COMICS: Dan DiDio Reveals Plans For DC's First Big "New 52" Crossover

Yeah it was the dumbiest call ever to only have the heroes active for 5yrs. SMH

One year later (oh, wait- that was a completely different sales gimmick) and still a continuity mess. Bravo, DC.

Why does it matter how long they have been active?? I don't get why so many people are obsessed with the 5 year thing. It really doesn't matter if they have been around for 5 years or 5 days. It's new stories. That is what is important. If you actually read the first Justice League arc you would see that it takes place 5 years in the past. All of the heroes were already active individually. Flash and Green Lantern even had time to meet and help each other out. That means they have been around for a bit before they all met. DC has come out and said before The New 52 started that Batman has been operating longer than anybody else. Bottom line though, these are comics, just except them as that and enjoy the fun of them. Worrying about exactly when in a time frame something happened is pointless, especially when there was never really a set time frame for them anyway.

If this is true, and the 5 years is just a confusing mess and that we fans are the only ones confused by it, could DC just release a timeline for crying out loud? I don't even know what about Batman is canon anymore! And he's my favorite character before The Question. Stuff is confusing.

DC is failing big time IMO. There isn't a book in the new 52 that interests me. The Batman movies were the only momentum they had, and now they're done. GL sucked, i'm hoping Superman is done well, and then what??? Marvel has movie plans through 2014. What's coming for DC? Anybody?

With preliminary work on the JLA.
WB has NO STRATEGY and they are too busy playing catch up. Wolverine was successful so the visionless suits want something comparable. so Lobo
Iron Man was very successful, so Metal Men... "heck thats a TEAM of Iron men , it MUST be successful."
Mandrake "YES! our success is with BAtman and Harry Potter, Mandrake is a comic character AND a Magician, we cant go wrong!"
WB is full of moronic, visionless suits that instead of paving the way, choose to fail miserably by doing crappy similar versions.
They are even screwing up Hobbit by splitting that small book into a trilogy

and YES Just1Superguy is right, Animal Man, Aquaman, Action Comics, Batman, Batman & Robin, Swamp Thing, Green Lantern, Flash, Justice League and Wonder Woman are great....
and Id add, All Star Western, Suicide Squad, GL Corps

MJPETTY7- ive never heard Aquaman wasnt affected? Where did you hear that? Becasue the history is already a little different with Black Manta

@Tevii Johns said that Aquaman #1 basically picks up right where we last saw Arthur after Brightest Day.

MJPetty - hmm... well all New 52 pick up after brightest day and flashpoint you can still read it all in linear order. But i wonder if he actually meant there were no changes due to the flashpoint. Because there are changes for the New 52 such as the Others and his past link with Black Manta.
oh well.... either way its a GREAT book.

I bet there's a time demon that has enslaved everybody for 5 years and the only thing that can stop it is the Spectre.

@Tevel

You haven't heard of WBs DC film strategy for 2014 and beyond because it hasn't been released yet. WB let it be known before Comic-Con that they would release their film slate in the next month and a half (August/early September)so we really don't know if the films you listed beyond MOS are really the official slate or not.If WB does release a film slate in August/September that would still be time enough for a Green Lantern 2/The Flash or Justice League film to come together for 2014 since all three have script treatments in development for some time.

@Tevii How is this anything like the Ultimate Marvel universe?

They've had two crossovers in 12 years, that's just a little bit different to the multiple Earths journey, DC has taken us down

Morrison is gone? Great! I always thought it was a bad idea to give control of DC comics to Lex Luthor anyway

C has need a ullrebofor years its thre eadership that has failed there fan base and lack of relity in all there worlds and mixed up story lines.
concentraiting on superman and batman seems to be there limit.
DC needs help

I am still not buying this new 52, please go back to the way it was, there was no reason for this whole reboot, they ruined all the great storyline and so forth.

guys, guys, guys ... i read a lot of comics and i don't distinguish between brands. i read DC, Marvel, Vertigo, Image, Dark Horse and just about every other independent there is. writers and artists are constantly shuffling around and everybody borrows from everybody. company allegiances are just silly. there may be things that trend a little among companies for short periods of time but that's it. just read well-written books with great art and you can't go wrong.

for me the new 52 has been great. there are a lot of lackluster books sure, but there are SO MANY WELL WRITTEN titles that i have a hard time believing a true comic book fan can't find something appealing.

Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Stormwatch (with Martian Manhunter, Midnighter etc.), Batman, Batman & Robin, Birds of Prey, All-Star Western, Blue Beetle, Batwoman, Justice League Dark, these are just a few of the many GREAT titles.

For me if you are looking to try something on the DC side, avoid the "big gun" titles (Justice League, Superman, Green Lantern, etc.) and look for the lesser known titles (except Batman, that is a MUST READ). Coincidentally this is my general approach on the Marvel side as well and personally i think the books I read on that side are the cream of the crop (Daredevil, Punisher, Winter Soldier etc.).

I will say that right now IMAGE COMICS seems to have the most consistently good titles. Check out Saga (easily one of the best books in the last 10 years), Manhattan Projects and Thief of Thieves, just to name a few. Breakout of the rockem sockem superhero world a little bit, you will find it rewarding. Saga is an ultra-hip sci fi adventure anyway. You could see Joss Whedon directing a film adaptation of it some day.

I've been reading several of the titles since the new 52 started, and while a lot of them are actually pretty good reads, I have to admit that it's pretty clear that DC has no real idea what they're doing with the whole "reboot" thing.

I mean, the timeline is all over the place. You have the first arc of Justice League starting 5 years ago, but Batman has been active longer. And then Action Comics takes place even before that. And then anything that Geoff Johns has been involved with recently isn't actually rebooted at all eg: Green Lantern or anything remotely tied to Brightest Day (Aquaman, Swamp Thing which then ties into Animal Man, etc).

Or how the guy who's writing Teen Titans said that Tim Drake was never Robin, he just went straight to being Red Robin, despite saying IN HIS OWN BOOK that Tim was a former Robin. Or how in Red Hood and the Outlaws they make reference to Starfire being in the Teen Titans (mentioning other classic characters), when the new Teen Titans started by Red Robin is clearly supposed to be the first incarnation of the team.

It goes on and on. So while the quality of the books themselves is generally pretty good (at least the titles I've read), the overall direction of the universe is less of a "reboot" and more of a "cluster[frick]"