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[DC Comics]: Crisis on Infinite #Rebirths
Mike Danger
"Diane..."a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
"Diane..."a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
Who even knows anymore? Discuss the unending tire fire that is DC Comics here.
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But damn, you're even more critical that I was!
Also, I'd at least de-italicize Red Lanterns. Charles Soule took over with issue 21, and it's been at the very least just as good as the other Lantern titles, and honestly probably one of the better ones.
I like that you bolded Constantine, which suggests that you're the only other person who has been reading it.
I'm curious to see what other input people will have on the Superman titles.
I liked Grifter and Team 7, though that was mostly nostalgia for Wildcats v2 and 3 and the original Team7 which were pretty good comics. (Saw rumours that they were planning a movie for Team7. The original series could work well as a movie.)
Yeah, I agree. The amethyst stuff was really good, and the backups were fantastic because they were so far out on the fringe (they reminded me a lot of the proto-vertigo stuff DC was doing in the 80s).
A much-overlooked title collected in a single trade. I hope some people will see our messages and maybe give it a shot.
Or are they just killing the whole Young Justice line?
What the hell?
Scott Lobdell
Earth 2
Wonder Woman
Swamp Thing
Animal Man (sadly, ending somewhat soon)
I'd say those four are, still, at a consistently higher bar than everything else I enjoy/read from DC currently.
Mt second-tier is the Justice League books, Red Hood & the Outlaws, Batman & Robin, Batman, Aquaman, and Action Comics... which if Pak keeps it up will move higher.
As for canceled series: Sword of Sorcery and I, Vampire were way too good to get the axe they got.
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Teen Titans Annual #1
Flexing those writing muscles eh Lobdell
Nice to see DC reintroduce such a cool character.
Mighty white of them.
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I don't see how something like that could appeal to any audience. 45 year olds wouldn't care about a character from the cartoons showing up and randomly dying. I wonder if they're just trying to create controversy to get publicity or if they're jealous of the animation department's success and popularity and have a childish grudge against them.
Which, let's be honest, most comic fans are going to watch the animated series iteration, if only to get angry about it.
His Superboy had potential that was floundered and also became absolutely terrible.
His Superman is okay, not outstanding, but readable without pissing you off. It just doesn't hold a candle to Pak or Snyder's small takes on the character so far.
His Red Hood was good, but became way better when James Tynion IV (an actual fantastic writer) took over.
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The disciplined stellar legions of Tynion IV
the Archon-Prince of Tynion IV
Tynion IV, home of the dreaded Snarebeast
I know he's one of the writers for Batman Eternal and is doing a comic at BOOM!, but man, I want him to keep writing for DC. Anyone that uses Morrison's character's and keeps them alive deserves props in my book.
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I disagree with both of those. Red Hood and Arsenal make for great street-level heroes/anti-heroes and the stories in Outlaws (space adventure, ancient magic races, etc) don't mesh with them at all. Like, why would you make a story about Jason Todd that has him being the savior of a mystical order?
Plus, ugh what they did to Bronze Tiger.
kinda
Red Hood, Peacemaker, Vigilante (Patricia Trayce, but with a better costume), Manhunter (Kate Spencer), Wild Dog, and Spy Smasher (Katarina Armstrong, in an Oracle/Amanda Waller type role).
After the backlash.
What's weird is that Lobdell produced great runs at Marvel with Uncanny X-men and Fantastic Four.
It's kinda sad that her and Roy are the closest thing to a healthy relationship that the nDCU has. They talk about their problems, work through them, and actually trust each other. WW/Supes have none of that.
Man.
I really miss Green Arrow & Black Canary.
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Curious if anyone will care.
Also, why the heck was that Harley Quinn book in the top ten last month? Ugh, I shouldn't have looked at the sales chart.
January is not the busiest month, but the numbers in general for all publishers aren't too encouraging. DC's line has more or less gone totally stagnant, but luckily for them a lot of Marvel titles seem to have slipped quite a bit as well for some reason.
I think this year we'll be slowly returning to how things were in 2011, at least for DC. Marvel's got a lot of smaller titles that I think will suffer from small launches, but they've also got a lot more high-profile, non-weekly stuff on deck as well. I'm starting to feel like DC doesn't have anything huge up their sleeve after Johns/JRjr on Superman and their weekly titles.
Really they did a lot of interesting things with older characters but cut them when sales did not hold up
For the books, or for the creative teams?
Probably both, depending on the title.
I dunno, it's kind of nice to have a solo female book in the top 10.
But it's not a good book.
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