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June 9, 2011 4:23 pm If Blue Beetle and Suicide Squad are #'s 47 & 48, that leaves 4 spots....for Superman, Action, Supergirl, Superboy, Power Girl and (supposedly) Batman Beyond. I'm assuming Power Girl is getting bumped here - if nothing else I was waiting to see the PG costume redesign, I was assuming her shoulder plate would get big spikes. 

June 9, 2011 4:20 pm Ugh - Newsarama just posted another title....'Suicide Squad', featuring King Shark, Deadshot and....Harley Quinn. (?). Another piece of promo art that looks straight out of the 90's and I'm assuming this is the last nail in the Secret Six coffin. Likewise for Gotham Sirens if anyone's still carrying that torch.
 

June 9, 2011 2:43 pm Side note: I forgot Zatanna was in JL Dark. Do you think that increases or decreases the chance of her solo book surviving ?

June 9, 2011 1:49 pm @ResurrectionFlag Hey, it's not exactly a secret that Jonah was in the Confederate army during the civil war and served on or near the Atlantic coast, since that's where the majority of the fighting occurred. However if you take his post-war life, which is what the majority of his comic book appearences/series followed, they have been in 'the west'. Many of them are in some generic small towns with no locations given, some have specific state - I think the Vertigo mini's were set in Texas, because everything Joe Lansdale writes seems to be in Texas. In any case, you can read as many back-issues of Jonah Hex as you can find, the reprints, the Vertigo minis - 99% of them take place in towns where you can hitch your horse on main street and walk around with your guys in plain view, where the sherriff's office always has a wall of 'Wanted : Dead or Alive' posters.

My pedantry aside, I just feel that something will be lost when Jonah is transplanted into Gotham City and I don't see what is gained by hooking him up to Batman continuity in the 1800's.

June 9, 2011 12:30 pm @tdog Westerns are called westerns because they were traditionally set in the 'western' part of the US. Take your historic western characters - Butch Cassidy ? Born in Utah, also lived in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado. Billy the Kid ? Indiana, New Mexico, the Arizona territories (before statehood).  Wyatt Earp ? Iowa, Kansas, Arizona. The OK Corral was in Tombstone, Arizona. 

WESTERN - derived from the root 'west', not to be confused with 'east'.
 

June 9, 2011 12:08 pm @benisjamino I don't see Adventure Comics getting a relaunch when we already have 2 Legion titles. Given that Constantine still has a Vertigo title (supposedly not being touched) and is in JL Dark I don't really see him getting a solo DCU title. R.E.B.E.L.S already died once, I don't think they're going to give it another shot.

Superman and Action are a given, so that leaves Zatanna Power Girl & JSA. My completely off the cuff opinion is that Zatanna has less than a 50/50 shot, Power Girl is about 50/50 and I would put the JSA at 60/40 - leaning towards coming back, but it wouldn't suprise me if they're left off the list. 

....and the Secret Six deatchwatch continues.
 

June 9, 2011 10:30 am Oh yeah, now that I'm done whining about Hex - I thought Stormwatch and Grifter looked interesting - I'll give those two a shot. I would have rather seen J'onn in JLI though - not sure how he's going to fit into Stormwatch.
 

June 9, 2011 10:29 am On the one hand I'm glad Hex will still have a monthly book, but looking at the premise of it I would much rather have the Hex book I have right now than the one they're promising me. Gotham is not 'west', it's on the east coast (somewhere), so having Hex ride around on a horse in the middle of a city on the east coast is hardly a 'western'. DC needs some geography lessons. 

June 8, 2011 11:14 am We're up to 39 / 52 and the titles seem to be getting weaker as we go along. I think that's why they're saving the Superman titles for the end, just so it doesn't end on a semi-obscure title. 

Also, my Secret Six deatchwatch continues. 

June 8, 2011 11:09 am @Kirkerson - Gail's on one and a half - cowriting Firestorm and writing Batgirl, but I'm still hoping she'll have another. My thought on Firestorm was that she would co-write for a while to help Ethan Van Sciver get up to speed as a writer, then move on. 

Speaking of Gail, that's now 39 of the 52 new titles shown.....the Secret Six  deatwatch continues.