Why no DC New 52 reports this week?

[yendi]

Because the first two books I read were Deathstroke and Suicide Squad, and they were both so abominable, I was faced with the choice of either stabbing my eyes out with a spork or holding off on reading comics for a day.

Oh, incidentally, all the comments about making Amanda Waller thin are dead on, but none of them cover the fact that, even if Waller had been drawn exactly as Luke McDonnell had drawn her back in the day, the book would still have been an unreadable mess of a book written by someone who not only had no interest in the history or tone of the Squad (a fair assessment in a reboot age), but also had no concept of good writing.

Anyway, longer reviews to come sometime this weekend.

Comments

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

The only New 52 book I've enjoyed so far has been JLI, and even that felt rushed. The rest have ranged from annoying to "How did this get published??"

[adam-0oo.livejournal.com]

True story, Deathstroke lost his eye from a horrible self inflicted spork eye stabbing incident.

[david whitehead (from livejournal.com)]

I think auryn29a hit it dead on. Other than JLI (and I really had to temper my annoyance at Booster Gold getting rebooted back to the same character he was 20 years ago), I really haven't enjoyed any of the 52. Just honest disbelief at some of the things that were put out.

And how is Liefeld still in comics?

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

I'm up to to two pulls (Static Shock and Resurrection Man) from the mass of nuDC and I'm thinking I might go for Animal Man, Batwoman and Swamp Thing as trades. And I am enjoying the reviews of some of the more train-wrecky issues...

[yendi]

I loved Static Shock (it felt almost exactly like a Robert Washington issue), but Rozum's already announced that he's leaving, which doesn't' bode well. Haven't tried Resurrection Man or Batwoman yet.

[yendi]

In the new DCU, anything can happen!

[yendi]

It's really like a glorious train wreck at times.

And no idea on Liefeld. But the whole Marvel '90s thing is definitely something I don't need.

[yendi]

I've liked a few more than that (I'm still surprised at OMAC), but there have already been enough stinkers that it's clear that the whole 52 concept was overreaching.

[asim.livejournal.com]

If you can get part Guice's art (lovely work, but OBSESSED with every woman being, at best, hot and scantily clad), Resurrection Man was/is a brilliant concept and series, that took a while to play out. It's a series that really is more of a genre mash-up than it might appear.

Batwoman reminded me of William's work on Promethea, which might bias me a little.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

John Rozum departing is a troubling note. But maybe its to do some more Xombi for DC...