Van Sciver & Harris Create "The Firestorm Protocols"

[CBR News]

"Fury of Firestorm" collaborators Ethan Van Sciver and Joe Harris discuss their first arc together, "The Firestorm Protocols," delving into the legacy of Professor Stein and launching international Firestorms.


Full article here.

[michaelsnott]

First Batman goes international. Then Firestorm goes international. What's next? Houses of Pancakes going international???

[golgi]

This sounds really interesting.

[Famousringo]

The geopolitics are my favourite part of Firestorm, so i'll definitely be sticking around for this.

[nightwing1982]

I wanted to like this series, but I dropped it after issues six. I thought that it was way too much Firestorms.

[Jabare]

I wanted to like this series, but I dropped it after issues six. I thought that it was way too much Firestorms.

wait there are more than 2?

[Jody Garland]

Pretty sure I've seen promo art with at least six.

Granted, this is nothing new. There were about four or so Firestorms in the 80s series, if we extend that to mean Firebird, like this seems to be doing.

[billee0918]

First Batman goes international. Then Firestorm goes international. What's next? Houses of Pancakes going international???

LMAO....this cracked me up

I'll be picking this one up for the new writer/direction, plus the return of Firehawk.

[lheiskell]

I liked where Firestorm was headed in Blackest night and the story made me care enough to follow the characters. I purchased the first two issues of Firestorm, and the concepts and characters were too many to process for world building. I dropped. Sorry.

[Desaad]

Conceptually, this sounds great. Sort of like Warren Ellis' "Supergod" done with the Firestorm Matrix. You could have each of these "Firestorms" have totally distinct power sets and abilities, reflective of their culture, as Warren Ellis did. That was easily the best part of his hastily put together mini series, which was more a set of character sketches and concepts than an actual story (but a great bunch of them they were indeed). You could explore the geopolitical ramification of such beasts going to war, and perhaps how being a weapon of that magnitude would change ones psyche. While at the same time focusing on your everyman jock and your everyman nerd, giving it all a very personal feel (something badly missing from, again, the aforementioned Supergod). There is a lot of potential in the concept.

Unfortunately, we've already seen that isn't what they are terribly interested in doing. There was some decent character work, but the concepts aren't big and bold enough for me, at least not the first 6 issues of 'em. I'll keep at it until Joe Harris comes on and proves himself one way or another, but given his past work for DC and Image, I don't hold a lot of hope.

Every issue of this series published makes the loss of the Clevinger series (fetal and unborn though it was) all the more bitter.

[SilverZeal]

LMAO....this cracked me up

I'll be picking this one up for the new writer/direction, plus the return of Firehawk.

The geopolitics are my favourite part of Firestorm, so i'll definitely be sticking around for this.

Yeah, we r also gonna b getting dis.

[Timberoo]

It's kind of cliche to me to incorporate the flag and stereotypes of a non-US character into their costume design. The US Firestorms aren't wearing red, white and blue.

[Ethan Van Sciver]

It's kind of cliche to me to incorporate the flag and stereotypes of a non-US character into their costume design. The US Firestorms aren't wearing red, white and blue.

The US Firestorms weren't sold to and sponsored by the United States Government. They are unique. Martin Stein's pure vision.

[arrowsonthemyscira]

wait there are more than 2?

There are 2?

Well, okay. There's American Firestorm and Russian Firestorm, aka Pozher (sp?)... are they using him these days? Haven't seen him in a long while. But I kinda felt like even Pozher was pushing it. Now there are more than those 2?

I have no idea because I've heard no good things about Firestorm's book.

So, we've got 7bajillion gay pride lanterns running around the universe, 3bajillion Batdouche-wannabees running wild around the globe, Johns is doing this "Other League" thing in Aquaman, which will probably end up with about 2bajillion water-bending mystics swimming around the parts of the globe the Batguys aren't summersaulting on, and now we're gonna have a Firestorm army too?

I'm starting to think that DC needs some new writers and editors. If every character turns into an army of clone-ish characters, that's a problematic lack of originality.

[CagedLeo730]

There are 2?

Well, okay. There's American Firestorm and Russian Firestorm, aka Pozher (sp?)... are they using him these days? Haven't seen him in a long while. But I kinda felt like even Pozher was pushing it. Now there are more than those 2?

I have no idea because I've heard no good things about Firestorm's book.

So, we've got 7bajillion gay pride lanterns running around the universe, 3bajillion Batdouche-wannabees running wild around the globe, Johns is doing this "Other League" thing in Aquaman, which will probably end up with about 2bajillion water-bending mystics swimming around the parts of the globe the Batguys aren't summersaulting on, and now we're gonna have a Firestorm army too?

I'm starting to think that DC needs some new writers and editors. If every character turns into an army of clone-ish characters, that's a problematic lack of originality.

It's easy to generalize and hyperbole when you don't want real facts.