NEW 52 Impressions?

[NickRocks]

yeah, morales is on at some times and really really off at others

[cbikle]

I'm buying Batwoman and Action Comics

Along with Animal Man, those are the two titles that everyone seems to enjoy out of the New 52.

[Zippy]

Swamp Thing is by far my favorite, but I'm enjoying all the ones I regularly follow.

Swamp Thing - excellent in every way.
Batwoman - ditto
Batman - Great art, good story (not on par with the writing in the above two)
Just League Dark - ( Good art, great story)
Animal Man - Haven't been following it, but I've flipped through it several times and heard nothing but praise for it.
Detective Comics - same as above.

[Dann]

It used to be, comic book heroes were heroes because of morals or the want to make life better for the greater good and all that....now it seems like these guys are just young guys with chips on their shoulders and do what they do, not because of their morals, but because of revenge or whatever.
In a nutshell....it's like they put all the DC characters in the Wildstorm universe.

I really like OMAC and Justice League Dark tho...those are good books!

[Rene A.]

I am reading 32 of the 52 titles. Yeah, I'm diggin' it. And...I was never a real, solid DC fan. It somehow, IMO, seems like DC has recaptured a certain feel that's missing from the Marvel books these days (again, this is just my take.) I even like the way how all the DC books have a uniform look to their covers. The DC logo doesn't float all over the place, unlike Marvel's. DC has blurbs on their covers, which I think is pretty cool. Now I know you can't judge a book by it's cover, but I am also in a phase of discovering all these new characters in what is for me a new universe. So, my experience is that Marvel kind of lost me over the years, DC comes along and revamps and I'm at the right place at the right time.

My absolute favorite titles: Aquaman, OMAC, Animal Man, Justice League, Wonder Woman.

[Jonny-Ledford]

Hmmmm, I picked up Action #1 a few weeks back, but wasn't really feeling excited by it. Too broke lately to pick up the rest of the new DC stuff.

Guess I'm old enough to remember back when John Byrne "De-Powered" and reinvented Superman with the whole Man of Steel thing. Don't recall how long it took DC to throw that retcon out? I wonder how long all this new stuff will "stick" before they toss it out and go back to the old-versions?

That is basically how I feel. I do understand the ideology behind the idea of "reboots". Make the old material fresh again for readers that are not 30 somethings 40 somethings and so on. BUT, that being said I do feel it is a bit of marketing chicanery rather than a serious effort to draw long term readers. Bandaid for publishing I suppose. It seems the stories and titles that have the longevity are truly lightning in a bottle so to speak. When you pre-package hot name artists with riffy new edgier stories it is like "action films" Great the first time you see it, but a bit stale on further viewings.

I feel that most of these teams will dissolve after year one, and these titles will either end or drift into obscurity again. Probably end up one of those places you would not want to be put like Shooter's New Universe material. I hope it goes differently, but we have seen this time and time again with things like Heroes Reborn etc. It's fun at first, then it just kind of wanders off never to be seen again. Of course these my personal opinions for all I know it could dig in and make it. Let's hope it doesn't follow the usual life cycle of most reboots.

[SHAMWOW!]

jessica alba misses power girls boob window also.

[BullyJack]

I read action which I like a lot and the art gets me happy, court of owls trade (I liked it a lot and heard a great podcast with Snyder talking about it), and detective comics which I think is great artistically but boring written at times. I really like capullos pencils in court of owls. He's a bada$$

[Doomsmith]

They went through the trouble of integrating the Wildstorm stable of characters into DC continuity but what about the Milestone stable of characters? They have just as much, if not MORE, depth and story potential in their backgrounds that's just waiting to be tapped.




D2k12!

[cbikle]

They went through the trouble of integrating the Wildstorm stable of characters into DC continuity but what about the Milestone stable of characters? They have just as much, if not MORE, depth and story potential in their backgrounds that's just waiting to be tapped.

From what I understand, DC doesn't own the rights to the Milestone characters and they have to pay whenever they use them.