A GUIDE TO THE D.C. YOU
DC WHERE?
Missing from the new line-up are, among other books:
Legion of Superheroes. But this is probably a good choice, since this franchise hasn’t been good in a long, long time.- Shazam. A movie and no comic? This will change, I’m sure.
- Firestorm, The Atom, and Supergirl. A TV show and no comic? This will change, I’m sure.
- Warlord. When he appeared in Convergence, I thought for sure we’d get a solo book about Mike Grell’s version of Ka-Zar/Tarzan (sorta). This was a surprise.
Batwoman. My hope is that they realized without Greg Rucka, there’s no good Batwoman, so they decided to pay him all the money he deserves and bring it back correctly. But I know that didn’t happen.
Legion of Superheroes. But this is probably a good choice, since this franchise hasn’t been good in a long, long time.
Batwoman. My hope is that they realized without Greg Rucka, there’s no good Batwoman, so they decided to pay him all the money he deserves and bring it back correctly. But I know that didn’t happen.DC P.U.
I don’t know why we needed these: Dark Universe, Green Lantern: Lost Army, Doomed. Also, I was bored by these books: Batman Beyond, Cyborg, Harley Quinn/Power Girl, Justice League 3001, Red Hood/Arsenal, Robin, Starfire.
DC MEH
For these, if you like the characters, you’ll like these books.
- Constantine: The Hellblazer. Why DC would hire Ming Doyle to write and not draw mystifies me. This one didn’t suck, but it wasn’t fresh enough.
We Are Robin. I like the idea, but the execution just didn’t pan out for me.- Bat-Mite and Bizarro. Nice try, seriously, but it’s very, very hard to make a good humor comic. But these really did come close. Effort appreciated.
- Black Canary. I didn’t hate it, but I came back for #2. We’ll see if I’m still here by issue five.
- Superman. I’m including this one even
though it didn’t get a new #1 because it did get a new writer, Gene Luen Yang. I was really looking forward to this, being a big fan of his creator-owned work, but I have to say the results are underwhelming. It’s still a very good Superman story (especially because most Superman comics are mediocre at best), but it’s not as good as I expected.
We Are Robin. I like the idea, but the execution just didn’t pan out for me.
though it didn’t get a new #1 because it did get a new writer, Gene Luen Yang. I was really looking forward to this, being a big fan of his creator-owned work, but I have to say the results are underwhelming. It’s still a very good Superman story (especially because most Superman comics are mediocre at best), but it’s not as good as I expected.DeCent EFFORT!
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