By Newsarama has some pretty interesting news from a Canadian DC conference. A number of series are going to get their tickets punched. Among the cancellations: Flash, Wonder Woman, Gotham Central, and Batman: Gotham Knights. I just checked DC solicitations for February and there is no Flash title listed. This paves the road for these characters to be rebooted, and the theme appears to be having the kid sidekicks take over their mentor’s role. Rumors abound about Dick Grayson becoming Batman; Bart Allen will become the Flash (written by Mark Waid); Donna Troy will become Wonder Woman (written by Allen Heinberg and drawn by Terry Dodson). Hawkman becomes Hawkgirl (no sex change operation) and gets a dynamite creative team switch with Walt Simonson writing and Howard Chaykin on the art. This is the first time Chaykin will have done a major ongoing DC character in quite a while! Who knows what happens to Superman? In the JSA preview, we saw that Superman I was flying around during the One Year Gap with an elderly Lois waiting for him at home.
See also:
Newsarma article on DC Conference
Lying in the Gutters for November 14th
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