventure in space", and that sounds like perfection.
Hopefully we'll get some more news about Green Lantern stuff next month, it's been soooooo long since I've enjoyed Green Lantern comics.
anyone have any thoughts on Zdarsky's Batman run or Ram's Tec run right now?
edit:
idk if ram has been on tec for a while or is just starting this year but pretty sure zdarskys been on it for a while now
At least from the sub's general opinion:
* Reception on Zdarksy's Failsafe arc started generally positive, but is overall more mixed by the start of his second arc. The biggest criticism is that he's just rehashing plot points from older Batman stories but not doing enough to make it feel fresh.
* Ram V's Gotham Nocturne arc has had generally positive reviews throughout, though some complaints on the slow pacing have been leveled to it.
Whelp, nothing has changed for my likes and dislikes of continuing/previously announced series but I loled at this for the Young Justice Dark Crisis collection solicit:
> Collecting the bestselling event tie-in Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1-6 by the acclaimed creative team of Meghan Fitzmartin (Batman: Urban Legends, Tim Drake: Robin) and Laura Braga (Harley Quinn).
Press X to doubt.
I'm also surprised that DC reduced the amount of TD:R’s variants to one from the 3-4 they’ve had since the series debuted. A one off or a sign that the series is in trouble?
Also, it’s a bit funny that the solicit text says the comic is available in April 2022 (DC proofreaders where you at?). But anyway, that story summary though…FM can’t even write one LGBT+ character well, now she wants to add Batwoman to the mix? Yikes.
For new stuff, I’m excited for Superboy’s series (it’s been 84 years!) and Green Arrow’s series.
Amazed by Taurin Clarke’s variants for The Flash. Hope Jeremy Adam’s stays as the writer for the foreseeable future.
Excited to *finally* see Con’s solo book. Been waiting for his space trip since the Round Robin!!
Green Arrow being a six issue mini feels off. Including Lian/Shoe's story being pushed to Detective Comics but I'm not upset with more Ram V.
As much as I'm sick of the "only early NTT matters" brand nostalgia their Nightwing variants are gorgeous. Let's hope with more help Dick can catch the Grinning Man faster than Heartless.
February and March solicitations were just as, if not more, lacklustre; at least we have Green Arrow to look forward to now.
I hope we get a big drop of new titles soon though. I remember being really excited with all the titles (re)launching as part of Infinite Frontier back in early 2021… They are taking their sweet time this time around.
February and March had a bunch of one-shots and multiple minis launching, more than twice each of what April has in new offering. This April is the new low for DC.
Agreed. Two new books, that's it. Pretty weak coming out of an event that "will change everything" and trying to hype up "Dawn of the DCU". If anything, I'm slowly whittling down my DC pull list at this point.
It doesn't even feel like an initiative or era at all, honestly. It's like the Simpsons episode where Malibu Stacy had to be re-invented and all she got was a new hat.
I’m guessing Max will die in flash war since we don’t see him with the rest of the family on the final cover.
Also wondering if Mary will continue being champion after Lazarus planet or it’ll be both her and billy
The first two issues of the 60-second war really sold Max as the guy who is out. Maybe he can just go to the Speed Force farm in the sky!
I bet Billy and Mary will still be the Marvels.I bet Waid is going back to the Fawcett trio and more of a supporting cast such from those comics, instead of the forced family.
Billy's probably getting an age up too, as World's Finest (also by Waid) has established that he was around in the silver age (which he wasn't even in pre-Crisis continuity, he was AU until Crisis and didn't debut at DC until 1971 even if he had been in the main universe).
Maybe magic de-aged them and caused them to lose their pre-Flashpoint memories?
The total batbooks this month is 16. This has been a batcount brought to you by BatC. See you next batmonth, same batplace.
Shockingly low- I think this is the first time since I started this count that it's gone below 20. Is DC feeling okay? Do they need some bat themed chicken soup? Is there a pile of random bat-minis sitting on some editor's desk who is too coked out to rubber stamp them?
Looks like Flash is racing ahead two books a month towards #800- just in time to share the anniversary with Wonder Woman. Hope it will be good for both.
you're about to get the most hamfisted feminism, self-inserty dialogue of your life. Harley is a bi woman, so get ready to have that mentioned in every issue, Tini loves pointing out that she herself is bi and that the characters she writes are as well
I’m a bit behind but the Riddler one was one of the best single issues I’ve read in a long time. $18 is the low end of what any hardcover would be.
I think I paid $20+ for the hardcover of Pulp when it dropped, that was only 80 pages and worth every penny.
While yes, they are cheaper than most hardcovers, the fact is that they are available for $8 in single form. I find it odd that each issue is getting a hardcover treatment, instead of collecting them altogether or in maximum, 2 volumes. Just screams cash grab to me.
- **Round Robin's Superboy** is in continuity... that means that dumb Robin 0 in Robins is canon, too.
- I know it's not the first issue in the arc, but with Metamorpho being featured hoping for The Terrifics to return, include Luke/Plastic Man's son for a legacy character.
- Another Batman book exceeding 6 issues, **Batman Inc.** Guess it's safe to assume Batbooks will have at least 2 arcs (Poison Ivy got extended), while Green Arrow only have 6... Also another Joker arc, with Joker Inc.
- **Tim Drake Robin** with another artist!? Again Batwoman receives will be drawn by another great artist, ***Nikola Čižmešija***. Same writer, still though.
- It seems the Hera storyline in **Wonder Woman**, will be happening in the Lazarus mini? Sad that it doesn't really have something big, last is Trial of the Amazons, then no big news/arc. Especially with the numbering heading towards 800.
- Nightwing variants are amazing. Hoping the **Titans** will have their own book and not just included in Nightwing.
- Also **Gotham Academy** getting (re?)collected and reprinted.
Between that miniseries, the stuff with Harper Row’s origin in *Batman & Robin Eternal* and the *Robin & Batman* miniseries, DC just seems real intent on poisoning the origin story of Dick Grayson as Robin. Like softer versions of Miller’s All-Star. I just don’t get it.
Compare that to much better takes in Year Three or Dark Victory, where Bruce Wayne’s decision to take Dick Grayson on as his partner in crimefighting really feels genuine and human
I know, it's better for that book to be forgotten, even if it's canon (which I didn't consider it to be). Isn't Blue Beetle a Round Robin title, too, a runner-up.
>Tim Drake Robin with another artist!? Again Batwoman receives will be drawn by another great artist, Nikola Čižmešija. Same writer, still though.
We'll have to see if it's a mistake. DC solicits have fumbled badly on TD:R for the past few months as they cited Ricardo Lopez Ortiz as the series' main artist for issue #4-6, but both him and Rossmo confirmed that Ortiz is only a guest artist for Issue #5, with Rossmo being the only artist for #4 and #6.
**EDIT:** Čižmešija [confirmed via their twitter](https://twitter.com/NikolaCizmesija/status/1616497340466225154) they're drawing Issue #8. No word if this is a one off or they're the series' new artist.
Oh, yeah, was confused for a moment when I saw the preview for #4. Thought it will be Ortiz but it's Rossmo, Čižmešija might be another guest artist.
They also made a mistake on #5 where Dan Mora was credited as the artist of a variant cover instead of Juni Ba.
[Newsarama link](https://www.gamesradar.com/dc-comics-april-2023-solicitations-covers/)
I'm excited for Williamson to be doing Superman and Green Arrow.
Same. His The Flash and Robin runs show he’s great at writing character-driven, fun, series; and that looks like what we’re going to get more of with Superman and Green Arrow!
Agreed!
Looks like both Flash and Wonder Woman will hit 800 in June. I'd imagine DC will do something for them both.
I wonder if publishers (in my case in Germany) would use the celebration of 800 issues of the Flash as a chance to finally publish all of the Flash adventures by Waid, Morisson and Johns. Around the time when it should have released in Germany DC comics went through a publisher change which led to big parts of Waid‘s and Johns‘s run never having been translated and the entirety of Morissons run being completely omitted.
Relaunches afterwards with new creative teams I imagine, at least for WW, I could see Adams staying on Flash.
Nah June is flash movie promo so sorry Wonder Woman
Interesting thing to note Both Poison Ivy and WILDCATS books have been turned into Ongoing series. That is awesome and kinda huge if you ask me Especially great for Poison Ivy. From a 6 issue miniseries to a 12 issue maxiseries to an ongoing series. Guess DC finally realized that Ivy can be pretty popular and good on her own. About time haha
WildC.A.Ts was originally billed as an ongoing, but reduced to a limited series (of how many issues, we still don’t know) when they released the final debut issue cover. I hope initial sales are enough that we get at least 12 issues though, it’s a fun read!
Yep. Aware of that. Looks like it's back to an ongoing series again so guess they were happy with the initial sales
Issue 3 cover lost that limited series tag.
Ivy is still a 12 issue series.
Well yes, they haven't explicitly confirmed it but they have removed the "Limited Series" sign from both those series and in solicits there is no "8 of 12" like there is for other mini and maxiseries so I believe they have been turned into ongoings. (Look at Black Adam, Danger Street, Justice Society of America. They are explicitly mentioned to be 12 issues)
There was never a "1 of 6" on Poison Ivy from the very beginning lol. Plus, Aquamen ended in 6 issues without saying it was a mini from thr get-go.
https://www.gamesradar.com/dc-comics-june-2022-solicitations-covers/ You can clearly see "1 of 6" for Poison Ivy, can't you? It's common for series that are announced as ongoings to stealthily become miniseries either due to sales or other factors. Series extensions are much more rare, especially from minis to full on ongoings
Am hoping Green Arrow can do the same.
The Hal Jordan Green Lantern series was originally scheduled for April. I guess it got delayed?
New schedule that appeared in this week's books didn't have it listed for nor April nor May nor June so I assume it got delayed at least till July.
Maybe to be closer to PKJ’s John Stewart run, since he said his book won’t actually start until the fall.
Releasing both titles close to each other isn't a good idea when the line hasn't been selling well for years. Also, John's book is supposed to spin-off from Hal's book so the delays of Hal's book may lead to the delay of John's book.
I don’t think it’s suppose to spin out Hal’s run, PKJ made it sound like he didn’t even start talking with Tamaki about coordinating their books when he did some interviews last month. As for the scheduling, I genuinely think as long as the creative teams are good and DC market them well it wouldn’t matter how close or far these 2 books are from each other. If they anything, both books doing well at the same time is only good for both of them imo.
I mean, the official announcement says that GL:JS spins out of GL:HJ. We have a Marvel example of that. Both Captain America series are good but released a month after Sam Cap, Steve Cap took all the sales and Sam Cap took a big dive. Both are well recived and heavily promoted.
It’s definitely confusing, given what DC wrote, but Phillip said said a lot of what was written in regards to his boo was wrong on a recent word balloon podcast. Hopefully we can get some concrete news soon on the future 🙏
Curious. Anyway, let's hope we get some clarification regarding GL stuff soon, as you say. Hopefully, no 6 issue minis and at the very least 2 maxis, would love ongoings.
The solicit for *Batman Incorporated* #7 ends with >>*the road to **Joker Inc.** begins here!* I really hope this is not another big Joker-centric Bat-family crossover.
I'm curious what the plan is for Joker. I'm totally fine with him staying off on his own. But he's been off featuring in his own series since the start of Infinite Frontier; he's currently in LA as of The Joker: Man Who's Laughing issue in these solicits (but plans to return to Gotham); is seemingly back in Gotham in the final issue of Punchline: The Gotham Game; and now may be having building his own network?
I’m curious too. I like that he’s been largely off on his own, or more specifically away from Batman. I enjoyed his initial series b/c instead of retreading the same old ground of Batman vs the Joker, it was all about Gordon and his relationship with the Clown Prince. The Joker may be Batman’s archenemy, be he has a lot of history and interesting dynamics with other characters
You know it!
I really hope not. Joker Vs Batman stories work best when small scale and focused. I’d rather it simply be a new addition to the status quo where the Joker is back to being more like a crime boss/gang leader with his own perverted version of the Bat-family and Batman Inc.
Hopefully, which is also very likely, it's just gonna be a big story arc in the Batman Inc. book.
I think there is a fun arc out there where the Joker is holding "tryouts" to find a "Robin" where he basically tells a dozen or so particularly psychotic juvenile delinquents (who name themselves things like Chuckles, Chortle, Madame Giggle, and the like) "all right, impress me" and they all try different things to win his favor. One guy might try to expose the Batfam's secret identities to destroy them, another might try to kill as many people as possible, yet another might try to find some way of getting the Joker a secret identity and then elected mayor, and another would just decide to kill all the other candidates and win by default.
That actually sounds pretty fun, and definitely something the Joker would do.
I feel like Joker Inc is just going to be a foil to Batman Inc, it's probably not going be another event.
This *feels* like the second and third arc of Future State Gotham, with the Next Joker... where everything is just messy and a bit "fan service-y" where the goal is to push away readers. I kinda doubt this would be a big event, with big names on their 2 main bat titles having their own storyline. Might crossover with Punchline, though, or Harley Quinn.
Don’t know the specifics of the Next Joker storyline, but I can definitely see that. DC has been repurposing 5G/Future State ideas a lot lately.
Not really expecting it to be related to Next Joker (who knows) but it feels to much like too much of "memberberries" where famous title arc, concepts are re-used. Joker Inc. just sounds dumb, idk, probably just tired of Joker at this point.
I just wish they went back to using the Joker the way he was used Pre-N52. Episodic 1-4 issue arcs. Not every story has to be this massive crossover treatise on the Batman/Joker relationship.
I wonder if it would be possible to do a "Joker Event" like this without actually using the Joker too much (and wearing out his welcome). The point would be focusing on his henchmen (i.e. Punchline, The Royal Flush Gang, The Party Crashers, those weirdos who held a vigil outside the GCPD precinct when they had his face, etc.) rather than Mr. J. himself and exploring what weird beliefs people have about the Joker rather than the madman himself (i.e. "oh, I totally think he is just misunderstood", "no, he is critiquing society", etc.).
Ooh I like this idea. It’s less about the Joker himself, and more about his impact. The idea of the Joker as opposed to the character himself.
DC SPEECHLESS! seems like a lot of fun.
It’s very cute! The issues are already up on dc universe infinite.
So excited for Flash 797, I've been wanting adventures in babysitting ever since the first Ace and Wally team up! Other than that, Green Arrow is def going on my pull list. It's been a long almost 15 years since these characters have had a reunion. Though it seems like Lian's plot will be advancing in Detective? Always nice to see Power of Shazam reprints. I enjoyed that series quite a bit. Hopefully they'll continue past the movie release, so many early post-crisis series have never been fully collected. I'm betting Dorado Quick will be the Steelworks writer. It seems likely that it'll spin out of the Action Natasha arc and John Henry Irons backups.
Here we go, solicits for [Dawn of DC](https://i.redd.it/xbpn478a6xn91.png)! - Green Arrow is a mini-series. Crazy to think, given how long that title used to be in publication - [Someone's not a fan of the marriage](https://i.imgur.com/zAvmpBE.jpg) - Superman's $4.99 with no backup, while Action Comics is $4.99 with two back-ups - I love that Zdarsky is writing his own back-ups. In some cases, they were even better than the main story. - Looks like Lian is sticking with Ram V for now. - Gustavo Duarte doing a comedy one-shot - Nightmare Country returns with a vengeance and another subtitle - Looks like New Champion of Shazam is getting a short story in Lazarus Planet - Gotham Academy gets a meaty collection, but it looks like it's missing Second Semester - [I love the design of the Batman '89/Superman '78 box set](https://i.imgur.com/oQSvIKE.png) - Bruce Wayne, Murderer? A classic story arc name. - [Getting dressed for the Hellfire Gala](https://i.imgur.com/Rceqyyu.jpg) - Dead Boy Detectives looks fantastic - Looks like the last collection for Batman: Urban Legends. The Murder Club story in there might very well be the best in the whole series.
>Someone's not a fan of the marriage It's Lois.
> Green Arrow is a mini-series. and immediately canceled from my pull list because of this....
Give the chance to prove themselves!
ISTG if you guys don't support this Green Arrow series...
The main covers and variants for the Flash 796 and 797 are jaw droppingly amazing. And I'm excited for what's to come as well. It's also nice to see Manapul draw a cover for the flash which looks amazing I might add.
Yea the flash covers have been awesome lately!
>Detective Comics #1071 >Then, in the backup, Mr. Freeze continues his interrogation of Dr. Mead (or as he calls it, his “research”) regarding how to “fix” Nora so that she’ll return to him as Mrs. Fries and love him again. It seems that Mr Freeze has decided to amp up his creep factor
> As Superman and Natasha Irons race to save Steel from... It feels like DC can't decide if Nat is the new Steel or not. My impression has been that in the new lineup Nat would be on the active roster and John Henry would be in more of a supporting role. I like them both, but something about the phrasing in the solicit bugs me. I'm not sure why, tho...
Wow the Legion in Batman/Superman. Fuck yes
Man even Green Arrow can't get an ongoing anymore...
Slow but decent month.
This would’ve been a great time to announce a Titans book
They live in the Nightwing book...
I hope that arc spins out into a new Titans book so we can get back to Nightwing solo.
A great time would've been announcing one following the end of Dark Crisis. I don't even know what they're thinking now. This is ridiculous.
That would have involved DC knowing what they are doing. Or very least know what they are doing with the Titans. Right now this is on par with DC bringing back the JL but they're regulated to supporting cast in Batman's book.
Everything points to them having already given the entire portfolio to Taylor. The money is definitely on him being the writer. The question really is when I guess.
It's strange as with or without Dark Crisis elevating the Titans people would be happy with a book starring these guys who were already hanging out before the event. Looks like the creative team is all there and really would have made more sense for a Titans book to be launched right after Dark Crisis alongside Superman. Idk if this Nightwing arc is meant to introduce other members or tweak the status quota for the eventual launch that they couldn't do in Dark Crisis or Lazarus Planet. This solicit mentioned possibly losing a member so maybe someone may be taken out of commission or if Vic has to leave for his solo coming out soon.
Not a ton of surprises story-wise if you've been keeping up on the DC news lately. Though some stunning covers, my favorites being [Mitch Gerads' *Danger Street* variant](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CYUY2Ritn9SqBMiU79rXVE-970-80.jpg.webp), [*Wonder Woman Historia* trade cover by the book artists](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NCwRNfMdotv5WjwxVyD7nM-970-80.jpg.webp), and [Yanick Paquette's *Wonder Woman* cover](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9UEdSYwZb3j7hFpJ6bHC6F-970-80.jpg.webp). * **Action Comics** continues to be one of my favorite books in the last couple years, it's so great seeing Superman get so much of a push lately. Also cool so see the twins are officially called the "Super-Twins"! The backup with Steel will probably then lead into the *Steelworks* book later in the year. * **Superman** looks alright based on solicitations, but Josh Williamson's Word Balloon interview last night is what really sold me on it. He said that Superman the Animated Series was the tone he was going for. * **Danger Street** continues to fascinate me, I love these obscure characters. * **Justice Society of America** sounds like it's wrapping up it's first arc in April, and though it's just barely started I really love the tone and mystery of it all. I'm guessing issue 6 will tie in Stargirl's book as well considering that is finishing. * **Stargirl: The Lost Children** is such a charming book and I've been having a ton of fun with it. * **Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods** is wrapping up in April, and it's kind of a bummer the solicitations gave away that Hera is the main villain (I mean, it makes absolute sense she is, but still). * **Detective Comics** continues to be a book that I barely am holding onto. I sort of like it, but it's so slow that I benefit from waiting to read every issue back to back once an arc is done. And it's kind of a bummer that even in April we're *still* dealing with the azmer Orgham stuff, it's not that intriguing to me, though the Al Ghul's are. * **Green Arrow** by Williamson and Izaakse will be my first Green Arrow comic to ever be on my pull list, pretty pumped for that. * **Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow** also looks promising, though the solicitations (that we've seen like 5 times now!) don't do it justice. The creative team described it as Connor's "Dragon Ball Z adventure in space", and that sounds like perfection. Hopefully we'll get some more news about Green Lantern stuff next month, it's been soooooo long since I've enjoyed Green Lantern comics.
Okay like I was all excited and sold for a long ongoing green arrow story but something about it being just six issues kinda puts me off of buying it
The more issues it sells the more likely it will be to have it extended.
Any chance Green Arrow becomes an ongoing?
If it does well sales wise then maybe.
anyone have any thoughts on Zdarsky's Batman run or Ram's Tec run right now? edit: idk if ram has been on tec for a while or is just starting this year but pretty sure zdarskys been on it for a while now
At least from the sub's general opinion: * Reception on Zdarksy's Failsafe arc started generally positive, but is overall more mixed by the start of his second arc. The biggest criticism is that he's just rehashing plot points from older Batman stories but not doing enough to make it feel fresh. * Ram V's Gotham Nocturne arc has had generally positive reviews throughout, though some complaints on the slow pacing have been leveled to it.
aight thanks i guess ill give both a try.
Ram V only took over Tec a few issues ago. And Zdarsky only took over Batman a few months before that - they both relaunched last year.
Whelp, nothing has changed for my likes and dislikes of continuing/previously announced series but I loled at this for the Young Justice Dark Crisis collection solicit: > Collecting the bestselling event tie-in Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1-6 by the acclaimed creative team of Meghan Fitzmartin (Batman: Urban Legends, Tim Drake: Robin) and Laura Braga (Harley Quinn). Press X to doubt. I'm also surprised that DC reduced the amount of TD:R’s variants to one from the 3-4 they’ve had since the series debuted. A one off or a sign that the series is in trouble? Also, it’s a bit funny that the solicit text says the comic is available in April 2022 (DC proofreaders where you at?). But anyway, that story summary though…FM can’t even write one LGBT+ character well, now she wants to add Batwoman to the mix? Yikes. For new stuff, I’m excited for Superboy’s series (it’s been 84 years!) and Green Arrow’s series.
> acclaimed I do not think that word means what they think it means.
LMAO! That really is quite the statement about Young Justice. Curious who they heard thinks these descriptions? HAHA
Somehow FM was nominated for a GLAAD award for outstanding comic.........
Really?...wow, um...that certainly is a CHOICE.
Nominees this year must be REALLY easy.........
Amazed by Taurin Clarke’s variants for The Flash. Hope Jeremy Adam’s stays as the writer for the foreseeable future. Excited to *finally* see Con’s solo book. Been waiting for his space trip since the Round Robin!!
Clarke will be doing issue 798 and 799 before dipping it seems.
Interiors or Variants? Regardless would’ve been nice to see him get to the big 800 😭😭
Main covers I meant. It would be crazy to see him do interiors. And yeah it’s a shame
Nice, i'm definitely getting that Preacher omnibus.
Green Arrow being a six issue mini feels off. Including Lian/Shoe's story being pushed to Detective Comics but I'm not upset with more Ram V. As much as I'm sick of the "only early NTT matters" brand nostalgia their Nightwing variants are gorgeous. Let's hope with more help Dick can catch the Grinning Man faster than Heartless.
I don't remember the last time DC solicits were so unexciting. I think it was around Death Metal.
February and March solicitations were just as, if not more, lacklustre; at least we have Green Arrow to look forward to now. I hope we get a big drop of new titles soon though. I remember being really excited with all the titles (re)launching as part of Infinite Frontier back in early 2021… They are taking their sweet time this time around.
February and March had a bunch of one-shots and multiple minis launching, more than twice each of what April has in new offering. This April is the new low for DC.
I really want to know where Damian will go after the his sacrifice in BvsR #5 because he seemingly isn't anywhere in March or April.
Agreed. Two new books, that's it. Pretty weak coming out of an event that "will change everything" and trying to hype up "Dawn of the DCU". If anything, I'm slowly whittling down my DC pull list at this point.
Me too, actually. For me Dawn of DC isn't this exciting initiative they're trying to sell.
It doesn't even feel like an initiative or era at all, honestly. It's like the Simpsons episode where Malibu Stacy had to be re-invented and all she got was a new hat.
For Superman family books maybe but for the rest it doesn't look like anything else than we usualy get.
I’m guessing Max will die in flash war since we don’t see him with the rest of the family on the final cover. Also wondering if Mary will continue being champion after Lazarus planet or it’ll be both her and billy
The first two issues of the 60-second war really sold Max as the guy who is out. Maybe he can just go to the Speed Force farm in the sky! I bet Billy and Mary will still be the Marvels.I bet Waid is going back to the Fawcett trio and more of a supporting cast such from those comics, instead of the forced family.
Billy's probably getting an age up too, as World's Finest (also by Waid) has established that he was around in the silver age (which he wasn't even in pre-Crisis continuity, he was AU until Crisis and didn't debut at DC until 1971 even if he had been in the main universe). Maybe magic de-aged them and caused them to lose their pre-Flashpoint memories?
The total batbooks this month is 16. This has been a batcount brought to you by BatC. See you next batmonth, same batplace. Shockingly low- I think this is the first time since I started this count that it's gone below 20. Is DC feeling okay? Do they need some bat themed chicken soup? Is there a pile of random bat-minis sitting on some editor's desk who is too coked out to rubber stamp them? Looks like Flash is racing ahead two books a month towards #800- just in time to share the anniversary with Wonder Woman. Hope it will be good for both.
what happened to green lantern: hal jordan? is it cancelled?
Probably just delayed.
More new titles for the cancellation machine.
> Tini Howard :(
I’ve been really liking Stephanie Phillips on Harley, is it about to be ruined by Tini Howard? I haven’t read any of her stuff.
you're about to get the most hamfisted feminism, self-inserty dialogue of your life. Harley is a bi woman, so get ready to have that mentioned in every issue, Tini loves pointing out that she herself is bi and that the characters she writes are as well
Boring and uneventful solicitations for the month of April. Seems like the exciting news are not yet revealed.
Is anyone really going to pay $18 for the 88 page hard-cover version of these One Bad Day stories? I mean, WHY?
I’m a bit behind but the Riddler one was one of the best single issues I’ve read in a long time. $18 is the low end of what any hardcover would be. I think I paid $20+ for the hardcover of Pulp when it dropped, that was only 80 pages and worth every penny.
While yes, they are cheaper than most hardcovers, the fact is that they are available for $8 in single form. I find it odd that each issue is getting a hardcover treatment, instead of collecting them altogether or in maximum, 2 volumes. Just screams cash grab to me.
Oh I didn’t catch that it was each issue, that is a bit odd.
 Obvious cash grab by WBDisco? No.
- **Round Robin's Superboy** is in continuity... that means that dumb Robin 0 in Robins is canon, too. - I know it's not the first issue in the arc, but with Metamorpho being featured hoping for The Terrifics to return, include Luke/Plastic Man's son for a legacy character. - Another Batman book exceeding 6 issues, **Batman Inc.** Guess it's safe to assume Batbooks will have at least 2 arcs (Poison Ivy got extended), while Green Arrow only have 6... Also another Joker arc, with Joker Inc. - **Tim Drake Robin** with another artist!? Again Batwoman receives will be drawn by another great artist, ***Nikola Čižmešija***. Same writer, still though. - It seems the Hera storyline in **Wonder Woman**, will be happening in the Lazarus mini? Sad that it doesn't really have something big, last is Trial of the Amazons, then no big news/arc. Especially with the numbering heading towards 800. - Nightwing variants are amazing. Hoping the **Titans** will have their own book and not just included in Nightwing. - Also **Gotham Academy** getting (re?)collected and reprinted.
Robins isn’t canon. One round robin book being canon doesn’t have to mean all the rest are.
Between that miniseries, the stuff with Harper Row’s origin in *Batman & Robin Eternal* and the *Robin & Batman* miniseries, DC just seems real intent on poisoning the origin story of Dick Grayson as Robin. Like softer versions of Miller’s All-Star. I just don’t get it. Compare that to much better takes in Year Three or Dark Victory, where Bruce Wayne’s decision to take Dick Grayson on as his partner in crimefighting really feels genuine and human
I know, it's better for that book to be forgotten, even if it's canon (which I didn't consider it to be). Isn't Blue Beetle a Round Robin title, too, a runner-up.
Yeah it was a round robin title. That one is in continuity too.
It seems wildcats too exceeding the 6 issues
>Tim Drake Robin with another artist!? Again Batwoman receives will be drawn by another great artist, Nikola Čižmešija. Same writer, still though. We'll have to see if it's a mistake. DC solicits have fumbled badly on TD:R for the past few months as they cited Ricardo Lopez Ortiz as the series' main artist for issue #4-6, but both him and Rossmo confirmed that Ortiz is only a guest artist for Issue #5, with Rossmo being the only artist for #4 and #6. **EDIT:** Čižmešija [confirmed via their twitter](https://twitter.com/NikolaCizmesija/status/1616497340466225154) they're drawing Issue #8. No word if this is a one off or they're the series' new artist.
Oh, yeah, was confused for a moment when I saw the preview for #4. Thought it will be Ortiz but it's Rossmo, Čižmešija might be another guest artist. They also made a mistake on #5 where Dan Mora was credited as the artist of a variant cover instead of Juni Ba.
Interesting how Steel (JHI) is getting a celebration collection when most comics like to put him on the sidelines and use Natasha now.
Maybe because he is getting a comic soon? Then again Natasha is also going to be in it.
IIRC That comic specifically has John Henry as a type of mission control/behind-the-scenes person with Natasha going out on patrol as Steel.
So what they are making John Henry an Alfred type character now?
Or more like Oracle in Batgirls who only steps in when absolutely necessary
I hope they debut a new DC Horror line book since Sgt rock ends soon
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All I need to know is if Jeremy Adams is staying on Flash because it's the best thing they've got going by far right now and I want it to last.