The Logos for the DCnU

[The Toyroom]

Some haven't been changed (good), some have been changed (some for the good and a LOT for the bad IMO):



Couple points....
- The Wonder Woman logo seems to remind me of the one used during the 80s Roy Thomas/Gene Colan run

- Legion Lost looks like a blatant rip-off of the "Lost" logo

- All Justice League logos BLOW

- Ditto with The Flash

- Aquaman's is the worst logo I've ever seen for the character

- A LOT of them look like something that could've been cooked up in Photoshop in under 5 minutes. Doesn't anyone draw logos by HAND anymore?

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I'm not one to get worked up over stuff like this, since it's such a small part of the book.... but I gotta say, there's a LOT of "Batman" goin' on there.... For trying something "new" it seems mostly Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and variants.

Don C.

[samurainoir]

Hmmmm....

I'm not one to get worked up over stuff like this, since it's such a small part of the book.... but I gotta say, there's a LOT of "Batman" goin' on there.... For trying something "new" it seems mostly Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and variants.

Don C.

Agreed. When you look at it all laid out like that... There really isn't much here that isn't a retread or fairly superficial change to what's come before.

Justice league dark conceptually isn't that different than DC's last Attempt at a supernatural superhero team... Other than leveraging the Justice League brand.

Jonah Hex gets replaced with All Star Western as the token Western book. At this point, the fifth time Stormwatch as been rebooted, not counting all the volumes of The Authority.

Plus a few books that probably are not that different than the kind of material Vertigo has been mining for decades now anyways.

Karen Berger really needs to get Neil Gaiman back on another Sandman project, as much love as I have for Fables I don't think it can single-handedly hold up the imprint which has been floundering for a big Sandman level hit.

[aquatroy]

Looks like someone discovered photoshop.

[ctc]

>There really isn't much here that isn't a retread or fairly superficial change to what's come before

If they REALLY want to be new, without producing actual new characters and stuff, they should bring back:

-the original Starfire
-the ORIGINAL Outsiders. (Not the Batman team.)
-Major Bummer
-Foglio's Stanley and his Monster
-Foglio's Inferior Five
-bring back some of the alternate future stories; but keep it vague which is the "real" one by dropping the occasional hint in the main books.... stuff like Kamandi, Hercules Unchained, Space Cabby, Tommy Tomorrow....
-to that end, bring back some of the characters from the mythic past, but keep it vague as to which past is the "real" one. Stuff like Stalker, Claw the Unconquered, Arion....
-Bring back something like the sisters from "The Witching Hour," or Cain and Abel, but don't go Vertigo'n them all up.... make it a "light" (-ish) horror series.
-and I think we can ALL agree that a "Sugar and Spike" comeback is WAY overdue.

Don C.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Looks like someone discovered photoshop.

[emeraldknight47]

Or a Wacom tablet and new version of Illustrator. As a typesetter, graphic designer, I gotta say a lot of these logos are really lacking in creativity. IF a book's logo can't reach out and grab you from the shelves (since it's usually the first thing you see), then someone in your design department has NOT done therir job properly....!

[jwyblejr]

Some of it looks like it was swiped from the closing credits to The Incredibles.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I was actually afraid I'd see every logo designed like the new Justice League logo, which is very similar to the All-Star Superman and Batman logos. So I don't actually hate these. Some are better than others, and the Batman ones look a little TOO uniform, but overall they are better than I expected.

As much respect as I have for Chip Kidd, the All-Star logos were really lacking in creativity. And I'm not sure if he designed the JL logos, but they clearly had his work in mind either way.

To the casual reader (if there are any of those left), I think Batwing and Nightwing's logos are too similar.

Oddly enough, despite this reboot wiping away a LOT of DCU history, some logos are a callback to bygone eras. Green Arrow's looks very similar to this 80s mini-series and Super Powers logo. And of course Swamp Thing's logo is the same, just with some Photoshop filter work.

At least they didn't desecrate the Superman and Action logos. Actually, I wish they would have gone back to the pre-1983 Superman logo, with the blockier letters.

Chris

[MIB41]

It looks like artwork you would find on toy packaging...Alas the true meaning has been uncovered.