Rumours and news about DC Titles: 2022 edition

[charliehustle415]

I enjoyed his Superman run and Wonder Comics imprint, but DC scrapping 5G I think caused him to lose enthusiasm and his JL run flopping meant the new regime didn’t see him as a big deal. Weird he only did a few Batman stories instead of a proper run.

I think so too, his Batman Universe was so good I wish he had a chance to write more

I agree to an extent. I feel like Bendis took wrong roads. Instead of taking on the biggest names at DC, I would have loved to see what he could have done with some of the second tier or lower. I would have loved to see what he could have done with Green Arrow or the Question. He excelled at younger characters (case in point Ultimates Spider-Man and X-Men). What could he have done with say Tim Drake if given a full series to run with (hopefully something better than Drake lol and I will take his YJ ten million times over what we have just gotten.)

omg, if he wrote a Tim solo book I'd lose my shit.

Bendis is very good at writing teen drama and having the younger bat-family involved would have been so good

[Zagre]

I find the Sahzam book interesting from a business perspective because, now it has a top team at its helm (arguably the top team at DC right now) it will put to the test whether other characters that have nothing to do with Batman (or Superman) can sell well nowdays.

[Vordan]

Who else might you want to do an ongoing with?

I'm always trying to weave. Whenever I get used to something, like even Danger Street. I've done so many series that are from one perspective. Mister Miracle, Strange Adventures has two perspectives, but it's usually one person and their journey. Vision. Rorschach. [With] Danger Street, I was like, "I want to do 24 different perspectives." Just to keep yourself on your toes, to never relax into anything, never repeat yourself, to not be a rerun of who you were.

In my new DC contract, I was like, "Alright, I've taken five years off doing these miniseries." If I just keep doing miniseries for the rest of your life, you're gonna get bored of, "Tom takes an obscure character and makes them sad." That's going to, at some point, wear off. So I did talk to DC about doing some ongoings, and they said, "Yes." Yeah, there are some big ongoing announcements coming. I'm coming back to the ongoing eventually. It's fun playing in the main DC Universe. It has its own challenges and fun, but it's fun.

From the new CBR interview with King. Looks like he has a new exclusive contract and for his next phase he seems to want to be back in the mainline DC. Only two new announced books so far from him are Batman books lol, for all his talk about shaking things up he’s still playing it pretty safe.

[Johnrevenge]

In twitter the Doom Patrol writer has confirmed that the suited character is Crazy Jane with a new personality: The Chief. It will be interesting to see her in the role, hope this new alter ego isn't a bastard like Caulder.
https://twitter.com/dennisculver/sta...63616162533376

[Claude]

Yeah, I'm curious what's happening to WF.

Mora seemed to be suggesting on Twitter that working on Shazam won't affect World's Finest at all - which would be remarkable if true!

[Robotman]

In twitter the Doom Patrol writer has confirmed that the suited character is Crazy Jane with a new personality: The Chief. It will be interesting to see her in the role, hope this new alter ego isn't a bastard like Caulder.
https://twitter.com/dennisculver/sta...63616162533376

Hmmm. That’s an interesting idea. I hope she still has other personalities to choose from. Maybe that’s just the new dominant personality. Wonder what happened to Niles.

[StarSpangledMan]

Dawn of the DCU announcements: 20 new titles

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/11/18/dc...ve-dawn-of-dc/

Oh WOW there's a lot of exciting stuff here!

[Dagothoth]

This also ain’t representative of the entire slate of Dawn of the DCU

[DragonPiece]

If Superman gives Nightwing permission to have the titans be the main DCU team, why are they operating in bludhaven and not the hall of justice?

[doolittle]

Is Mariko Tamaki a writer a 43 year old guy would enjoy? I've never read her stuff.

[ayanestar]

Is Mariko Tamaki a writer a 43 year old guy would enjoy? I've never read her stuff.

The only thing I have read from her is I am Not Starfire, which was not my cup of tea. Take that as you will.

[Johnny]

Is Mariko Tamaki a writer a 43 year old guy would enjoy? I've never read her stuff.

Well I'm about a decade younger and I've never read anything she's done either. People seem rather mixed on her, some praise her Detective Comics and to a degree Wonder Woman run, others say she's terrible. I have no expectations since I'm not familiar with her work, so I'd give her a 100% fair chance since I have no idea what she'll do. Then again Robert Venditti's initial GL run was weak, but when he started writing Hal 'N Pals, he was much better. I'd never read any of his stuff either and he pleasantly surprised me.

[Felipe Silveira]

This Knight makes me think a Batman event, I hope not.

[Felipe Silveira]

If Superman gives Nightwing permission to have the titans be the main DCU team, why are they operating in bludhaven and not the hall of justice?

Because Taylor wants to save the city...

[cranger]

If Superman gives Nightwing permission to have the titans be the main DCU team, why are they operating in bludhaven and not the hall of justice?

Because Taylor wants to save the city...

Yeah, solicits for 100 say he is setting up a team because his archnemesis is setting up base in the city.

I also suspect it is not like the Titans are literally taking over the Justice League role, and there is probably a reason why there is no official Justice League and instead we will see a building up of multiple teams/families of heroes.