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DC Comics Solicitations for June 2005

DC Direct for June 2005

Notables include some new Batman: Year One stuff to coincide with the movie, and the return of Donna Troy. But what really caught my eye was this...

JLA #115

Written by Geoff Johns and Allan Heinberg, art by Chris Batista and Mark Farmer, cover by Rags Morales and Farmer.

A star-studded creative team starts a 5-issue tale that has the JLA confronting the fallout from Identity Crisis. Geoff Johns is joined by The O.C. writer/producer Allan Heinberg for the first installment of this gripping adventure featuring visuals by Chris Batista and Mark Farmer and a cover by Identity Crisis artist Rags Morales and Farmer.

Before they can discuss the actions and repercussions of the League within the League, the JLA first must battle some old foes. The Secret Society of Super Villains has returned -- and somehow they have more information on the heroes' lives than ever before.

32 pages, $2.25, in stores on June 8.

Looks like it might be time for me to start collecting JLA again...

 

[nomoment]

Geoff Johns on JLA? HELL YES.

Dan Slott and Dan Jurgens' arc will likely be following this one too.

 

[Matlock]

Nice. I'll fire him off some congrats next time he gets on AIM.

 

[Father_Brain]

:lol John Byrne sucks.

 

[lordmrw]

Not that I'm not looing forward to it, but jesus, you'd think DC would have pulled their heads out of their asses and put a permanent creative team on JLA by now. This whole rotating creative team thing has largely been miss.

 

[Father_Brain]

Not that I'm not looing forward to it, but jesus, you'd think DC would have pulled their heads out of their asses and put a permanent creative team on JLA by now. This whole rotating creative team thing has largely been miss.

Kurt Busiek is going to be the ongoing writer (that is, after the next arc or 2). Can't remember if the artist from the current arc is supposed to be staying, though.

 

[Escape Goat]

John Byrne is so incredibly dated. Ugly stuff compared to what else is out there.

 

[Mercury Fred]

John Byrne is so incredibly dated. Ugly stuff compared to what else is out there.

Agreed. The Return of Donna Troy cover rocks, though.

DC SPECIAL: THE RETURN OF DONNA TROY #1
Written by Phil Jimenez
Art by José Luís García-López
& George Pérez
Cover by Phil Jimenez & George Pérez
You can't afford to miss DC SPECIAL: THE RETURN OF DONNA TROY, a spectacular
4-issue miniseries written by Phil Jimenez that unites artistic titans José García-López and George Perez for the first time and heralds the triumphant return of one of the DCU's most popular characters! She was raised as a goddess, linked by blood to Wonder Woman, crowned as a Titan among both mortals and gods - but Donna Troy's story is the triumph of the human spirit.
Torn from Earth by the events of TITANS/YOUNG JUSTICE: GRADUATION DAY, Donna Troy has reemerged among the Titans of Myth as Troia, Goddess of the Moon. But memories of a different life haunt her as she leads the Titans of Myth in the final battle of a long campaign of interplanetary conquest, gathering weapons, warriors, and worshippers to fulfill a mission she has begun to doubt. It will take the combined might of the Outsiders and the Teen Titans to solve this cosmic mystery and reveal Troia's true destiny to her: a cosmic hero destined to unite legions against a threat to the entire universe!
The RETURN OF DONNA TROY is a new beginning for Donna Troy - and a stunning prologue of things to come throughout the entire DCU!
On sale June 29 o 1 of 4 o 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US Edited by Joan Hilty

 

[nomoment]

Kurt Busiek is going to be the ongoing writer (that is, after the next arc or 2). Can't remember if the artist from the current arc is supposed to be staying, though.

Ron Garney is staying... unfortunately.

Garney's art is servicable, but really, DC could do A LOT better.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

The art is terrbile, but I am really digging Busiek's writing.

Pity we couldn't get Busiek/Perez, like we has on Avengers.

 

[lordmrw]

Ron Garney is staying... unfortunately.

Garney's art is servicable, but really, DC could do A LOT better.

Garney needs a better inker. Maybe the guy that inked his JLA Worlds at War issue, or his Trial of Juggernaut issues.

 

[FnordChan]

Seth Fisher!

"BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #192

Written by J. H. Williams III and Dan Curtis Johnson, art and cover by Seth Fisher.

J. H. Williams III, Dan Curtis Johnson and Seth Fisher deliver the 5-part "Snow," telling the origin of Mr. Freeze from a new perspective! A family tragedy, coupled with the creation of an untested technological development, forges the obsession of a super-villain.

32 pages, $2.50, in stores on June 8."

I don't follow Batman at all, but I'm all for JH Williams III and Set Fisher. Woo!

FnordChan

 

[Tamanon]

"Snow" you don't even have to follow Batman, if it deals with Freeze's beginnings, that'll place it waaaaay before anything currently going on.

DC has been doing a pretty good job recently, on a different tact, of adding more depth and blurring the lines between Heroes and Villains. Very interesting stuff with Identity Crisis and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel(AMAZING COMIC btw). Looks like JLA will continue in this vein. Now to just solve the mystery of the cover of Countdown

 

[FnordChan]

Thanks to Fanboy Rampage for pointing out something beautiful that I glossed over:

"SUPERMAN/BATMAN #22

Written by Jeph Loeb; Art and cover by Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines

The creative team supreme of writer Jeph Loeb and artists Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines ratchet up the intensity in Part 3 of the 6-part "With a Vengeance!" After revealing the mysterious puppet master who has sent the Maximums after Superman and Batman, the World's Finest make a daring escape! But they'll never escape alive when they come face to face with…themselves? It can't get more lethal than when they travel "All Across the Universes!" Plus…not introducing the startling Bizarro and Batzarro!

DC Universe | 32pg. | Color | $2.99 US

On Sale June 29, 2005"

Batzarro!

FnordChan