DC Comics Throwing A Lot of Stuff At The Wall

DC Comics are going All In to wrap up 2024 and get fans excited. All In on What? Just about everything. DC are throwing a lot of different ideas outside of Absolute Universe, hoping something sticks. Batman: Dark Patterns returns to the Dark Knights roots as a detective. We're also getting the first-ever Two-Face ongoing series. DC fans can also look forward to new series staring Challengers of the Unknown and Metamorpho. Wes tries to make heads or tails of DC Comics strategy with their latest DC All In announcements. DC Comics throwing a lot of stuff at the wall.
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[@AL-ws5yi]

What’s this weird obsession with comics about villains? It seems like a one trick pony

[@Dion1605x]

Can't they just do a good Batman comic more? Just hire Paul Dini or Ed Brubaker. They are more talanted these DC writers right now.

[@BadNewsYouNeedToKnow]

Neither guy will write stories for comic rates when they get stolen for the movies and cartoons.

[@Philosophical24]

That’s not their agenda

[@ryanwilliams7639]

Honestly I’m buying the least amount of DC comics I’ve ever bought. Green lantern, world’s finest, Superman and action comics. I’m not going to care about the absolute universe or the new justice league because it seems it’s going to lead to a bunch of crossovers. I just want to be able to read one book, is it too much to ask for?

[@namelesswhocares8648]

Remember back in the 90s After the knightfall saga there was this amazing run when Gotham city had an earthquake. And then they showed how the us government abandon that city and how it slowly rebuilt itself. It sounds weird saying it, but looking back ,it was a beautiful saga. And now this shit

[@OdanUrr87]

I can get behind a 12-issue mini-series about Batman solving cases, so long as the writing and art are up to it.

[@voyager7]

We should start a poll as to how long it will be to the next DC "event" aka retcon/rebirth/reset/etc.

[@ryanwilliams7639]

Yeah it feels like every year since 2021 we’ve had a relaunch of dc.

[@e.e.-tv1683]

Anywhere from 3 to 6 months and DC will launch another event.

[@Lauren007E]

Can we just get good writers? I just want the Batgirl series to be good. Please. Pretty please. And stop going back to Batman's origin. You just keep ruining it. But please do at least let him be a detective. Even the last red hood story they had recently wasnt even about him. He was a side character in his own stuff. I just don't want them to do that to Cassandra. Nightwing hasnt been nightwing for ages now either Idk, I guess all we can hope for now is not total shit.

[@Dion1605x]

Wes, can you do a review to the final issue of Ram V's Detective Comic run? It was horrendous.

[@EvandroACruz]

Yes, so many plotholes and things left open. The run dragged for so long and the ending was boring.

[@BabyAbood123]

It was? I dropped Ram V's Tec couple of weeks before his final issue. I saw some people praising his last issue. His pretentious and esoteric writing was getting out of hand. It sucks he'll write New Gods, but I'll read the preview first before deciding to buy the first issue. His final issue of his Catwoman was horrendous too.

[@lo1bo2]

I'm going to give Metamorpho #1 a try. Single issue stories are a plus, and it's "only" $3.99 instead of $4.99.

[@sidneyrivera3578]

None of these book’s solicitation was good enough for me to make the pre-order. They are all “wait and see”.

[@BaldurOverlord]

... And I am All-out

[@kelpietales4503]

I also like Two-Face and the premise does sound interesting but not sure if it can keep an ongoing. Villain protagonists can work but are tricky. They need to be interesting enough, have the right writer and cast to make it work especially if they aren't going to always have their arch nemesis. And this may be mean and I do like Poison Ivy but I do think her mini became an ongoing mainly because of the variant covers. It makes sense the Justice League would have a large roster with different heroes available for specific jobs as well as plenty of back-up. Storytelling purposes, yes it can possibly be a headache juggling so many characters but hopefully this will be more like the cartoon of the same name that succeeded with giving the large cast chances to shine. Or like animated YJ as the seasons went on and the characters were almost all glorified cameos with hamfisted lessons sometimes.

[@EvandroACruz]

None of these new comics grab my interest. DC have so many mediocre books ongoing right now. This DC All In will be a huge failure in my opinion.

[@MrCburgon74]

The issue with DC is trying to reach and relate to everyone personalities and temperament, I feel most of us want logical storytelling without everybody real world identity, DC trying to grab an audience with a specific narrative that doesn’t fit with the overall story and characters involved forces reboots and loses the audience attention, most comics need to tone down the soap opera writing and give us storytelling with complex scenarios that focus on characters experiencing conditions similar to are own and stay in the comic book spectrum

[@robertkulb6640]

I’d read a Better Call Saul type series starring Two-Face if it’s good.

[@jackiechun6540]

think DC's gonna get shut down by the end of the year when absolute and all in are huge failures, all this stuff they're doing now just seems like some final act of desperation

[@jensendenoyes2470]

DC dropped the ball with Dawn of DC by not releasing an Aquaman and Nubia series.

[@EvandroACruz]

Aquaman don't sells.

[@mikehunt1924]

They should have called this push "The Desperate Last Gasp"

[@tednolan]

One of the "Challengers" reboots (maybe 20 years ago now?) was really awful. This one can hardly not be better. I really enjoyed "The Terrifics" from a year or so ago. Had a real classic-FF feel, and Metamorpho was very good there.

[@cheeseburgersuperior1874]

yeah. the terrifics should've stayed, not ended. it was better than fantastic four. it could've beaten fantastic four.

[@cheeseburgersuperior1874]

all in? tell that to the giants who went all in towards the source wall. lol.

[@phoenixmight5971]

In my opinion, any character could have staying power if written well. Metamorpho, Plastic Man, Etrigan, Dr Fate, even the detective chip could

[@ZiKoN22]

I'm kind of excited for Batman Dark Patterns. Keep It Simple Stupid. After falling behind on reading Batman, and this past week finally catching up to 153, I feel Batman is way too complicated right now. Why do I need to read Batman where Joker is in it for 7 consecutive issues. Joker has his own title! too much Joker. There's just so many layers to the current Batman title, WAY too many Robins. Zur, failsafe, giant bat-family, Waller. I prefer simpler Batman stories, stuff like Haunted Knight. Not a fan of a Two Face on going series.

[@SparrowAaron]

Sometimes DC has to put out a book to keep its copyright. Hence… Challengers of the Unknown and Metamorpho.

[@YTLawnGnome]

So, I am not the biggest fan of Christopher Cantwel. However, Plastic Man No More was a pretty big surprise so many him in small doses will be tollerable. I personally want to learn more about the Challengers so hopefully I will get that in this mini series.

[@Yoslizzle]

i added absolute batman, wonder woman, and superman to my pull list. people wanted different. so here we go.

[@BirchTheGreat]

I do feel there is an area for some of these old concepts like the Challangers or lesser known or forgotten characters to find their "roles" or place in the DC Universe. There are a number of characters that can't hold an ongoing and don't really have place on a existing team. BUT they can still have solid roles as guest stars or recurring characters. But their roles need to be established.

[@PureMaddnessOne]

Both the companies need 2 do a crisis type thing and remove the disease that is plaguing the comics atm. Have it that both Dr Doom and Lex Luthor found out that all heroes and villains have been cloned and corrupted. The find the TRUE versions AND Access being locked up by the Brothers, whom r under control of the Disease (or whatever name). Have a new character that will help the TRUE versions and remove the fake ones. Some of the clones (both heroes and villains) side with the TRUE versions and some clones (either villains and heroes) side with the Disease. Either the TRUE versions were captured and cloned on diff times from each other.

[@yamatokira4335]

Where's JLA? DC said they gonna relaunch the series with Dan Mora and Mark Waid as creative team.

[@cinexploits]

Back in the 70s they called this "the DC Explosion" which led to the "DC Implosion."

[@VaughnEsper]

None of these series sound great to me and I'll be passing on all of these. And I'll hear no besmirchment of Hickmans awesome Avengers run! Shame on you Wes!

[@theprincipalofficer_1]

DC all in mean all in or fail and go under. Batman the axe murder hobo because pistol bad for some reason and his axe kept on his chest some how?

[@russellbarba8177]

Challengers...modern writers don't get old characters so they try to force a square peg into a round hole ...and two-face is just there to make the villain 15:14 a hero and still are villains too ....dc just isn't trying anymore...

[@GeorgeRenda]

I stopped buying DC months ago and havent looked back.

[@BirchTheGreat]

Wow a batman book set in the "year one" territory, this is totally new and never seen before

[@אילוןאמיתי]

Still haven't found a reason to love two face

[@אילוןאמיתי]

Dan waters order of the world was very good

[@cecillbill]

Just gonna watch recaps and reviews on KZbin.

[@raiderbear1]

Awesome work guys

[@incubustimelord5947]

There is no comic book or graphic novel worth reading about in DC Comics. There is no super-hero character worth reading about in DC Comics. DC is All In? Yeah, All Insane. DC = Dead Company.

[@EvandroACruz]

DC = Deceased Comics

[@TheUnseenFenianHand]

Don’t really have a problem with any of these books. Creative teams could be much worse. DC has always published mini series with obscure characters and ideas and generally been a bit braver than Marvel since the 80s in having a bit of variety in their lines. Just look at any point of the 80s for an example, which was great period for DC. Nothing here I’m majorly excited for but Ewing, Watters and Cantwell are better than a lot of alternative options. Jury is still out on Ward as a writer.

[@charlesharrison1907]

With the same fail writers, you’re not going to make any headway. Tom Taylor shouldn’t be on Batman and everyone wants to do the same fail ideas.

[@ricrey431]

Is the Azrael being spoke of the new one or Jean Paul Valley? I'm only interested in Jean Paul Valley.

[@scaldwell1982]

Jean Paul Valley although he acts very different

[@ricrey431]

@@scaldwell1982 I suspect for the worst. Maybe I'll look into it to see how they portray him, but I'm very pessimistic.

[@tammydj9941]

I'm all out for DC and marvel books. Not buying any big2 woke bs and stupidity.

[@darkfenix1516]

Two Face ongoing written by Ed Brubaker 20 or maybe 15 years ago would have been great. DC comics really are doing everything they can to sell something.

[@codernerd7076]

All in on Year One, reboot?! 😅

[@thorodinson5520]

DC comics! A GAY UNIVERSE WHERE GEORGE TAKEI IS ALIVE AND HES GOING TO GET THAT WANG! HE WILL DABBLE YOUR WANG WITH LATEX!

[@cicolasnage5684]

Clean that man’s rear! Oh my!