Gerard Way Doom Patrol confirmed + New DC Imprint

>Another Young Animal book: "Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye." Written by Way and Jon Rivera with art by Michael Avon Oeming. Way said that the comic will deliver on its promise of indeed explaining why Cave Carson -- a sci-fi spelunker introduced by DC back in 1960 -- has a cybernetic eye.

>Rounding out the lineup: "Mother Panic," written by Jody Houser, with art by Tommy Lee Edwards and John Paul Leon (covers by Edwards). "This one is set in Gotham," Way said. It'll focus on a new character. Lee pointed out that "Mother Panic" is a mature readers book.

DCYou Liiiiiiiveeessss

sounds pretty sweet

>>81568440
>These will be great and sell horrible
My thoughts exactly. I'm going to enjoy the hell out of these while they last at least.

Doom Patrol? They look more like the Hipster Patrol.

>>81568485
Gerard Way's name might be all it needs to work.

File: no.png (539KB, 551x1100px) Image search: [Google]

539KB, 551x1100px

>>81568376
>this and Hanna Barbera stuff will all be 10/10
>it'll all sell like shit
>mfw

>>81568499
If you like the doom patrol then you're pretty much are a hipster.

>Doom Patrol
20 issues.

>Shade, the Changing Girl
18-24 issues.

>Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye"
8 issues.

>Mother Panic
12 issues.

That's probably how long they'll last.

Dang, I like all four.

>>81568535
I'll buy every issues. I've quit drinking and I only at COD these days so I should have money left. These will be the first singles I buy.

There's NO WAY that DC's sales expectations for these books won't hew closer to Vertigo than traditional DC stuff.

>Another announcement! In the spirit of 1985-1986's "DC Challenge," a 12-issue series where 12 teams of creators told one story, round-robin style, DiDio announced the "Kamandi Challenge," where 12 writers and 12 artists were "carefully selected" and then paired at "random" to tell a story starring Jack Kirby's Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth.

>Here are the teams: Dan Abnett & Dale Eaglesham, Peter J. Tomasi & Neal Adams, Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti, James Tynion IV & Carlos D'Anda, Bill Willingham & Ivan Reis, Steve Orlando & Philip Tan, Marguerite Bennett & Dan Jurgens, Keith Giffen & Steve Rude, Tom King & Kevin Eastman, Greg Pak & Joe Prado, Rob Williams & Walter Simonson, Gail Simone & Ryan Sook and Len Wein & José Luis García-López. (Yes, that's 13 teams.)

KAMANDI TIME BITCHES

>Another announcement! In the spirit of 1985-1986's "DC Challenge," a 12-issue series where 12 teams of creators told one story, round-robin style, DiDio announced the "Kamandi Challenge," where 12 writers and 12 artists were "carefully selected" and then paired at "random" to tell a story starring Jack Kirby's Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth.

>Here are the teams: Dan Abnett & Dale Eaglesham, Peter J. Tomasi & Neal Adams, Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti, James Tynion IV & Carlos D'Anda, Bill Willingham & Ivan Reis, Steve Orlando & Philip Tan, Marguerite Bennett & Dan Jurgens, Keith Giffen & Steve Rude, Tom King & Kevin Eastman, Greg Pak & Joe Prado, Rob Williams & Walter Simonson, Gail Simone & Ryan Sook and Len Wein & José Luis García-López. (Yes, that's 13 teams.)

>>81568678
>Keith Giffen & Steve Rude, Tom King & Kevin Eastman, Greg Pak & Joe Prado, Rob Williams & Walter Simonson, Len Wein & José Luis García-López. (Yes, that's 13 teams.)
muh dick

>>81568666
Oh definitely but it's the principle of it all

>Young animal imprint
That's a good name for a band.

DC doesn't expect their Vertigo books or other imprints to have Batman sales. So they will last longer than people expect. Way's name will sell as well.

This is fucking great news

File: 1458535226196.png (510KB, 500x459px) Image search: [Google]

510KB, 500x459px

>>81568376
>>81568425
>>81568678
>>81568697
>>81568697
IT'S HAPPENING

>DiDio told a fan that there are plans for the more horror-tinged characters of the DCU. "We want to build the core of that horror universe."

>>81568541
You're being generous.

What. You'd expect the further we go the less we get of this style of comic. But good on DC I guess.

DC need to hype up their writers to sell their books. If Marvel can hype up Coates, why can't DC hype Gerard Way.

>>81568860
Now this is something I want to see Snyder on

Somewhere where he actually fucking fits

>>81568899
Yeah there's no way that DC won't hype the shit out of Doom Patrol.

The whole reason Way got the gig was because people went crazy when they heard about his pitch.

>>81568678
>>81568697
This sounds fucking great

Does this mean we'll finally get a complete Changing Man collection?

>>81568949
No

I want King and Orlando Young Animal books. Or put King on a horror book.

This is all great news.

>>81568899
DC's marketing department is either incompetent or under-funded. They have demonstrated their uselessness time and again.

>Chance of a Supergirl/Midnighter crossover? "What would the rating on that book be?" Orlando wondered. "If you talk to me ever, you know that I have a strong affinity for Midnighter. We want to show people what's vital about the core of Supergirl." After that, "there's really nothing we can't do if you guys want it."

>DCYOU(ng animals)
Nice

>>81568899
Gerard isn't not white

Is he some sort of gay or bisexual that they can whore out

>>81568678
>>81568697
>Dan Abnett & Dale Eaglesham
>Peter J. Tomasi & Neal Adams
>Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti
>James Tynion IV & Carlos D'Anda
>Bill Willingham & Ivan Reis
>Steve Orlando & Philip Tan
>Marguerite Bennett & Dan Jurgens
>Keith Giffen & Steve Rude
>Tom King & Kevin Eastman
>Greg Pak & Joe Prado
>Rob Williams & Walter Simonson
>Gail Simone & Ryan Sook
>Len Wein & José Luis García-López

Now in a legible format.

>>81568678
>Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti
>paired at random
kek

>>81568678
>Keith Giffen & Steve Rude, Tom King & Kevin Eastman,
Holy fucking mother hype. I will probably buy all of these. This is an amazing idea.

File: yes indeed.png (471KB, 525x337px) Image search: [Google]

471KB, 525x337px

>>81568697
>Kamandi-themed round robin
>Rude, Simonson, and Sook drawing Kirby characters

>>81569029
he's actually famous and not comic writer "famous", isn't that good enough

>>81568968
I say they move the WS characters to the imprint.

>>81569035
>>Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti

Man those two have to ruin everything, don't they?. I can't wait for Kamandi's sex jokes and drugs hallucinations

>yfw Vertigo dies out and Young Animal replaces it

>>81569029
he can just shill it to his MCR fans

>>81568982
They couldn't rake up sale using neither Landis', nor Yang's name.

>>81569043
I like to imagine they had a panic attack like Andy and Ollie from Bob's Burger.

>>81569176
Those still exist?

>>81569159
Why do they work together on everything?
It's like one of those couple accounts on facebook.

>>81569224
he has over a million followers on twitter so I guess yeah

>>81569251
Because they're married?

>>81569251
Becuase they are husband and wife. If Palmiotti got a gig writting something, Conner do the same

>>81569285
Maybe three of those people will buy the trade if Way tweets about it enough then

>>81569329
>>81569332
Have Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue Deconnick ever done anything together?

File: doom patrol_5705847a285ea2.91198225.jpg (99KB, 390x600px) Image search: [Google]

99KB, 390x600px

>>81569332
Official art for Doom Patrol

So vertigo again?

>>81569340
Umbrella Academy sold pretty decently you know.

>>81569332
>>81569329
Does Conner have a contract with DC? I can imagine her wrist injury putting a major dent in what she can do for them, so they're probably playing nice and giving her writing gigs instead.

>>81568678
NO MORRISON ON A GODDAMN KAMANDI BOOK?
These sound great but I'm a little let down, to say the least.

>Will Elseworlds make a return? "In some ways, 'Bombshells' is Elseworlds," DiDio said. "'Multiversity' sort of filled that gap. We want stories that have a real meaning, with relevance. It's not that we haven't been looking, we want the right ones. If we bring it back, it has to matter."

BASED DIDIO MAKING SURE WE DON'T GET MORE "LOL WHAT IF SUPERMAN WUZ A CAVEMAN"

>>81569427
>Does Conner have a contract with DC
yeah she mentioned she was exclusive at the Rebirth panel

>>81569427
Yep. At the DC Rebirth event in Wondercon it was announced that Conner has an exclusive contract with DC

I wonder why Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti don't work together anymore.
The baseless rumor I'd like to spread is that Gray was pissed that Palmiotti would only allow him anal access to Conner during three-ways; Gray respected the husband/wife boundaries but still wanted to spitroast, and from there they eventually dissolved their friendship.

>>81569387
>Flex Mentallo
Sweet

>>81568860
Etrigan Lost in Space when

>>81569441
But I liked those!. I liked the one "What if every male on Earth died and Superman had to donate sperm" and "What if every superpower dissapeared from Earth and Batman was kinf of heroes"

>>81569387
There's going to be Flex in the team?

>>81569495
this is a good headcanon

>>81569387
Flex Mentallo!!!

>>81569522
>and Superman had to donate sperm

Shockingly that isn't even the worst part

>>81569387
>Flex
Truly Morrison's apprentice

File: flex.jpg (100KB, 462x459px) Image search: [Google]

100KB, 462x459px

>>81569387
Flex hype

>>81569606
He didn't even DONATE sperm, he just left a giant sealed vase of it laying around

>>81569387
GAMBLING A STAMP AS WE SPEAK

>>81569441
Which is entirley why they stopped doing Elseworlds in the first place, man I never thought I'd call DiDio based.

>>81569401
Late 80s early 90s Pre-Vertigo Vertigo.

>>81569621
It wasn't even that big of a vial. It was the size of a large dragon dildo, really.

And yet it was intended to impregnate upwards of three billion women.

>>81569699
If nothing else Didio is very much a big diversity of genre guy. He just fucks up in other ways.

So will Way replace Morrison as their big company guy?

>>81568899
Marvel didn't need to hype Coates, Coates name caused the hype

I bet each story in the Kamandi Challenge will open with one of the teams writing an overarching framing device across each book, and the other 12 teams do the actual story chapters.

>>81569918
inheritance is natural not replacement

>>81569918
>Way becomes Morrison 2.0
>Somewhere Ales Kot is crying

>>81568697
This sounds so dope

>>81569387
When does this come out? Also what happens to the current Vertigo books?

>>81570139
>Also what happens to the current Vertigo books?
There is a Vertigo panel tomorrow, they'll probably talk about what's going on with current books then

several of them are ongoings so I assume they will continue

>>81569402
UA came out in 2007/2008 when emo and MCR fans were super fucking ramped though

>>81570139
September.

God damn, between these and the HB books I may need to rethink trade-waiting.

>>81570139
Vertigo will probably be for creator owned stuff and Sandman-verse, and this young animal for DC properties and Way-verse.

I always wanted them to bring out and reinvent more obscure and old stuff, like Sandman or Shade did.

>>81570474
>Meet Violet Paige, a celebrity heiress by day and brutal vigilante by night as she takes on the underbelly of Gotham City’s high society. Hitting shelves in November, the series is written by Gerard Way and Jody Houser with art by Tommy Lee Edwards.

>>81570452
>Writers Gerard Way and Jon Rivera, along with artist Michael Avon Oeming take readers on a strange adventure with DC Comics’ Silver Age character Cave Carson, his cybernetic eye and his college–age daughter as they travel to dark places deep in the earth and mind. Catch this new series in October.

>>81570502
>An alien takes over the body of a 16-year-old bully and must face the challenges of being a stranger in a foreign land, plus the consequences of a life she didn't live. Star Wars’ Moving Target writer Cecil Castellucci and artist Marley Zarcone explore themes of madness, alienation, and the bizarre in this sci-fi thriller, with covers by Becky Cloonan. The new series hits shelves in October.

File: mmmmmmmhhhhhhh.png (530KB, 467x497px) Image search: [Google]

530KB, 467x497px

>>81570502
>>81570474
>>81570452
my dick.

is Vertigo finally saved?

>>81570646
>Cloonan will never draw an ongoing again

no reason to live

>>81570622
I assume it will be like this:

DC Comics is and always will be its own thing.

Vertigo will be for mature titles based on original, creator-owned properties.

Young Animal will be the middle point between the two, what "Sandman" and "Constantine" were before their conclusions. YA will be the cross between "DC Comics continuity" and "Mature comics for mature readers such as myself".

>>81570720
This is DCYou(ng Animal) not Vertigo

But yeah, sounds good

>>81570646
Putting this shit on my pull list ASAP, goddamn. Adios money.

So is Kamandi part of Young Animal or it's own thing?

https://twitter.com/dandidio1/status/700833003358957570

>Didio didn't lie

thank you based god

>>81570853
this shit is hype af why are we hardly talking about it?

I'm thinking promotion won't be that big of a problem, probably more his own people running things than DC marketing

Ex: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gerard-way-talks-new-dc-comics-imprint-im-here-for-the-long-haul-20160407

>Way's Doom Patrol tweet already has over 2000 likes
Uh, wow. I didn't realize he was so popular. I guess I'm ignorant. Does that mean good things for the book's longevity?

>>81571153
It means over 2000 people liked his tweet but will never pick up the book.

>>81570853
How did Didio un-JUST himself?

>>81571153
yeah MCR was huge in the 2000's so it should still have young adult fangirls that'll actually but these comcs.

>>81571053
>My take is a brand-new take. I would say, to me- it feels like a cross between, kind of the super strange things that were going on around the time of Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack, and then it has a lot of the spirit of the original series from the Sixties. It also has this indie kind of feel like Love and Rockets. Love and Rockets is a big influence.

>My take's very different, and I think I owe that to readers of Doom Patrol. I think if I came in and just did fan fiction of something then that would be no good. Aside from that, I'm a completely different writer than Grant. He's my hero and he's my mentor, but I can't go near what he did. Like, it's so great and it's so intellectual. There's a certain way he wrote that comic that I can't do, so I'm not going to.

neat

>>81571153
It depends. Music fans can get really in deep. Like people buying 10+ copies of a CD so that it charts well.

I would not think we'd see anything in the floppy sales, but the trades should do well. Easy to just click on Amazon to get something. Maybe the digital numbers could be interesting but I don't know.

>>81571219
buy*

>>81571153
1.2 million twitter followers is nothing to balk at.

If even 1% of them give the first issue a try, it's going to do way better than the majority of Vertigo first issues or DCYou books.

>>81571153
The trade sales will probably be a lot better than what they would be if Way wasn't on the whole project.

>>81569387
>furries
>Robotman possibly just a van decoration
Digusting.

>>81571053
>I know you also did a bit with Marvel and Spider-Man last year, and of course you have Umbrella Academy, so I'm curious if those projects will still exist, or is DC your official home now?
>It is my home, but at the same time I still have an amazing relationship with Dark Horse Comics. Umbrella Academy — so that book is coming out. I'll always love my Dark Horse family. I'm not exclusive with DC, but at the same time, I'm doing so much work right now, I can't really see doing anything else. I'm very invested in this imprint, so I'm going to devote a lot of attention to that, and I'm here for the long haul with it. I want Young Animal to be something that does stick around. I want this to be the start of a lot of different great, interesting, experimental books for DC and DCU characters and superheroes.

>>81571288
Prettttyyyy sure that cover isn't meant to be taken literally, hombre.

>>81571281
This is definitely true. I don't think his fans will care enough to hunt down floppies, but if they see his book in the bookstore? Now you're talking.

>>81571327
Ms. Marvel murders in the trade department, I am 100% certain that DC launched YA with trades in mind over floppies.

>>81571288
And look at that guy in the bikini!
Fucking homosexual agenda at work too, bro.
Absolutely disgusting.

>Lee said, and pointed to the just-released "Harley Quinn and the Suicide Squad: April Fool's Special" as what the series will be like. "It shipped on time," Lee said of the one-shot. "Hopefully that's a sign of things to come!"

So Lee won't be gone after one arc?

>>81568425

The only one that sounds like a DCYou book (IE, hipping and girling up a character) is Shade, The Changing Girl.

I don't care for Way's music, but the dude is a legitimately talented writer. I'm curious as to what he'll do with this.

File: doom-patrol-1107b.jpg (227KB, 900x1386px) Image search: [Google]

227KB, 900x1386px

higher res

File: 1380251508773.gif (3MB, 149x260px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 149x260px

>DC bringing the hype better than ever right now

>>81571429
I enjoy Lee's ability to poke fun at himself

>>81571474
Between them, Valiant, and Image I feel like now is great time to be into comics.

>>81571429
Well most if not all of the double shipping Rebirth books seem to have one artist doing first arc, then the second artist doing the second, and alternating after that.
Maybe Lee leaves after the first SS arc.

>>81568376
>Shade, The Changing Girl

Will /co be trigger?

>>81571440
I just realized that girl by Robotman seems to be the person in the blue and striped costume in this art from the Way/Cloonan pitch. >>81568376

Surprised at Flex Mentallo and the cat guy being there instead of the two other people, though.

>>81571474
I feel like this is even better than DCYou.

Smaller, but it sounds like it's being built to last and these are some fantastic teams. Best of both worlds, we got most of the good writers from DCYou doing mainline Rebirth books, and now an entire line of experimental titles.

>>81570819
They announced it as Rebirth DC Challenge

>>81571589
No, idiot.

>>81571658
I think it's better than DCYou purely on the grounds that they're giving it its own imprint to run wild with rather than holding them hostage to the standards of your average DC book.

>>81571589
If you make enough of a big deal over it, then just maybe.

>>81571665
That is the least logical place for the word Rebirth.

Both DC Rebirth Challenge and DC Challenge Rebirth make more sense.

>>81570452
Could be good.

>>81570853
>capitalized Way
Nice touch.

Anyone else think this sounds better than a lot of Rebirth? Probably helps that it's only four books, but still. Dat Doom Patrol is going to be something special, I think.

>>81571751
Rebirth is probably being done to give these and the HB books more breathing room.

>>81571751
Both sound great, no need to pit them against each other.

https://twitter.com/dandidio1/status/718248107499208705

TYBDD

>>81570622
>Sandman-verse

That is literally the DC Universe. He fights a Justice League badguy and ends up getting replaced with the grandson of Hawkman and post-Crisis NotWonder Woman.

>>81571751
Was always more excited for this since a Vertigo relaunch was rumoured by Rich a day before they announced rebirth creatives.

>>81569224
yeah, a couple of my friends still have a faint hope that MCR will return even though I keep telling them Way is a comics boy now.

"I know Doom Patrol will be launching the imprint. What can we expect from your take on it?"

>Doom Patrol was a really crazy odyssey for me. It's the most important superhero comic book to me; it kind of always has been, since when I was young reading Grant Morrison's stuff, and then Rachel Pollack's run. After Rachel Pollack's run, I had really kind of moved on to more indie stuff, like Eightball and Hate by Peter Bagge. I started moving to Fantagraphics stuff, although I did read Love and Rockets early on because I had a friend who had a cool sister who collected Love and Rockets comics. But that was also my kind of gateway into Fantagraphics books.

>After that, I went back when they started reprinting [Doom Patrol], and I read all the original series from the Sixties. Those early Doom Patrols were also a big influence on Umbrella Academy as well. One of the things that I took away from re-reading all of the runs is that every writer came in, and every artist came in, and they did their own take; they did their own thing. I think my starting point was Grant's material, and then the further I got into the process, I started to draw from all of the continuity and all of the writers' runs. I have every issue of Doom Patrol that ever existed, so there's great things about everybody's run, and I'm trying to incorporate all of them.

>>81570646
Nice to see Oeming getting Big Two work again.

>>81571751
Personally, I don't really know or care about any of these characters or titles. I'm more interested in the Rebirth Superman family titles.

But, I'm still willing to give this Young Animals imprint a try. I'd like to keep an open mind and maybe find some new titles to look forward to.

>>81571832
I meant Sandman and it's spinoffs.

>>81571751
I'm more excited for Rebirth in that all that money from double shipping will help keep these books alive

>>81571751
This + Rebirth sounds like the best of both worlds.

I'm getting flashes of early 00s DC right now with the right mix of back to basic books, experimental stuff, and some lighthearted humorous books. The Hanna-Barbera stuff is icing on the cake.

>>81571866
>My take is a brand-new take. I would say, to me- it feels like a cross between, kind of the super strange things that were going on around the time of Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack, and then it has a lot of the spirit of the original series from the Sixties. It also has this indie kind of feel like Love and Rockets. Love and Rockets is a big influence.

>My take's very different, and I think I owe that to readers of Doom Patrol. I think if I came in and just did fan fiction of something then that would be no good. Aside from that, I'm a completely different writer than Grant. He's my hero and he's my mentor, but I can't go near what he did. Like, it's so great and it's so intellectual. There's a certain way he wrote that comic that I can't do, so I'm not going to.

>>81571751
There's some potential gems in Rebirth too

Between Rebirth, the Hanna Barbera stuff, Vertigo and now this I am pretty excited for DC stuff this year

>>81571751
Nothing wrong with having a preference. They're clearly trying to cater to a variety of people.

I think I might like the idea of this in general more, but I'd have to check the artists out first.

>>81571915
>My take is a brand-new take. I would say, to me- it feels like a cross between, kind of the super strange things that were going on around the time of Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack, and then it has a lot of the spirit of the original series from the Sixties. It also has this indie kind of feel like Love and Rockets. Love and Rockets is a big influence.
God Bless you Way

>>81571589
Shade the Changing Man is probably too minor a series to get mad over.

Plus, didn't he turn into a woman for a while anyways?

>Young Animal
This is exciting news, but as an /a/non, I'm never going to stop giggling at the name.

HAH FUCK YOU ALL THOSE THAT SAID DC EXPERIMENTATION WAS DEAD. HOLY SHIT WAY DO NOT FUCK THIS UP. I'M GONNA USE YOUR NAME SO HARD TO SHILL THESE FUCKING COMICS.

>>81571793
>>81571751

As I see it this gives everyone what they want.

The people who want traditional capefare get the regular DC books, and the ones who want genre titles and unique takes get DC Young Animals. The HB books then give you non-cape books of varrying genres and some capes too hopefully.

And the Young Animal books get a better shot at living because they're not the core of the line and not held to the regular standards. Vertigo will probably get a bit of an overhaul too to be more creator-driven.

Essentially DC found a way that allows everyone to win and get what they want. I love it.

File: doompatroltrending.png (2KB, 188x49px) Image search: [Google]

2KB, 188x49px

I never thought I'd see the day.

>>81571218
never, Didio was pretty bro tier, he keeps a lot of good books despite their numbers being on cancellation levels and he's a real huge Jaime fan despite being a Silver Age fan. His biggest mistakes has gotta be Countdown though.

>>81572072
Good thing he said Countdown's editorial handling was better and not Countdown itself

>>81572061
and it's not due to a shitty tv/movie adaption

>>81572061
Based Way.

Let's hope it's good then.

File: Manhunter-Vol.-3-1-38.jpg (129KB, 480x739px) Image search: [Google]

129KB, 480x739px

>>81572072
Along with Manhunter and Jason firestorm

>>81572232
>>81572072
And Hex.

>>81572120
ah, I guess that makes sense? I never really saw the exact quote

>>81568376
HOTEL OBLIVION WHEN?!

File: 1442748689451.jpg (40KB, 284x327px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 284x327px

>>81569069
>>81568678
>Steve Rude Kamandi

Holy shit. I wonder if he's going to water-color it

>>81572232
wasn't this the book that got saved from cancellation TWICE and actually sold less each time?

>>81572293
Yep.

>>81572293
yeah

>>81572232

He can be a bit of a blunt asshole, and he's made some dick moves over the years, but DiDio generally is pretty great when he needs to be.

>>81568376
>Gerard Way

So has Umbrella Academy been completely abandoned or just set aside?

>>81572232
And Gotham Central

>>81572157
this desu, thank god they aren't bringing /tv/ and the casuals into its fanbase

>>81572379
he says he's working on it

>It feels great. A monthly book is a lot different than the limited series that I was doing — and still continue to do — with Umbrella Academy. We're on Series Three right now, and you really have a long time to write those things. You plan those out pretty far in advance. Being a comic-book writer for a monthly book is a whole different animal, and you end up putting a lot of yourself into it — a lot of personal things I feel. And that happens in Umbrella Academy, too, but it feels more immediate because you need material to sell those books.

File: d86.jpg (43KB, 600x678px) Image search: [Google]

43KB, 600x678px

>>81571817
>A whole issue of Kangarat Murder Society

>>81572381

And Young Justice, Superboy, and Impulse if I'm not mistaken. Since the whole idea was "We take a loss but we hook kids"

And he brought Omega Men back to finish its run.

Dial H lasted longer thanks to him too.

>>81569387
I'm crying for Flex

>>81568376
>hiding in the body of a teenage girl that used to be a bully
>that used to be a bully

Whoah.

File: superseinfeld.jpg (103KB, 968x752px) Image search: [Google]

103KB, 968x752px

>>81568376
>this thing
>this other thing >>81552110
>some of the new52 cancer getting chemod the fuck out

Goddamn, DC is killing it right now

File: sentai expressssssssssssssss.gif (347KB, 640x360px) Image search: [Google]

347KB, 640x360px

>>81571589
Trigger what exactly?

>>81572232
REBELS for me

File: 1442334210401.png (211KB, 327x316px) Image search: [Google]

211KB, 327x316px

HAHAHAHAHAHA GET FUCKED JEWVEL SHILLS

>(DCYOU)NG ANIMAL

THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

>>81572475
>And Young Justice, Superboy, and Impulse if I'm not mistaken
You are mistaken. He hated YJ and wanted Teen Titans back.

>>81568376

IT'S HAPPENING

>>81568425
I'm don't have much interest in the other 3 but John Paul Léon is an automatic buy

>>81568376
>>81568678

>DC Rebirth bringing back elements from all it's history
>DC You's exotic stuff coming back

hype

With the last month of DC comics announcements it looks like they're actually going to get me to read a lot of their comics. Way more than image which has left me super disillusioned lately

>>81572617

I know he hated it but he still kept it alive for a bit despite low sales.

File: great again.png (146KB, 216x384px) Image search: [Google]

146KB, 216x384px

>Based Didio

File: 1363148594911.png (339KB, 526x574px) Image search: [Google]

339KB, 526x574px

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Animal
Somehow I don't have an appropriate reaction image for this, so this will have to do.

>yfw Gerard Way is the Dick to Morrison's Bruce
>yfw Gerard Way writes Batman
>yfw Damian takes the mantle and we get a Batman in Bethlehem ongoing

>>81572829
>Batman in Bethlehem ongoing
If this doesn't mean BatDamian, you'll have to explain it to me.

File: great success.jpg (925KB, 4961x4961px) Image search: [Google]

925KB, 4961x4961px

>>81571571
My nigga

>>81572533
I was just thinking the other day how bored I am with comics protagonists always being some loser bullied by faceless "jocks"

They should have put Gotham Academy year 2 as part of this lineup, would have made more sense

>>81572954
this seems like a darker/"mature readers" label type thing though

File: gutsscream.jpg (674KB, 1440x900px) Image search: [Google]

674KB, 1440x900px

>>81572754
This might be a more accurate reaction, considering its the magazine's most famous series.

>>81571961
The only question is if he can break free of those influences and do something truly unique. That's something I always worry about for a comic series that already has that definitive run

>>81573003
Could the Doom Patrol take down the God Hand?

Did they mention the prices anywhere? Will based DC keep all these at 2.99?

>>81568678
>Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti
>at random

Come on DiDio.

>>81573187
I think the HB comics will be priced higher than 2.99, so these might be as well.

>>81572754
What the hell is going on with his hand there?

>>81568678
This sounds so fucking cool.

>>81573190
>12 writers and 12 artists were "carefully selected"
>(Yes, that's 13 teams.)

So who exactly is Gerard Way and what has he done in the past?

>>81573354
the guy from My Chemical Romance

also he wrote Umbrella Academy

>>81573354
Grant Morrison mentored him

File: my-chemical-romance-1.jpg (112KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

112KB, 1024x768px

>>81573354
He's a vintage 4chan meme

>>81573354
He's from the band my chemical romance and he made umbrella academy

>>81573354
He's the lead singer from My Chemical Romance, a close friend of Grant Morrison, and wrote some good comics like Umbrella Academy and a Spider-Verse tie in.

>>81573354
I think he was part of a bad, a very popular band, but I'm just not a big fan of rock or whatever genre he's in, so I can't say.
And I believe he wrote the Spider-Mech issue of spider-verse?

>>81573354
A guy that makes comics and music, and the quality of his comics is inversely proportional to the quality of his music.

>>81571751
Rucka on Wonder Woman and King on Batman has me more hyped for Rebirth than anything. This is just gravy.

>>81573411
WHEN I WAS

>Gerard Way originally wanted to be a comics writer
>Only started a band as an outlet for his emotions after the 9/11 attacks.

Finally history is correcting itself.

>>81573494
Truly the terrorists won

>>81568697
>Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti
bull fucking shit thats random

>>81572867
It means BatDamian

>>81571863
He was making comics before they broke up, and still has a solo music career.

>Morrison pupil
>has read literally every Doom Patrol comic ever printed

This has amazing written all over it.

>>81573494
Way and King are destined to co-write something, aren't they

>>81573494
>Tom King originally wanted to be a comics writer
>Only worked at the CIA because he wanted to help after the 9/11 attacks

How could the terrorists keep these guys from us?

>>81569387
How the fuck will Flex end up there?

>>81573541
Maybe we can use some of that meme magic /tv/'s got going.

>>81573541
>>81573554

It's like the inverse of Frank Miller.

>legendary comic writer/aritst
>9/11 happens
>he goes crazy and loses any and all talent he had

>>81573587
He was originally a Doom Patrol character.

>>81573587
How does any character end up anywhere?

>>81573587
Flex debuted in Doom Patrol, breh.

why do they look young as fuck

>>81573494
>>81573554
>yfw Al Qaeda was The Dark Side Club all along

>>81573642
>>81573651
Really now? Never read much doom patrol and just assumed Flex was some original hero used for a single story.

>>81573667
Has doom patrol shown up anywhere since nu52?
Honest question, I don't know

>>81573606
>>81573541

>>81573667
If you're talking about the OP, that's not indicative of what the comic's going to look like anymore. Look at >>81571440 instead

>>81570095
Why?

>>81573708
Johns introduced a version of them in Justice League, I think.

>>81573708
they showed up in Johns' JL a little bit

>>81573705
Well you should drop everything and read Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol as it's one of the greatest comic runs ever published.

>>81573701
it makes too much sensen

>>81573784
I tried it once, but couldn't get more than three issues in before I was bored to death.
Then I learned Morrison doesn't start until a while in. What issue is that?

>>81573860
vol 2 #19

>>81569621
so what issue is this so i can read it

File: THe DCU's Finest Moment.png (1MB, 973x993px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 973x993px

>>81573909
It was an Elseworlds.

>>81569621
You mean you don't keep a vase of your jizz?

>>81573187
DC's small time books have always been 2.99.

>>81574160
The HB books are 3.99 though, no guarantee what they do with this line

>>81573606
We call it hypercrisis.

>>81574191
only Scooby is 3.99, the rest are 2.99

>>81568620
Shit. Dedication, my nigga. Good on you.

>>81568535
We need to save comics. Well, the good ones. Top bad the industry itself will fuck the books and the readers over.

>>81573587
depends on whether he's supposed to be the Doom Patrol version or the version from his old self titled comic, if the latter then they'd probably reveal that the ending of that book led into the current form of the DCU(as his comic was basically a Final Crisis prototype)

>>81569436
that is disappointing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's just due to Morrison being busy with other projects

>>81569441
I really hope we'll get something in the near future, would love to see more Elseworlds

>>81573494
>>81573554
so 9/11 was basically an attempt by The Gentry to destroy us culturally to try and make us more like them

>>81574247
Newsarama has Future Quest and Wacky Races at 3.99 as well, but they could have made a mistake

http://www.newsarama.com/28585-dc-comics-full-june-2016-solicitations.html

>>81574336
>so 9/11 was basically an attempt by The Gentry to destroy us culturally to try and make us more like them

They succeeded

>>81571866
keeping my fingers crossed for some Arcudi stuff

File: DEPTH OF FEEL.gif (2MB, 500x500px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 500x500px

>>81568678
>Tomasi/Neal Adams
>King/Eastman
muhdick

>>81574362
huh, weird I'm sure I saw the cover saying 2.99 but I rechecked it and it was 3.99

>>81574503
It is possible the intern that sent out solicits fucked up, I know they had to correct JL 52 almost right away

>>81572270
Fucking this.

>>81568376
Remember that time Grant Morrison murdered Gerard Way?

>>81574615
Do you think they had sex in real life

I've been a trade waiter ever since /co/ got me into comics but I think I'll actually start a pull list. I'm fucking hype, based DC

>>81574652
I'd be shocked if they never did sex magic together

File: 1331693273912.jpg (113KB, 520x638px) Image search: [Google]

113KB, 520x638px

>>81568376
>Gerard Way on Doom Patrol

>>81574615
What?

>>81574722
I was under the impression that magic always involves sex

File: ss_(2015-03-07_at_05.50.22).jpg (174KB, 588x576px) Image search: [Google]

174KB, 588x576px

> Young Animal

I smell lawsuit.

>>81574769
Morrison's the basis for a villain in the tie in comic for one of MCR's albums, and he even plays the role in a music video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7fiE89IU

>>81574939
Oh shit that's why it sounded familiar.

>>81569387
THE WORK OF ONE WHO CONSORTS WITH BEASTS!

>>81574939
Thats only in japan though.

File: 20160407_230441.jpg (132KB, 800x480px) Image search: [Google]

132KB, 800x480px

>>81574988
>>81574939
yup

Hell yes this is so rad, I'm stoked. Good to see DC taking risks again.

>>81568541
Whats wrong with that, Those all sound like awesome runs.

>>81575216
They just took a risk with DCYou tho

>>81568678
>at random
>Conner and Palmiottii

Riiight

>>81575282
>12 writers and 12 artists were "carefully selected"
>(Yes, that's 13 teams.)

File: 1434945282192.jpg (191KB, 675x559px) Image search: [Google]

191KB, 675x559px

>tfw Dial H would have been perfect for this

>>81575348
>Mieville won't come back for a Vol.2

So, is Way the Tim Drake to Millar's Jason Todd?

>>81575348
Dial H was supposed to be a Vertigo book, that's why Karen Berger was the editor

>>81575395
Gerard seems pretty interesting, so no.

>>81575395
>Timfags

>>81573952
>>81573909
I posted this to the author and he said

>anything looks crazy out of context

Seriously

>>81575395
Who was his Dick Grayson?

File: 1421396844015.jpg (69KB, 265x370px) Image search: [Google]

69KB, 265x370px

I vaguely recall the Doom Patrol making a cameo in Justice League. Have they actually debuted in the nu-52 already? I would check Comicvine but the damn thing is crap at sorting categories.

>>81575456
In context it is only slightly better as it was followed up by Superman's first son accidentally murdering his mother and the rest of the kids being generally awful too

>>81575490

I think they debuted two or three times so far.

Fun Fact: Marvel wanted to give Way a contract but he'd rather go to DC
hahahhhahaha

>>81570095
eh, his Winter Soldier run was okay I guess

Is this what it felt like to reas DC in the 90s?

>>81575480
Alan Moore.

File: justice-league-vs-doom-patrol-1.jpg (945KB, 1989x1528px) Image search: [Google]

945KB, 1989x1528px

>>81575490
Yes.

>>81575530
Sauce on marvel

>>81570095
Is Kot a self-confessed fan of his? If so, got source?

>>81575559
>That shitty Dalhouse coloring

>>81575530
I though Way wanted to stay freelance or whatever

>>81575456
didn't Fabian Nicieza write that

>>81575530
truly he is the son of Moz

Wasn't there a different Gerrard Way comic not too long ago? Did it sell well?

>>81575559
So going by this and the Young Animal stuff, looks like it's getting rebooted already.

>>81575586
he says he'd dedicated to this imprint but he's still doing Umbrella Academy with Dark Horse

>>81572740
>>81572617
>>81572475
>>81572381
>>81572255
>>81572232
Why is Didio so unbelivably based.

Why the fuck wasnt this announced at the DCR conference, this is the hypest shit

>>81575559
>Element-Woman is never coming back

:((((

>>81575618
Blue Beetle as well, it seems. Ted Kord was just a college student who had nothing to do with the Blue Beetle in Johns's JL, yet now he's mentoring Jaime.

>>81575572
Kot fancied himself to be the next Morrison,

I am.so happy right now I am going to jerk off.

Literally

>>81575559
I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed that it seems like Way is just using Robotman from this team. Although he did talk about how he wants to use stuff from all the Doom Patrol runs, so I guess we'll see. I just want more Negative Man, Rita, and Element Woman.

>>81575646
>hating Young Justice
>based
Get fucked, faggot.

>>81575661
He could have been too. Zero was outstanding but he ended up not being able to show any self restraint when it came to his other books.

>>81575769
Young Justice wasn't that good

>>81575816
PAD's YJ was

The show wasn't

>>81575796
He shit the bed on Zero near the end

>>81572400
>Doom Patrol gets an adaptation
>Its an album done like a maxiseriea, with each song getting a music video to forms an episodic film

Yes

>>81575878
Oh, my bad, I thought you were talking about the show.

>>81575769
He was the one who kept it running despite not liking it personally.

His basedness is extreme

>>81575890
I thought the end was great. Definitely weird but great.

File: wheniwas.jpg (48KB, 400x275px) Image search: [Google]

48KB, 400x275px

WHEN I WAS A BEAST BOY

>>81573494
>Tom King originally wanted to be a comics writer
>Only joined the CIA as an outlet for his emotions after the 9/11 attacks.

POETRY

>>81575282
They're probably the ones that picked the teams.
>>81575348
I wonder if Mieville will ever come back to comics.

>>81576019
I feel like I would have enjoyed it more if I took massive amounts of drugs.

File: newdoompatrol[1].jpg (65KB, 575x318px) Image search: [Google]

65KB, 575x318px

>>81568376
What the fuck happened to Robotman? He looks all anorexic and shit
Where are the others from the JL arc?
Will they explain the members that fake their death side plot from ?JL

>>81576259
That art's for an earlier pitch m8. This is what it's looking like now >>81571440

>>81576259
That image is from an older version of Way's Doom Patrol, which didn't happen.

I have high hopes for Way. He honestly has it in him to be better than Morrison cause he can just create a story without needing to rely on storytelling through concepts alone

>>81575890
Yeah, Zero is something where a friend of mine was raving to me how good it was after the first trade, and then hit the end and said "This retroactively ruined the entire series for me."

File: nu-doom.jpg (662KB, 1190x1526px) Image search: [Google]

662KB, 1190x1526px

>>81573708
For a few issues in Justice League and other small appearances elsewhere.

shit is it part of New 52 or what?

>>81575923
casual pls

>>81576290
>>81576333
I wonder who the 2 people in the back were.

>>81576644
Very little of DC is actually worth reading.

File: 1403497514491.gif (637KB, 245x175px) Image search: [Google]

637KB, 245x175px

>>81576727

File: 1428284372132.png (12KB, 500x294px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 500x294px

>>81576727
m8

Ah cool. I dug umbrella academy and honestlyu...holy shit i'm just so happy to have a new doom patrol comic. Theyre one of my fav teams and I really hope this is good.

>>81576635
>Way will be curating, overseeing and even writing many of the titles, maintaining full continuity with the DC Universe.

>>81576664
From Becky Cloonan's instagram:
>A while ago @gerardway and I had a Doom Patrol pitch in the works at DC, and here's some concept art I did for it! From left to right: Cliff, Negative Man, Terry None, Bryan Ferry This is also not something we are currently working on so don't ask me about when we are starting it

I'm surprised that the blue guy actually isn't Negative Man, but the guy in the shades is. Are Terry None and Bryan Ferry pre-existing characters?

>>81573411
I still unironically enjoy Black Parade

>>81577135
It's an ok song, can't really knock it for anything in particular.

He's bringing back Flex, but will he bring back Jane?

>>81577246
how about Danny

>>81573708
Robotman had a series in my greatest adventure anthology.

>>81577078
>I'm surprised that the blue guy actually isn't Negative Man, but the guy in the shades is.
I'll never understand this at all.
Was it a typo, or was there some justification that we will never know?

>>81576632
>>81576259
>>81575559
>New52 Thunderbolts Patrol
I would have bought it even if it were shit.

>>81573708
Robotman had an appearance in the last Justice League International arc.

You know who I want to see again?
Nowhere Man.

>>81577280
(The apparent) Negative Man's wearing a trenchcoat there, which could be a callback to Rebis, so I'm not sure. Maybe he had glowing radioactive eyes under his shades.

I wonder why Way seems to have ditched all of these characters except for Cliff.

>>81577266
I imagine if he's bringing back Flex, he'll find a way to get Danny in there.

>>81577271
That shit wan't canon

Now I want to re-read Morrison's run.

File: JLU05.jpg (1MB, 1200x923px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1200x923px

>>81577271
He was also in Jeff Parker's Justice League United, the best JL title since the New 52

File: 1456534581963.jpg (57KB, 554x527px) Image search: [Google]

57KB, 554x527px

DC is so good to us but fans always give them so much shit

>>81577484
Yeah I feel kinda bad, I'm getting pretty much everything I want but it doesn't seem to be paying off for them. Not my fault though, I actually purchase floppies and/or trades.

>>81577484
If they're so good to us, then why did they throw Earth-2 to the dogs?

>>81577271
>my greatest adventure anthology
Always forget that series.
Talking about forgettable shit, I remember once people talking on /co/ about an universally forgotten series which debuted with the New 52 but which lasted only like 3 issues. Now I'm not sure if I'm making up memories or whatever, but whenever I try to search around for it I never come up with anything. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? If I remember correctly it was a series with new characters or some shit.

>>81577484
How long until all this is spun as a negative?

>>81577451
>only six issues
>nothing like it (expanding the DCU by establishing connections between characters) in Rebirth
The pain is almost too much to bear.

>>81577444
I want them to release Deluxe Editions of the run like they did for Invisibles.

>>81577484
>DC is so good to us but fans always give them so much shit

Always been that way. I've been reading through my Hawkworld single issues and I keep seeing letters complaining about not muh Hawks, this is disrespectful to Joe Kubert, everything post Crisis is awful, DKR ruined DC, etc.

>>81577512
Maybe Gerard shilling the stuff will make his fans buy it and it'll be kept alive by trade sales?

>>81577522
No company is gonna be universally great, not even for a moment.

But at least they're probably planning on bringing back the old JSA.

>>81577579
I think they're doing larger paperbacks at least.

>>81577579
They're rereleasing the trades in those new thick Vertigo volumes at least.

>>81577526
>I remember once people talking on /co/ about an universally forgotten series which debuted with the New 52 but which lasted only like 3 issues. Now I'm not sure if I'm making up memories or whatever, but whenever I try to search around for it I never come up with anything. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? If I remember correctly it was a series with new characters or some shit.

I remember it too. Its first issue sold like 2000 copies, so it got the axe real early on. It wasn't in the DCU/Nu52 proper, though.

>>81577359
I'm just realizing what some anon earlier said, that the blue suit guy is the girl in the new art.

So, that shades and earpiece guy is Negative Man, no more debate on that. I'm still curious what his deal was in the pitch. It would be cool if Gerard or Becky could have told us.

Unless he's still a character in the current version, and we'll all find out in good time.