Hey everyone!! It’s that time again. New comics, new digitized comics, and of course New Book Clubs!!!
The format as always is
New to DCU
Newly Digitized
The Big Stuff this week
Starting Points
Starting Volumes
Ending Volumes
Announcements
New to DCU
Phase 1 (DC Universe: Rebirth #1 - Justice: No Justice)
The Immortal Men #6
Wildstorm: Michael Cray #11
Phase 2 (Justice: No Justice-)
Catwoman #3
Detective Comics #988
The Flash #54
Hawkman #4
Plastic Man #4
Red Hood and the Outlaws #26
Sideways #8
Suicide Squad #46 (Sink Atlantis Part 3)
Supergirl #22
Superman #3
Titans #25
Wonder Woman #54
Not coming but out this week one year ago
House of Whispers #1
Justice League Giant #3
Scooby Apocalypse #29
Superman Giant #3
Newly Digitized
Batman: The Road Home: Ra’s Al Ghul #1
Deadman #1 (2001-2002)
Detective Comics #325
Doom Patrol #17 (2004-)
Hourman #22 (1999-)
House of Mystery #179
House of Secrets #110
Nathaniel Dusk (1984) #1
Superman (1939) #3
The Big Stuff This Week
Red Hood and the Outlaws AKA Red Hood: Outlaw #26 is the entrance of Red Hood into Phase 2. Focused on his going solo. The series with this issue starts over in trade backs with a new vol. 1. This issue won’t give you all the answers, but it will be a lot of fun.
Titans #25 is a double sized issue which kicks off the second half of The Spark volume.
Starting Points
Red Hood and the Outlaws #26 see above
Starting Volumes
Detective Comics: Deface the Face
Detective Comics #988
Detective Comics #989-994
Ending Volumes
The Immortal Men: The End of Forever //Cancelled
The Immortal Men #1-6
Announcements!
New To DCU Book Club is returning SOON! However, I’m going to be making slight adjustments, but I really like the [New to DCU] line of postings which will become the basis for my Rebirth Wiki.
My struggle is that I know people are reading the comics from the New to DCU line. However, they don’t comment. So I’m trying to figure out how to approach that. If you have advice I would love some. I’ll start next week I think. The Key thing is it won’t be a “book club.” I’ll instead just recommend 5 titles to read and post discussion questions as they get talked about.
Thanks as always
-Nathan.Payson (Your friendly neighborhood reporter!)
Nathan I’m enjoying commenting on the comics as I read them on this thread. That way your thread has two purposes, you don’t need to bother with probing questions, and I guess you’ll have more comments.
Somehow I’ll find time to read from a year ago Detective Comics, The Flash, Supergirl and Superman. Also, like msgtv, I’ll have to check out the Golden age Superman along with the 60s Detective Comics 325.
Rebirth has two phases. I unofficially call them Phase 1 and 2. Phase 1 is what rebirth is at the start. Phase 2 starts with the Summer of Events. Afterwords, everything quietly got new creative teams and directions. Bendis joining, The end of the Wedding, Aquaman coming to an end, Snyder’s Justice League run. I realized that it mad a lot of sense to break it up into two different phases. Of course, most titles have made the jump at this point. Only a couple stranglers are wrapping up their runs or prepping to begin a BOLD new direction. (For example Red Hood: Outlaw)
My Pull List for the week
Catwoman #3
Detective Comics #988
The Flash #54
Hawkman #4
Plastic Man #4
Red Hood and the Outlaws #26
Suicide Squad #46 (Sink Atlantis Part 3)
Supergirl #22
Superman #3
Titans #25
My New to DCU pull list. I keep trying out stuff that I did not read when it hit the stands a year ago, and loving most of it. This is why I’ve been waiting for a service like this for years!
Detective Comics #988
The Flash #54
Hawkman #4
Red Hood and the Outlaws #26
Titans #25
Wonder Woman #54
1:40 pm EDT, still no sign of the newly-digitized older DC comics for this week. There is a nice listing of what was posted in News today, and it even includes 2 comics not listed here, Jimmy O and Lois L! Here are the links to the newly-digitized to hold us over until if/ when they are noted on the “new to DC” area in Comic Books…
Bruce Wayne: The Road Home: Ra’s al Ghul #1DC Universe
Superman (2018) #3, Bendis …not much happens here, it kind of is in slow-mo. The cover is false advertising as there is no fight or even direct interaction between Superman and the villain Rogol Zaar.
I was okay with reading it but frankly I just felt like somebody was giving me a tour of the DC universe I didn’t ask for, give me something to do while the main course was still cooking in the kitchen.
I have bad allergies this time of year which involves breathing difficulty at times, so seeing everybody being poisoned by the atmosphere , yikes, I really want this to be resolved quickly… Oh well.
“I’m sorry mr. Bendus but we have to suspend your writing license for writing plots that move too slow…”
Someone who sure looks and has the powers of Superman courts and marries someone who sure looks like Lois Lane, and they have kids…and the cover and comic repeatedly tell us “not an imaginary story.” So what gives? Oh, it’s a clever story and nicely embedded in the culture and Superman mythos of the time (1959, just prior to what is considered the Silver Age of Superman). Edmond Hamilton wrote this (pulp sci fi writer, “Star Kings” etc), and drawn by the very capable Kurt Schaffenberger!
A fun romp, very typical of the imaginary stories of the late 50s-early '60s, but this time truly not imaginary!
