Doooooooooooom!!!!!

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-c...er-110531.html

Kinda knew this was heading our way, but kinda on the fence about it. Seems a little overkill.

I blame Final Crisis. >.>

So we're talking a full relaunch from the ground up? ala Crisis? i... don't know how i feel about this if that's the case. Because i dont know if i want to go through seeing more year one/the big heroes at the beginning of their career stuff. Im gonna see what happens before i ragequit.

I blame Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.

Correction: I blame whoever mindwiped the concept of Elseworlds stories from the DC staff.

Am I the only person who's actually looking froward to this?

The history of the DC Universe characters has got soooooooo muddled over the years, it will be nice to have a more clear, concise and consistent universe to read, let the writers get on with actually writing good storylines again rather than trying to readjust every time something doesn't fit.

Poor Hawkman, how many versions of him have we seen now?

Meh. Why I only read Marvel. (lol)

Seems like a waste to me to toss out the impressively high number of issues on things like Action Comics and Detective Comics. You get a feeling of the history behind the label when you can count up the many years from the issue number.

Then again, I don't buy comics beyond the occasional TPB, so I'm not their target audience anyway.

I blame Joe Q....err wait

What worries me is all the talk of a “focus on the interpersonal relationships within DC's trademark superteam." "What's the human aspect behind all these costumes?" Interpersonal relationships are all well and good, and showcasing what makes them human is good, I will even read stories of how the powers of the hero or villain might make staying connected to humanity a challenge. But those things better not get in the way of the villains trying to take over the world, stealing as much money as possible, or there being a threat to the world and the heroes doing their best to thwart said plans and generally beating the crap out of the bad guys. My heroes don’t have to win every battle, and losing can make for some interesting character growth. But I’m not reading comics for “Young & the Restless with Superpowers.”

On the other hand, I’m willing to read stories “at a point where our characters are younger and the stories are being told for today's audience." As long as these heroes stay grounded in the ‘legend’ of the characters like they say, I’m willing to give these things a try. Superman and Batman shouldn’t be killing the bad guys left and right. In fact, they shouldn’t be killing bad guys. Goes against the characters’, well, character. Wonder Woman and Hal Jordan, on the other hand I see using more deadly force. After all, Wonder Woman is a warrior, and Hal is a military man. I look forward to the discussions here about these stories. And I hope we can get back to the weekly threads. I’ve really missed those.

Moving on then.

I’m interested in the “50 costume redesigns” (anybody smell a game influence here?), however. Especially with the little glimpse we are shown here:

Please correct me if I am wrong in thinking that this is the first glimpse we have for the new universe’s costumes, because if it’s not the following statements will not make much sense.

Wonder Woman’s costume – what we can see of it – looks very much like the current one, minus the arm straps and jacket, and with a few tweaks here and there. The bottom is hard to tell if it is supposed to be black, or dark navy blue. I am leaning towards black, because her hair has the traditional ‘so black it’s blue’ highlights, but I rather hope that part is a dark blue. I also see elements from the failed television show in there. To me, it looks interesting.

Superman’s costume seems to be mostly the classic design. I rather like the high collar, but I’m not sold on the “S” shield design. It also looks like they ditched the “underwear on the outside” part as well. This Superman looks to be in his mid 20s instead of the early-mid 30's we have nowadays.

Green Lantern looks to be Hal Jordan (of course) and his costume looks to be mostly classic, with some armor pieces here and there, and the same high collar that we see on Supes’ uniform. I like what I can see. Also note that this is a much younger Hal Jordan.

Aquaman has the most recent scale mail top, and looks to be very much the Brightest Day suit, with the high collar of Superman and Green Lantern. Not really that much different.

Overall, I look forward to DC revealing the updated looks of more of its heroes in next three months. And you know they will. And hopefully, we can have some lively discussion here with those new costumes.

Lame...

As far as any similarity in design you might see... well you're wrong, but the reason you would is because Jim Lee is one of the people behind this and DCUO's art is done by Jim Lee.

Oh I forgot. There’s actually 2 news articles at Newsarama that I was going through in that post up there.
Some other thoughts:

I find it interesting that DC is also saying they are launching ‘52’ new books. DC really seems to like that number. Anybody know how many books they put out in a regular month? ‘Cause this number seems a bit inflated.

I’m really curious now what impact the events of Justice League Generation Lost will have now. We were promised a Justice League International later this year, and I am now very much wondering how that title will fit into the new universe.

The articles state that there are “more than 50 costume redesigns.” We can surmise that there are at least two team books, but with 52 new books, there could be considerably more than 50 costume redesigns. It would seem, then, that not every hero has gotten a costume revamp. (Please don’t change Hawk & Dove or Cyborg, they’re good as is.)

As for Detective Comics loosing 880+ issues of numbering, I just know that they will publish a special #900 issue when the time comes. What happens in that issue may or may not actually have something to do with ongoing storyline. Afterward, the issues will continue with the new numbering. Both companies have done this numerous times in the past, although if there is a large outcry, they might just continue with the old numbering ala Thor’s recent run. The same goes for any other high numbering comic.

I don’t want to lose Jaime Reyes and his alien-suit Blue Beetle in this semi-reboot. I really like his character. Though his costume, with its transforming nature goes well with costume tweaking. On the other hand, this semi-reboot is a good chance for the company to bring back Ted Kord in some fashion.

I forsee a whole lot of not so much as retcons, but a lot of flashbacks in order to tell us what has happened before. To inform us just what is in continuity now. Because they are not starting totally over, this almost has to happen in some fashion.

*sigh*

Wonder Woman's costume is already fail! She has a classic costume she's known for, and they continue to try and get rid of it.

Superman looks like he's younger.

Going to take all they've done and trash it. Superman for instance will likely be pining away for Lois again, and not married to her.

I notice a lack of Batman. Are they using this as an excuse to get rid of Batman Inc?

So far, this all leaves me thinking "Laaaaame"

Also, I blame Morrison. >.>

I will take a wait and see approach. If my regular DC book that I read start to suck, I will be cancelling my subscriptions at my local comic book shop. I will probably pick up the new JLA number one. I really hope they don't screw up the Legion Of Superheroes or Batman, If they do that I will be quite enraged.