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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: Yoc on April 18, 2014, 09:21:02 AM

Title: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: Yoc on April 18, 2014, 09:21:02 AM
Just caught this on CBR -

"Dynamite is honored to announce that Warren Ellis, one of the greatest and most respected comic book writers in comics, will be working with Dynamite for the very first time! Warren Ellis plans to take control of the Project Superpowers universe in late 2014, as Dynamite Entertainment continues to celebrate its 10th Anniversary..."

You can read the rest here -
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=52207
Title: Re: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: SuperScrounge on April 18, 2014, 05:50:55 PM
But I liked Project Superpowers. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy???  :'(
Title: Re: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: JGray on April 18, 2014, 06:36:47 PM
There's been at least one webcomic that tried to do something similar to Project Superpowers. I really want to do a revival comic myself but I don't have the money to finance a third webcomic, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: Yoc on April 18, 2014, 10:40:44 PM
Is Pro. Superpowers still running?  I thought it had gone dormant or something.
I don't mind some of the things that Ellis has done in the past.  I'll give the first issues a look.
Title: Re: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: darkmark (RIP) on April 19, 2014, 09:53:15 PM
It went dormant.  Maybe Ellis can improve it, but we'll see.
Title: Re: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: Roygbiv666 on April 21, 2014, 12:17:14 PM
So .... they're "rebooting" a series that first came out .. like 7 years ago. Just get on with it.

I like the idea, no the execution of the original.

needs more Grim Reaper ...
Title: Re: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: comicsnorth on May 03, 2014, 08:53:07 AM
It seemed to me that the problem with Project: Superpowers was the tendency to just throw various characters out there just because they could, without any noticeable plan for what they might do with them.  After several issues of "Oh, look--there's Amazing-Man!  What's he going to do?  Nothing much, it seems.", only replacing Amazing-Man with a different public domain hero every couple pages, it got hard to follow what story there was with all the "flash card" hero distractions.  I think they'd have been better off if they'd just picked a cast and stuck with them long enough to make it thru a story arc, instead of leaving us with the sense of "Hey, we've got every Public Domain character we can think of--try and guess if we have a story to put them in!"
Title: Re: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: darkmark (RIP) on May 05, 2014, 11:52:50 PM
Agreed.  There was no HEROISM in the Project: Superpowers, and that's fatal for a superhero.
Title: Re: Warren Ellis Reboots Dynamite's Project Superpowers Universe...
Post by: narfstar on May 06, 2014, 10:06:21 AM
I think Darkmark put his finger on why I did not like it