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Superman/Batman FIFTIETH ISSUE SPECIAL! Or, How to Make Money off Art You Already Paid For

Posted by David Uzumeri on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 04:23:24 PM

I understand DC’s sitting on this artwork, but if I were doing the 50th issue of Superman/Batman, I’d be kind of annoyed if this was the cover treatment the issue got:

Superman/Batman #50 covers
Superman/Batman #50 covers

Hey, these look famili–

Superman/Batman #23 solicited cover

Superman/Batman #27 cover given at announcement of Verheiden/Van Sciver taking over the book

Oh. (Note: Neither of these covers ended up actually being used, hence this.)

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11 Responses

  1. Ryan July 28th, ’08 at 5:13 pm

    Oh, good god. They haven’t even changed the Dickbat. Has no one pointed it out to them, or what?

  2. Brad Bice July 28th, ’08 at 7:32 pm

    I gave up on Superman/Batman about 47 issues ago, and it looks like DC has too.

  3. David Uzumeri July 28th, ’08 at 7:52 pm

    I actually really enjoyed the recent Michael Green/Mike Johnson arc, and am looking forward to this issue. I’d just expect the fiftieth issue of a former flagship title to get, you know, its own cover.

  4. Aaron Poehler July 29th, ’08 at 4:05 pm

    S/B is starting to feel like JLA Classified and Superman Confidential did: inventory drawer clearinghouse books that will be traded if at all decent and quickly forgotten otherwise.

  5. Jbird July 30th, ’08 at 3:04 am

    Wonder if it’ll still be Bruce as the Bat by the time that rolls around.

    I took Batman’s “Superman, Superman” when Clark complained that he had to go act like Clark Kent or blow his identity out of the water to be Morrison’s nudge that whoever Batman is in Final Crisis, he’s not somebody who knew that Superman was Clark Kent – until the point the farmboy blurted it out to his “old friend”.

    Does Tim Drake know Clark’s Superman? Does Dick Grayson? Jason Todd?

  6. Jbird July 30th, ’08 at 3:06 am

    ^That’s Final Crisis #2, by the way.

  7. David Uzumeri July 30th, ’08 at 9:21 am

    They all know he’s Superman. I just took that to be sort of a talking-to-yourself “Oh, that Superman with his private life and social circles”.

  8. MickFar-vell July 30th, ’08 at 5:55 pm

    I hope you anti-didio fags get run over by a tonka.
    That’s all

  9. Katherine July 31st, ’08 at 7:22 am

    Dc are really not doing their best lately and it is much more than the cover

  10. Jbird July 31st, ’08 at 5:33 pm

    Ever wonder how Thomas Wayne met Jor-El? NOW THE STORY CAN BE TOLD

  11. David Uzumeri July 31st, ’08 at 7:09 pm

    Yeah, uh, I read this issue, and while I thought Green/Johnson’s last arc had a lot of promise, this was the most utterly pointless fanwank ever. This didn’t need to happen. I don’t know what Berganza was thinking when he rubberstamped this story.

    The part about T-Wayne convincing Jor-El that humans are pretty cool wasn’t even the most painful part. That honor went to the entire Waynecorp fortune being built off of reverse-engineered Kryptonian technology. What. The. Fuck.

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