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February 1, 2012 3:38 pm This is the greatest news in the history of man. I am more excited over this than the Watchmen cash grab.

January 2, 2012 8:29 pm Flashpoint Knight of Vengeance 2 was the best single issue I've read in the last three years.

June 13, 2011 4:03 pm I really like Amazing being the only monthly Spidey book.  Not really sure I see the need for a book featuring his team based activities since there are the team books for that.

June 9, 2011 3:58 pm CBR just posted Blue Beetle and then there were 5....

June 9, 2011 3:21 pm Hey forgive me if this has already been answered, but in all the where is Tim talk earlier in the week, I forgot to ask...have we seen Wally West anywhere or are we assuming Kid Flash in the Teen Titans is a de-aged Wally and Bart's gone?....Ah the things that weigh on my mind....is someone slipping meds under Ron's door?

June 9, 2011 3:12 pm Jeez it looks like there's about to be a serious influx of current DC talent at Marvel since no way can all the MIA artists be in these last six.  My bet...Action, Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, JSA, and a wildcard.  Doubt either Zatana or Power Girl survives.

June 8, 2011 9:47 am I guess I'm just confused.  The more that we go forward, the less change I actually see rather than a few rollbacks and getting Babs out of the chair...what's changing here other than everything's getting a #1?  I hated losing Tim, but it made a kind of sense because if we were deaging characters how are there room for all these Robins?  Meh, I dunno.  I just makes less sense from the original 'all-new, rebooted' standpoint as more things are announced.  Ron's dead-on btw.  They just don't have the creator depth on their roster to support these books.

June 3, 2011 9:50 am I honestly don't get the criticism of the post-BN GL books.  I've been loving them so I'm relieved to see, first of all that Johns is still writing (will he just give up sleep and food?), and that this epic story will impact the new DCU.  I'm onboard for all four.

June 2, 2011 2:10 pm

I waffle between being wildly excited over all of this and flipping through the stages of grief.  Essentially I think the different maturity levels of my comic fandom are warring with themselves, a thought which, when I shared it with my wife last night, made her advise me that I either share it here or never mention it again (and I married geek).  I buy once a month via DCBS and if they throw some kind of 'every #1 is 1.49 or .99' sale I will be a giant whore and buy them all, but here's my ranking of the first 11 announced.

1. Justice League - for the 3 issues this will be on time and drawn by Jim Lee it will be amazing, but Geoff Johns on what should be the DCU flagship book is right

2. Aquaman - my favorite parts of Brightest Day were Deadman and Aquaman and seeing the Blackest Night team take it on...I'm excited about Aquaman as a title for the first time in 20 years of comic reading

3. Justice League International - disappointed its not Winick, but hoping the JLGL magic keeps going...though in a totally new continuity free world (sound of head exploding)

4. DCU Presents - an anthology series that keeps the spotlight on different corners of the DCU is exactly what's needed, but coming out of Brightest Day it'd have made more sense to me for Deadman to have his own book than Mr. Terrific

5. Wonder Woman - based not so much on Azzarello's writing (which I've never loved) but entirely on Chiang's art

6. The Fury of Firestorm - I think this is a character that benefits from a redesigned origin and coming out of Brightest Day could be a sleeper hit, if its Simone doing more of the writing than Van Sciver

7. The Flash - artists writing (with a few exceptions) almost always ends up going badly and Manipul wasn't making his deadlines before...really disappointed in this team.  You'd think since the Flash ended the last DCU he'd have a stronger part in the new one...

8. Green Arrow - my second favorite DCU character behind Bats, but I dropped it before because of Krul

9. Captain Atom - really loved him in JLGL; really love the redesign; really don't like Krul

10. Mr. Terrific - some of these have to be minis because this character cannot sustain an ongoing and if he was going to, they didn't put a team on it to draw new readers in, I like the character but this is to me the biggest surprise

11. Hawkman- Tony Daniel's writing made me drop Batman for the first time in my life, so when you pair that with Phillip Tan's art you get the stuff (wait for it) to line birdcages with....I'm tired, alright?

April 22, 2011 10:04 am Dustin Nguyen has become one of the best, and most underrated, artists working today.  I swear this feature is one of the highlights of my week and produces stunning artwork, but if you told me my favorite would be Thor Frog, yeah, that would have surprised me lol.