Comic News: 6 More Titles To the DC Graveyard

  Ladies & Gents, it is starting to become painful to see the "now" rotating door that has become DC Comics. Just recently, mere months ago, it was stated by DC hire ups that the New 52 would stay as it for some time to come. Well ... that was a lie. Six more titles are being cancelled from DC. And which 6 titles will die and join the New 52 Graveyard?

    Fury of Firestorm, The Savage Hawkman, Deathstroke (which is hilarious when Rob Liefeld stated on Twitter that the book would end up cancelled after his "abrupt" departure from the company), The Ravagers, Team 7 and Sword of Sorcery. Add that to the end of I, Vampire and Legion Lost, which were already announced to get cancellations. There is something REALLY, REALLY wrong here.

   The first 3 titles  have been part of the New 52 since launch. Ravagers was part of the "Second Wave" of titles which started around May of last year with the last 2 titles just starting this past September.

   According to DC Comics EIC Bob Harris, that we will continue to see many of the characters from the cancelled titles in other places. Amethyst "might" return to Justice League Dark - which I honestly hope cause seriously ... damn. And the team needs some light in that group besides Deadman. Hawkman will be prominently featured in Justice League of America. Fairchild, Beast Boy & Terra were assured that we'd see them again somewhere else. Everyone else ...no word but hey, this just happened.

Blue Beetle, Grifter, Frankenstein and Legion Lost Join the Pit of Cancellations

    Yep. DC does it again. With their low selling performances, Legion Lost, Frankenstein  Blue Beetle and Grifter will all be cancelled as of their #17th issues. This titles, added to the other previous cancelled books that include Voodoo, Static Shock, Mr Terrific, Blackhawks,OMAC, JLI, Men at War, Hawk & Dove, the recently started GI Combat, Resurrection Man and  Captain Atom. That makes 15 titles, over 1/4th of the new 52 has been cancelled.

   While the announced new Superman title by Snyder & Lee plus Justice League of America do bring in some hope ..., that doesn't change the fact that DC is getting very used to chopping off titles.

  According to CBR though, not all the cancellation were part of the 4 lowest selling books:

Fro example, two of the cancelled books – "Grifter" and "Blue Beetle" – are definitely the lowest-selling books in the New 52 line that haven't been announced for cancellation already, so their end comes as no surprise. However, "Firestorm: The Nuclear Men" is next in lowest sales before "Frankenstein," and a number of other titles like "Hawkman," "I, Vampire" and "DC Universe Presents" mix in before "Legion Lost." Meanwhile, the next lowest series up are "Deathstroke" and "Demon Knights."


    The final issues of these books will hit stores this February. And maybe it is time to have Grifter & Voodoo on a new incarnation of WildCATS .... I'm just saying.