GalacticPunt

@The Poet said:

I'm sure this is going to be good news (though I won't read it probably)...I am just bugged that about this title!!!

IT SHOULD BE EITHER:

Marcus to Join Batwing

or

Marcus Joins batwing!!

It just bugs me...

Psst... reread the headline and story and you'll see that there is no typo. The artist's name is "To."

At first this shuffling seems like panic, but it actually makes sense the more I think about it.

Cornell's Demon Knights is great but his Stormwatch wasn't engaging at all. Rotate Milligan in and maybe he can right the ship. Maybe Cornell writes one less book, or maybe he's secretly got a Shining Knight miniseries green-lit.

Milligan's JL Dark started great, but started treading water in issues 3 and 4. Give Jeff Lemire a crack at it, to pick up the pace again.

Lemire has been kicking ass with both Animal Man and Frankenstein, but he'd now be stretched too thin. I hadn't heard of Kindt before today, but I hadn't heard of Lemire before the reboot either! It's a smart move to finally add some new blood to DC's stable, and a Sweet Tooth collaborator to boot.

Not that I'm saying that DC's management is perfect. I cannot facepalm hard enough at the state Detective Comics and The Dark Knight are in, but they star Batman, so they sell no matter what.

@Mahzian: Yup, at the end of the day people, especially comic fans, hate ANY change. When this logo is replaced by something else in a few years, they'll defend it because they're used to it.

I do think it's silly that it wasn't rolled out with the 52 Issue #1's. It would have given the old fans a greater shock, but it looks rushed to change the logo just a few months into the relaunch.

@ApatheticAvenger: No, I was NOT making an artistic comparison between Pulp Fiction and a couple of cape books. I never inferred this was going to end with Liefield getting an Eisner Award. If you had understood my post, I was generally talking about the business savvy of DC management, paying a bargain-bin price for a once mega-successful artist with a built-in fan base. It's similar to the showbiz savvy that Quentin Tarantino has, in that he's always plucking "washed-up" actors out of obscurity for cheap. He remembers what made them great, and reminds the world why they used to be so popular.

Now, were you so worked up over what you THOUGHT I said, that you stooped to cyber-bullying with that little picture? If so, that's bad form and pretty pathetic, duder.

A lot of folks here need a reality check. Hawk and Dove didn't sell because Hawk and Dove ongoings NEVER sell. It wasn't that the public at large has an all-consuming hatred of the name Rob Liefield.

On the contrary, he has name recognition as a Super Star artist from the 90's that makes many lapsed readers like myself take another look at a book. It may make you RAGE, but it makes good business sense for DC to assign him an existing book or two. These books are on the cusp of cancellation anyway, they could use some publicity and controversy to drum up interest.

Deathstroke is a great fit for Liefield's style. Re-introducing Lobo to the new continuity with Liefield's pencils should be, dare I say it, fun. I doubt making him a plotter on Grifter and Hawkman will have much affect on sales, but these books always had low interest, and they might as well try something before giving them the axe.

So while people on this message board may act like Rob Liefield personally killed off their grandmother, he's a famous artist who created Deadpool, starred in jeans commercials, and has learned to meet deadlines. It is in DC's best interest put him to work when his career is at an ebb, like Quentin Tarantino casting John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.

"Earth has low gravity for Kryptonians" is a fine explanation for the Golden Age Superman, who could simply jump very far. It breaks down for a character that can impulsively change direction mid-flight.

I like to think the modern Superman has telekinetic powers, and can levitate himself anywhere. He could probably levitate other objects and people if he concentrated, but he's basically too stupid and uncreative to fully understand his own powers. When he thinks "fly" he flies, but he hasn't given proper thought to why he can do that!

Norm Breyfogle is my favorite bat-artist of ALL TIME. So I'll be there, even though I've never watched a full episode of the cartoon. I hope Breyfogle is drawing 100% in his own style, not simplifying to imitate the cel shaded look.

Ah, finally! I love what Morrison has written so far. But if issue #4 was going to be another 20 pages of story and 8 pages of "Hey, George Perez is doing a Superman book. Here's some pencils of stuff that's already out. Never mind that he's already off the book in future solicits. Isn't it great? You should totally buy it. Please?"...

...I was going to drop this series and wait for the trade. Now that there's a plan to justify the $3.99 price tag again, I can hang in there.

The more I look at the that zombie Catwoman, the more arousing I find her. More than if she were dressed as a living Catwoman...

Guess it's time for therapy!

Sales chart for September

@Gordo789: Animal Man moved 41,000 copies of issue 1, which must be every single copy that exists. By many accounts Animal Man was the fastest sell-out of the New 52, so it was criminally under-ordered. Freaking Demon Knights is outselling Captain America! I love the DC Dark imprint, and it looks like all those books are actually going to be around for a while.

In other words...