Metal Men mini in August

[Loren]

Newsarama (http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/aug07/solicitations.html) has some DC previews for August, including the first issue of Duncan Rouleau's 'Metal Men' mini-series.

Now although I didn't follow 52 all the way through, nor read their appearance in Superman/Batman, I gotta admit that this mini sounds really neat and fun. And Rouleau's art, while definitely a stylized look, is well-suited to this title:

METAL MEN #1
Written by Duncan Rouleau
Art and cover by Rouleau
Bursting from the pages of 52 and SUPERMAN/BATMAN into their own new 8-issue miniseries by Duncan Rouleau — it’s Gold! Platina! Mercury! Iron! Lead! Tin! And now Copper!
Doc Magnus’s creations are ready to take on all-new threats and some old, reimagined ones: Chemo, Doctor Yes, B.O.L.T.S., The Balloonatic and his Orphan Army, as well as the Robot Renegades led by an old Manhunter Robot!
But the greatest threat lies in Le Cabinet Noir and its bid to control the natural order using dangerous lieutenants like the Nameless, an armored being that feeds off the blood of the innocent and controls the Gogoloth, giant stone Golems made of Granite, Bizmuth, Onyx and Lime.
On sale August 1 • 1 of 8 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

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[Young Avenger]

All I have to say is that I'm very happy that Pat Lee is providing art on this series. Knowing that he won't be involved I will give it a read.

[Jack Zodiac]

Aw, just a mini-series? I hope it kicks ass in sales and gets an ongoing. DC needs more fun, entertaining, Silver Age throwback books. And that art looks perfect for a Metal Men relaunch. Can't wait!

[Lex]

I'm definately looking forward to this mini.

And be careful using the "f-word" (fun). We don't want to kill all the sales before the first issue comes out. :)

[MAK15]

Metal Madness!
sweet!
wonder if Doc Magnus will use his line 'I do crazy things without my meds!' in the series?

[Ring Slinger]

This looks AWESOME! August seems so very far away now! I've always loved the Metal Men, and it sounds like a great series.

[CMBMOOL]

Nice cover and solcits, give me hope that the series may be good. :D

[Billy]

Indeed, this looks very interesting. Doc Magnus was one of the most interesting parts to 52. Supposely more min-series are planned if this succeeds.

I hope we get a Metal Men Showcase soon.

[Cayman]

The cover is terrific. I'm looking forward to this - I love those characters and it looks like DC's about to finally do right by them.

[Sean Walsh]

I'm not a huge Duncan Rouleau fan, or a Metal Men one for that matter, but that cover is probably the nicest art I've seen of Duncan's in years - this sounds like something he's very passionate about, as I hear he's a very big MM fan

And the energy in that solicit has also made this project infinitely more interesting to me.

Like Jeff Smith's SHAZAM, the mere vibe around this book might just hook me in. :)

[Metamorpho]

Sorry to be the voice of dissension as I LOVE the Metal Men and Love me some Silver age silliness but that art REALLY turns me off. Am I the only one who thinks you can have a humorous book WITHOUT overly "cartoony" art?

[Hatut Zeraze]

Sorry to be the voice of dissension as I LOVE the Metal Men and Love me some Silver age silliness but that art REALLY turns me off. Am I the only one who thinks you can have a humorous book WITHOUT overly "cartoony" art?

After reading your post, I scrolled back up to the cover art and tried to picture it in a neutral way, tried to find something bad.

Sorry, I can't see it. It is entirely possible that you ARE the only one.

On another note: There are many reasons to buy this comic, but one of mine, one maybe not shared by everyone, is my utter delight in just hearing the name - Baloonatik. I assume this is one of the new menaces to which they refer. I have no idea who he is or what he can do, but that name, that name, alone, is solid gold.

I used to play the Champions RPG, and I made up a villain called the Balloon Man. He looked like a twerpy, 4-eyed, clown-haired, goblin of a man, always carrying around a handful of balloons. But he was a criminal mastermind, with his headquarters in a stealth-mode zeppellin. He had entangling balloons and homing balloons that exploded with deadly gas, and, of course, they could help him fly, much the same way that Penguin's umbrellas used to help him fly. Between his bizarre weaponry and his horribly-clad henchmen, the Balloon Man seemed straight out of the old Adam West Batman TV series.

Now the Balloonatik is a much cooler name and I'm 100% in for the idea of any balloon-themed supervillain, whether he bears a resemblance to mine or not. I can't wait for this series to come out. Even if it is only one-fourth as cool as it sounds, I hope they make it an ongoing.

[Loren]

Sorry to be the voice of dissension as I LOVE the Metal Men and Love me some Silver age silliness but that art REALLY turns me off. Am I the only one who thinks you can have a humorous book WITHOUT overly "cartoony" art?

They're shapeshifting robots. They're tailor-made to be drawn in an exaggerated style.

[Loren]

Wizard interview with Rouleau (http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/004465208.cfm)

Interestingly, the article starts off by referring to the project as a 6-issue mini-series, later refers to it as an ongoing, and yet the solicitation calls it an 8-issue mini.

[Metamorpho]

Ok sorry I'm such a Philistine I just think a comic can be fun without expecting Snuffy Smith or Calvin and Hobbes to stroll through a panel.

[Cayman]

They were drawn in a more realistic-style to poor effect in the first issue of Meltzer's JLA.

[Babylon23]

Sign me up for this one. Duncan Rouleau is an excellent artist and well suited to the Metal Man.

[blackphoenix]

HELLS YEAH!

I definitely want this to be a monthly book. Maybe if sells from the mini are strong, it will be extended into a regular series--it's happened before! Plutonium Man definitely needs to be one of their foes, and I need to see them combine into Alloy before the series(*sobs*) ends.

Put me down for a Showcase Presents: Metal Men as well. Man, I read about some of their adventures in CBG--what a hoot! "Gas Gang" indeed.:p

[Cayman]

Put me down for a Showcase Presents: Metal Men as well. Man, I read about some of their adventures in CBG--what a hoot! "Gas Gang" indeed.:p

I'd like to see that too. The Archive editions are way out of my price range, and I'd like to see if my son would enjoy Metal Men as much as I did as a kid.

[Will.S]

They were drawn in a more realistic-style to poor effect in the first issue of Meltzer's JLA.
Yeah, they seemed a bit too different there although I still liked that depiction.

Duncan's hit and miss with me but his art is certainly well suited for this type of book given his very fluid and cartoony art style which should capture the liquid metal look of the Metal Men.

I'm all over this.

[Loren]

From the pages of 52, and with art by Duncan Rouleau:

The Origin of the Metal Men (http://www.dccomics.com/heroes_and_villains/?hv=metal_men)

[UniqueFrequency]

so awesome. i'm glad Roleau finally has a comic book! i loved his stuff on Alpha Flight. he drew a mean Flex.