Not only a new title, but a whole new character.
I’m looking forward to this. I’m a big fan of legacy characters (unless an existing character Impulse is inappropriately shoehorned into a legacy Kid Flash, in which case it pisses me off), I really like Aquaman in general, and this new Aquaman looks interresting. So, it’s aaaaall good.
Didn’t they try this with The Atom about 20 years back? Not a bad series, but not popular. I predict four issues of this, then gone.
It seems to have some potential. I like the new take:
They’re also coming out with a new Blue Beetle series, with a new legacy character supposedly unrelated to Ted Kord OR Dan Garrett. It will be co-written by Keith Giffen, the writer most responsible for turning the Kord Blue Beetle into a laughingstock, but Giffen promises the new series will be “as serious as a heart attack.” His co-writer? John Rogers, the screenwriter of the Catwoman movie. Yep, that’s heart attack-inducing all right, especially when you’re one of the few true blue Blue Beetle fans, like I am.
They’re canceling Plastic Man? Why? Its totally non-canonical and effing hilarous.
And it doesn’t sell worth a damn, apparently. No offense – I also thought it was a breath of fresh air.
Rogers wrote the first draft of Catwoman. Approximately none of what he wrote made it into the final product, so don’t hold that against him. And there’s Blue Beetle fans who don’t like Giffen? It’s not like anyone else used him in the past twenty years or so. (Slightly OT: My bet is the new Beetle’s a girl, the eyes look feminine to me, plus the El Paso location and Luchador influence in the costume suggests that she’s possibly Latina)
I’m looking forward to Aquaman. Aquaman (well, Orin, we’ll see about the new guy), unlike the Atom, was already three-quarters of the way to being a sword and sorcery hero anyway, so I think this will fit. Plus it’s Kurt Busiek! And King Shark! My favorite b-list villain from Kesel’s Superboy run!
I joked months ago, long before these concept sketches surfaced or the scarab landed in El Paso, that DC would make the new BB a Hispanic female. They seem to love to make legacy heroes different sexes and races, and a Hispanic female BB reminded me of that Spider-Man spinoff(?) character Arana, over at Marvel.
The only other Beetle writers who ever did anything useful with Ted were Chuck Dixon over on Birds of Prey (who wrote the excellent BB story in BoP #25 and had huge plans for Ted before leaving DC for CrossGen), and the Countdown writers, who ended up leaving Giffen in the dust and writing the greatest BB story of all time.
Hey, it worked for Wildcat.
Wait a second…