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Freakzeek
08-05-2009, 08:30 PM
Anybody else think a Zatanna Ongoing, written by Paul Dinni ,would sale like hotcakes?
Labor
08-05-2009, 09:09 PM
Anybody else think a Zatanna Ongoing, written by Paul Dinni ,would sale like hotcakes?
He is writing one

Its being drawn by Stephane Roux, and the series will be solicited when enough issues have been completed
BTRavage
08-05-2009, 09:35 PM
My fingers are crossed for an appearance by Captain Carrot. Last we saw him, he was camping out in Zatanna's hat.
Joe Acro
08-05-2009, 09:55 PM
My fingers are crossed for an appearance by Captain Carrot. Last we saw him, he was camping out in Zatanna's hat.Last we saw him, he and the Zoo Crew had gotten their original forms restored in Final Crisis.

But everything may have reverted back when it was over.
hunter_peterson
08-05-2009, 10:03 PM
I want Peter Nguyen to draw it. He has a thread in the Artist and Writer Showcase forum that has frankly beautiful pages of a Zatanna/Clayface fight.

RECOGNIZE THE AWSOME!
victor_lanza
08-05-2009, 10:39 PM
more like wheat cakes.
ryerye17
08-05-2009, 11:57 PM
I love zatanna
DarienA
08-06-2009, 06:39 AM
I think a Zatanna ongoing would be better with Bruce still around.... just saying I'd really like to see that relationship explored....
matt levin
08-08-2009, 10:55 AM
A Zatanna mini series? I will buy it, I will buy it-- well-written, of course, and drawn well as well.... tub yeh! I dluow yub ti!
K-DoG7p7
08-08-2009, 11:26 AM
PEOPLE!

there is a Zatanna ONGOING coming later this year (Will most likeley be solicited in just over a weeks time)
matt levin
08-09-2009, 09:52 AM
Ho! reven dnim, neth.

personnel?
RocketRaccoon
08-09-2009, 11:07 AM
Dini can do no wrong with the character, so everyone please buy it when it's solicited. :)
Chiroptera
08-09-2009, 11:08 AM
Why has every completely ignored the very first response to the TC's post??

Paul Dini is writing an on going Zatanna series, the artist is Stephane Roux.
RocketRaccoon
08-09-2009, 11:25 AM
Why has every completely ignored the very first response to the TC's post??

Paul Dini is writing an on going Zatanna series, the artist is Stephane Roux.

Not sure why no one read the first reply. It was revealed back in the spring that Dini was writing the book.
frostedone
08-09-2009, 11:22 PM
Paul Dini really really "gets" Zee. This will be an instant buy for me.
iamhollywood
08-10-2009, 09:48 AM
I will definitely be looking forward to this series, but I'm curious as to how Paul Dini's going to build it, ie what are her weaknesses, besides Bruce who is she friends with, what city/realm is this series going to take place in, etc.
Plex
08-10-2009, 10:56 AM
I'll definitely check this out but would prefer it to be in the Vertigo line instead of the DCU but I'll not complain past that.
ryerye17
10-05-2009, 05:26 AM
Is there any new news on this? It's been two months and no solicits. :(

Or is this supposed to come out next year?
The Mirrorball Man
10-05-2009, 05:45 AM
Why has every completely ignored the very first response to the TC's post??

Paul Dini is writing an on going Zatanna series, the artist is Stephane Roux.

Maybe people suspect that it's going to be one of those ongoing series that will get cancelled after ten issues.
Pixie_Solanas
10-05-2009, 12:32 PM
Maybe people suspect that it's going to be one of those ongoing series that will get cancelled after ten issues.

Like Magog? And Power Girl? And Doom Patrol reboot? I agree.
ryerye17
10-05-2009, 01:16 PM
How dare you. Unlike some "capitalization on a once-popular mini" or "another Super member", Zatanna actually has potential to stay.
Sandy Hausler
10-05-2009, 01:29 PM
Anybody else think a Zatanna Ongoing, written by Paul Dinni ,would sale like hotcakes?

I would buy it in a heartbeat, but I think we have to realize that nothing that wasn't hot in the 1960s, has ever become hot for a great length of time. I don't know why it is, but Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and Green Lantern are the only longtime sellers. The same is true at Marvel (with Wolverine being the exception). It's really too bad because I'd like to see some new stuff become hot.

(On that note, was Sandman, a Vertigo book, a big seller as a monthly? I gather that Vertigo books as a rule don't sell as well as the regular line. At any rate, Sandman has earned its place in history by being a huge seller in the trade paperback (and hardback) format.)

Sandy Hausler
ScottyQuick
10-05-2009, 03:45 PM
I would buy it in a heartbeat, but I think we have to realize that nothing that wasn't hot in the 1960s, has ever become hot for a great length of time. I don't know why it is, but Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and Green Lantern are the only longtime sellers. The same is true at Marvel (with Wolverine being the exception). It's really too bad because I'd like to see some new stuff become hot.

(On that note, was Sandman, a Vertigo book, a big seller as a monthly? I gather that Vertigo books as a rule don't sell as well as the regular line. At any rate, Sandman has earned its place in history by being a huge seller in the trade paperback (and hardback) format.)

Sandy Hausler

Sandman was the biggest selling DC book at the time, yeah.

But new books *can* succeed, they just have to be really, really good. Look at Runaways - until Whedon and Moore slaughtered it, it was a completely new book with a fairly unknown writer and a brand new artist, but it succeeded.
Armadillo
10-05-2009, 03:50 PM
Sandman was the biggest selling DC book at the time, yeah.

But new books *can* succeed, they just have to be really, really good. Look at Runaways - until Whedon and Moore slaughtered it, it was a completely new book with a fairly unknown writer and a brand new artist, but it succeeded.

Is'nt Sandman the proof that new series can success?

It's exteremly rare though, Sandman is top quality, but I think Luck was player as well.
ScottyQuick
10-05-2009, 04:10 PM
Is'nt Sandman the proof that new series can success?

It's exteremly rare though, Sandman is top quality, but I think Luck was player as well.

I, uh, just stated a new series that succeeded.
DonC
10-05-2009, 05:38 PM
(On that note, was Sandman, a Vertigo book, a big seller as a monthly? I gather that Vertigo books as a rule don't sell as well as the regular line. At any rate, Sandman has earned its place in history by being a huge seller in the trade paperback (and hardback) format.)

Sandy Hausler

Sandman was the biggest selling DC book at the time, yeah.

I'd like to see a link to back that up. My recollection is that Sandman, once it became cool, always hovered near the middle of the Top 100. The only single issue that really sold exceptionally well was the final one.
Pixie_Solanas
10-05-2009, 05:56 PM
back to Zatanna herself:

gnirob s'ehs
C-Cool
10-05-2009, 06:38 PM
Like Magog? And Power Girl? And Doom Patrol reboot? I agree.

Hey, hey, hey.

NEVER compare Power Girl to fricken Magog (Mr. Terrific should have gotten a title)! She's got some ways to go before she gets cancelled.

And I'll give her more than a year, which is more than I can say about Magog, Doom Patrol, Red Tornado, the Red Circle titles as a whole, REBELS (looks down in shame towards the comic book community), and more.

So I would compare PG to Zatanna, in a sense that she would last longer than a year, until the fans circle the wagon and repeat the current Superhero genre stable: Nobody lasts longer than 50/100 issues when you're B-list or lower and don't have connections to the current continuity or to an A-list character (like being Superboy/girl or Robin/Nightwing/Batgirl. Literally, not in the PG/Red Robin/Arazel way.)

It sucks because, unlike some of you in this thread, I like giving chances to characters like PG or Zee when they get titles. Remember, Secret Six was a new title (which was backed up by two minis, but still).
Sir Tim Drake
10-05-2009, 07:43 PM
m'I gnilliw ot kaerb ym CD ttocyob ot yub siht.
C-Cool
10-05-2009, 07:46 PM
m'I gnilliw ot kaerb ym CD ttocyob ot yub siht.

See!

Returning/New readers of DC that wouldn't if someone like Zee didn't have a title.

And isn't that a big part of what matters in this current comic book market?
aut0matic
10-05-2009, 07:57 PM
See!

Returning/New readers of DC that wouldn't if someone like Zee didn't have a title.

And isn't that a big part of what matters in this current comic book market?

maybe the off returning readers, but i don't see a title called "zatanna" bringing in many new readers into DC at all... she doesn't have the star power or recognition to really bring a non-comic fan in.

it would be a good niche book, though.
C-Cool
10-05-2009, 08:05 PM
maybe the off returning readers, but i don't see a title called "zatanna" bringing in many new readers into DC at all... she doesn't have the star power or recognition to really bring a non-comic fan in.

it would be a good niche book, though.

At this point, a little experimentation would do some good in the market.

But some of those sub 20,000 comics need to go before a comic like this hits the market.

A little clearing of the saturation. Less comics, more concentration of money/title buys.
paulski
10-05-2009, 08:33 PM
Personally I think this is the perfect character to feature in one of the back-ups. As much as I like her myself, she just couldn't support a regular title for very long.
ryerye17
10-06-2009, 02:35 AM
back to Zatanna herself:

gnirob s'ehs

/me will stare at you commandingly until you go buy this comic :biggrin:
Sandy Hausler
10-06-2009, 09:12 AM
maybe the off returning readers, but i don't see a title called "zatanna" bringing in many new readers into DC at all... she doesn't have the star power or recognition to really bring a non-comic fan in.

it would be a good niche book, though.

That's my point. Unless you are a Superman book, a Batman book, a Flash book, a Green Lantern Book or a Wonder Woman book (and maybe not even that), you don't have star power or recognition.

Heck, even if you DO have that you may not succeed. Look at Marvel's Blade -- it had a successful movie, but Marvel was never able to translate that into a successful comic book character.

Sandy Hausler