BlissfulGopher

December 11, 2012 6:13 am I feel like I should thank DC for the whole New 52. They've saved me a fortune. Before the relaunch I was buying probably 15 or so of their books a month (probably more, I haven't counted). A year later and I'm down to about 3, and quite frankly their days are numbered. Have now dived into the 'Mignola-verse' over at Dark Horse, and am having more fun reading comics than I have in ages. Can't honestly say that I've ever been that impressed by Gail Simone's writing, and I've tried many books of hers over the years, based on positive reviews, fan praise etc. Never hooked me, but that's just one opinion. Never got into the rebooted Batgirl, either, as I was one of the ones too annoyed by the retconning of Steph Brown. Nonetheless, that's certainly a sucky way to fire someone, and a sad continuing pattern from a company that clearly doesn't value it's people. Isn't this much the same as what happened at Marvel under Bob Harras? I never bothered to look into the details at the time, I just remember all the long-time Marvel writers and artists left, the quality of their books took a walk off a cliff and I stopped reading.

October 14, 2012 8:19 am Different costume, different powers, different guy in the suit. 'All-new' darker tone. There is absolutely nothing in there that hasn't been done before. They've all been done before, and they've always sucked, in fact. Every time. Those elements were what almost destroyed the character and buried the book 15 years ago. I know that's why I stopped reading. Seriously, do Marvel and DC have some kind of suicide pact type thing going here? Because both companies seem hellbent on repeating every stupid mistake from the nineties they can possibly manage. My guess for who's in the suit now: 616 Miles Morales. Because that would be original and we've never seen it before.