Also worth noting the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communist rule were two different things. While both were unthinkable in the 80s, in retrospect, its totally possible there would have been a democratic USSR or a Communist ruled independent Russia in a slightly different world. It's even more…

Charlie Hebdo wasn't ISIS, it was al Qaeda, although they did do it in an attempt to reestablish themselves as a major force.

It was Gorby who ran for president of Russia and got like 1% of the vote. Dubcek didn't run for president of Czechoslovakia. He was successfully elected the first post-Communist speaker of the Czechoslovak parliament for the Slovak branch of Havel's party. Then he left to found his own social democratic party which…

The key to Snyder's success. He wrote a comic titled "Batman 1#" it has nothing to do with him personally as a writer. They could have given that book to anyone and it would have been a bestseller, rocketing its writer to stardom. They could have given it to fucking Scott Lobdell and we'd all be talking about how…

Lex Luthor steals 12 pies.

I agree with you but I also think it might be pants on head moronic in a fun way. I also liked the retcon punch.

You are a bad person. I pray you see the error of your ways.

My first thought when I saw the announcement was "Dan Jurgens on Action Comics? Seriously? I'm sure he's a nice old man and I don't wish him any harm but you can't let this boring old fucker who hasn't updated his style in 30 years write your flagship title" then I heard the pre-Flashpoint Superman thing and I thought…

His waste is obscured on all the preview covers! He definitely doesn't have a collar though!

Pre-Flashpoint Superman is now the main Superman of the post-Flashpoint universe. They won't say what happened to the Superman who's been Superman for the past 5 years.

Yeah, I'm happy for Tom King that he's getting high profile work but I would honestly rather keep reading Vision and Omega Men rather than Batman. Hopefully it will continue with the Spiral stuff from Grayson.

I've read that it's going to star two different Blue Beetles but they haven't said which ones. The cover features a Blue Beetle who looks Hispanic but also looks too old to be Jaime Reyes.

Hey, since it hasn't gotten a Newswire story, can we talk about DC Rebirth? DC Rebirth looks shitty.

There is no formal deal between DC and Gaiman, or between DC and Robinson. It's just a rare instance of DC not being dicks.

When I first started reading Starman, I assumed, like you, that Jack was supposed to be annoying. The more I read though, the more I saw that all the characters talk in pop culture references. I just think Robinson is an overrated writer.

One part of me agrees with you. The other part of me is psyched because this is basically going to be a student/teacher lesbian ecchi.

I'm thinking more like Utena.

Making a sequel to Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, collecting money from the government in return for running their office in a nuclear waste site.

So it's going to be about an adult teacher awakening one of her nubile young students into the world of lesbianism. Excellent.

I think it would be fair to say Production IG tend to do material that's less kid friendly, more sci fi, and "serious". I want to say dark and gritty but that sounds like an insult since Batman vs Superman is on everyone's mind right now. Dark and gritty but in a mature, nuanced way.