I was quite happy with Ronnie being Firestorm on his own before he died, so I’ll wait and see what happens with the rest of it

I’ll keep the Blank Slate comparison…but given Super-Storm’s apparent magnitude, could one possibly also consider him a nod to the Elemental era? Not sure I’d like that though (Sorry, Shag, but I never got into Elemental Firestorm; he just wasn’t “my” Firestorm). Hopefully Ronnie and Jason will have some input as to how the giant functions (like BS Storm), and maybe even a little conflict about it at times? 😉

I just hope this isn’t the end for a classic Firestorm somehow. I don’t want DC to use this reboot to pretend what came before never existed. For all the characters.

Do you think that, by introducing Super-Storm (or Hulk Storm), that might be a nod to the Blank Slate era? (especially if Jason and Ronnie combine and are both inside looking out of this new being)

I hope whatever good you see in the team behind the new FOF is realized and that they do “get it” to some degree. And that they CAN sell me on this new vision, just as Jason won me over before. Still, as I said, I remain skeptical. I’m pretty much that way about this DCnU in general, it can be the New Coke of comics if they’re not true to the core of the characters. (Why does Superman need armor?!!?) They need to appeal to all fans, young AND old.

I am still being a bit cautious about this reboot. I want the characters to stay true to what made them work, while also being modernized. On a Firestorm note, it seems every time we have a new Firestorm series, they always change everything. It’s a little frustrating at first. First, when we got Jason I was ready to see Ronnie being highlighted again. (Mind you, Jason is now accepted by me as a big part of the FS mythos) And now, I was interested in a Ronnie/Jason partnership after Brightest Day, and now we get this. It’s like everything in Brightest Day with Ronnie, Jason, Martin, and Deathstorm was a waste since they are starting over. But hopefully I am answering my own question when I mentioned I accepted Jason over time.

Haven’t seen any Flashpoint issues…does anyone know if this event will cause the new universe, or will it just pop out of nowhere????????

Overall, I’m still looking forward to this new book. I like Ronnie and Jason both. I really like Gail Simone’s writing and Yildiray Cinar’s art. I like Ethan Van Sciver as an artist and am interested to see what he does as a co-plotter.

I know this new Firestorm book sounds like a large departure from the Firestorm we know. But for me it boils down to this … I trust the creators involved, so I gotta believe we’re in for a fantastic book. I totally respect and support they want to take Firestorm in a new direction.

I was initially surprised by some of Ethan’s comments in the Comicbooked.com interview regarding Professor Stein’s involvement with Firestorm. I contacted Ethan Van Sciver via Facebook and asked him about Professor Stein. I said his comments about Professor Stein sort of surprised me and some other fans. It made it sound like he never liked the Professor as part of Firestorm. Was that correct? Ethan responded that was incorrect.

I was relieved to read that. I imagine in the interview Ethan was just talking in relation to his vision for the character, not the history of Professor Stein. I know he’s a big Firestorm fan, so it would be hard to like the character but not the Professor.

Again, I’m excited about the new book. Hopefully in a few months we’ll all be ranting that we have to wait a month between each amazing issue!

Shag

I don’t have a specific problem with the other changes discussed here, although the Stein-bashing is pretty short-sighted.

Does this mean the entire post-Brightest Day countdown to explosion thing is being dropped? I feel pretty ripped off and not inclined to buy this series, if that’s really the case.

Besides…how long could it be until Stein shows up in the new series, anyway?