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DC Comics officially announced Tuesday that the company will reset the numbers of all its comic titles back to #1 later this summer.
All 52 titles under the publisher will be affected, including Action Comics, which is up to issue 902 – numbering that began with the first appearance of Superman in 1938.
“DC Comics will be making history this September,” said co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee in a statement. “We’ll be renumbering the entire DC Universe line of comic books with 52 first issues.
“Not only will this initiative be compelling for existing readers, it’ll give new readers a precise entry point into our titles.”
The move is meant to give new fans intimidated by the long continuity of many characters like Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash easier access into comic books, but also will include new writer-artist teams for about three-quarters of the books.
Rebooting individual titles has been done many times in the industry over the years, but this is the first time a publisher’s entire line of books has undergone that kind of massive change.
This could be very good news. We’ll have to keep an eye out & see what develops.
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Isn’t this going to cause confusion among collectors, especially the ones who have a *real* number one Superman (or something) comic from the 40s, or whenever it started?
I suspect this move is aimed at getting people to buy the *new* No 1s (and every edition after that) with the expectation of selling the whole ball o’ wax for a profit, some decades in the future.
It’s a rather cynical marketing move, but a brilliant one nonetheless. I don’t collect comic books, but I do find myself wondering if that’s the thinking behind this. Aaaaaaand….if Marvel will follow suit.
- cylarz | 06/06/2011 @ 23:38It’s tough to paint on a canvas that isn’t blank. That’s why Star Trek was rebooted two years ago, as I understand it. These fanboys would come rushing up at the conventions and say “Excuse me, in Star Trek V you had the decks numbered bottom to top, but on these blueprints I bought of the Enterprise D it’s made very clear that the Bridge is deck 1, and it goes down to deck 42, or deck 23 on the Enterprise E…and Khan says he never forgets a face when he meets Pavel Chekov, but if you go back to the actual Space Seed episode when Ricardo Montalban guest-starred, Walter Koenig actually wasn’t in that one…”
Now look what they’ve done here. Batman got his back broke, Superman died, Batman magically got healed & Superman came back to life, Wonder Woman in long pants, Supergirl never really existed, she’s actually an experiment made of protomatter or whatever, Green Lantern goes nuts, turns evil, explodes in a supernova and gets replaced by this hipster kid, and Flash…I lost track of him. Think he got killed, anyway he got replaced by a hipster kid as well.
The Wonder Woman in pants thing has been a complete fizzle. The fans didn’t want it and they didn’t ask for it. DC figured it out too late, it hurt the whole trademark, and they’re thinking…you know, we’ve made screwing up this way a whole lot, and not just with WW, let’s just wipe the whole slate clean.
There’s a dark side to this, though. There’s a certain skill involved in adding on to things someone else created, without disrupting the rhythm, and this skill is in a sharp decline. Now granted, back in the olden days, what resulted ended up very silly…but it’s kid stuff so that’s alright. The current crop of artists could manage to get it done, but why bother? Just hit the reset button. So you have to wonder what the next generation is going to want to do.
- mkfreeberg | 06/07/2011 @ 06:11