gandalf25

June 2, 2011 2:10 pm

I waffle between being wildly excited over all of this and flipping through the stages of grief.  Essentially I think the different maturity levels of my comic fandom are warring with themselves, a thought which, when I shared it with my wife last night, made her advise me that I either share it here or never mention it again (and I married geek).  I buy once a month via DCBS and if they throw some kind of 'every #1 is 1.49 or .99' sale I will be a giant whore and buy them all, but here's my ranking of the first 11 announced.

1. Justice League - for the 3 issues this will be on time and drawn by Jim Lee it will be amazing, but Geoff Johns on what should be the DCU flagship book is right

2. Aquaman - my favorite parts of Brightest Day were Deadman and Aquaman and seeing the Blackest Night team take it on...I'm excited about Aquaman as a title for the first time in 20 years of comic reading

3. Justice League International - disappointed its not Winick, but hoping the JLGL magic keeps going...though in a totally new continuity free world (sound of head exploding)

4. DCU Presents - an anthology series that keeps the spotlight on different corners of the DCU is exactly what's needed, but coming out of Brightest Day it'd have made more sense to me for Deadman to have his own book than Mr. Terrific

5. Wonder Woman - based not so much on Azzarello's writing (which I've never loved) but entirely on Chiang's art

6. The Fury of Firestorm - I think this is a character that benefits from a redesigned origin and coming out of Brightest Day could be a sleeper hit, if its Simone doing more of the writing than Van Sciver

7. The Flash - artists writing (with a few exceptions) almost always ends up going badly and Manipul wasn't making his deadlines before...really disappointed in this team.  You'd think since the Flash ended the last DCU he'd have a stronger part in the new one...

8. Green Arrow - my second favorite DCU character behind Bats, but I dropped it before because of Krul

9. Captain Atom - really loved him in JLGL; really love the redesign; really don't like Krul

10. Mr. Terrific - some of these have to be minis because this character cannot sustain an ongoing and if he was going to, they didn't put a team on it to draw new readers in, I like the character but this is to me the biggest surprise

11. Hawkman- Tony Daniel's writing made me drop Batman for the first time in my life, so when you pair that with Phillip Tan's art you get the stuff (wait for it) to line birdcages with....I'm tired, alright?

April 22, 2011 10:04 am Dustin Nguyen has become one of the best, and most underrated, artists working today.  I swear this feature is one of the highlights of my week and produces stunning artwork, but if you told me my favorite would be Thor Frog, yeah, that would have surprised me lol.

April 4, 2011 12:08 pm

So what's the over/under on the first late issue.  I'm taking #4....and I feel optimistic there.

April 4, 2011 10:03 am So I'm guessing Bucky's going to bite it in Fear Itself then?  Man, they just got the number back on track.  I know it's probably a nitpick, but the constant rebooting is making me nuts.

April 1, 2011 11:58 am Whatever, Flanagan.  Last year it was, Oh I'm leaving iFanboy.  This year you try to serve me the antichrist as an appetizer.  I'm on to you!

December 4, 2010 4:04 am Another great week.  Josh, man, I want to personally thank you for running these down and showcasing them.  I use them as screensavers on my Kindle along with my favorite covers.  Every week there's at least one piece that just knocks me flat.  Bravo, my friend.

December 4, 2010 4:02 am Amazing 625, man if you'd ever told me that a Rhino story would get the most visceral reaction of any book I read in a given year, I'd have been floored.  Second place to Blackest Night 8.  Both super hero books, but at total opposite ends of the emotional spectrum and sterling examples of what the medium can deliver.

August 30, 2010 10:47 am This ends with Dick dead and we all know it.  I think they wrote themselves into a corner and there's nowhere left for Grayson to go.  They can do two Batmans for awhile, but after awhile one will have to go.  Just like the Flash sitch, I don't see Wally living through Flashpoint.  I'd love to be wrong, but there's no way the multiple Batman thing will last very long.

April 19, 2010 2:15 pm

In the last year - Up

At least 25 years old - Empire Strikes Back

February 8, 2010 7:35 pm I have an irrational love of Moon Knight that I have no justification for whatsoever.