Desaad
Name: Desaad Darkseid
Bio: http://heshouldreallyknowbetter.blogspot.com/
Pull List
For Comics shipping on 02/08/12
- WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #5
- WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN: ALPHA AND OMEGA #2 (OF 5)
- SECRET AVENGERS #22
- THE INCREDIBLE HULK #5
- JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #634
- BATMAN AND ROBIN #6
- BATWOMAN #6
- DEATHSTROKE #6
- DEMON KNIGHTS #6
- FRANKENSTEIN, AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E. #6
- GREEN LANTERN #6
- MISTER TERRIFIC #6
- RESURRECTION MAN #6
- SUPERBOY #6
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Swamp Thing 1: Reading an issue of Scott Snyder’s work, it comes as no surprise that the man teaches a…
Read full review and commentsThis, for me, was a bit of a surprise. I think Lemire’s creator owned stuff has been good, but never…
Read full review and commentsAction Comics 1 – I don’t think it’s any great secret that I’m a huge Grant Morrison fan. When Morrison…
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I thought it was crystal clear and done well enough, but it's not at all compelling, and nothing actually happens. NO characters exist here. Typical Hickman book - some creative concept, obviously the work of a razor sharp intellect, but devoid almost totally of characters and of plot.
I thought it was crystal clear and done well enough, but it's not at all compelling, and nothing actually happens. NO characters exist here. Typical Hickman book - some creative concept, obviously the work of a razor sharp intellect, but devoid almost totally of characters and of plot.
Not to say everything of the era was bad, but I think people are generally speaking to this when they say it drove fans away. No one was afraid of all the gimmicks, it's just that the gimmicks took precedence over story quality.
I hate Rob Liefeld, and have largely negative feelings about Scott Lobdell's writing from the 90s. I think Jim Lee is badly overrated, his work passable at best. But their books sold a lot, and they have their fans. There are SOME people that those books are going to appeal to, and DC trying to attract those readers is SMART.
I, Vampire is not a book that conceptually appeals to me (though I will get it because Fialkov is a great writer). But Vampire Romance has an audience. DC trying to appeal to that group is SMART.
Diversity, for me, means very little in terms of my enjoyment of a book. But I am absolutely sure that for some readers, seeing someone that represents them a little better means a god damn lot. DC trying to attract those readers is SMART.
I love the old school Vertigo, and I love the current Vertigo. Those old books, especially, were massively successful in the 80s and early 90s, and brought a lot of different types of people into the comics fold. DC trying to recapture those people, or recreate that phenomenon of new readers with a desire for somewhat more sophisticated storytelling is SMART.
Wildstorm during the Ellis era was an extremely popular universe, doing things that were more 'adult' (which is very different to what Vertigo was doing, which was more 'mature'). Spy TV shows and movies and fiction, war fiction, sci-fi fiction...there is a market for that. DC is smart to try to bring in those old school readers, smart to try to bring in new readers who aren't interested in superheroes.
They're diversifying their lineup, and what that means is that if you dont' like every book coming out of DC, they are doing their job. They're not gearing it towards you, or me, or any one person. They're not trying to breed a new generation of fans who will pick up every book in the DCU so they can get a full picture of the universe. They'd rather get 10 readers, each of whom picks up 2 books, than 2 readers who pick up 10. The latter is what has been killing the industry, the former is the only reasonable and sustainable way to grow it.
THUNDER AGENTS started out strong, but Spencer has been phoning in the last couple of issues, I thought, and anyway the whole identity of that title was (for me) tied up with him. As soon as he became Marvel exclusive, I knew it was essentially just waiting for the dead body to fall down.
But Xombi was brilliant, the successor to Morrison's Doom Patrol (my personal favorite mainstream title of all time). Batgirl was better than it had any right to be, the successor to Blue Beetle. And while Blue Beetle is going to come back, I don't have nearly as much faith in Bedard to deliver that snarky, witty tone as I did with Miller (and Rogers). Still, if Miller gets work on some other DC title, I'll be happy enough, since Batgirl herself wasn't the draw, but Miller was.
And Secret Six is a damn travesty. Perfect issue after perfect issue. And I have no interest in Gail Simone's replacement title of Batgirl, so that is a bummer.