Right now I'd say no. It's by Tony Daniel who was doing Batman, and while I like his art, the stories were pretty derivative. We'll have to see if the "reboot" benefits him
I mean, the dude has a known hate-on for the Kelly/Mahnke JLA, so that wasn't surprising. And the Detroit, Meltzer, and Extreme teams have been the butt of jokes for years now.
I didn't know he hated the Kelly JLA, which I greatly enjoyed
and he did like 2-3 "lol Aquaman" jokes that went on for a paragraph
plus it was much more bitter and negative than he normally is. He's usually pretty happy about comics unless something is stupid but he basically spent the whole time saying THIS CHARACTER IS STUPID FOR THIS REASON with a quick paragraph saying "but yes this era was actually good/bad"
I dunno, the guy has his biases, that he clings to pretty fervently (Wonder Woman, Red Tornado, Wonder Man, etc.), so it's not surprising to see him just trash a character offhandedly.
At any rate, it did just seem to be a lot of jokes that everyone's told before. Extreme Justice was bad, Vibe is goofy, etc.
I think I'm going to pick up Men of War. The writer on Twitter seemed really sincere and dedicated to the book, and the line "Gotham Central with Military" intrigues me.
You know what person-that-talks-about-Batman-a-lot has been getting on my nerves lately? David Brothers. I just feel like he's been very bitter lately.
Yeah I hate the trend of bitterness in comics journalism
everyone is just hating everything forever
I get that it isn't the best business in the world sometimes but I fucking love comic books and want to hear about why they are so great as opposed to what is wrong with them for the billionth time
I thought his writings on ASB&R on 4th Letter were somewhat interesting.
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I thought Snyder wrapped up the James Gordon thing rather well. Add to it Gates of Gotham was able to get one more arc out of Snyder to set up his direction for Batman, and it worked out. The only bad thing is Snyder's not writing Dick anymore.
I mean, I get Chris Sims is the Batman guy, but who else out there is closely connected to other heroes like that?
Why don't you link the actual blog post and not a news site quoting a small part of his blog post?
Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I’ll take my Batman gritty, thank you, and I will acknowledge that such a portrayal means that my 11 year old has to wait before he sees The Dark Knight. But if Hollywood turns out a Superman movie that I can’t take him to? They’ve done something wrong. Superman is many, many things. Gritty he is not, something that Richard Donner certainly understood.
(Pet peeve time: for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it’s so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble… grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it’s the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.)
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Gleason is one of my favorite artists, and I loved him and Tomasi on GLC.
Right now I'd say no. It's by Tony Daniel who was doing Batman, and while I like his art, the stories were pretty derivative. We'll have to see if the "reboot" benefits him
He's basically moving Batman around like a puppet
Superman's gonna bring the pain.
Blank I have to hate on this relaunch. It fuels me. It's all I have left.
It'll be on Comixology at 2pm tomorrow afternoon.
I mean, the dude has a known hate-on for the Kelly/Mahnke JLA, so that wasn't surprising. And the Detroit, Meltzer, and Extreme teams have been the butt of jokes for years now.
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and he did like 2-3 "lol Aquaman" jokes that went on for a paragraph
plus it was much more bitter and negative than he normally is. He's usually pretty happy about comics unless something is stupid but he basically spent the whole time saying THIS CHARACTER IS STUPID FOR THIS REASON with a quick paragraph saying "but yes this era was actually good/bad"
it is 2011
I dunno, the guy has his biases, that he clings to pretty fervently (Wonder Woman, Red Tornado, Wonder Man, etc.), so it's not surprising to see him just trash a character offhandedly.
At any rate, it did just seem to be a lot of jokes that everyone's told before. Extreme Justice was bad, Vibe is goofy, etc.
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It even introduced a brand new character in Faith rather well, to the point where she wasn't always in your face.
but I liked Major Disaster a bunch so it balanced out
plus the replacement arc where Nightwing took over leadership is one of my favorite JLA stories ever
Good to see Suicide Squad isn't really going to surprise us.
I really like the art and his new costume and the dude who is co-writing wrote Xombi and apparently that was fantastic so
I am also going to give the first issues of All-Star Western and Men of War a shot. If one of my pull titles fails to perform I'll swap em out.
everyone is just hating everything forever
I get that it isn't the best business in the world sometimes but I fucking love comic books and want to hear about why they are so great as opposed to what is wrong with them for the billionth time
I mean, I get Chris Sims is the Batman guy, but who else out there is closely connected to other heroes like that?
There are two comics coming out next month about Jonah Hex going to Gotham
And both have All-Star in the name
Edit: the two titles are All-Star Western and All-Star Batman Brave and the Bold
Besides All-Star Western, of course.
while Rucka is usually tasteful
he is about the last person who should be naysaying grim and gritty stuff
I just want to email every page from every book he has written since like 2003.
it opened up with 29 people being gunned down at the wedding of a returning Iraq veteran, with the widowed newlywed bride being the only survivor.
Batman can get gritty. Superman should not. As he says in the full blog post, cynicism does not equal maturity.
I am just saying he is not the best person to say this view since his catalog is almost nothing but grim and gritty.
I think the happiest thing I've seen him write was the first half of Renee and Vic's story in 52.
I agree with everything he says
it is just a very weird person to hear it from
or T-Pain complaining about autotune