Dan Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 I'm fairly certain I've said before, I HATE Wonder Woman's classic look. It's just a terrible costume. I like this, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 I want Wonder Woman to wear full body armor, head to toe. You ever notice that the only time people ever talk about Wonder Woman is when she changes her clothes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Found this interesting. Didio: "Where I stand, on all of this, is that we're going to be extraordinarily judicious about using the "death" in comics. So if somebody dies now, they're done. That's the official rule now. They don't come back. It's not going to be a cheap trick to tell stories, so that's a good thing." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 So they'll be dead for at least 20 years, but only if they're slaughtered on panel and it wasn't a clone, illusion or trick of some kind. Which most comic book deaths are because that's a storytelling device. Plus of course in DC you can often talk to the dead in some capacity. It's a nice moral stance, but I don't see it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 I read the first six issues of Simone's Batgirl yester. It's a better book than I expected, Simone is actually doing a fairly decent job, but the fact that the book exists still irks me a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 So they'll be dead for at least 20 years, but only if they're slaughtered on panel and it wasn't a clone, illusion or trick of some kind. Which most comic book deaths are because that's a storytelling device. Plus of course in DC you can often talk to the dead in some capacity. I'm cool with fake-outs, i.e. what happened with Kyle Rayner in Blackest Night, where he was technically dead for all of two minutes in-between issues. I do wonder, too, if this was part of why DC brought the older heroes (Barry, Hal, Arthur, etc) back. It seems a little obvious in hindsight that a lot of what Johns did in Blackest Night (where this "dead is dead now" rule was laid down in the end of issue #8) was pre-planned going back to GL: Rebirth. Maybe this is a way of "restarting" the current DC generation, and in another 10-20 years Barry will die again and not come back until the next generational reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Found this interesting. Didio: "Where I stand, on all of this, is that we're going to be extraordinarily judicious about using the "death" in comics. So if somebody dies now, they're done. That's the official rule now. They don't come back. It's not going to be a cheap trick to tell stories, so that's a good thing." Uh huh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 So, who's still reading what in the DC relaunch. I've honestly read nothing past a few first issues, and I really don't mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 I'm in on Batman and Robin, Aquaman and Green Lantern. Aquaman is the highlight at the moment, but the other two have been great too. No desire to widen my reading list right now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 I've been regularly reading... Action Aquaman Batman Flash Green Lantern Justice league Nightwing Red Hood Supergirl Wonder Woman There's a few others I've been semi-regularly reading, or catching up with in 2-3 month chunks. Superman finally got good with the new creative team in #7, so I'll probably keep up with that regularly, and I've been meaning to start reading Green Arrow now that it's switched teams as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 I've sorta kept up with Batman & Robin, but mostly I've switched to trades. Overall, I feel the reboot has been a failed experiment. It captured my interest for a few months, then I became apathetic towards the whole thing. Which is where I was with DC pre-reboot. (Then again, I'm kinda feeling the same way with Marvel at the moment, so maybe it's superhero comics in general, and not specifically DC, that I'm pulling away from.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 I think DC had the right idea, but at the end of the day a good book is a good book, and a bad book is a bad book. The reboot wasn't going to magically make George Perez's Superman a better book. The good side of it all, though, is that the "clean slate" now allows for a lot of story potential, like the revamping of Wonder Woman and Supergirl's origin stories. We just have to hope those stories end up being good. It's certainly encouraging that the lower-quality books are either getting cut or revamped, like Green Arrow, Superman, and Men of War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 The reboot wasn't going to magically make George Perez's Superman a better book. That is a sentence I never thought I would read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 I'm reading all of the Bat-Books as per requirement for the Batman Universe Comic-Cast, but out of all of them I'm only digging Batman at this point. Batman and Robin was solid until #7 where Peter Tomasi went nucking futs and out of control. Batwoman's not a bad book, but not terribly interesting currently. Nightwing's a missed opportunity. Batwing's mediocre and uninspired. Batgirl's still vicious betrayal, and generall sucks out loud all around. The Dark Knight is a jumbled mess. Detective Comics features Tony Daniel's total incompetance at writing Batman. The fact that so many creators have jumped ship, the continuity seems to be just thrown together, the stories generally aren't very interesting AND on top of all that, the flagerant sexism is just abundant in the books has taken its toll. I agree with Mike, the reboot was a failure. It served as a get-rich-quick scheme that petered out 5 months in. Everything about it feels like the people involved thought this up over a weekend as opposed to months and months in advance, and when I asked Grant Morrison about it at SDCC last summer, he all but confirmed it. It's just frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 A fan favorite is returning in Batman, Incorporated #3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 Oooohhhh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Justice League International is ending with issue 12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prez Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Why is it that every DC character I loved, pre-reboot — Booster, Power GIrl, etc. — has just been totally ripped apart and shit on by this thing? I mean, did you read World's Finest #1? What the hell was that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 I've completely given up on DC Comics since the reboot. I spent so much time getting emotionally invested the post-Crisis universe, learning far more about it than I ever possibly needed to, and now I just can't bring myself to care about a new continuity. Especially when 95% of the creative teams do absolutely nothing for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 There's a few bright spots here and there (Batman is phenomenal, several others are very good) but overall the hype has kind of faded, and after eight months there's been almost no real development or improvement in a good 90% of the stories. I think DC's on drugs or something. I'm gonna go hang at Marvel's place until they clean up their act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 I stand by Frankenstien. Everything else has been iffy. I'm stil pretty pissed about Stormwatch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Luke, give Batman, Animal Man, and Swamp Thing a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prez Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 I'm stil pretty pissed about Stormwatch. Yeah, what a horrible piece of shit that was/is. Oh yes, there's another couple of characters I liked that were ruined - Martian Manhunter and Jack Hawksmoor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 And Apollo. And Midnighter. And Jenny Quantum. The Engineer is okay, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prez Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 True, they were all ruined. But Hawksmoor was always my favorite Authority member. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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