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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 17, 2010 12:19:10 GMT -5
DC 1st Look: BATMAN BEYOND #1 Cover - JUNE 2010 By Newsarama Staff posted: 17 March 2010 09:43 am ETBuzz up! del.icio.us Do you really need much of an introduction here? It's Batman Beyond, he's getting his own mini-series, and Dustin Nguyen (Streets of Gotham, Detective Comics) did this cover for it. Want more? OK, the DCU Blog had some more details. The series starts in June, will run six issues, and is by writer Adam Beechen and artist Ryan Benjamin. The series features Terry McGuinness in a battle against a foe who is killing off old villains and allies of Bruce Wayne's era as Batman. Commence countdown...now.
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Post by jlavaia on Mar 17, 2010 12:37:57 GMT -5
finally!!!! i cant wait for this.
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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 17, 2010 19:28:55 GMT -5
You think if it's successful enough, they could make an ongoing? Yeah, I know, wishful thinking.
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Post by jlavaia on Mar 17, 2010 21:32:25 GMT -5
^ that would be so awesome. i'd love an ongoing Batman Beyond series. or at the very least make it a monthly back-up tale in Detective Comics, or bring back Batman Chronicles (but make it monthly) and have it be one of the stories each month. if they cant or wont do an ongoing than basically they should do something similiar to what Marvel does for Spider-Girl. whatever it takes to get new stories out to us.
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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 17, 2010 22:11:45 GMT -5
^ that would be so awesome. i'd love an ongoing Batman Beyond series. or at the very least make it a monthly back-up tale in Detective Comics, or bring back Batman Chronicles (but make it monthly) and have it be one of the stories each month. if they cant or wont do an ongoing than basically they should do something similiar to what Marvel does for Spider-Girl. whatever it takes to get new stories out to us. A back-up in Detective would be fine since I added it back to my pull list, though I would prefer its own book. I don't see Chronicles coming back though. We have B&R, Batman, and Detective as the usual best sellers, Streets has moderate sales, and Confidential is the second lowest selling Battitle before Azrael. We probably have enough books for now. I take it you mean how Spider-Girl's a back-up in Web of Spider-Man. She's actually getting her ongoing back this May though (lol, May, get it?). Point is, if we get Batman Beyond back on a full-time basis, it should have its own ongoing. This would make alot of fans of the series happy. As for the series itself, any thoughts so far? Right now, I think this takes place after Epilogue.
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Post by jlavaia on Mar 17, 2010 22:58:54 GMT -5
^ its either after Epilogue, or this is the Batman Beyond from Earth-12 where things are slightly different, like Jokers instead of Jokerz for the gang as we saw in Countdown. they could have gone right to Paul Dini and he said go ahead anything post Epilogue is good to go, or they are just using the series as a base and telling their stories and changing certain elements. we'll know right away in the first issue. no Old Bruce = post-Epilogue. if Old Bruce is in the story we have Earth-12. and if its Jokers or Jokerz. all we have to go on right now is the cover, we'll know alittle more next week when we see the solicits. i'm hoping post-Epilogue and in continuity with the series, but i'm open to slight changes, as long as they dont change too much and the story is good. at least its Terry.
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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 18, 2010 8:14:42 GMT -5
^ its either after Epilogue, or this is the Batman Beyond from Earth-12 where things are slightly different, like Jokers instead of Jokerz for the gang as we saw in Countdown. they could have gone right to Paul Dini and he said go ahead anything post Epilogue is good to go, or they are just using the series as a base and telling their stories and changing certain elements. we'll know right away in the first issue. no Old Bruce = post-Epilogue. if Old Bruce is in the story we have Earth-12. and if its Jokers or Jokerz. all we have to go on right now is the cover, we'll know alittle more next week when we see the solicits. i'm hoping post-Epilogue and in continuity with the series, but i'm open to slight changes, as long as they dont change too much and the story is good. at least its Terry. Yeah, but they changed his last name from McGinnis to McGuiness. Small change, but it may just be like Jokerz to Jokers.
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Post by jlavaia on Mar 18, 2010 9:21:39 GMT -5
Yeah, but they changed his last name from McGinnis to McGuiness. Small change, but it may just be like Jokerz to Jokers. good catch. i didnt even see that in the description. then its definitely Earth-12. it'll probaly be multiple small changes to set it apart from the series, but nothing too big that it'll make hardcore fans not want to read it.
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Post by /\/\att on Mar 18, 2010 11:00:51 GMT -5
I don't know, I'll give this one a chance, but if DC is straying too much from the DCAU universe, they'll probably lose my interest.
On a side note..nice cover from Dustin. He's a friend of the site and a very nice guy. Great success! (sorry, had a Borat moment)
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Post by batman1973 on Mar 18, 2010 17:11:58 GMT -5
Terry looks bad butt. My question, is the story taking place after the JLU "Epilogue" story, where a more adult Terry is the Dark Knight, and is either engaged or married to his girl, or will this be more of the earlier, where Terry is still in highschool?
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Post by grayson on Mar 18, 2010 18:55:51 GMT -5
Looks interesting...can't wait for it.
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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 18, 2010 19:12:50 GMT -5
Terry looks bad butt. My question, is the story taking place after the JLU "Epilogue" story, where a more adult Terry is the Dark Knight, and is either engaged or married to his girl, or will this be more of the earlier, where Terry is still in highschool? We'll get a little more info when solicits hit this Monday. But for now, we do have an interview with Beechen: www.newsarama.com/comics/adam-beechen-batman-beyond-100318.htmlA few things to point out: -Here's it McGinnis, so which is it? -He says this takes place after the series ends. I guess this means he's still in high school. jlavaia, I kind of had a thought: couldn't Earth-12 still be the DCAU?
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Post by jlavaia on Mar 18, 2010 21:48:15 GMT -5
Terry looks bad butt. My question, is the story taking place after the JLU "Epilogue" story, where a more adult Terry is the Dark Knight, and is either engaged or married to his girl, or will this be more of the earlier, where Terry is still in highschool? We'll get a little more info when solicits hit this Monday. But for now, we do have an interview with Beechen: www.newsarama.com/comics/adam-beechen-batman-beyond-100318.htmlA few things to point out: -Here's it McGinnis, so which is it? -He says this takes place after the series ends. I guess this means he's still in high school. jlavaia, I kind of had a thought: couldn't Earth-12 still be the DCAU? Earth-12 could be the entire DCAU, but unfortunately a few things make it seem unlikely. we've already seen on Earth-12 that the gang is Jokers instead of Jokerz. when Jason and Co. were on Earth-12 they saw the Terry Batman fighting on the roof, which means that the Batman Beyond era is the present for Earth-12, and not an alternate future, or as Dini & Timm say, the definitive future of the DCAU. the main thing is that the current Green Lantern for Earth on Earth-12 is Hal Jordan Jr., not Kai-Ro. now it could be that on Earth-12 its 20 years after Epilogue and Kai-Ro was killed and the new Lantern was chosen as Jordan. but Hal Jordan Jr. is a decendant of the original Hal Jordan. Hal Jordan has had one brief mention in the DCAU and a cameo in Once and Future Thing, which took place in an alternate past and alternate future in which both timelines were erased. each of the 52 Earths in DC's multiverse are brand new universes created after Infinite Crisis and because of that and all the continuity changes they each bare small changes to the source material of their respective earths. Earth-22 is The Kingdom, but its not The Kingdom due to Starman and the Earth-22 Superman's different timeline than the Superman from The Kingdom. but we all know its The Kingdom. officially its a seperate continuity and The Kingdom takes place on the pre-52 Earth-96. so Earth-12 with Jokers instead Jokerz could be the only change. whoever wrote the article posted here for Newsarama could have easily just misspelled Terry's name, especially since the Beechen interview has it correct. so its basically the DCAU, we'll view it as the DCAU, most will see it as the DCAU, and i'm sure the writers would see it the same way, but officially its its own continuity. the thing that bothers me and why i think this will be Earth-12 and we'll all know its different from the DCAU is that the original article states that Terry is facing a foe who is killing off old villains and allies of Bruce Wayne's era as Batman. who could he be killing off? if its post Epilogue, there's maybe 4 villains that could still possibly be alive, and they'd be as old or older than Bruce himself, who is possibly dead at this time anyway depending on how you view Epilogue. you have Ra's & Talia, who cant die, so they're scratched off the list. you have Mr. Freeze. and you have Bane, who is an old vegetable in his sole appearance in Beyond anyway, so really no point in killing him. not many old villains for our foe to kill off. as for allies, Barbara and Tim. again not too many allies for this foe to kill off. thats why i'm thinking this is Earth-12 and it'll be written as an alternate future to the current DCU. i'm betting we'll see one of the old villains or allies be a character that never appeared in the DCAU like Stephanie, Cassie, Damian, Jason, the foe who's killed would be Hush. i really can see that being the case.
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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 18, 2010 22:09:39 GMT -5
We'll get a little more info when solicits hit this Monday. But for now, we do have an interview with Beechen: www.newsarama.com/comics/adam-beechen-batman-beyond-100318.htmlA few things to point out: -Here's it McGinnis, so which is it? -He says this takes place after the series ends. I guess this means he's still in high school. jlavaia, I kind of had a thought: couldn't Earth-12 still be the DCAU? Earth-12 could be the entire DCAU, but unfortunately a few things make it seem unlikely. we've already seen on Earth-12 that the gang is Jokers instead of Jokerz. when Jason and Co. were on Earth-12 they saw the Terry Batman fighting on the roof, which means that the Batman Beyond era is the present for Earth-12, and not an alternate future, or as Dini & Timm say, the definitive future of the DCAU. the main thing is that the current Green Lantern for Earth on Earth-12 is Hal Jordan Jr., not Kai-Ro. now it could be that on Earth-12 its 20 years after Epilogue and Kai-Ro was killed and the new Lantern was chosen as Jordan. but Hal Jordan Jr. is a decendant of the original Hal Jordan. Hal Jordan has had one brief mention in the DCAU and a cameo in Once and Future Thing, which took place in an alternate past and alternate future in which both timelines were erased. each of the 52 Earths in DC's multiverse are brand new universes created after Infinite Crisis and because of that and all the continuity changes they each bare small changes to the source material of their respective earths. Earth-22 is The Kingdom, but its not The Kingdom due to Starman and the Earth-22 Superman's different timeline than the Superman from The Kingdom. but we all know its The Kingdom. officially its a seperate continuity and The Kingdom takes place on the pre-52 Earth-96. so Earth-12 with Jokers instead Jokerz could be the only change. whoever wrote the article posted here for Newsarama could have easily just misspelled Terry's name, especially since the Beechen interview has it correct. so its basically the DCAU, we'll view it as the DCAU, most will see it as the DCAU, and i'm sure the writers would see it the same way, but officially its its own continuity. the thing that bothers me and why i think this will be Earth-12 and we'll all know its different from the DCAU is that the original article states that Terry is facing a foe who is killing off old villains and allies of Bruce Wayne's era as Batman. who could he be killing off? if its post Epilogue, there's maybe 4 villains that could still possibly be alive, and they'd be as old or older than Bruce himself, who is possibly dead at this time anyway depending on how you view Epilogue. you have Ra's & Talia, who cant die, so they're scratched off the list. you have Mr. Freeze. and you have Bane, who is an old vegetable in his sole appearance in Beyond anyway, so really no point in killing him. not many old villains for our foe to kill off. as for allies, Barbara and Tim. again not too many allies for this foe to kill off. thats why i'm thinking this is Earth-12 and it'll be written as an alternate future to the current DCU. i'm betting we'll see one of the old villains or allies be a character that never appeared in the DCAU like Stephanie, Cassie, Damian, Jason, the foe who's killed would be Hush. i really can see that being the case. So much information. I guess we'll just wait and see how it is when it comes out. Though if this is set in the DCU's future, could you imagine a meeting between Damian and Terry? The sons of Batman.
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Post by Dark Nightwing on Mar 19, 2010 10:47:55 GMT -5
My understanding is that Batman Beyond will take place in the future of a different Earth. It looks like the BB Earth will be an amalgamation of DCAU and DCU, trying to keep the feel of BB with characters like an old Jason Todd, an old Damian, etc.
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Post by /\/\att on Mar 19, 2010 10:51:35 GMT -5
Perhaps its just me, but doesn't that look like a Clayface in the sky on that cover?
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Post by jlavaia on Mar 19, 2010 12:56:10 GMT -5
^ it could be. good observation. i've been trying to discern who or what that was supposed to be. i was thinking it was just a falling cowl, but looking at it again it could easily be a BB version of Clayface.
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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 19, 2010 20:45:08 GMT -5
Clayface would make sense for being around so long. His powers can almost make him immortal and look as young as he wanted. Well, we have the first issue solicit: BATMAN BEYOND #1 On sale JUNE 30 • 1 of 6 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US Written by ADAM BEECHEN • Art by RYAN BENJAMIN • Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN 1:25 variant cover by J.H. WILLIAMS III Terry McGinnis – the Batman of the future – and an elderly Bruce Wayne – the original Batman – are the sworn protectors of Neo-Gotham. But when someone targets The Dark Knight’s old foes, the new Batman must begin a case that reaches back into Bruce Wayne’s past and puts Terry’s future directly in danger! Don’t miss the long-awaited return of the popular Batman Beyond franchise in this 6-issue adventure from Emmy Award-nominated animation writer Adam Beechen (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) and artist Ryan Benjamin (BATMAN & THE OUTSIDERS). And be sure to check out the SUPERMAN/BATMAN ANNUAL #4 from writer Paul Levitz and artist Renato Guedes starring the Batman Beyond characters! Retailers please note: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the Previews Order Form for more information. BUT WAIT! There's more! SUPERMAN/BATMAN ANNUAL #4 On sale JUNE 2 * 56 pg, FC $4.99 US Written by PAUL LEVITZ Art by RENATO GUEDES & JOSE WILSON Cover by STANLEY "ARTGERM" LAU Expanding on the hit TV show Batman Beyond, this year's annual travels to the not-so-distant future where an aged Bruce Wayne oversees a new Batman, and the fate of a certain Man of Steel is very much in question. Metropolis is becoming crime-free, as someone is ridding the city of its criminal element permanently. Now, Terry McGinnis must uncover what's happening in Superman's home and face a very old and vindictive nemesis! And don't miss the BATMAN BEYOND 6-issue miniseries kicking off this month!
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Post by jlavaia on Mar 20, 2010 9:28:37 GMT -5
^ i'll be checking these out. this could be good.
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Post by /\/\att on Mar 22, 2010 11:36:53 GMT -5
We have the solicits for June..they'll be posted on the news blog later this afternoon.
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Post by All Star Batman on Apr 16, 2010 17:18:54 GMT -5
BATMAN BEYOND #2 On sale JULY 21 • 2 of 6 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US Written by ADAM BEECHEN Art by JOHN STANISCI Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN A mysterious new threat targets the original Batman’s villains, and only Terry McGinnis – the Batman of the future – has a chance of finding and stopping him. But of a Catwoman stalks into the picture, Terry is torn between the lady she appears to be and the deadly tiger she might turn out to be!
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Post by All Star Batman on May 17, 2010 18:37:33 GMT -5
BATMAN BEYOND #3 Written by ADAM BEECHEN Art by RYAN BENJAMIN & JOHN STANISCI Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN Batman’s investigation into the murders of Dark Knight villains past and present leads him to old associates of Bruce Wayne...some of whom aren’t so happy to see him. While the mysterious killer picks his next target, the rift between Terry and Bruce widens. On sale AUGUST 18 • 3 of 6 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
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Post by grayson on Jun 8, 2010 19:12:55 GMT -5
What did everyone think of the Batman/Superman Annual #4?
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Post by Batlaw on Jun 12, 2010 18:45:17 GMT -5
What did everyone think of the Batman/Superman Annual #4? I Really liked it! (at least the first half). Easily one of the best Batman centric books Ive read in too long. Im thrilled for the upcoming mini and hope its at least this good. My only complaint was Superman. I didntt think he was written very well. He seemed quite out of character IMO and it just bugged me.
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Post by grayson on Jun 13, 2010 15:02:51 GMT -5
I'm with you...it would have been even better without him in it...really looking forward to the min-series.
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Post by All Star Batman on Jun 14, 2010 17:12:53 GMT -5
BATMAN BEYOND #4 Written by ADAM BEECHEN Art by RYAN BENJAMIN and JOHN STANISCI Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN This is it! The mystery killer is unmasked! The secret of the new Catwoman is revealed! Gotham City is under siege! Terry McGinnis and Bruce Wayne are at odds! And Batman is torn between duty, doubt, and a vengeance-crazed super-villain! On sale SEPTEMBER 15 • 4 of 6 • 32 pg, FC $2.99 US
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Post by All Star Batman on Jun 29, 2010 0:17:42 GMT -5
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NEW BATMAN
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NEW BATMAN HAS ARRIVED.
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Post by NEW BATMAN on Jun 30, 2010 13:33:25 GMT -5
WOW that was a good preview, thanks for the link. i don't much comics but i read some graphic novels of batman, so ill wait for the TPB to come out so i don't miss an issue.
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Post by All Star Batman on Jul 1, 2010 18:12:55 GMT -5
Read issue 1 today. Man, it's great. It feels like the show. I'm betting the villain is Hush , but it may be too obvious right now. I can't wait for next issue. And here's hoping we get an ongoing out of this. MAKE IT AN ONGOING DC!
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Post by All Star Batman on Jul 20, 2010 12:17:32 GMT -5
BATMAN BEYOND #5 (OF 6) Written by ADAM BEECHEN; Art by RYAN BENJAMIN AND JOHN STANISCI; Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN Terry McGinnis is in for the fight of his life as he faces off against Hush for control of Neo-Gotham. But when the true identity of Hush is revealed and Bruce Wayne is targeted, Terry's life – and Batman's – will never be the same! DC Universe 32pg. Color $2.99 US On Sale October 20, 2010
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