Rumours and news about DC Titles: 2022 edition

[Digifiend]

Yeah, Orin just never fits for me because he was born and raised as Arthur Curry and that's his name. I guess it can be a "Kal-El" situation but I tend to not think of it that way.

Isn't that exactly what it is? Orin is his Atlantean name and Arthur is his human one. They could do the same for his successor. Seems odd to me that the former Aqualad is called Kaldur'ahm in the Young Justice show but Jackson Hyde in the comics. Make it both. Kaldur as his Atlantean name and Jackson as his human name.

[Dougbauer]

I don't know what you're trying to say/ask?

Because I think there's a properly Aquaman tread for all this discussion.

[Frontier]

Isn't that exactly what it is? Orin is his Atlantean name and Arthur is his human one. They could do the same for his successor. Seems odd to me that the former Aqualad is called Kaldur'ahm in the Young Justice show but Jackson Hyde in the comics. Make it both. Kaldur as his Atlantean name and Jackson as his human name.

Yeah, I'm surprised they haven't established Kaldur as a name in the comics.

[Hypo]

Because I think there's a properly Aquaman tread for all this discussion.

Eh, this thread is really news/rumors/general DC discussion.

[Hypo]

The former replacement Batman returns - reluctantly - in the new series Sword of Azrael

The August-debuting Sword of Azrael #1 is written by Dan Watters and illustrated by Nikola Čižmešija. If that creative team sounds familiar, it should - Watters and Čižmešija paired on the 'Sword of Azrael: Dark Knight of the Soul' three-part serialized story from Batman: Urban Legends #8-10 that leads into the new Sword of Azrael six-part series.

And despite picking up the sword again, Jean-Paul is doing so reluctantly. But hey, this is comic books. Retirement, like death, is usually only a temporary gig.

"The warrior angel of St. Dumas returns!" reads DC's description of the new series. "Jean-Paul Valley does not want to be Azrael ever again. All it has brought him is pain, violence, and misery. He has sequestered himself away at a monastery in Europe to find peace. But when a young woman who claims to have the same System programming that made Jean-Paul into Azrael arrives at the monastery, he won't have a choice but to don his violent mantle of Azrael once more to protect her from the deadly assassins who wish her harm."

And in case any Azrael fans missed the Batman: Urban Legends serialized story, DC is collecting it in the 40-page one-shot Sword of Azrael: Dark Knight of the Soul #1 also by Watters and Čižmešija with a cover by Čižmešija and a variant cover by Juni Ba.

[Johnny]

Yeah these guys love the 90s as if that wasn't obvious enough as it is. When is Kyle becoming the main GL again and Connor the new Green Arrow again. Seems like any day now.

[Frontier]

https://www.gamesradar.com/sword-of-azrael-dc/

I'm glad to see Jean-Paul finally get a book again .

[Vordan]

I'm glad to see Jean-Paul finally get a book again .

Don’t care about Jean-Paul but I am happy Watters is getting more work. He’s great and should be someone DC gives a big book to.

[Matt Rat]

BC have brought out their 'red marker' for the climax of the Wally West Dark Crisis FCBD story, apparently leaning into spoilers on who the new Justice League will inevitably be.

spoilers:

Jon Kent, Nightwing, Aquaman 2, 2nd Blue Beetle, Mary Marvel, Booster Gold, Killer Frost, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Frankenstein

end of spoilers

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/just...fcbd-spoilers/

[Restingvoice]

"but the earliest meeting of JL are often debated" oh so that's what's they're going for

Well I said I'll wait until the script came out and they avoided mentioning if all of those are from the same timeline or not so it still can be both memory of past continuity and what happened this continuity

[DragonPiece]

"but the earliest meeting of JL are often debated" oh so that's what's they're going for

Well I said I'll wait until the script came out and they avoided mentioning if all of those are from the same timeline or not so it still can be both memory of past continuity and what happened this continuity

Am I in the minority on hating this “everything happened” continuity? I would really prefer DC have a defenetive timeline instead of all of these things happened (maybe), just go with it approach.

[MajorHoy]

Am I in the minority on hating this “everything happened” continuity? I would really prefer DC have a defenetive timeline instead of all of these things happened (maybe), just go with it approach.

Well, if you are in the minority, I'm there with you.

Then again, DC isn't really publishing anything that is aimed at my interests these days . . .

[HsssH]

Lots of people who say that they like it can't explain how it is supposed to function. From what I saw only very few, like Bored, like it and actually have an idea how it is supposed to work.

[Frontier]

Am I in the minority on hating this “everything happened” continuity? I would really prefer DC have a defenetive timeline instead of all of these things happened (maybe), just go with it approach.

It just seems like an excuse for sloppy writing and inconsistency at this point.

[Vordan]

Am I in the minority on hating this “everything happened” continuity? I would really prefer DC have a defenetive timeline instead of all of these things happened (maybe), just go with it approach.

Only real way to do that at this point is another reboot. They were going to do it with 5G, maybe they should just take the hard dates off and use that timeline still. I personally don’t care though.