SDCC Comc News

[spider_man6]

Today at SDCC, a variety of new comics were announced from various publishers. Here are some of them.

At DC's "Dark Matter" panel, several new books were announced. The first is "The Terrifics" by Jeff Lemire and Ivan Reis. It's a Fantastic Four-esque book that features Mr.Terrifc, Phantom Girl, Plastic Man, and Metamorpho. It's described focusing on family, each hero having a similar black and white themed costume design. It was suggested by Scott Snyder that Plastic Man's new costume has a connection to his son, Offspring. Lemire is also doing a one-shot for Metal called "Hawkman: Found," and hints he may do a Hawkman ongoing later on.

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Justin Jordan and Philip Tan are doing "Brimstone," a new horror book part of Dark Matter. The character can be seen on the far right of the Dark Matter poster for SDCC 2017, next to teleporter Sideways.

Scott Synder and a DC workshop writer, Tony Patrick, are writing a Duke Tomas book called "Batman: The Signal". Duke is now going to be known as the Signal and will operate in daylight.

Young Animal is doing a crossover with the Rebirth books through four one shots that will impact everything later on.

Meanwhile, Marvel announced at the "Secret Empire" panel that "Captain America," going forward, will be helmed by the "Daredevil" team of Mark Waid and Christ Samnee starting in #695. This will be a back-to-basics approach, with Steve wearing his classic costume and traveling the country to get input from people. No details on how Secret Empire's ending allows this, but we'll probably find out soon. Marvel also revealed that several series link Power Pack, Dazzler, and Darkhawk will be getting Marvel Legacy one-shots that continue each series for one issue. This allows the company to continue obscure and fan-favorite characters without starting new series.

And finally, IDW announced they've partnered with SEGA to do Sonic the Hedgehog comics starting next year. I know many here at scans daily were anticipating and hoping for this, so I hope this helps.

Honestly, all of these announcements are killer. I am particularly excited about "The Terrifics," as it's bringing back Plastic Man and Metamorpho.

Thoughts?

Comments

[silverhammerman]

Well that's exactly my point, though I should have been more clear. Marvel would never ever issue anything approaching a genuine mea culpa, especially these days, but course correction with a back to basics approach, an all star creative team, and a premise which is seemingly reacting to the fallout of Secret Empire almost looks like one, if seen from the right angle. And I think it's probably supposed to look enough like one that it could potentially lure back some less critical readers.

But as you said, Waid's vigorous defence of Spencer makes it pretty obvious that this isn't going to genuinely grapple with what went wrong during the previous run and the many valid criticisms which people had.

[laughing_tree]

What makes you see this as a mea culpa in *any sense*? Stuff like hiring an all star creative team and dealing with the consequences of the previous run are pretty obvious and basic things to do regardless of how well-received the previous run was, no? If anything, dealing with the consequences is more often done when the opinion of a previous run is positive.

When comics want to draw a line under previous work, the normal tactic is to quickly get it out of the way and never mention it again. See, for example, how Ennis spent a single page to undo the "Punisher as a supernatural angel" concept when he came on board.

[silverhammerman]

I don't really agree with your argument here, sure comics tend not to dwell on the past, and in the context of certain things (like angel Punisher, or The Draco) it's possible to dispense with them with a simple handwave before moving on, but if it's something big that's not usually the case. I mean after Grant Morrison had Magneto marching people into crematoriums, Marvel didn't just have Magneto return and then never speak of it again, they went out of their way to come up with a very convoluted explanation about how that definitely wasn't the real Magneto, no matter how little sense that made. Or look at DC Rebirth, which was all but explicitly about how the New 52 was a bad decision and DC wanted to bring back stuff that fans missed. There's a proud tradition in comics of vigorously retconning or trying to undo ill conceived material.

If it's a big enough disaster it's not unheard of for a publisher to address it. So I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to have at least hoped that Marvel might want to do right by certain fans in addressing their concerns. On further reflection it's pretty obvious that Marvel won't do that, but you can hardly blame me for hoping.