Three DC Books

[yendi]

DC has announced three books at WizardWorld Chicago that I'm intrigued by. The first is a new Challengers of the Unknown, written and drawn by Howard Chaykin. The last six words of that sentence are some of my favorites, as I'm a huge Chaykin fan, and I love the Challengers concept (one of the plots I'd been seriously thinking about pitching at times involved a Challengers revamp). Alas, it's only a six-issue miniseries, but I'll take what I can get.

Second, Rick Veitch is revamping The Question. Frankly, this is the DC book he should have been doing in the first place, not Aquaman (a character who has been adequately written by only two people in sixty years).

And finally, DC is doing a horror anthology called Toe Tag. And the first arc will be written by George Romero! Art will be by Richard Corben, which is a minus (Corben, like Humberto Ramos, is an artist who seems to consistently get put on great stories, with no other purpose than holding back a good storytelling writer). But Romero is Romero, dammit!

There were also a whole bunch of announcements about DC books I could give a rat's ass about (as well as lots of Marvel news of "writers" like Chuck Austen), but those were the big ones.

Comments

The Question

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

Apparently Vic Sage is now going to be living in Metropolis, not Hub City, and he's an old friend of Lois Lane's (wondering if they went to journalism school together). Making him a Superman character seems wrong to me, but I guess Gotham's crowded. (The best DC-era Vic Sage I've read is Denny O'Neil's, followed by Greg Rucka's. I've actually only read one of Ditko's stories, the one DC reprinted a few years back as a Millennium Edition.)

Re: The Question

[yendi]

Greg Rucka wrote a Vic Sage? The only post-O'Neill I recall was the Butcher/Green Arrow team-up.

Re: The Question

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

Yes, Rucka wrote him in the miniseries Batman/The Huntress: Cry for Blood, illustrated by Rick Burchett. The Question is really in it a lot more than Batman is, but I guess they figured his name wouldn't sell the book like Bats' name would.

It's available in trade paperback and is well worth the money.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Is Challengers going to be set in the main DC continuity? 'cause Superboy rescued them last year from Hypertime, if I recall correctly.

[yendi]

I don't know about DC continutity, but it's definitely a new group of people.

What was the deal with the Superboy storyline? I assumed that the Challengers were always a part of post-crisis continuity, so why were they in Hypertime?

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Because Hypertime bridges the post-crisis gap. Hypertime is all of the Elseworlds, plus apparently the pre-crisis worlds. Superboy went on this little adventure where he met many versions of himself, including one called Black Zero, who was a villain. In defeating Black Zero, Superboy ran into the Challengers of the Unknown, and he brought them back to his Earth, where apparently they are really from, way back when. Except when they made the transition, one of the members of the team got..rewritten. She was suddenly someone else. I wasn't really following it all that closely. But supposedly the Challengers are back now. For what that's worth. *smile*