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Emoryal

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Justice League Dark was really good this week mostly because it re-established that Mordru is powerful as hell and is not to be fukked with.
I know that Snyder's Justice League book gets most of the attention but JL: Dark is my pick for best Justice League book being published currently.
Justice League Dark has been good since this otherkind arc started. Same as how Doctor Strange has been good since the new book.
 

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Rumor is that they'll let King finish his Batman story in another book, either Catwoman or another spinoff series.

My question is why? They'd be 15 issues away from 100, and they wouldn't relaunch Batman with a new #1 that close to a milestone, so why not let him finish his run in the main book? Unless they have an A-list creator in mind already to take over (hopefully not Bendis, even though he'd be a better fit for Batman than Superman), it'd just be a bunch of useless filler arcs in between the end of King's run and issue 100, just like how Detective Comics was between Tynion and Tomasi's runs. That's not gonna get sales up any more than finishing out King's run will.
 

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Rumor is that they'll let King finish his Batman story in another book, either Catwoman or another spinoff series.

My question is why? They'd be 15 issues away from 100, and they wouldn't relaunch Batman with a new #1 that close to a milestone, so why not let him finish his run in the main book? Unless they have an A-list creator in mind already to take over (hopefully not Bendis, even though he'd be a better fit for Batman than Superman), it'd just be a bunch of useless filler arcs in between the end of King's run and issue 100, just like how Detective Comics was between Tynion and Tomasi's runs. That's not gonna get sales up any more than finishing out King's run will.
It wouldn't shock me to see them hand the book to Bendis.
Honestly while his Superman hasn't been bad I do think this whole Leviathan thing would have worked better with Batman than Superman.
 

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It wouldn't shock me to see them hand the book to Bendis.
Honestly while his Superman hasn't been bad I do think this whole Leviathan thing would have worked better with Batman than Superman.

A Bendis Batman book with Alex Maleev on art is a dream team for a lot of people, but I really don't want him doing too many books at DC when he's already doing both Superman books, Wonder Comics and all his Jinxworld stuff.

He could get away with that at Marvel because they publish more books. DC only has about 2/3 of the weekly output that Marvel has, so he'd be overtaking too much of the line.
 

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Creators nowadays are already apprehensive about doing work for the Big Two.

If you pull one of your top writers off of your top book, shortly before he would have finished his run, when it's still the top-selling book at DC, and has been nominated for and won multiple awards, that will not instill confidence for the next generation of writers, or the current ones who are on smaller books trying to make a name for themselves.
 

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Creators nowadays are already apprehensive about doing work for the Big Two.

If you pull one of your top writers off of your top book, shortly before he would have finished his run, when it's still the top-selling book at DC, and has been nominated for and won multiple awards, that will not instill confidence for the next generation of writers, or the current ones who are on smaller books trying to make a name for themselves.

I feel you.

However, King has been underwhelming with this Batman series for a while. And he has been stringing it along just to reach 100 or 105. The material was suffering, quality-wise.

And his Heroes in Crisis is another story. :aicmon:

His Mister Miracle series was cool though.:ehh:
 

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It's official: Tom King leaves the main Batman title with issue #85, it returns to a monthly schedule thereafter, and King concludes his Batman story with a 12-issue Batman/Catwoman series drawn by Clay Mann:

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BATMAN/CATWOMAN #1 CONTINUES ONGOING BAT/CAT ROMANCE
 

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Couple of my rants/random thoughts:


*Why won’t they let him finish his story?!

I know I’m in the minority, but I dug King’s run. He showed exactly how crazy Batman/Bruce Wayne is.

* I’m heavy into that mobile game Marvel Contest Of Champions. This months new champs are Cull Obsidian aka Black Dwarf and Ebony Maw. Next month they bringing Namor and Sue Richards to da contest.
:wow:

*Cant wait to see what Mephisto is up to.


*I saw DC FINALLY about to do the promised/delayed “3 Jokers” storyline.


*Hickman straightening out the X-Men franchise is NUTS.....I ain’t been this hype for a book since Kurt Busiek n George Perez run on “Avengers”.

*Speaking of Hickman and Busiek.....who’s Avengers run do ya think was better?
 
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