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DC Revamp: DC Announces Seven Titles With a Harder Edge Including Deathstroke and Grifter

More DC Comics #1s are announced and these characters will stab you in the eye if you say bad things about this batch.

Deathstroke #1
Deathstroke #1

Time for a daily dose of new DC Comics revamp #1s via DC's The Source. These comics will have a harder edge, meaning, these characters are not your typical heroes.

Deathstroke #1 is one I am excited for (and so I'm choosing to mention it first). Deathstroke will reclaim his fearsome legacy by any means necessary. Written by rising star Kyle Higgins (heck yeah!) and artists Joe Bennett and Art Thibert.

Stormwatch #1 will have a dangerous super human strike force whose existence is kept secret from the world. Who is on this team? The cover is below but the team will be lead by Jack Hawksmoor and he wants to recruit two of the deadliest super humans on the planet: Midnighter and Apollo. If they say no, perhaps Martian Manhunter can help to change their minds. Stormwatch will be written by Paul Cornell with art by Miguel Sepulveda.

Blackhawks #1 will feature an elite group of mercenaries made up of brave men from around the world equipped with the latest in cutting-edge hardware and vehicles. Their mission is a simple one: kill the bad guys before they kill us. It will be written by Mike Costa with art by Ken Lashley.

Time to visit the past with an update of Sgt. Rock and the Men of War #1. The grandson of the original Sgt. Rock assumes command of Easy Company, a team of crack ex-miliatry men finance by a covert military contractor. They will brave the battle-scarred landscape carved by the DC Universe's super-villains. Sgt. Rock will be written by Ivan Brandon and illustrated by Tom Derenick.

What about Jonah Hex? There won't be a Jonah Hex comic anymore. What?!? That's right. Going back to Gotham City when it was just a one-horse town, crime is running wild as you would expect. Things don't get better when bounty Hunter Jonah Hex comes to town. Amadeus Arkham, a pioneer in criminal psychology, tries to enlist Hex to help the Gotham City Police Department track down a serial killer. Back up stories will star DC's other western heroes. All-Star Western #1 will be written by the fan-favorite Jonah Hex team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray. Art will be by Moritat.

Grifter #1 will feature ex-black ops agent Cole Cash who is about to be branded as a serial killer when he begins hunting and exterminating inhuman creatures hidden in human form. These are creatures that only he can see. We'll have to see if he can sweet talk his way out of this mess. Written by Nathan Edmondson with art by CAFU and BIT.

Finally in OMAC #1, a man loses control of his life as the omnipresent Brother Eye transforms him against his will into a powerful killing machine. Written by DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio and co-written and illustrated by Keith Giffen and Scott Koblish.

Here's the rest of the artwork.

== TEASER ==

What do you think of this round of announcements?

Stormwatch #1
Stormwatch #1
Blackhawks #1
Blackhawks #1
Sgt. Rock and the Men of War #1
Sgt. Rock and the Men of War #1
All-Star Western #1
All-Star Western #1
Grifter #1
Grifter #1
OMAC #1
OMAC #1

We've almost reached all 52 new #1s.

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I am giving this whole new universe 6 month to live and then they will go back to "normal". So much noise just to include the Wildstorm-Heroes?

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where is the jsa

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wildstorm is back! lets get wildcats going again

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@Luke Danes said:
I am giving this whole new universe 6 month to live and then they will go back to "normal". So much noise just to include the Wildstorm-Heroes?
HAHAHHAHAHA! Funniest person that didnt know what they were talking about all day!
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@G-Man: Please, do tell.
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Grifter was a Wildstorm character right?

Also, between these and the Teen Titans redesign, it's like Marvel in the 90's all over again... I can't decide if this is a good thing or not.

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@NightFang: Did deadpool copy deathstroke then, or vice versa? I never thought to ask anyone...
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These are the best of the lot so far.
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@walkingcarpet said: 

Also, between these and the Teen Titans redesign, it's like Marvel in the 90's all over again... I can't decide if this is a good thing or not.

Me neither...It would be sad to see classic characters ruined in the attempts of making them more "EXTREME!"
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I like the description of mr. Cole over there " These are creatures that only he can see." I take it we'll have comics about raving lunatics now? Oh jolly.

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So that's what the relaunch is for, to bring the Wildstorm universe into the DC universe.

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I'll probably pick-up Grifter and Deathstroke

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@GOREX said:

I like the description of mr. Cole over there " These are creatures that only he can see." I take it we'll have comics about raving lunatics now? Oh jolly.

I suspect the questions of if what Grifter is fighting are actually real or not will be a core concept of the book, at least early on. Edmondson is doing similar ideas on Who is Jake Ellis?, which has been fantastic thus far, so I'm kinda fascinated personally.

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YES!!!!! GRIFTER IS BACK!!!!!!!

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Wow what have they done to Apollo and Midnighter? *sigh* 
RIP Wildstorm...

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Gonna pick up that Deathstroke title.
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I really want to get all of those series. I hoped Secret Six was going to return, but I'm getting the feeling that it isn;t.
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I'll have to read it first. Martian Manhunter on Stormwatch? Interesting indeed.

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All the titles have been confirmed now,Deathstroke looks epic.

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I knew it was only a matter of time till DC intergrated Wildstom into its base universe...Knew this was going to happen when they did it with Milestone
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no Creeper......guess it was just wishful thinking.....oh well alot of the stuff still look cool so i guess ill just get over it.
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Blackhawks looks like DC's attempt at Secret Warriors. I know they've done Blackhwaks before, but with that mission statement and that cover, it looks like a poor man's Secret Warriors. This lump of books did nothing for me, especially that Deathstroke design that looks like it's trying way too hard to be cool.
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@entropy_aegis said:
All the titles have been confirmed now,Deathstroke looks epic.
Nope. Not all titles confirmed.
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!! :D

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I have always been a Marvel Comic reader and never really had to much intrest in DC except for Superman, but that Grifter and Deathstroke looks HOT!!!
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Not bad. Might go pick up that deathstroke series, and maybe the all star western and blackhawks. 
 
and at least im not the only one who saw the cover for blackhawks and hummed the g.i. joe theme :P

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@doordoor123 said:
@entropy_aegis said:
All the titles have been confirmed now,Deathstroke looks epic.
Nope. Not all titles confirmed.

Holy Crap...your right!!!!!! So there is still a chance!!!
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I'm really tired of the Deathstroke character. They've always tried to portray him as a kind of grey area character, but I've always found his personality to either swing between mustache twirling villain, or over remorseful hero seeking redemption. Stormwatch was a title I loved when Ellis wrote it during its first run, and the concept still strikes a cord with me (a more tactical based Superhero team). But this looks like just another superhero team so far, with the interesting hook that it drags some previously defunct Wildstorm characters into the mix.

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Grifter was probably my favorite character on WildC.A.T.s ~ it's been forever since I read that book! So, Voodoo and Grifter have their own books - pleasepleasepleaseplease DC relaunch The Brave and the Bold or allow these characters to be part of The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold! 
 
...by the way...whatever happen to WildC.A.T.s? Will they be part of the this 52 #1's? That would be kinda cool... 
 
Jonah Hex looks cool, too! I just might start reading Westerns... I'm reserved on Stormwatch. Did J'onn J'onzz get the short straw or something?

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@Avenging-X-Bolt said:

@doordoor123 said:
@entropy_aegis said:
All the titles have been confirmed now,Deathstroke looks epic.
Nope. Not all titles confirmed.
Holy Crap...your right!!!!!! So there is still a chance!!!

Bleeding Cool is saying a Superman title drawn and written by George Perez, as well as a Supergirl and Superboy book, are all going to be announced tomorrow. No word on if Grant Morrison's Action Comics will also be formally announced too.

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Deathstroke seems to have one of the most drastic costume changes

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@HubrisRanger said:

@Avenging-X-Bolt said:

@doordoor123 said:

@entropy_aegis said:
All the titles have been confirmed now,Deathstroke looks epic.
Nope. Not all titles confirmed.
Holy Crap...your right!!!!!! So there is still a chance!!!

Bleeding Cool is saying a Superman title drawn and written by George Perez, as well as a Supergirl and Superboy book, are all going to be announced tomorrow. No word on if Grant Morrison's Action Comics will also be formally announced too.

I know Batman Beyond is getting renumbered but not as part of the relaunch. And My Greatest Adventure starts in October so it isnt part of the relaunch. So there are three more titles after the Superman titles.
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Stormwatch would be good if they do it Ellis style, but i neither like midnighter costume, i hope they don´t soft them.
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@doordoor123To say nothing of Batman Incorporated and whatever else is relaunching next year. The more I look at this, the more I can't help but think that DC is just launching way too many damn books. I know they don't seriously expect anyone to buy them all, but if they're coming out of the gate running like this, its already overwhelming.

My favorite bit so far is that in one of the press releases, DC referred to a block of books as "Tomorrow's Cult Classics". Cult classics is a kind phrase for "books that were universally liked by the people who read them, but were canceled within 12 months," and the fact that DC already more or less admits that books like Voodoo, I, Vampire and Resurrection Man have no chance of surviving is both hilarious and frustrating.

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@HubrisRanger: Well I think the point of these books are for some people to read them and if theyre good, to spread the word. Voodoo is a Wildstorm character. Not a cult classic.
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@doordoor123
@HubrisRanger: Well I think the point of these books are for some people to read them and if theyre good, to spread the word. Voodoo is a Wildstorm character. Not a cult classic.
Hey, I'm just quoting how DC's own PR machine classified the book. And I get the throwing everything at the wall approach. I just fantasize about how welcoming a parsed down DCU would be.
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Bad-ass

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@HubrisRanger: From what ive seen, people are really excited about most of these titles. Especially the Dark titles. People are iffy on the content but excited nonetheless. i think if some obscure titles got good reviews more people would pick them up. Its happened with a lot of comics people liked before the relaunch.
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I wonder if all of Wildstorm will join in if Grifter can, wouldn't mind it!

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Why Deathstroke of all villains... He is such a douche and a creep.
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@VanTesla: Creepy douches make for good villains.
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GO DEATHSTROKE!!!!!!

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I'm really looking forward to Call of DC: Sergent Rockfare, as I like to call it.

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I really really hope they don`t rework lady blackhawk :*( she is soo cool please don`t mess her up DC

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OK now i am in.....OMAC, All-Star Western, Sgt. Rock and the Men of War  and the friggin BLACKHAWKS !!!!! wahoooo
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I am loving the edgier titles.  I hope they give Grifter a fair shake, but am really interested in J'onn J'onzz as part of Storm Watch.  I hope that this team line up grows slowly but steadily and keeps some good stories.
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I am now ready for Deathstroke vs Grifter.  Can't wait for the throwdown.

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DC needs to quit playing and release the real Deathstroke cover.

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only one out of all of these that i really wanna read is Deathstroke, i mean i WANT to read more, but my wallet is already on life support

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Some of these look good, but in all honesty I get a feeling like about half of these titles won't be around this time next year.