DC Comics 2023 News/General Discussion

[batnbreakfast]

New weekly story ‘The Joker Year One’ coming to ‘Batman’ in February 2024: https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/16/th...man-dc-comics/

Its the opposite of what most fans want but they will talk about it for sure and that is the only thing that counts. Sigh. Hopefully it will be expanding Mask Of The Phantasm and not Hush Returns...

[Leancarp900]

DC Announces The Bat-Man: First Knight From Dan Jurgens and Mike Perkins
https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dc...s-mike-perkins

[Gaius]

How is they've made 800 Batman BL stories and Jurgens is the first writer to come up with an actually interesting premise?

[Restingvoice]

Do DC Characters still have past life memories as set up at the end of Death Metal or has there been an explicit statement or event where that is no longer the case?

[Factor]

So a Golden Age Batman? I'd like to see more GA takes on DC characters, but it's hard to get too excited about yet another Batman Black Label book. They could rename it Bat Label at this point.

[Mantis-Ray]

So a Golden Age Batman? I'd like to see more GA takes on DC characters, but it's hard to get too excited about yet another Batman Black Label book. They could rename it Bat Label at this point.

I'm reminded one of the stories in the last round robin was a conspiracy spy thriller starring Alan Scott.

They should make that into a full series.

[Fergus]

Raven isn't Indian.

Pretty sure the inspiration for her was an Indian Actress.

[Fergus]

He isn’t I believe and he’s drawn White like Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy. Thought to be fair artwork of Cyborg, Bumblebee, Blue Beetle and several others exists. Damian is also POC in that series

damian is also white passing like Dick, Star, Raven and Gar [he's actually slightly darker] Cyborg, Bumblebee and Jamie aren't in the series [the fan art isn't representative of the series]
The African American OC is the visible ethnic one in the series however the series does embrace Damian's anestestory.

There are 4 of the novels out so far, 3 have 2 Poc and the series was already a best seller before Dick joined in the 4th title. Star is yet to join. The 5th book comes out like a year and it's already on the top 30 Amazon best seller based on pre-orders.

I hope DC carries on investing in Garcia and more titles like this one. They are reaching a new readership which DC needs.

[D.Z]

Do DC Characters still have past life memories as set up at the end of Death Metal or has there been an explicit statement or event where that is no longer the case?

They dropped it a long time ago.

[Digifiend]

damian is also white passing like Dick, Star, Raven and Gar [he's actually slightly darker] Cyborg, Bumblebee and Jamie aren't in the series [the fan art isn't representative of the series]
The African American OC is the visible ethnic one in the series however the series does embrace Damian's anestestory.

There are 4 of the novels out so far, 3 have 2 Poc and the series was already a best seller before Dick joined in the 4th title. Star is yet to join. The 5th book comes out like a year and it's already on the top 30 Amazon best seller based on pre-orders.

I hope DC carries on investing in Garcia and more titles like this one. They are reaching a new readership which DC needs.

Starfire's was announced though and the cover was revealed, so we know what she'll look like... which does, of course, match the fanart the artist did before starting those OGNs. So she isn't black like she was on the live action Titans show.

[MajorHoy]

How is they've made 800 Batman BL stories and Jurgens is the first writer to come up with an actually interesting premise?

So . . . more along the lines of this:

from Detective Comics #1027

[Refrax5]

Do DC Characters still have past life memories as set up at the end of Death Metal or has there been an explicit statement or event where that is no longer the case?

It was referenced towards the end of Adams' Flash run that the Flashes remember all of their past lives but that others don't.

[Vordan]

How is they've made 800 Batman BL stories and Jurgens is the first writer to come up with an actually interesting premise?

Legit shocked that Jurgens has one of the few Bat book pitches I’m actually willing to try out. Maybe it’s partly because despite being one of DC’s longest running creators he’s actually not done a lot of Batman, that might give him a different perspective.

[Digifiend]

It was referenced towards the end of Adams' Flash run that the Flashes remember all of their past lives but that others don't.

First came up in Williamson's run. Barry, Iris, and Wallace saw their memories of pre-Flashpoint. Wallace was horrified to realise that he didn't exist in that previous timeline, and only exists because of Flashpoint. The other Wally of course always had all his memories, ever since he came back in the Rebirth one-shot. As did Bart I think, as he came back in Flash #50 having, like Wally, been erased in the New 52, which actually left them (along with Jesse Quick and Max Mercury) trapped in the Speed Force.

[Fergus]

Starfire's was announced though and the cover was revealed, so we know what she'll look like... which does, of course, match the fanart the artist did before starting those OGNs. So she isn't black like she was on the live action Titans show.

I know Star isn't black in Garcia's TT Young Adult Series. I said she was White. Hence why I said that the already released novels have 2 POC.
Damian and the OC team member he's dating. [I can't quite recall her name she's Raven's Room mate]

They were in books 2, 3 and then Dick had a guest spot in book 4. TT:Robin.
Starfire's title is coming next then maybe Cyborg if a suitable writer can be found.