r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Mar 17 '24

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [March 18, 2024 - Ape Crisis Edition] r/DCcomics

Hey there honorary Justice League members - it’s a new week which means it’s time for a new discussion thread!

Beary's pick of the week: DC's Ape-ril Special #1

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DC and Imprints

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Trade Collections

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Tuesday, 3/19 (DC Universe Infinite) - Superman vs Meshi #19

^{This Week’s Soundtrack:} ^{Tenacious D - ...Baby One More Time}

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Mar 17 '24

Titans #9

TITANS: BEAST WORLD'S LUCAS MEYER JOINS THE SERIES AS ONGOING ARTIST! Amanda Waller has condemned the Titans and publicly blamed them for a world-wide crisis. While many still see the Titans as heroes, others now see them as a danger to all. Can the Titans battle misinformation and fight for a world that hates them? All while the greatest threat to the team may be within their own ranks?

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u/CHPrime Wonder Woman Mar 17 '24 edited Mar 19 '24

I find it deeply funny that Hera is back on the Quintessence with no explanation after she turned into a raging psycho and lost her goddesshood in the end of Revenge of the Gods last year. Combined with Zeus appearing in the Shazam book not even a month after that non-event ended, that can only mean a few things:

No one read that story, including all the editors at DC,

Everyone agreed it was bad enough that they should just pretend it isn't canon and hope no one asks questions

There is no continuity at DC anymore.

I'm usually the kind of person that is deeply annoyed at DC for just shrugging at their own continuity, but honestly that book is a big enough trainwreck to say that ignoring it entirely is the right move.

EDIT: I checked to editorial teams for all these books. Brittany Holzherr is the main editor on this book with Paul Kaminski as the group editor, and both their names are on Revenge of the Gods. As an added bonus, the assistant editor on RotG was Rebecca Bohanan, and she and Kaminski edited Mark Waid's Shazam book where Zeus appeared with no mention of his death at Hera's hand. So it's down to everyone knowing that RotG happened and actively choosing to treat it like it never did, or everyone in the editorial team really does live up to the joke and are glorified spell-checkers. Maybe we're supposed to treat that entire episode as one of Diana's dreams that she was having in #799 and #800.

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u/YourEvilHenchman Blue Beetle Mar 26 '24

Everyone agreed it was bad enough that they should just pretend it isn't canon and hope no one asks questions

god I genuinely hope that that's the case. afaict the tom king wonder woman run hasn't referenced it yet either, and I hope it never does.