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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-08 20:12:00

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char: superboy-prime, creator: jerry ordway, event: blackest night, publisher: dc comics, title: adventure comics

Adventure Comics #5 cover

From DC's blog:

For those who don't know, I'm guessing the Black Lantern here is Alexander Luthor, Jr.

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	jlbarnett 2009-09-09 12:23 am UTC (link)
	that explain how they're able to do the multiversal travel (Reply to this)

	freezer818 2009-09-09 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Meh - this just means he gets a Black Ring and gets even more ridiculously powerful. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-09-09 12:32 am UTC (link)
	I don't think he's really going to die. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-09-09 12:34 am UTC (link)
	So there was something between them. (Reply to this)

	parsimonia 2009-09-09 12:36 am UTC (link)
	I miss Manupal doing the covers for this. They were so pretty. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	04nbod 2009-09-09 01:11 am UTC (link)
	Manupal and geoff johns are leaving Adventure after issue 6 (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-09-09 01:17 am UTC (link)
	Who's writing it after that? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	04nbod 2009-09-09 01:19 am UTC (link)
	we don't know yet, it was only announced today after Geoff Johns, Dan Didio and Francis Manupal saying they would see it through new krypton. I don't know what happened there (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bariman1987 2009-09-09 04:37 am UTC (link)
	Oh, so Kon will have some interaction with New Krypton? Cool, I've been wondering. It seems like Kon's existence would go a long way to bridging the gap between New Krypton and Earth (or blowing it wide open). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thandrak 2009-09-09 01:01 am UTC (link)
	OM NOM NOM NOM (Reply to this)

	shanejayell 2009-09-09 01:10 am UTC (link)
	He looks more like a Marvel Zombie version. (Reply to this)

	zordboy 2009-09-09 01:32 am UTC (link)
	I have a working theory that Superbitch Prime is Geoff Johns... ...they're both obsessed with a singular snapshot of the DCU from their youth, and are determined to put everything back the Way It Used To Be When It Was Better And They Were Younger, right?... ...so this cover amuses me greatly. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	04nbod 2009-09-09 01:34 am UTC (link)
	Luthor is James Robinson. It all fits. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zordboy 2009-09-09 01:36 am UTC (link)
	C'mon. Tell me that I'm wrong. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	interrobamf 2009-09-09 06:20 am UTC (link)
	When has Johns ever indicated any sort of "obsession"? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zordboy 2009-09-09 07:29 am UTC (link)
	I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or not, but the man-crush on Hal Jordan's Enormous Penis should count as evidence there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	interrobamf 2009-09-09 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	If really liking a character merits the label of "obsessed", then three-quarters of scans_daily certainly applies. Come around to any Cassandra Cain thread and tell her fans that they're "obsessed with a singular snapshot of the DCU from their youth". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zordboy 2009-09-10 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Depends. Are they (a) killing people, like Superbitch Prime, or (b) have spent most of their careers at DC head office writing crappy stories to restore the status quo? Either would apply. Although (a) would probably not be so good. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

daso
2009-09-10 01:42 pm UTC (link)

restore the status quo
When you throw around a fancy word like "Status Quo" you need to specifiy the status quo of when. "The status quo" isn't a synonym for "how it used to be", the status quo for Flash the last twenty-five years has been Wally West.

The reason DC keeps "restoring the status quo" to what it was thirty years ago is because it sells much better than what they've tried since. GL: Rebirth sold about four times as much as a regular issue of Kyle Rayner Green Lantern, and the GL ongoing has been consistently selling twice the numbers Kyle pushed. Flash: Rebirth is selling twice as many issues Flash's ongoing did before IC, twice as much as Flash:FMA did and three times more than the relaunch following All-Flash #1.
Blue Beetle, R.E.B.E.L.S. and Aquaman Sword of Atlantis is DC throwing you a bone with "new" characters and stories that hasn't been told fifty thousand times. All of these relaunches failed and the message that sends to DC is "This isn't working, stick with the tried and true."

We aren't getting the comics we want, we're getting the comics we deserve because fans buy bad books instead of good books.

P.S. all sales figures from
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/)
P.P.S. Not counting Flash:FMA as a new direction, DC had likely already made up their minds about killing Bart Allen before the first issue shipped. But that's a post for another time.

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	thanekos 2009-09-09 02:05 am UTC (link)
	eh, so long as he and kal-l don't decide to take another crack at spacetime, 's'all good. (Reply to this)

	jlroberson 2009-09-09 02:54 am UTC (link)
	Ah, fuck. I smelled this coming when Pariah popped his whiny head up. MAKE THEM GO AWAY. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-09-09 04:54 am UTC (link)
	Motto. :/ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darkknightjrk 2009-09-09 06:26 am UTC (link)
	"I'm guessing the Black Lantern here is Alexander Luthor, Jr." I'm guessing that too--no one else has a jewfro that horrifying. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	thanekos 2009-09-09 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	The only good hair a Luthor has had, ever... and it's a wig. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingrockwell 2009-09-09 02:41 pm UTC (link)
	I dunno, before looking too closely I thought Vril Dox. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	daso 2009-09-09 09:19 am UTC (link)
	I love it. (Reply to this)

	queenanthai 2009-09-09 07:22 pm UTC (link)
	AND FUCKING KEEP HIM DEAD!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	superfan1 2009-09-10 07:25 am UTC (link)
	We can only hope! (Reply to this) (Parent)