Diana to be replaced ... again?

[Vaffrey]

Over in this thread, we've all been theorizing and reacting to the possibilities of the new timeline for Diana. But ...

... now the gossip coming out from Bleeding Cool has all the major characters being replaced as part of a "5G" initiative.

The big picture is spelled out here: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/10...dc-comics-5gt/

with some follow-up speculation? gossip? that Wonder Woman will be the first to be replaced: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/10...-dc-comics-5g/

The 90s are calling, they want their ideas back.

[Tzigone]

Over in this thread, we've all been theorizing and reacting to the possibilities of the new timeline for Diana. But ...

... now the gossip coming out from Bleeding Cool has all the major characters being replaced as part of a "5G" initiative.

The big picture is spelled out here: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/10...dc-comics-5gt/

with some follow-up speculation? gossip? that Wonder Woman will be the first to be replaced: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/10...-dc-comics-5g/

The 90s are calling, they want their ideas back.

Bruce, Clark and Diana all replaced - either it's a spin-off universe, or it's very temporary (leading up to yet another reboot of universe?). I'm not really interested, either way. Except that if it was real and in-real-universe-present-day in an actual new-status-quo way I know it'd be erased and maybe, just maybe, I'd get back the kid Jon I liked. But as "real universe" thing in anything but one-storyline with a firm conclusion that puts Diana, Bruce, and Clark back in the costumes - seems unlikely.

[Vaffrey]

But as "real universe" thing in anything but one-storyline with a firm conclusion that puts Diana, Bruce, and Clark back in the costumes - seems unlikely.

As with Artemis ... Azrael ... and the post-Doomsday replacement Supermen ....

(And Kyle Rainer ... Wally West ... Tim Drake ... Stephanie Brown ... Cassandra Cain ... Connor Hawke ... Ryan Choi ....)

[Tzigone]

As with Artemis ... Azrael ... and the post-Doomsday replacement Supermen ....

(And Kyle Rainer ... Wally West ... Tim Drake ... Stephanie Brown ... Cassandra Cain ... Connor Hawke ... Ryan Choi ....)

Yes, but those didn't all happen at once like this - one, I could easily buy, but not all of them.

I don't really see how Tim or Steph or Cass count, so you will have to explain those (Steph as Batgirl, maybe, but still confused on the others, since they took empty roles that had been empty a while). And I think Azrael was always intended to be temporary. My impression was Artemis was too, but I didn't read that one. And I specifically said it could happen as one storyline with a set end-point.

Second, DC has caught the same marketing disease that runs rampant in many tech companies: instead of talking up the great thing they are about to launch right now and focusing only on that, they start talking about the next great thing, stealing all the thunder for the current great thing.

Too true. And I have event-fatigue. Everything is always an event. No regular stories. I guess events just sell more comics, and that's what DC is focused on, understandably, but for me, it's just annoying.

[KangMiRae]

Meh. If Diana's not Wonder Woman I'm not interested and won't buy it. As for the overall All New All Different DC initiative...I'm a patient person. I'll just stop buying comics from DC until they go back the original characters, lol.

[Psy-lock]

Not interested. Though if it's Donna with a fixed origin story I guess I wouldn't mind too much.

[kjn]

My thoughts:

First, this will go down like a lead balloon once it happens.

Second, DC has caught the same marketing disease that runs rampant in many tech companies: instead of talking up the great thing they are about to launch right now and focusing only on that, they start talking about the next great thing, stealing all the thunder for the current great thing.

(I think it was Seanan McGuire who had a great example for this from when she was a GoH at a con: upon arrival in the hotel lobby she was greeted by a big sign that next year they would have GRR Martin as their GoH. Same principle applies.)

Third, at least DC has consistently created a buying demographic focused on continuity: the stories which are out of continuity are less valuable and can be skipped over. This means that everything published between now and the relaunch will be out of the future continuity, and can be safely skipped.

So I see literally no upsides. Except that the current management at DC will view a Wonder Woman totally devoid of feminism, queerness, and kinkyness as a win.

[Frontier]

I'm not sure if I'm ready for another slew of replacement stories.

I'm not sure if I'm even all that interested in it as a separate line from the main books.