No matter which options proves accurate, several things must
be pointed out. Namely that titles initially shipped twice monthly is not the
best way to treat your loyal customers. It is gouging the admittedly small
fanbase, but price gouging nonetheless. This needs to stop! Of course in order
to pull off this increased frequency multiple artists for some series is the
method DC Comics has chosen to achieve this end. To me this makes it much more
difficult to get a feel for the relaunched titles as the cohesion necessary to
make a better monthly comic will be harder to discern given disparate art
styles. This needs to stop!
DC comics chose to kill off the New 52 version of the Man of
Steel who has been carrying the torch over the last five years, and now the
pre-Flashpoint Superman exists alongside Clark Kent apparently, having survived
the Flashpoint event living in hiding under an assumed named with his wife
Lois Lane and their son Johnathan. “Pre-Flashpoint” or “Post-Crisis” Kal-el
take your pick, but he doesn’t wear the classic suit and other than a color
tweak, his costume mirrors his recently deceased namesake, but with blue boots
instead of red. Because that makes so much better sense?
Adding insult to
injury, there is also an entirely different New Super-Man over in another book
and he is Chinese. Lex Luthor is also Superman over in Action Comics and Lois
Lane (or some alternate version of Lois) is now Superwoman. You can’t make shit
like this up; unless (I suppose) you can?
Strangely some promoted series like Super Sons and Justice
League have also just disappeared from upcoming solicitations. Further evidence
of trouble or simply one of those things, who knows? Whether DC Rebirth will ultimately
be perceived as the afterbirth that lived is a discussion for one year hence.
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