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No Context Comics: A Look at 3 Books I Don't Read from the week of May 15

After a few weeks of disappointing books, I was a little worried that reviewing comics I don't read was an unfair effort. But this week, we have some good ones. Mostly.

Well, I missed the column last week, but since I don’t get paid for this and in fact lose money, I have decided not to worry about it. But have no fear: the best column in all of comics criticism is back. I know everyone is eager to find out what I thought of the books I don’t read, so let’s get to it. This week’s comic reviews include: DC’s Outsiders #7, BOOM! Studios’ The Displaced #4, and…

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How waa 2022 for non-Superman DC comics?

Running through the other major Leaguers and a few others:

Batman - Unusually for Batman it was a mixed year. Film wise he of course did great, The Batman kicked off a new cinematic incarnation to widespread critical approval and solid commercial success. Multiple spinoffs set in that universe are in the works for HBO Max. Comics wise he (or his extended supporting cast) has a book for everyone and they run the gamut of great to crap. Shockingly his The Caped Crusader animated series instead of Superman's is the one that got sent on the road to find a home elsewhere, instead of on HBO Max and CN as originally planned. It looks like Amazon Prime will likely be where that lands but no official confirmation yet. Video game wise Gotham Knights flopped hard, getting mediocre reviews and even worse sales from what I've seen. There's also that terrible CW show of the same name still coming.

Wonder Woman - Historia carried her hard, being a truly legendary story that I think easily deserves to be the definitive origin for her and the Amazons. Outside of that her comics were mediocre, and of course WW3 got cancelled. Jenkins is finished and it looks like Gadot will be too, with her cameos in the movies coming this year serving as her swan song. At least the Monolith video game is safe for now.

The Flash - Adams' Wally book remained good and Barry's role in Dark Crisis was fine. Barry really shone in the Voidsong mini, I'd love to see that creative team do more with him, Miller of course made headlines but I expect most people didn't notice or care and that it won't really negatively impact the upcoming movie's box office performance.

Green Lantern - I enjoyed Thorne's GL run but man did plenty of people hate it. Still between Thorne and the Dark Crisis tie in issue, I think John had a good year. Hal came in second with decent usage in Dark Crisis. Jo came in third with her half of Thorne's book using her well. Rest of the GLs didn't get shit and Thorne's big massacre of the GLC got promptly undone, which even as a fan of Thorne I'm fine with because the GLC being on the verge of extinction is a plot I don't want to see anymore.

Aquaman - Probably his worst one since the Johns reboot. Attempts to push Jackson and Black Manta into the lead roles flopped hard. Neither the Jackson nor the Black Manta minis sold well, and the Aquamen mini it was all leading up to didn't even debut in the top 100 issues sold for the month it launched if memory serves me. I don't know what DC editorial, Brandon Thomas, or Chuck Brown were thinking but man did they totally shoot themselves in the foot. At least Aquaman & The Flash: Voidsong by Lanzig and Kelly ruled, that was Arthur's only comic win. Oh and WBD took the Aquaman: King of the Seas miniseries off of HBO Max, either to sell it to Amazon Prime or use it as a tax write-off.

Titans - They were terrible as always. Titans Academy ended with a whimper as yet another bold new direction for the franchise failed to take off.

JSA - Hey they finally got a new book!.. which is far more interested in Hypertime, Watchmen, and Huntress/Batman bullshit than it is in the actual JSA so far. Oh and it's been hit by delays too because it wouldn't be a Johns book without those! Least they had a great showing in Stargirl, both the show and the comic.

Black Adam - Hahaha oh Lord what a fucking disaster his push ended up being. The Rock indeed helped facilitate a change in DC's hierarchy by tanking at the box office, and making it easy for Gunn to cut ties with him. Priest's Black Adam was the only good thing to come out starring him, which is half a great character study on what a monster Adam is and half whatever the hell Priest is doing with Malik. Series lost it's star artist in Sandoval the minute it became clear the movie was a bust (not that I'm complaining), and Dark Crisis hilariously ended with an explicit Rock homage. Unless Johns once more fishes his boy from the wreckage after Priest's mini wraps up, I think Adam is due a benching for a while.

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https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1-2023-new-series-jackson-lanzing-collin-kelly-kev-walker

More info on the gotg relaunch, written by Collin Kelley & Jackson Lanzig

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Review: Gotham City Garage - Chapter 1

Review: Gotham City Garage – Chapter 1

Having a comic book based on a range of statues may sound like a crazy idea at first.  I mean who is to say what’s next; a movie franchise based on a theme park ride?  However, if you cast your minds back, creating stories for our heroes was what we did as kids with reams of action figures regardless of the fact that Batman and Spider-Man would never team up with Han Solo and Chewbacca to take…

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FIRST WATCH: Dark Horse Heads to Antartica for the Latest Lara Croft!

FIRST WATCH: Lara Croft is set to go on another globe-trotting adventure with "Tomb Raider: Inferno"! Will you be checking this one out? #ComicWatch

Dark Horse and Crystal Dynamics have announced a brand-new adventure for Lara Croft in “Tomb Raider: Inferno”! Welcoming back veteran Tomb Raider artist Phillip Sevy alongside writers Jackson Lanzig and Collin Kelly, Dark Horse Comics continues the story from the Rise of the Tomb Raider game with a new series designed to be a perfect jumping-on point for new readers. Tomb Raider: Inferno…

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Join Jackson Lanzig, B Dave Walters, Xander Jeanneret, Eric Campbell, Josephine McAdam and Sam de Leve as they save the USS Sally Ride in a special “Lower Deck” episode of Shield of Tomorrow. The Federation is on the brink of war with the Dominion. In the shadow of this cold war, the...

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Preview: Star Trek: Waypoint Special #1

Star Trek: Waypoint Special #1. An anthology spanning 50 years of #StarTrek! #comics

Star Trek: Waypoint Special #1

Dave Baker & Nicole Goux, Brandon Easton, Jackson Lanzig & Collin Kelly, Matthew Dow Smith • Nicole Goux, Josh Hood, Sonny Liew, Matthew Dow Smith (a) • Josh Hood (c)

The anthology series spanning 50 years of Star Trek returns in this oversized annual! These weird and wonderful stories—set during the Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and…

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IDW Announces Star Trek: Year Five Series

IDW Announces Star Trek: Year Five Series

IDW announced yesterday that an ambitious new Star Trek tale is on course for arrival in April. Focusing on Captain Kirk near the end of the original “five-year mission” in the original Trek timeline, the series is written by Jackson Lanzig and Collin Kelly with art by Stephen Thompson. Kelly promises a story with substance and meaning beyond the fiction.

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How to fight for freedom in a complicated world… and for freedom when working on a celebrity comic

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What are your expectations from this new Dawn of DCU relaunch?

Apparently the "official" name is New Dawn. New York Comic-Con this week means we're getting a bunch of announcements on what's coming post Dark Crisis. Good time to get in some predictions now before the official announcements drop. My expectations are:

Williamson will be writing a relaunched Superman ongoing. He's set to be a part of the Superman panel at NYCC and he's the odd man out there. PKJ, Jurgens, and Russell have major Superman specific books either already out or on the way, Williamson does not currently have anything starring Clark. Between Jon's book being established at this point for better or for worse, Clark returning back to Metropolis, PKJ saying Action is shifting to being a Superfamily book on Twitter, the rumored Cavill cameo in Black Adam this month, and Superman's 85th anniversary next year, there's no way DC isn't going to have a proper Superman book for 2023.

I wager that Conner's Superboy miniseries by Porter and Lindsay will be scheduled to debut in Jan as part of the new linewide relaunch. DC is probably hoping that will boost it's sales and get more people to pay attention.

I also expect Williamson to be writing the "Legacy League" title with Jon, Jace, Yara, Jo, Jackson, and maybe a few others. Meanwhile I bet Waid gets the "classic" League, with the lineup being that Dan Mora banner drawn above, and Taylor gets the Titans with the New Teen Titans lineup. Or maybe I have that reversed and Waid gets the Titans while Taylor, as the new golden boy, gets the Justice League.

Waid is also supposedly writing a "Magical Crisis" event next year which will feature all of DC Mystic.

Geoff Johns will be revealed to be writing a Legion of Superheroes 12 issue miniseries as a companion book to his JSA mini. First however there will be a War of the Four Legions mini-event similar to Batman vs. Robin, which will use Hypertime to eject the Bendisboot from being the "canon" future and restore Johns' Retroboot. Johns probably has other minis in the works that might get announced too.

Stephanie Phillips is off Harley Quinn and I'm guessing that's because she will be writing a new Green Arrow book. She's expressed a lot of love for the Arrows, she wrote the Roy Harper one shot for Infinite Frontier, and the only other one I could see getting the book over her is Williamson.

Shawn Martinborough has been teasing a Red Hood book so that's likely to show up

Official announcement that Nightwing #100 will be a wedding issue between Dick and Babs

Milestone was already announced to get a second season, so maybe we'll get details on Static, Icon & Rocket, and Hardware S2.

John Stewart & the Emerald Knights was teased at the end of the previous GL run. Thorne is writing a Stewart one shot that I believe will act as an "issue 0" to let any potential newcomers get background on what happened in the previous series and then go directly into the new ongoing which Thorne will also write. For Hal I'm expecting there will be a new Hal Jordan & the GLC book delivering traditional GL stories starring Hal as the main protagonist. Guessing Williamson will be writing that, would've said Waid but he seems to already be stretched thin with all his rumored books. I bet Sampere is going to draw the Hal book given he loves Hal and GL, he's said he has post Dark Crisis DC books in the works, and DC is likely going to give him a dream book as a reward for doing the event.

Not sure if we'll get a new Aquaman book, his movie is now not coming until Dec 2023, but if we do I'm hoping Jackson & Lanzig will be writing it since I greatly enjoyed their Voidsong book.

Tom King has three new comics projects in the works, it's probably too early to announce what they are but you never know.

Webtoon will announce more DC series, probably at least one featuring the Superman or Wonder Woman corners of the DCU.

And that's all I can think of. I'm sure there will be some surprises, at the very least I want Dan Watters to get a major DC book somewhere since I've greatly enjoyed his work, and all he has right now is an Azrael mini. There will be some Black Label book announcements, probably mostly Batman, some more minis here and there, and with any luck Batman won't be 50% of the line anymore.

One last major thought going forward. Infinite Frontier was an attempt to increase diversity at DC, an attempt which seems mostly to have flopped. DC did try to put the spotlight on their nonwhite characters, to increase rep for LGBT, to bring in more non-white/non-straight creators for their books, and it didn't work out overall. The Aquaman books had an all black writing team, which attempted to raise Kaldur to equal status with Arthur and shift Manta into a more anti-hero role, and the books absolutely tanked. John Stewart and Jo headlined the GL title, and sales were just ok. Most of the Future Staters have been busts with only Jon and Jace currently holding on to their titles. We got some really great books out of IF, absolutely love Ram V's Swamp Thing run which gave us a new Indian Swamp Thing, but I'm expecting New Dawn to be to IF what Rebirth was to DC You: a return to focusing on the traditional (white and straight) A-Listers. Johns and Waid seem set to take over as the new architects for DC once more, and that "bread and butter" old school storytelling is what those two love.

No doubt there will be the usual bitching from Twitter and Tumblr about this shift (although maybe not given nobody seems to have loved stuff like Bendis Legion) but you guys who wanted more diversity didn't show up for it, so DC is "embracing tradition" once more. Hopefully that Legacy League book does actually happen and that at least keeps some of the new blood from falling into Limbo. Outside of the direct market, Webtoons seems like it might be able to keep carrying the torch for diversity at DC given that's where they launched Vixen and Zatanna.