The only time Jon should be Superman, is when Damian is Batman, Wallace West is Flash, Conner Hawk is Green Arrow, Lyta Trevor is Wonder Woman, etc.
The only time Jon should be Superman, is when Damian is Batman, Wallace West is Flash, Conner Hawk is Green Arrow, Lyta Trevor is Wonder Woman, etc.
Right, friendly reminder that Milestone isn't just black superheros. That had all kinds. Another reason I hope the teen lantern doesn't take the spot somehow. There are other, better options.
That's the hook. Damian, the son of Batman, grandson of the demon, and self declared heir to the Bat, instead becomes the new Nightwing. A tangent persona Dick adopted and recreated for himself to divert from his expected path. Dick was the guy that didn't want to be Batman, Damian is the kid who all he wanted was to be Batman. So there is a twist there, maybe even a lesson. While at the same time Dick was probably the most influential person in Damian's life.
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If Damian doesn't become Batman, I'd rather he create his own persona rather than get Dick's old costumes. We already had/have a Robin who couldn't really move on for years now with Tim. No need to shackle Damian with hand me downs. He's sufficiently great a character to create his own future.
Idea of doing separate books for each generation sounds cool on paper, but I'm not sure how it would exactly work in practice?
Take Wonder Woman for example. Historically she manages to support only one monthly title. So one generation, most likely G5, gets the main title and fans of other generations, classic WW if you will, get what exactly? Some cameos in other books and maybe a team book?
Or for example Flash franchise, it all fits rather nicely into that generations thing, but surely we aren't going to get 5 Flash ongoings?
Batman and Superman will likely get Detective and Action to focus on some previous generation to keep fans, to an extent, happy, but it won't work for other franchises.
Well, apparently, 5G will finally have long term other characters in the mantles of the Big Seven at least. So fans of Diana would have Generations 1 to 4 and the new character would shine in G5. At least that's how I'm reading the portents so far XD !
I'm not quite certain about "long term". Unless sales are good, I doubt this would last that long.
Whatever happens, I hope both creators and fans are being more mature about it this time around. If some fans are really unhappy about it, creators shouldn't rush to call them bigots for it, and some fans shouldn't rush to claim there are "agendas" behind every creative decision like that.
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