DC Death Watch

[samurainoir]

So not five seconds after Blackest Night has ended, they decide to kill of the new Atom, Ryan Choi to show what badasses Deathstroke and the rest of the Titans for Hire are.

Not that you couldn't see this coming with Ray Palmer back in the spotlight via Brightest Day.

Too bad though, I did enjoy some of the wild stuff that happened in the Simone/Byrne series.

[B-Lister]

leave it to the new direction at DC to try to reset the clock to 1965.

First They ruined one of the best things that ever happened to Batman by bringing back Jason Todd Then they sidelined Kyle Rayner, then with Wally West.

now they're trying to turn Bart Allen into Wally West pre-1985.

and this is just another in a long series of slights the current editorial staff have perpetuated on fans.

I give it any day now that Barbara Gordon is back in her tights. swinging off rooftops.

[BlackKnight]

I give it any day now that Barbara Gordon is back in her tights. swinging off rooftops.

That's the 1 That should have happened yrs ago imo. Not a Fan of any other Batgirl.

[The Toyroom]

Good riddance to Ryan Choi.....there was nothing wrong with Ray Palmer in the first place that Geoff Johns couldn't fix. I wish they had done the same to Jaime Reyes and kept Ted Kord's Blue Beetle.

It's interesting to see that most of the One Year Later stuff has been changed already....

[samurainoir]

They get to have their cake and eat it to with Beetle... he's co-starring in Booster Gold as a time paradox while Reyes is still running around current day (for now). Although one would think that DC has a vested interest in the new BB now that he's animated and toyetic in B&B.

[boynightwing]

I don't understand DC's doubling up on all the heroes. 2 Green Arrows (assuming Connor is still around?), 3 Flashes, a Kid Flash, a new Impulse (I would have left Bart as Impulse, its a cooler name and it sets him apart), 2 Atoms, possibly 2 Firestorms(?), Mon-El and Superman, Nightwing Batman and Bruce will return. 2 Robins (Tim and Damion, then if Nightwing comes back its like 3 Robin's)...and so on. blah.

I love DC but its becoming love/hate lately. I might have to break up with DC...

[The Toyroom]

^ DC tries to have "legacy" heroes....some work like the GLs and Flashes, others don't

[Riffster]

I won't miss Choi/Atom, he was kinda lame, and I bought his whole series.

[BlackKnight]

The Conner character is more like NightWing these Days in the Books , when He shows up. I dunno if he's actually used a Bow in the Last yr or More.

I also think Good Old Roy might end up being the Punisher/Vigilantee type character. It sure seems like it.

[Riffster]

^ Roy's back to being called Arsenal so take that for a good hint

[spamn]

Good riddance to Ryan Choi.....there was nothing wrong with Ray Palmer in the first place that Geoff Johns couldn't fix. I wish they had done the same to Jaime Reyes and kept Ted Kord's Blue Beetle.

It's interesting to see that most of the One Year Later stuff has been changed already....

I think they missed a huge opportunity by not having Booster Gold become the Gold Beetle. Take Blue Beetle's costume design, with Booster Gold's colors, and have Booster become head of Kord Industries in the wake of Ted's murder.

[The Toyroom]

^ I wouldn't have bought that....I like Booster Gold too much to have him usurp another character's identity like that...

[samurainoir]

I'm actually kind of glad we are finally going to get that JLI Blue and Gold spinoff book in some form now with Giffen and Dematties writing.

I think they still "got it", and I've enjoyed The Defenders, Hero Squared and Metal Men.

Part of me is kind of curious about Chuck Dixon's aborted storyline that would have had Tim on the outs with Bruce for a handful of issues and gotten Tim to take on the Blue Beetle mantle for a short time under Ted Kord's supervision.

[spamn]

^ I wouldn't have bought that....I like Booster Gold too much to have him usurp another character's identity like that...

I thought it would've worked given the friendship the two had and Booster's reaction to the death. He felt guilty over being in a hospital bed while Ted went off and got killed, and was pretty down on himself for not having a better grip on 'history' enough to prevent things like that, and hevanished into the future to become a better hero. It made perfect sense to me that he would want to honor his best friend by taking on the mantle.

I know he's got fans, but he's never been able to sustain a longterm book, and to me he was just a guy with a cool looking costume and comic relief in the 80s JLA. I thought it'd be a way to make better use of the Booster Gold character and keep the Blue Beetle legacy alive and than eventually resurrecting Kord, or introducing a completely new character look with the same name instead.

He ended up having a pretty good resurgence in popularity and attention after that anyway, though, so what do I know?

[samurainoir]

It's kind of funny how the death of Ted was actually the best thing that ultimately could have happened to Booster from a story perspective. It brought him back into the spotlight in Countdown, gave him a major role in Infinite Crisis, he ended up starring in 52 and then spinning off into his own series. Now he's headlining no less than three series this year! With Giffen on Booster Gold and Justice League Generation Lost and Dan Jurgans on Time Masters, there are not a lot of other heroes with that kind of exposure these days outside the Big Five of the JLA.

Geoff Johns really put the shine back on Booster by killing off Beetle.