RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books New history of the DC universe.

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/d...omics-mark-waid-jerry-ordway-todd-nauck/

I'm sure this will be established set in stone DC history until they Reboot everything even before the series is done.

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Yeah, you just explained why I stopped buying new books about 15 to 20 years ago.

They re-booted all my favorite characters so many times that I no longer recognized them or could keep track of all the re-boots, so I just completely lost interest.
I got tired of giving new titles a shot, and after spending a considerable amount of money, just being consistently disappointed with the new versions I was reading.


Nice wraparound cover, though.





Maybe there's still some great stuff still out there I haven't seen, but I'm frankly tired of paying money for material that consistently disappoints me, to find it worth the effort to keep buying.

Bored with the constantly re-booted new work, I've increasingly in recent years been exploring past eras of comics history, that I find to have a higher ratio of good stuff.
Such as SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN across its entire 20-year run.
And there is extensive past work left to explore, by the likes of O'Neil, Thomas, Moench, Gulacy, Aparo, McGregor, Morrow, Wood, Williamson, Englehart, Infantino, Nino, Kubert, Kirby, Ditko, Dowling, Macklin, Corben, Jaxon, and countless others.

I prefer the work from earlier eras, where they had distinctive styles and innovation, opening up completely new ground
As contrasted with the recent era's constant re-boots and re-treads of the same stories over and over.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-return-of-the-proper-legion-of-super-heroes-at-dc-comics/

Maybe a new LSH series spinning out of this. Fingers crossed and hope it's good.

Fuck off Gerald.

Don't be gay,Nowie.

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The first issue of the series is out now.
And with 8 frigging different variant covers.

NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE series, 1-4
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=62842033


The one I like best, version 1E, is only on a foil cover version, and costs 3 dollars more than the others ( 9.99, vs. 6.99 ).

And also recycled in the background on cover 1C. Which is also a swipe / tribute to the cover of BIG ALL AMERICAN COMIC BOOK 1 (and only) from 1944.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=327841

And was also the design source for the cover of 9/11 vol 2, back in Jan 2002, painted by Alex Ross.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=10958801

I like the 1D cover too, although it clearly swipes off George Perez.



All of which while ostensibly nice art, continues to feed my perception over the last 30 years or so, that the new generation of creators don't have any new ideas, they just swipe and re-invent what others did before them, and frankly I think it was done way better the first time.

Valiant was great. I liked it better than Marvel and DC at the time (and they were also cheaper than the Marvel and DC comics in my country back then, probably because it didn't have the brand equity of the big two).

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I liked the Valient line, they were well writen and nicely illustrated, and definitely not the same as what everyone else was doing in comics in that era.

My local comic shop dealer (who's been in business since 1981, since almost before I even knew there was such a thing as comic stores) said prices are going up on the Valiant back issues from the 1990's, because a lot of people are discovering them and seeing how good they were, and still are.

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?pl=Valiant