A trio of DC Comics’ biggest titles will go green at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle this weekend!
The publisher revealed the exclusive covers for Batman #17 – in the die-cut Death of the Family cover style by Greg Capullo, Green Arrow #17 (the Seattle-based hero is drawn by new artist Andrea Sorrentino) and Justice League of America #1 by David Finch.
DC Comics will be at booth 108. Emerald City Comicon (in the hometown of yours truly) is this weekend, March 1-3.
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Batwoman #17 The mythic conclusion of Kate Kane and Wonder Woman’s fight against Medusa and her army of monsters.
Captain Marvel #10 The unthinkable has happened to Carol Danvers. What happens to a hero who loves flight but can no longer fly? Is she less a hero? Who wants to make sure Carol remains grounded?
Indestructible Hulk #4 Bruce Banner leads a SHIELD team on a classified mission under the ocean where Attuma is ready to strike. Can an out-of-his element Hulk defeat the Atlantean powerhouse? Is there a traitor on Bruce’s think tank team?
Justice League of America #1 With a roster like Catwoman, Vibe, Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Hawkman you know this team is going to be dynamic. “America’s Most Dangerous” are recruited Continue reading Comic Book Picks for February 20th
Justice League of America #1 by Geoff Johns and David Finch arrives this week.
Steve Trevor, Green Arrow, Catwoman, Katana, Hawkman, Stargirl, Martian Manhunter, Vibe and Green Lantern (Simon Baz) form a powerful alliance of unlikely heroes in the fight against a new Secret Society of Super Villains!
The first arc will be called World’s Most Dangerous and hailed Martian Manhunter as the most dangerous of all. Vibe will become one of the most powerful heroes in The New 52! Yes, you read right. Vibe is back!
Geoff Johns will co-write (with Andrew Kreisberg and Pete Woods on art) a new Justice League of America: Vibe #1. How will Johns and company reboot the Justice League Detroit era character into one of the most powerful and important heroes of the New 52?
“We’ve made him a really grounded person and a very realistic person,” Kreisberg explained to IGN about the series’ protagonist. “In some ways, there’s sort of a wish fulfillment for comic book fans because he’s a teenage kid that’s suddenly given superpowers and suddenly he’s in the Justice League of America working alongside the heroes that he, as a kid, had worshipped. In some ways, he’s teenage me or teenage you, and suddenly he gets to be with the Justice League. And he reacts in what we hope is a very realistic way. He has a lot of questions and he’s got a lot of fears. The DC Universe is populated with a lot of god-like characters like Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and a lot of inscrutable characters like Batman. What was most exciting for us was the opportunity to create almost a real person who gets thrust into this world that the audience can really relate to and that we can really dig into as a person.”
“One of the smartest things Geoff said early on was, ‘It’s really important we come up with a franchise for him, and it can’t just be that he has powers,”’ Kreisberg continued with NEWSARAMA.
“So we hit upon the idea that, since the Darkseid invasion began in Detroit, this is where the membrane is weakest between the dimensions, because this is where they punched through. And this left a crack in the fabric of reality between all the dimensions of all the Earths. Things kind of fall through, and people sneak through, and if there’s going to be another invasion, this is where it will begin. Since Cisco draws his powers from the energy of these vibrational cracks, he’s also able to sense these incursions. He knows when things are here that shouldn’t be, or when things come through. And he says, with some irony, that he’s essentially become an inter-dimensional border cop. I think that gives a strong franchise to the book. He’s here to clean up Detroit from these incursions, but the people he’s working for — Amanda Waller and A.R.G.U.S. — don’t always, necessarily, have his best interest at heart, or the best interest of some of the innocent people who come through. So it’s going to lead to a lot of interesting conflicts.”
Thanks to The Source.
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A brand new Justice League of America series by Geoff Johns (Justice League, Green Lantern) and David Finch (Batman: The Dark Knight) hits comic book shops this week!
Former Justice League liasion and Wonder Woman main squeeze Steve Trevor has recruited an eclectic team of heroes to fight the Secret Society of Super Villains. The roster includes classic heroes, rogues, New 52 creations like Simon Baz, Justice Society icons and a blast from the past maybe no one was expecting!
How did Martian Manhunter, Catwoman, Hawkman, Green Arrow, Stargirl, Vibe, Katana and the new Green Lantern come together? Geoff Johns told MTV Geek :
“The idea of why the JLA forms, and what it is, and what it’s in reaction to… It kind of spins out of Justice League #12; what happens in that, and then subsequent issues, because JLA comes out next year some time. But the book itself is a group of heroes that aren’t necessarily coming together because they want to be together… They’ve been selected specifically. They all want, or need something that Steve Trevor, and the other person behind the scenes that’s in charge of this team can provide.
The first arc is going to deal with something they learn is called The Secret Society of Super-Villains.”
Why is Batman’s femme fatale on the team?
“Catwoman is a very different perspective, and is brought in for a very different reason. She stays because they have something that she wants… And it’s not at all what you’d expect. It’s not a big diamond, it’s not a get out of jail free card, it’s something she’s been searching for that’s going to lead to a whole exploration of a side of Selina Kyle we haven’t yet seen.
But she is going to have a lot of fun on the team, she is going to be the Veronica to Stargirl’s Betty, if you will, and she has a new dynamic because we haven’t really seen her interact much with all these characters. Some of them not at all, like Vibe, and Stargirl… There’s not a lot of interaction between her and Martian Manhunter, and I don’t think she’s ever interacted with Steve Trevor that I can remember. Catwoman has a very different reason for being on the team.”
And then let’s talk about the surprise addition of Vibe – the Hispanic super hero from the Justice League Detroit era who hasn’t been heard from since that era! Not only will the sonic powered hero be part of the team but have his own spinoff series: Justice League of America: Vibe premiering the same week!
For more from Geoff Johns here’s the MTV Geek link.
Justice League of America arrives this week.
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The announcement was a big surprise. The lineup with packed with surprise members. Now we know more about the upcoming Justice League of America by Geoff Johns and David Finch.
Steve Trevor recruits Green Arrow, Catwoman, Katana, Hawkman, Stargirl, Martian Manhunter, Vibe and Green Lantern (Simon Baz) for this brand new series. DC Comics revealed the first arc will be called World’s Most Dangerous and hailed Martian Manhunter as the most dangerous of all. Why does the world need this team and what’s their mission? Find out in Justice League of America #1 this February.
Yes, you read right. Vibe is back! Geoff Johns will also co-write (with Andrew Kreisberg) a new Vibe series premiering the same month with art by Pete Woods. The unlikely comeback continues.
Katana (JLA and Birds of Prey) gets her own new series this month too by Ann Nocenti and Alex Sanchez with the ex-assassin out to restore glory to her former team, the Outsiders.
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DC Comics announced a brand new Justice League of America series by Geoff Johns (Justice League, Green Lantern) and David Finch (Batman: The Dark Knight) at Fan Expo Canada.
Steve Trevor will recruit an eclectic team of heroes to fight the Secret Society of Super Villains. Th roster pulls from the New 52, JSA and a shocker.
Martian Manhunter, Catwoman, Hawkman, Green Arrow, Stargirl, Vibe, Katana and the new Green Lantern. (Baz will be the first Arab Lantern debuting in September’s Green Lantern #0)
Geoff Johns tells MTV Geek why this new version of the team forms:
“The idea of why the JLA forms, and what it is, and what it’s in reaction to… It kind of spins out of Justice League #12; what happens in that, and then subsequent issues, because JLA comes out next year some time. But the book itself is a group of heroes that aren’t necessarily coming together because they want to be together… They’ve been selected specifically. They all want, or need something that Steve Trevor, and the other person behind the scenes that’s in charge of this team can provide.
The first arc is going to deal with something they learn is called The Secret Society of Super-Villains.”
There are a lot of surprise choices in this roster – Vibe? The choice that will make me try this book is Catwoman. Why is Batman’s femme fatale on the team?
“Catwoman is a very different perspective, and is brought in for a very different reason. She stays because they have something that she wants… And it’s not at all what you’d expect. It’s not a big diamond, it’s not a get out of jail free card, it’s something she’s been searching for that’s going to lead to a whole exploration of a side of Selina Kyle we haven’t yet seen.
But she is going to have a lot of fun on the team, she is going to be the Veronica to Stargirl’s Betty, if you will, and she has a new dynamic because we haven’t really seen her interact much with all these characters. Some of them not at all, like Vibe, and Stargirl… There’s not a lot of interaction between her and Martian Manhunter, and I don’t think she’s ever interacted with Steve Trevor that I can remember. Catwoman has a very different reason for being on the team.”
For more from Geoff Johns here’s the MTV Geek link.
Justice League of America arrives in 2013.
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