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by **LOLtron** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:45 am

Are there plans to expand DC's Earth 2 line? Dan Didio hints at an answer.

Say what you want about Dan Didio, but his Facebook certainly is a treasure trove of information. Responding to a positive comment about James Robinson and Nicola Scott's Earth 2 series, Didio mentioned that he had met with the two creators over the weekend, presumably at Comic-Con.

Didio mentions that Robinson and Scott have great plans for the future of Earth 2 and teases the commenter that the two have also made additional plans for either a second series set in the alternate world or a possible event.

In other news from Didio's facebook page, the co-publisher mentioned that there were no plans to cancel Deathstroke and spoke positively of Rob Liefeld's work on the book. He also mentioned hopes that the new Arrow television series would help boost sales on the series, as Deathstroke is confirmed to be an antagonist in the upcoming CW show.

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by **achilles** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:55 am

Well, supposedly there are very preliminary plans for an Infinity Inc, set in the future, perhaps their version of LOSH...

Personally, I'd like an alternate world version, either the old All-Star Comics variety or one that simply picks up where the last series left off, (sans Alan's death). Which is of course why they'll never do it while Didio, Johns, and Lee are at DC.

by **IvCNuB4** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:55 am

Way back in an interview or an early solicitation it was said that events on Earth 2 would put them at odds/conflict/whatever with other worlds. That may have been a reference to Kara and Helena being blasted to Earth 1, or maybe another cross-Earth event to come ?

by **holtom2000** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:12 am

Blah. How about a series set inthe original universe. This is just else worlds on crack

by **avengingtitan** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:07 pm

Oh who cares its gonna suck. Earth 2 is a miserable excuse of a book.

by **IvCNuB4** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:12 pm

Uh huh. You aren't even reading it, are you ? :lol:

by **Cat-Scratch** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:13 pm

avengingtitan wrote:Oh who cares its gonna suck. Earth 2 is a miserable excuse of a book.

It is. Given Robinson being there... very disappointing. I'll blame Didio.

by **achilles** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:01 pm

My view is that Earth 2 and Worlds' Finest aren't terrible books, just that Earth 2 isn't the JSA as it should be, and WF isn't Power Girl or Huntress as they should be.

Doesn't mean that WF isn't the most fun book DC's got going right now, just that it isn't what it could or should be. And Earth 2 could and should be something more. Instead they choose to junk the WWII thing, kill of the Trinity in the first issue, make the JSA old guard newbie 20 somethings, make Alan gay, and God knows what else, all in an effort to court whatever Didio thinks is edgy. Heh, Dan, These guys work best as older heroes! And Obie was already gay, now you wrote him out to make another character gay...

Sure, Batman dies...eventually in the old stories. But he's around for quite some time, and Superman and Diana are around till the end. And Diana doesn't get killed by a nobody like Steppenwolf, and worse, Clark doesn't get it from a group of Parademons. How "super" is that? And the lame explanation of why the GL power didn't act earlier is just that. Plus, Robinson seems to forget that there were two "sun gods" around back then, not just Superman, not that either seemed to do much good.

All that said, if you didn't love the old JSA, you can probably like this. If you did, you'll have a harder time with it.

As for WF, it's certainly a charming book, with appealing leads. But in the wake of Power Girl's own series being canceled for the reboot, it seems a bit...hollow. Huntress fares a bit better only because the version of Huntress hasn't been seen in ages. But at least this is a buddy book where the attraction is how the two leads play off each other.

by **Timbales** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:08 pm

Earth isn't the JSA you want it to be, that doesn't mean it isn't good.

by **avengingtitan** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:04 pm

Timbales wrote:Earth isn't the JSA you want it to be, that doesn't mean it isn't good.

Very true. Sadly though its not good.

by **Timbales** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:16 pm

avengingtitan wrote:Very true. Sadly though its not good.

bullshit

by **draco x** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:51 am

I really wish Earth 2 had been Wildstorm instead as opposed to moving those characters into New 52 Earth One where they suck now. The contrast between both universes was always interesting.