DC Preaching to the converted...

I think Green Lantern is
over compensating...

In September DC Comics are going to re-number and revamp all their titles and start them all from issue one and
simultaneously launch them all digitally, there's going to be 52 titles in all.

There's good things and not good things about this. Those things have of course 'split the internet in two' and like every great crossover and event in comics creates chaos, leaves destruction in it's wake and eventually amounts to bugger all.

The good things are that this could be a fresh new take on the DCU, making it the DC New U, giving potential new readers a first step in comics and a clean look at old characters. It proves that comics can adapt and are not afraid to make huge changes in the way things are done, despite that it's taken 75 years.

It creates a collector market all over again, now you can actually have a Batman issue 1! That won't really be worth anything in a few years, even less if you got it digitally, but hey, you have issue one!

Big name (to comic fans anyway) Jim Lee is doing the art chores on the re-launched JLA! Because his track record with team books is to be believed! Ahem.

'The Savage Hawkman' is the title to this comic
OR
as I like to call it 'Wolverine with wings'

The costume changes are a good thing, Superman has finally joined the rest of the superhero community and dropped the trunks on the outside look and everyone is sporting a shiny new 'v' collar (as an aside I've been using those for years in my character designs and suspect they pop up in many other places to) they would also look really good in any films coming out.

We're getting such titles as Red Lanterns! Aquaman! And Justice League International! Plus anything else DC can scrape off the bottom of a barrel because 52 titles is ambitious when you know most of the current line is selling as well as a Marmite flavoured condom. It's not an idle guess that most of these titles are going to die after 12 issues so this is DC's 'see what sticks' tactics again.

The back issue market may well decline because 'new' readers to 'new' DC are not going to need the back stories if the comics are indeed a fresh start. Sure, the histories may well still be relevant for most of them but origins get re-capped all the time and new stories ought to be even more epic than the old stories, so why bother? Plus do you honestly think a new reader will want to go to a comic mart'? I'm a comic reader now and I don't like going to comic mart's.

I hope this works, because it's brave and fun but then so's your first face full of ejaculate, it's only afterwards you realise it's a damp, piss smelling mess and you have to shampoo your beard.

Like the axeman said, it's all in the execution.

OOOHHHH It's the Atom, took me a while.