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Dick Grayson To Become Nightwing Once More, Jason Todd Gets Own Title Too.
There’s something to be said for interesting storylines. Having Dick Grayson ascend to the Cowl while Bruce Wayne was off tripping the time stream fantastic was an excellent run. Having him wrestle with the concept of donning a mythos and making it his own while not wanting to fail his mentor gave me some of the more enjoyable moments of the past few years. But eh, who cares! Not DC, as they continue revealing their post-Flashpoint world.
It seems like it sucks.
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DC Relaunching EVERY Title With #1 In August, Same Day Digital Sales.
Woah, now this shit is colossal. DC is relaunching every title with a #1 starting on August 31, and also offer same-day digital sales. In addition, they’re going to feature “younger” versions of all your favorite characters. Or something.
Variant Covers: Criminals, Mutants, and Hot Dogs.
With the stink of Memorial Day weekend-promoted seared animal and sunshine still on my flesh, I bustle to bring you this week’s Variant Covers. Summer time always smacks of considerable events, the now common deluge of superhero flicks, and a good excuse to read some funny books in front of that big shiny star looming down at us. Per usual, I encourage readers to share their pull lists for the week. I can’t read everything, haven’t heard of your favorite niche comic but I’m interested, and often just like to look at slicing swords and telekinetic knives.
Hit me!
Variant Covers: Xombis Ate My Neighbors!
Ride me with! We have ourselves a rootin’ tootin’ motherfucking pull list to spit about. This is Variant Covers, the weekly column where us of the nerd predilection spout off the comic books we’re snagging tomorrow.
After a hiatus last week in which I graded final exams, wrote my own bullshit papers, and generally wept at the Sky Gods for forging such an unfavorable existence, I’m stoked to be back. There is a good goddamn backlog of comics I haven’t gotten to, and I’m using the semester break to tear gleefully into the ass of my Stack’o’Funnies. I’m coming for you, Detective Comics, Cowboy Ninja Viking Vol. 2, Black Hole, and hopefully others.
But this week, let’s gab about this week.
Zack Snyder Claims His ‘Superman’ Is Different Than ‘JLA Movie’ Superman. Ugh.
Jeff Robinov came out this week and said that WB is working like motherfuckers on a Justice League of America movie. Okay. I’m already skeptical. The assumed idea would be that like Marvel is doing, WB would collate all of their singular big name stars like Van Wilder and Henry Cackle or whatever into one juggernaut flick with insane marketability.
Zack Snyder says motherfucking NAY!, to this occuring.
Variant Covers: Sex, Drugs, and Mystical Hammers.
I got myself a stack of the fat ass funny books. ‘Stead of reading them, I have to blather to you interbeings about the shit that is dropping in the world of comics tomorrow, and I’ll be goddamned if that ain’t proof Leibniz didn’t know shit. Most perfect of all worlds? My fucking ass! Pizza gets you fat and your fucking colon kills you.
Bullshit.
This is the world of Variant Covers, a preview of the comic books coming out this week. Hit me with your pull-list.
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DC Executive To Marvel: You’re Liars. Oh Snap!
Last year both DC and Marvel announced that they were scaling back prices from $3.99 to $2.99 on their funny books. The Marvel announcement came right after the DC announcement, and many thought they were piggybacking the idea. And while DC seemed to come through with it, Marvel didn’t drop their prices in the sense that they intimated they would. Last weekend, this led to DC executive Eddie Berganza calling Marvel a pack of liars.
I love a good comic executive throwdown.
Race Between Superman And Flash Killed Comments Section On DC Comics Blog.
The “Who is faster, Superman or Flash?” question is one that is two things: fucking awesome, and certain to drum up fanboy hate, humor, angst, and outage. We can also now account for this question leading to the fascist pigs over at the DC Comics blog turning off commenting on the site.
Official, Yo: Kevin Costner To Play Pa Kent In Snyder’s ‘Superman.’
It was rumored, and now it’s official. Kevin Costner is going to play Jonathan Kent in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot.
Zack Snyder’s ‘Superman’ To Be Clean Reboot.
There’s been some ambiguity when it comes to reboots lately. Marc Webb’s Spider-Man is sort of one, maybe. The just announced David Slade-helmed Daredevil isn’t one. Or maybe it is. There’s one flick that is no longer in question, and that is Zack Snyder’s Superman. This son of a bitch is a clean reboot. Thank the Maker.
