DC Comics Announces Major Story with ‘No Justice’, Rian Johnson Wanted to Make Rey a Robot and More! – ComicCorp News

DC Comics Announces ‘No Justice’ – After “Dark Knights: Metal” ends, DC will launch a new miniseries called ‘Justice League: No Justice’. The series will feature various heroes and villains paired up on four different teams after Brainiac comes to Earth to warn them of a impending threat. It’ll be a weekly, four-issue series, and will be handled by James Tynion Iv, Joshua Williamson and lead by Scott Snyder. Fancis Manapaul will provide the art for the series. You can see the images for each team, along with the roster detail below. The press release is at the bottom.


Team Entropy: Lobo, Lex Luthor, Beast Boy, Batman and Deathstroke


Team Mystery: Martian Manhunter, Sinestro, Superman, Starfire and Starro


Team Wonder: Raven, Doctor Fate, Zatanna, Wonder Woman and Etrigan the Demon


Team Wisdom: Cyborg, Harley Quinn, Atom, The Flash and Robin (specified as Damian Wayne)

ACCLAIMED WRITERS SCOTT SNYDER, JAMES TYNION IV AND JOSHUA WILLIAMSON JOIN FORCES THIS MAY FOR JUSTICE LEAGUE: NO JUSTICE

Artist Francis Manapul Delivers Epic Action Featuring
The World’s Greatest Super-Heroes

Weekly Four-Issue Miniseries Follows Events from the Cataclysmic Conclusion of
DARK NIGHTS: METAL

(BURBANK, CA) – (January 26, 2018) – At the conclusion of writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo’s DARK NIGHTS: METAL (issue #6 on sale March 14), the bestselling BATMAN talent team will shake the DC Universe to its deepest foundations and do something that even the most passionate fans will characterize as unimaginable and utterly audacious.

This event sets the stage for even more bold and daring storytelling, as Snyder, along with co-writers James Tynion IV (DETECTIVE COMICS) and Joshua Williamson (THE FLASH, Vertigo’s DEATHBED) plus all-star artist Francis Manapul (TRINITY) take readers on an adventure that will break the very boundaries of the DC Universe in JUSTICE LEAGUE: NO JUSTICE, a four-issue weekly miniseries, beginning May 9.

“We thought we knew the entire map of the DC cosmos,” says Snyder. “We thought we had explored all there was to explore. But now we know that all this time the Multiverse was nothing but a fishbowl, and now we’ve been dumped into the ocean, unleashing terrifying new threats, and wondrous new possibilities. METAL opened up channels of storytelling that Francis, James, Joshua and I are excited to explore in a big way. When we’re finished, fans will never look at the Justice League in the same way again.”

In this four-issue miniseries, the super-villain Brainiac arrives on Earth with a dire warning for the Justice League: there’s a threat coming to destroy Earth, one that the heroes are ill-equipped to handle. Brainiac thinks he holds the key to victory, but it means combining members of the League with some of the most dangerous villains in the DC Universe and sending them into battle against this extinction-level menace. The stakes are at their absolute highest; if one of these teams fail. It’s game over.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: NO JUSTICE promises to deliver over-the-top blockbuster action, courtesy of artist Francis Manapul.

“I’m laying out the biggest action of my life,” says Manapul. “The Justice League realizes that they need to expand their reach to become something bigger than they have ever been before. If you thought my work for JUSTICE LEAGUE: DARKSEID WAR was huge, I’m taking the League to the edge of the cosmos with NO JUSTICE. Anyone who has asked for Harley Quinn, Martian Manhunter, Starfire, Zatanna, the Atom, Raven, or Doctor Fate to be in their personal Justice League will stand up and cheer.”

This can’t-miss miniseries sets the stage for a “family” of Justice League titles, beginning in June, headlined by Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE with additional titles written by James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson and more in the coming months.

Opinion: With ‘Doomsday Clock’, ‘Dark Knights: Metal’ and now this, I really don’t like how loaded the special miniseries lines are all falling over one another. The series launches in the spring but it’s a bit much. Plus the combos are odd and not that intriguing. More than likely they’ll shake up the Justice League lineups after the miniseries.

‘Justice League’ Shakeup – Scott Snyder is seen as the top guy outside of Geoff Johns in the DC lineup. And the folks at DC are proving this by inserting him into the writers chair for “Justice League”. He’ll replace Christopher Priest who will end his run in May. Steve Orlando is still with the ‘Justice League of America’ series going forward.

Rian Johnson Continues to Worry Fans – Only a fool who can’t detach from their fandom is going to defend Rian Johnson at this point. “The Last Jedi” is a film that imperially was a disappointment. It barely lasted three weeks in the second largest market in the World. It’s the lowest rated film by fans in the history of the franchise. That’s with the prequels in the running.

But oh god, “Last Jedi” could of been so much worse. Rian Johnson revealed on Reddit that one of the ideas he had for the film was to reveal Rey as a robot.

I honestly listed everything I could think of, even awful possibilities where I said, ‘This is not what we’re going to do.’ I mean the less silly one was, ‘Is she a clone?’ Anything that’s a theory on Reddit now I guarantee was listed on that document. The silliest one was, ‘Is she a robot?’ Okay, we’ve seen a biomechanical realistic flesh hand on Luke, could the technology have advanced significantly in the 30 years, and then I just started laughing. Look forward to the ‘Rey was almost a robot headlines.’

He may brush it off, but he undercut every arch built up in the first film, introduced grotesque bodily humor, altered and ruined the newer characters and forced subplots that didn’t just drag but that outright went nowhere. There’s very little hope for his trilogy.

Johnson even goes on to say that the reason he ignored Rey’s patronage was due it being “too easy”.

The easiest thing for her to hear would be, ‘Yes, you are so and so’s daughter.’ Or ‘Yes, here’s where you fit into this. Here’s the answer. The tougher thing to hear is, ‘You’re going to have to stand on your own two feet, you’re going to have to figure out what you’re worth in this world yourself. Your place in this story is not going to be handed to you. You are going to have to find it.’ That to me was the most interesting and toughest thing for Rey.

Quick Hits – China is dropping the ‘Star Wars’ from the upcoming Han Solo film; renaming it “Ranger Solo” in all upcoming promotional material. Marvel Comics have made the decision to kill off Quicksilver in the ‘No Surrender’ storyline for the Avengers new 16-week event.