Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities DC's latest cancellation purge...

Getting the Axe:

DP
Freedom Fighters
JSA Allstars
REBELS

and thats just what I remember, there are more.

I don't blame DC for dropping books that don't sell well, but I do blame them for not taking some of the advertising monies away from some event that's gonna sell well anyway and helping out some of these better books.

DP is the best stuff from Giffen in years, in my opinion. He took something that was horribly screwed up and made it shine. And in its place we get yet more Batman mini's. I read one batman book, and am waiting for Grayson to return to the nightwing role. I ain't buyin' any more. Just ain't.

Repost from Freedom Fighters thread:

And from the REBELS thread:

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Heck, maybe its me. They seem to cancel all the books I like, like Hawkman, resurrection man, hawk and dove, nightwing, Legion (many times over) to name a few.

I guess simply put, if it ain't the big five (supes, bats, ww, gl, flash) its on the choppin' block.

DC has been contracting its lines for years. new books dont survive very regularly. I know its an economic thing, and I don't blame them for that, but time comes to put up or shut up. Expand the line, go bold, back these lesser titles and make them luminaries in the line instead of just going to the well time after time.

My thoughts , anyway.

I want to throw up. So very, very badly.

With the cancellations of JSA All-Stars and R.E.B.E.L.S. my pull list will shrink from seven to five titles. (Adventure, JLA, JSA, Legion, Power Girl). The All-Stars will simply fold into the parent group, I imagine. The R.E.B.E.L.S. characters will probably go back into comics limbo for a while.

Freedom Fighters wasn't even going for a year and they already cancelled it?!

This week just keeps getting better.

While I hate to see it go, I do feel DOOM PATROL was given a fair chance. I guess sales of the recent TPB were also dismal, so that was it for this version. This series was blessed with a Blackest Night 2-part tie-in drawn by Justiniano, awesome regular artist Matthew Clark, fan-faves Crazy Jane and Ambush Bug and a current crossover with SECRET SIX... and still could not sustain sales. I do feel Giffen's story got better every issue after some muddled early issues and the past few months the book has been top-tier excellent. Losing the METAL MEN backup may have hurt as well, since the Giffen/Dematteis/Maguire team has many fans.

FREEDOM FIGHTERS suffered from it's first 3 issues being very blah. 4, 5 and 6 have been excellent but this is a case of too little too late.

JSA ALL-STARS I had intended to start buying again with the drop to $2.99. Guess I won't bother.

REBELS was just a huge failure, IMO, and was handled totally wrong. Also, it would have been more correctly titled STARRO THE CONQUEROR ADVENTURES, if I understand correctly that the last several issues involved Starro again, who was all over the first year-plus of the series. Also, alienating fans of dot-LEGION and dot-REBELS wasn't wise.

Not to sound the bell of doom, but I'm friends with Chris Batista on the Facial Book, and a recent cryptic post by him stated that Validus was fun to draw (yay!!) and that it was a fun farewell to BOOSTER GOLD (Boo!) He did not clarify if it was just HIS farewell to the book or if the book was being cancelled.

booster seems to be holding on and doing well, and they say Dan is returning. Hopefully not to reign over a short stint and then cancellation at 50. I was admittedly worried with Giffen and crew back on the character, but its been pretty good.

Dan on art? That's okay by me, but I'm enjoying Giff and DeM way too much to let them go from writing chores--!

Hey, DC-

Hey - here's the link where you can sign to save Doom Patrol - like we did before with Spider-Girl a while ago....so why not? give it a try and see what happens.

link:
http://doompedia.blogspot.com/

good luck! I already did send to DC to save DP.

I signed the petition and wrote a letter to the letters page.

I signed as well as sending a letter too. I implored DC to save Doom Patrol, the World's Grooviest Comics Magazine!

Signed...will do letter when I do not feel like I'm drunk.

Signed & sent out rambling, semi-coherent letter!!

I've got to say, I'm disappointed there is another round of cancellations. I currently get REBELS, JSA All-Stars and Freedom Fighters. Of the three, I was kicking myself for buying All-Stars. The writing has been week, and the artwork is not my cup of tea. To be honest (IMHO) neither JSA book has been as good since they split the one title into two teams. So I'm not sorry to see All-Stars go.

And I agree with those who are annoyed to see 3 more Bat-books in place of these other titles.

Also apparently included in the purge: Outsiders. It is listed as Batman and the Outsiders #40, and has a FINAL ISSUE blurb. Not sorry to see this one go either. I hadn't bought this book in a couple of years anyway.

I think the Bat-Books are a wash.

They are canceling "Batman: Confidential", "Batman: Streets of Gotham", and "Outsiders" and launching "Gates of Gotham", and "Arkham City" (both of which are mini-series).

I wonder what/if there is a MAX number of DCU titles the company has a policy about?

They're also cancelling Azrael. How Gotham City Sirens didn't get cancelled is a mystery to me though. Who reads that book?

Is that a DCU-proper comic or one of the kiddie line? That's why I'm curious if there's a max number of titles in each DC "division".

I do. it s getting better...Zatanna and Talia guest-starred. not at the best although. Love Catwoman, Poison Ivy and HQ...they are all my favorite Bat villains. so can't help it.

Haven't seen this mentioned here yet, but the First Wave books are all canned as well.

Nick Spencer also just left for Marvel, so the immediate future of THUNDER Agents is probably in some doubt too.

The articles about his exclusive contract are going out of their way to say THUNDER Agents (and Morning Glories) will be unaffected, Dave.