CBR: Pipeline - Aug 30, 2011

[CBR News]

With the DC's New 52 upon us, Augie looks at the list of new series starting in the next month to see which ones he's looking forward to, and how that list has changed since their first announcement.


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=34160).

[RichJohnston]

With the DC's New 52 upon us, Augie looks at the list of new series starting in the next month to see which ones he's looking forward to, and how that list has changed since their first announcement.


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=34160).

According to Chris Claremont and Alan Davis, yes.

[theloupgaroukid]

I always find it puzzling that parallel universes is where people draw the line of comprehension/believability in comic books.

I actually find it more of a stretch to believe that Batman and Superman co-exist than to imagine a world where you grandfather wore tights and beat up Nazis ;P

[torippu]

Marvel announced at FanExpo this weekend that they're publishing two more four-issue miniseries based on CrossGen properties, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and "Route 666." The pessimist in me worries that Marvel is producing these CrossGen-inspired miniseries to freshen up the properties just to be shopped in Hollywood to make Disney more money, with no intent on ever doing more with the comics. We still have no word on a second mini for "Ruse" or "Sigil," do we? We're getting trades, so maybe they're waiting for those numbers to come in before giving the go-ahead for more, but so far the commitment has been very slight to this line. I'd feel better about it if any one of these miniseries had a sequel announced or, heaven forbid, an on-going series spinning directly out.

Right now, CrossGen looks like nothing more for Marvel than a licensed Disney property that they're servicing the trademark on. Oh, the irony.

To say that I have been disappointed with the Crossgen books so far would be an understatement. Of the 2 books that I have read (Sigil & Ruse), neither seems to capture the magic that first got me engrossed in the company back in its infant stages.

With the exception of Leonard Kirk and David Lopez, it does seem like these books are being used to keeping the trademarks active and to break in new artistic talent. Sigh...guess I will dig out my issues from my long boxes and re-read those. It's probably been long enough since the last time I read them that it will seem like a new story all over again.