Who'd Like A Cocktail? #193

Ummm, because he's a bloke?

Who Was Who Is Who #26

So for want of anything better to write about on a Monday, I'm going to go through all my copies of Who's Who and see if I can predict who will make it over to the new DCU by the end of 2012, who might make it and who hasn't got a Lord Shilling's chance.

LEGION OF SUPER-PETS - oh, bless 'em. Another glorious idea from a more innocent time that won't ever see the light of day in mainstream DC continuity again. Or at least not before the end of 2012. Dave Sopko, the official COEP Legion go to guy, agrees saying "Sadly, the Super Pets will likely not be heard from again.  Although Krypto was seen in Action I believe...no group appearances though."

THE LEGION OF SUPER-VILLAINS - with the Legion up and running, I suppose it's possible that their evil counterparts may well show up at some point. I doubt they'll be around before the year's out, though I'm willing to take Dave's word for it when he says "Big story just before the reboot, so they should be on the back burner as a group for a while."

LIBERTY BELLE - with the recent (writing this in early March) news about what we can expect in Earth-2, it seems increasingly unlikely that we'll have a retro alternate earth to look forward to. Having said that, some characters have already been mentioned as appearing in Earth-2 so I'm putting Belle into the possibles.

Don't Call Me Cassandra

Over the last weekend or so, I've had my head buried in copies of Who's Who, frantically finishing writing up my Who Was Who Is Who posts. I've completed all of them up to #52 (due to be posted Christmas Eve would you believe?!) so all my predictions are now locked in place - you'll just have to trust me that I won't change any between now and then!

But hey, where's the fun in that? If I did that then I wouldn't be able to point at this news article that I read yesterday which clearly illustrates what a terrible prophet I am.

It concerns the news about a new DC series called National Comics which will be a series of one shots that

"will serve as a base to explore the publisher's New 52 universe"

which sounds like a good idea to me and I'll probably pick it up.

Trouble is, on Sunday I wrote in Who Was Who Is Who #38 (to be posted 17th September)

"ROSE AND THE THORN - I don't think either of the Earth-1 or Earth-2 versions featured in Who's Who will be making an appearance any time soon."

and what do I read in the press release about National Comics just a couple of days later?

"tales of characters and concepts including Eternity, Rose and Thorn, Madame X and the Outsider team-member Looker"

Rose and Thorn?!

Damn it, I suck at this.

You'll have to wait and see what I wrote about Looker, as well.