Comments on: OFFICIAL: Firestorm Ongoing Series Canceled

By: Spinks

Spinks — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:13:25 +0000

Sigh. I know I’m behind the curve here. No, in fact, I read this a while ago, but got depressed about it. Firestorm is a good/strong character. Firestorm has a strong, loyal fan base. Firestorm won’t beat Batman in sales, Superman in sales, etc… However, he does have a loyal following that will support him.

DC, however, seems to kill any momentum Firestorm has going for him.

DC also won’t him in their new animated series(es).

DC has inconsistent story-lines with Firestorm. Story-lines without focus, direction, vision.

However, despite DC decisions, there have been successes along the way, and I’m certain Firestorm Fans (and FirestormFan.com) will continue to fan the flame.

By: Boosterrific

Boosterrific — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:48:27 +0000

My internet has been down all weekend, I finally get it back to discover that FIRESTORM was cancelled? Yeesh. Sorry, Shag.

Don’t be too down. It wasn’t personal, you know. DC cancelled the book because it had terrible numbers. (Sometimes it is hard to understand what those chuckleheads that WB has running DC are doing, but when it comes to low-sales triggered cancellations, they are usually pretty predictable. Unless we’re talking about JLI. Sigh.)

We all know that Firestorm is such a good character, even death couldn’t keep him down. It’s a pity that FLUSHPOINT robbed us of the opportunity to better capitalize on the momentum granted the character by BRIGHTEST DAY. (The same could be said for JLI. Sigh.) Fortunately for all of us, Firestorm will live to headline a book another day.

By: Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:13:01 +0000

Overall, I am happy right now to say we had 20 issues of Firestorm. yeah, things could always be better, but at least he did get some coverage right at the start of the New 52. Firestorm is such a great character from design to powers to history. You can’t keep him down but for so long and I am happy he is going to be in another book. One day, Rob and Shag, one day, even if I have to pay for it myself, we will have the Fire & Water Podcast Issue Maxi-Series to ongoing starring Aquaman and Firestorm. Or at the very least maybe DC can throw us a bone and get some interaction from these two!

By: Keith Samra

Keith Samra — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:09:42 +0000

Well Geoff Johns has always wanted to write the character, and now he gets to use him in JL. But who knows, maybe once he’s done with some writing projects, he may pitch an idea to Dan and Jim, and Firestorm could get another series…

Its a longshot, but im trying to be optimistic!

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:16:53 +0000

There goes the one remaining DC title on my pull list, and I’ve always been a “make mine DC” guy. I suppose I’ll have to keep a casual eye on JL and pick up any issues he appears in, but other than that I’m done. Thank god for Valiant 😉

By: FKAjason

FKAjason — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:40:32 +0000

I got back into comics because Captain Atom got a new series. I stuck with DC because YOU got me into Firestorm. I’ve always been a DC guy but now… I’m more into what Marvel is doing. I think the only DC book I’ll stick with is Green Lantern. Dark days for DC. I dunno. Maybe I’ll see what that fish guy is up to.

By: Dave Mullen

Dave Mullen — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:02:07 +0000

Shame but not surprising. In another reality not so far away Firestorm would have carried on from Brightest Day in the same was Aquaman did, as with Aquaman Brightest Day set him up as an A-lister thanks to Geoff Johns’ support and good work and while you can argue the difficulty of selling books like Firestorm and Hawkman in todays market I can just point you to the success of Aquaman and even the similar success of Johns & Jurgens booster Gold series -lasting nearly 50 issues before Flashpoint brought it to an understandable end!

THAT could have been Firestorm. Or even Hawkman. Instead we got what we got and Firestorm remains a solid B-lister at best because of it… fingers crossed though that Geoff Johns can keep him in the trenches with his upcoming Justice League appearances!

By: rob!

rob! — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 06:12:06 +0000

So, does the cancellation affect the status of the beloved Fire and Water Podcast? Nuclear Subs everywhere want to know!

Will it affect the show? Sure–we’ll no longer have FoF to cover every month, but there’s still tons of Firestorm stuff to cover, plus he’ll be in JL from now on. We didn’t intend to keep covering JL past ToA, but if Firestorm AND Aquaman are in the book I think we’ll have to.

I want to keep doing the show as long as Shag does. And probably even a little past that.

By: Martin Stein RIP

Martin Stein RIP — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:40:27 +0000

So, does the cancellation affect the status of the beloved Fire and Water Podcast? Nuclear Subs everywhere want to know!

By: Martin Stein RIP

Martin Stein RIP — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:31:29 +0000

“Jurgens’s run on the series began with #13 in October and will conclude with May’s #20, when the series ends. The series began its run as one of the lowest-selling and poorest-reviewed series of the New 52 and went through a number of writer changes before the entire original creative team finally left when Jurgens took over. Reviews for his issues have been solid, skewing toward good, but the series may have been unsalvageable before he came aboard.”

Now that’s what I call an epitaph.