This is a explanation about the new DC comics
Rebirth, all these characters are property of DC comics.
In
January 2016, DC
Comics co-publisher
Dan DiDio and
Jim Lee tweeted an image of a blue curtain with the word "Rebirth" on it, teasing the event.[1]
The following month, DC announced its Rebirth initiative, a line-wide relaunch of its titles, to begin in June 2016.
Beginning with an 80-page one-shot which was released on May 25, 2016, Rebirth also sees
Action Comics and
Detective Comics return to their previous numbering (#957 and #934, respectively), all books being released at
US$2.99, multiple books being shifted to a twice-monthly release schedule, a number of existing titles being relaunched with new #1s, and the release of several new titles.
All the DC comics characters presented in this video are property of DC comics
Creative teams for the Rebirth titles, along with some art and storylines, were revealed atWonderCon 2016
Johns worked with each writing team and the editors for the titles to help refocus "on these characters, deconstructing them down to their core
DNA and building out story arcs based on that DNA".[4] Additionally, two titles part of the initial announcement in February,
Gotham Academy:
Second Semester and
Earth 2,[2] were revealed to no longer be considered Rebirth titles, instead acting as continuations of their
New 52 titles, Gotham Academy and Earth 2:
Society, respectively.[5] Regarding the decision to focus on fewer titles, with some shipping twice-monthly, DiDio said, "What we did was eliminate some of the lower ranked titles, and we're trying to incorporate those ideas into the main books themselves, because we feel that makes the main books stronger" adding, "we look at things like
... Gotham by
Midnight.
And I loved Gotham by Midnight, but it never got the sampling that a
Batman book would. But if we did that Gotham by Midnight story and integrated it into the Batman series that was shipping twice monthly, there was a better chance for people to see those characters, get excited by those characters, and more importantly, if we ever decided to thin them out, maybe we'd have a stronger audience and a better chance for series like that to succeed." DiDio also revealed that DC had breaks in the schedule "where we'll decide whether or not a double-ship is working" and potentially change it to monthly status. "We're going to be examining that on a regular basis," he added. "We're not going to keep book double-shipping if we don't think the demand is there.
Regarding the release of variant covers for titles, Lee said, "we're only using specialty variants with comic book shops and variant covers in judicious ways. We're not going to have a gazillion SKUs across the entire line. We find that, at that
point, why publish a story inside at all, if you're just going to build a business based on variant covers. We're still using variant covers, but we're actually using one variant cover artist for each book. They sort of get tenure, as it were. And they're going to be responsible for being the alternate cover artist on that book. And we're only doing it on our top-selling books.
On May 27, 2016, DC announced that
DC Universe: Rebirth
Special #1 would receive a second printing. The rerelease, being sold atUS$5.99, featured an update to
Gary Frank's cover, better revealing the outstretched hand of
Doctor Manhattan in the top right corner, as well as a square bound format.[7]
Less than a week later, DC revealed the title would receive a third printing, again being released atUS$5.99 with a square bound format, and a new cover from
Frank. Additionally, the first wave of Rebirth one-shots – Batman: Rebirth,
Green Lanterns: Rebirth,
Superman: Rebirth and
Green Arrow: Rebirth – also received second printings, with a recolored Rebirth banner to differentiate it from the original printing.
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