I'll continue to follow 10 titles after sampling many this past month. My list:
Batman
Batman & Robin (sue me...I like Damian as a foil for Bruce)
Batwoman
Batgirl
Wonder Woman
Aquaman (my favorite #1 of the bunch)
The Flash
Justice League
Swamp Thing
Demon Knights
I like Grant Morrison, but...I'm 41...I don't need to read yet another version of Superman's early life, especially when it's been done better in Tom DeHaven's novel from a few years ago.
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Good question. I’ll be continuing with all I tried:
Action Comics
Batgirl*
Justice League
OMAC
Superman
Swamp Thing*
*Tracy is reading, too.
I'll be getting second issues of
Batgirl
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Justice League
Justice League International
Nightwing
Red Lanterns
Static Shock
Wonder Woman
Plus, I haven't read the week four books yet so I'll likely add a few more.
Biggest Disappointments:
Static Shock & Blue Beetle. Both felt like fairly generic teen superheroes to me. I like the previous iterations of the characters a lot, but I'll wait until these guys (and their worlds) get fleshed out with some more depth.
I agree. I'm sticking it out with Static Shock for a second issue at least but that's because of my previous admiration for the character.
All of the ones I got first issues of. I am locked into three issues for all of them by preordering. None of the ones I bought did I hate so much that I am dropping them after one issue anyways.
These are the only "definites". Others as the mood and budget strike me on the day.
Justice League International
Mister Terrific
Green Lantern: The New Guardians
Batwoman
Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE
All Star Western
Given that I didn't buy but so many -- and I haven't made it to the store yet this week -- I think I can safely say that I'll give Action Comics, Batgirl, and All-Star Western a second-issue try.
No to Birds of Prey; it just isn't the same without Oracle. Probably no to Batman or Detective Comics; I've been waiting too long to get the Batman I used to like and want to read, and this ain't it. I fear DC has permanently lost me as a Batman reader.
I still have to give Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Superman a first-issue try before I can decide on the second issue.
I like Grant Morrison, but...I'm 41...I don't need to read yet another version of Superman's early life, especially when it's been done better in Tom DeHaven's novel from a few years ago.
I feel ya! Did you get the Johns/Frank reboot just a short time ago? The closeness of these two reboots probably doesn't help either.
My 'Johnsophobia' has meant that I passed on the last reboot and I'm ok with this one, even though Waid's Birthright is still fresh in my mind ... :-)
Unfortunately, your ennui with Superman pretty much mirrors my own with superhero stories generally. I've read so many of them by now... Animal Man and Swamp Thing seem like pretty well made comics, with good set-ups for series, but even still, I don't see me staying on til the end of their current arc, let alone very long term.
I do find myself looking forward to the next Frankenstein. They are all such freaks and the set-up with the little manga Father Time is drawing in this jaded old fanboy. I wouldn't have been able to give the judgements above a week or two ago, but that's how it's looking after the books have perculated in my head for a bit.
Wonder Woman looks like fun. I realised this morning that although it's selling itself as partially a horror book, I'm not sure it will be able to really get under the readers skin the way good horror comics like Moore's Swamp Thing did. So far it's just an R15 superhero comic.
I'd rather own Morrison's Action in collected form, but I'm not waiting 6 months to a year for them.
After pestering Paul Cornell about the new Shining Knight on his blog, I owe it to him to stick with Demon Knights for a while. It is a good comic though. Like Frankenstein, the fact that they are all freaks and outcasts is probably part of the charm.
I'll stick with Batwoman for a while too.
That hooded woman malingering around the books is very off-putting, I have to say. I'm not buying into anything that leads into another soulless Johnsian mega-crossover. She should vamoose her caboose asap!
I made an observation on Gail Simone's board a couple of days ago that has really stuck with my about Wonder Woman:
Even though it's a "horror book," out of all the heroes of the new 52 (or at least the ones I've read), she comes off as the most explicitly heroic.
Part of that is almost surely POV. In most cases, we're presented with the hero's POV, and if they have any doubts or fears, they show. But Azz & Chaing have take the pretty drastic step of making Zola the viewpoint character, for the most part. We don't know what makes Diana tick -- we just know that she's going to do everything she can to save Zola. We see Diana as larger than life, because we're seeing her from the perspective of a normal life, not a superhero. For once, we're not in Diana's head, which makes it much clearer why she's so special.
It's the same outsider's perspective Kurt Busiek uses to great effect on Astro City... and that Conan Doyle used on Sherlock Holmes. It'll be interesting to see how Azz & Chiang continue it once this storyline is done.
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