Comments on: Changes Announced for DC’s Showcase Presents http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/ We Know You Love Comics. We Do Too. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:45:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: ykw06 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-37166 ykw06 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:31:32 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/#comment-37166 Doesn't seem likely the canceled titles will ever see print, as most of the material solicited comes from the 1976-1997 "dead zone" where SHOWCASE PRESENTS is concerned (reprint rights for material from the above-mentioned period are a set fee per use rather than a percentage of the reprint package's cover price, thus making the SP format ridiculously uneconomical to produce). Expect to see much smaller -- but color -- TPBs of the material DC really wants to put on shelves. What also doesn't make much sense is starting the WORLD'S FINEST series with the Superman-Batman team-ups. There's just a ton of great Jack Burnley material from earlier on in both characters' solo WF series that'll likely never see reprinting outside the Archives if they don't start from the beginning. The team-ups <i>are</i> goofy fun at times, but don't hold a candle to the solo stuff. Doesn’t seem likely the canceled titles will ever see print, as most of the material solicited comes from the 1976-1997 “dead zone” where SHOWCASE PRESENTS is concerned (reprint rights for material from the above-mentioned period are a set fee per use rather than a percentage of the reprint package’s cover price, thus making the SP format ridiculously uneconomical to produce). Expect to see much smaller — but color — TPBs of the material DC really wants to put on shelves.

What also doesn’t make much sense is starting the WORLD’S FINEST series with the Superman-Batman team-ups. There’s just a ton of great Jack Burnley material from earlier on in both characters’ solo WF series that’ll likely never see reprinting outside the Archives if they don’t start from the beginning. The team-ups are goofy fun at times, but don’t hold a candle to the solo stuff.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-36828 Anthony Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:52:17 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/#comment-36828 Interesting that they'd cancel the Great Disaster stuff when it's supposedly coming in the current DCU...maybe they want to retcon stuff without fans noticing? The greatest travesty is no Suicide Squad. I hope the above poster is right and this is just a delay. Interesting that they’d cancel the Great Disaster stuff when it’s supposedly coming in the current DCU…maybe they want to retcon stuff without fans noticing?

The greatest travesty is no Suicide Squad.

I hope the above poster is right and this is just a delay.

]]> By: james deckert http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-36805 james deckert Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:18:50 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/#comment-36805 What? Jonah Hex vol 2 canceled and it is offered in TODAYS Previews? I'm going to have some unhappy customers. I never have been able to understand DCs policy for titling books. The Superman Family Showcase is really a Jimmy Olson (with one Lois Lane story from Superman 28). Remember - there used to be a comic titled Superman Family of which the Showcase has nothing to do with. The Batman Archive reprints Detective Comics. The Dark Knight Archive reprints Batman comics. I guess that's why they pay editors. If I was the editor of the Showcases, I'd start with #1 of a title and cram everything possible including the 1-pg science articles and backup stories (except maybe letters columns and maybe the ads) until I ran out of pages. Then the next volume would continue where I left off. No picking stories from several different titles to make up a Showcase (e.g. Metamorpho) unless the entire series doesn't fill the book, or there is room for the first appearance (e.g. Showcase - the comic, not the book). What? Jonah Hex vol 2 canceled and it is offered in TODAYS Previews? I’m going to have some unhappy customers.

I never have been able to understand DCs policy for titling books. The Superman Family Showcase is really a Jimmy Olson (with one Lois Lane story from Superman 28). Remember - there used to be a comic titled Superman Family of which the Showcase has nothing to do with.

The Batman Archive reprints Detective Comics. The Dark Knight Archive reprints Batman comics.

I guess that’s why they pay editors. If I was the editor of the Showcases, I’d start with #1 of a title and cram everything possible including the 1-pg science articles and backup stories (except maybe letters columns and maybe the ads) until I ran out of pages. Then the next volume would continue where I left off. No picking stories from several different titles to make up a Showcase (e.g. Metamorpho) unless the entire series doesn’t fill the book, or there is room for the first appearance (e.g. Showcase - the comic, not the book).

]]> By: Stephen Schleicher http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-36801 Stephen Schleicher Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:54:15 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/#comment-36801 Fear not Stacy! The canceled titles will be resolicited in the future. Fear not Stacy! The canceled titles will be resolicited in the future.

]]> By: Stacy B. http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-36789 Stacy B. Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:37:29 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/#comment-36789 Man! I JUST posted about how exited I was about the CCAHAZC trade on my blog! Guess it back to dollar box divin' to rebuild my set. :-( Man! I JUST posted about how exited I was about the CCAHAZC trade on my blog! Guess it back to dollar box divin’ to rebuild my set. :-(

]]> By: Matthew Peterson http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-36781 Matthew Peterson Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:19:35 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/#comment-36781 Why would they do that? Why? The only ones I actually WANTED got cancelled? STELLLAAAAAA???? Why would they do that? Why?

The only ones I actually WANTED got cancelled? STELLLAAAAAA????

]]> By: Axel M. Gruner http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-36767 Axel M. Gruner Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:54:17 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2273.htm/#comment-36767 Darn, and the world just NEEDED the Suicide Squad! And why oh why no Captain Carrot? Darn, and the world just NEEDED the Suicide Squad! And why oh why no Captain Carrot?

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