CBR: Bringing "R.E.B.E.L.S." To The Masses

[CBR News]

Tony Bedard has been unleashing an epic battle in the opening story arc of the critically acclaimed "R.E.B.E.L.S.," and an upcoming crossover with "Blackest Night" should expose the title to a much wider audience.


Full article here.

[Squashua]

Absolutely one of the best comics DC is producing.

[Artificial idiot]

I really, genuinely hope this series lasts long enough for Bedard to get his hands on Lobo. He's always been a tricky one to fit into the DCU at large, but REBELS really is the best place for him.

Love this series! Hope the sales boost is more than just a short term thing. :)

[FanboyStranger]

Cue what's beginning to sound like a broken record: ...one of the best books that DC currently publishes... the biggest scale, most epic DC title... Vril Dox, one of DC's most interesting characters... exceptional art from Andy Clarke and Claude St. Aubin... you should be buying this book if you're not already...

[Jarath]

If it wasn't for the fact that I'm switching to trades I'd be all over this. I'll be buying the first collected volume in January though and the Annual this week (I hope), hopefully that will help a little bit.

And since I'm getting all things Blackest Night at the moment I might pick up the BN crossovers in singles too. Does one of the rings come with a REBELS issue?

[Karl O'Neill]

Cool interview and an equally cool title.

You guys know how much I love REBELS.

[nWoJeffDW]

This is a great example of DC marketing a series all wrong. As a long-time DC reader, I refused to buy R.E.B.E.L.S. due to what I felt was a mishandling of the Starro character, a JLA villain whom I have always loved.

I don't like the idea that Starro is actually some barbarian alien. But after reading this article, it appears as though this could work, as the Starro I know and love is still real, and this barbarian guy is just a current leader of the Starros.

Though I still prefer the idea of Starro being the only one of his kind but DC seems to like to make their characters not so special by having multiple versions of a character.

[Artificial idiot]

I'd suggest picking up the REBELS annual for an insight into Starro. It's a fairly logical, well thought out re-imagining of a classic JLA villain, which has it's own get-out clause built in so they can revert back to the classic Starro. Bedard has really set it up in a way that nothing has been lost or replaced, it's just that for the purposes of this story the Starro invasion has a clear figurehead who can pose a serious physical threat as well as a mental one.

[Mundungus]

I haven't been picking the series up since the first couple of issues. I lent the first couple of issues to my brother and he really enjoyed them, so I'm thinking of getting him Vol. 1 in January and then picking up the current issues.

[Plex]

I just picked up the first 8 issues and have absolutely loved this book. It is now on my pull list.

[Gavin G.]

I've been with the title since the beginning, and it's definitely among my favorite ongoing titles being published by DC right now. I sincerely hope tying it into Blackest Night brings new readers on board, because it deserves far more readers than it currently has.

[kozmo]

The success of this series did not surprise me, as I was a huge fan of Bedard's space epic Negation back in his Crossgen days. In many ways, this series feels like a revival of that series, which was one of the best series published by Crossgen.

[galactica]

I hope the BN issues and the crossover with JLA bring some readers around.

[Mason Dixon]

I hope the BN tie in issues bring more readers too. This is a great book and more people should be reading it. I love reading Dox and have since L.E.G.I.O.N. He is one of DC's most underrated characters.

[BWilly]

Finding out that Adam Strange was joining the cast got me interested, and now that I've done some reading I see the series has gotten great reviews.

If I were interested in catching up, which issues cover which story arcs?