Unlike most angry internet fanboys, I was one of the few who actually genuinely liked the 2006 swoosh logo of DC Comics, and I’m really genuinely sad to see it go. Apparently, DC is applying for a trademark for their new logo, which shows the new bold direction DC Entertainment is going into.

And that new direction is bland as fuck. Is DC turning into a delivery service or something?

What do you guys think of the new logo?

As if we needed another reason to hate DC more, there are rumors of plans of a Watchmen prequel. Names attached to the project are Dave Gibbons, John Higgins, Darwyn Cooke, JMS, JG Jones, Andy Kubert and more. Honestly, even though Watchmen is DC’s property and they can do the fuck whatever they want with it, this is just so wrong on so many levels. You don’t need a prequel to the single greatest graphic novel of all time. Everything was explained clearly in the beginning of the comic, and we don’t need to know what happens. Not even if it means Darwyn Cooke wrote the script. No. DC, just stop it already. I admit, the reboot, as unnecessary as it is, worked for a bit, but it doesn’t mean you can just go and and raping all your properties. Because seriously, if there’s anything nobody should touch, it’s Watchmen.

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Finally – the trailer for the much-anticipated Avengers movie is out! And it looks absolutely amazing. Don’t take my word for it, watch it yourself!

Oh god, so many awesome moments. My favorite, of course, was Steve Rogers and Tony Stark snarking at each other. Will this movie be awesome or will it be awesome?

The Avengers is directed by Joss Whedon and starring Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Cobie Smulders (HNNNGGH) as Maria Hill, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, and Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner.

From Superherohype:

Scooper ‘Kal-El.9859′ has provided us with this close-up shot of Henry Cavill as Superman on the Plano, Illinois set for Man of Steel. All he’s missing in the pic is the cape.

Err… okay.

The earlier promo pic doesn’t look bad, but this… this is… errr. Meh.

I haven’t been reading comics as of late, except for Fear Itself (because it’s awesome) and Flashpoint (because it’s horrible). However, co-editor RJ has been keeping me up to speed on what is going on comics, manly DC. My Yahoo! Messenger window is filled with nothing but rants on how horrible DC’s last pre-reboot issues are. I’m not surprised, considering that the reboot was just thrown in as an afterthought and wasn’t really part of DC’s long-term strategy, and imagine how many storylines had to be cut short because of this bullshit.

If you’ve been following my tirades on this site for the last few months, you know that I have absolutely nothing but dread for this reboot. I know reboots are DC’s thing, and that this has been done to death since 1985, but it looks like DC has not been able to fix their shit since Infinite Crisis, and their only way out is, well, another reboot. Only this time, they have horrible 90′s inspired costumes. Don’t get me wrong, though – I’m excited for a few comics coming out of this reboot, like Grant Morrison’s Superman reboot in Action Comics, Scott Snyder taking over Batman, and the Animal Man comic with amazing art that intrigues me.

Well, there’s one more thing that has just been added to my list of comics that I want to read in the DCnU: Justice Society of America. Let’s face it: when Geoff Johns left the JSA, he left it in shambles. That Kingdom Come tie-in with Earth-22 wasn’t great and it took a year to finish, plus with a Power Girl story set in Earth-2 that nobody even bothered to finish. Then the team was divided between the old guard and the younger ones who were more proactive. At that point I just gave up reading JSA altogether. And RJ tells me that Alan Scott, the best and greatest Green Lantern of Earth just died, so fuck that. (continue reading…)