Yes, indeed. And even more so for Shooter’s Legion of Super-Heroes. Didio earned my eternal enmity (which, in truth, he already pretty much had sewn up already just by generally being an imbecile & all) over that.

That, & the Ambush Bug fiasco.

I repeat: what a craven cretin.

Man, a Hitman issue would have been awesome.

good gordon, I hope not.

Isn’t this exactly the point? Starman has no regular series anymore but Robinson came up with a (hopefully) cool story to tie in to BN so they put out a one-shot. What’s the prob?
I mean, yes, none of these will probably be integral to follow the main story (except possibly Atom & Hawman, since it’s written by Johns), but I don’t see why a 3-issue “Blackest Night: Superman” mini is less superfluous than a Catwoman one-shot.

Harris said he’s doing the cover on Twitter.

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If this skip month was used as a launching point for a bunch of new titles tied-in to the Blackest Night story (like how Marvel launched a few titles tied-in to Secret Invasion)

You’d think so, but from speaking as someone whio started reading comics in the decade where that was the in-thing, be glad they didn’t.

What is Sigma #1 from ‘Fire From Heaven’ going for today?

it would have created more excitement amongst more readers than people who’ve read Starman and still read comics today.

I think you’d be surprised – Starman wasn’t only a good title, it was a goddamn life raft at the time for people who like Superheroes, but wanted good intelligent stories as well… I’d say more people who read it would still be reading comics.
It also got a lot of outside notice and was the ‘It’ book for news reports/articles mentioning comics.

And if I’m totally wrong about it’s current popularity, then DC are trying to reach out to get people who read it then to come back now and check out this ‘Blackest Night’ crossover.

I agree w/ MB. I think you might be right from a logistical/continuity perspective, Eric, but creatively, there doesn’t seem to be any advantage to bringing Jack Knight back. His powers/basic concept aren’t particularly novel. What made him a great character was Robinson’s clear commitment to giving him a recognizably human personality, and hobbies, interests, and attitudes that are were a serious part of the character and not one-panel gags between fights. In short, he had a life with a proper arc. Batman will never have that, and that’s okay, but there’s room for both, even in the DCU.

That said, some kind of additional attempt to capitalize on Starman’s wild critical success is almost inevitable at a big two company. Bringing back Opal city seems like a reasonable compromise. Personally, I don’t necessarily want more Starman, i just want Robinson to write something that is as good as Starman again.

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