DCU gets remade - all books are #1s, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee on Justice League, more

Started by Prep-Man367 pages

Animal Man continues to be one of the best books on the stands. The Totems look friggen bizarre and awesome.

Maxine is the real deal.

http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/70088374

New Guardians 2 was better than NG 1. Still having work to do in order to live up to its potential.

It was a good week on Marvel so I'm in a good mood.

Superman, and Justice League Dark=Meh.
Firestorm=Horrible. I will not read this book again.
I, Vampire=Absolutely wonderful. I still maintain that it is far and away the best book DC is producing right now.

You just saved me the time of reading Firestorm ermm

Hey Pr, did you read this week's Aquaman?

Aquaman still had some of the fun jabs at Arthur and Mera, so if you were annoyed by that in the first issue it'll get you again. Not as much, but still there.

I thought it was still a very solid read. One of the better titles

I thought you would really dig JL Dark, Galan. I thought it would be right up your alley 🙁

Here is some I Vampire porn for you. 🙂

I'm liking JL Dark quite a bit actually.

Superman was indeed meh. Aquaman was solid. New Guardians was actually pretty good. Flash was alright.

Which brings me to Firestorm...Firestorm #1 was a disaster, maybe the worst comic I've ever read. Every panel made me want to bash my head against the wall. Even the title "The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men" made me want to gag. I read this week's in hopes that, at the very least, I could have some semi-positive thoughts on the character/book. And I was actually surprised to say that I kind of did. I say "kind of" because it wasn't quite as bad as #1. With #1, I thought it was so bad DC should have paid people to read it instead of the other way around. #2 I'd grade as merely a D-. That said, I don't suggest reading it.

Yeah, with your Lucifer avatar, I thought you'd like JL Dark. 🙂

Haven't read #2, but I hear it's pretty good.

Originally posted by Bentley
You just saved me the time of reading Firestorm ermm

Hey Pr, did you read this week's Aquaman?

Yes, and I quite liked it. A bit short, after reading the preview, but impressed so far, and looking forward to the next issue.

Superman I thought was okay, not great but not crap, especially when you think of what we had six months ago.
Dark Knight... I like the series so far, and I'm interested to see what comes next.
Teen Titans was solid, but that's about it.
Flash was all-right, felt like filler tbh.

Think that's all i've read for the moment...

Originally posted by Prep-Man
I thought you would really dig JL Dark, Galan. I thought it would be right up your alley 🙁
It's not that I don't like JL: Dark--it just hasn't "wowed" me yet. The arcane and somewhat dreary premise is what keeps me coming back.

Originally posted by Prep-Man
Here is some I Vampire porn for you. 🙂
droolio

liked Batman: Dark Knight
I, Vampire, damn good
Superman and New Guardians were ok

question: what exactly possessed Ethan Van Sciver and Gail Simone to mess up Firestorm???

Deadman is a bit of a dick lol.

But it's cool to see that that the Deadman/Dove relationship crossed over into the DCnU; I really liked that angle in Brightest Day.

IIRC Simone left Firestorm because of Didio's micro-management.

Originally posted by -Pr-
IIRC Simone left Firestorm because of Didio's micro-management.

Heard this as well. DiDio is kinda, well....stupid.

Yeah, he really is. Supposedly the reboot was his idea, but I doubt it would have had the same impact had he not had the likes of Johns and Morrison on board.

I really dug Blackhawks! Cyber Ninja, Titus ftw! He was pretty awesome. Has a bunch of molecular nano bots inside his body, which he can heal. He's fast enough to break mach 1.

Kunoichi is a cool character, too. Able to crush super hard nano tech with her bear hands.

Originally posted by -Pr-
Yeah, he really is. Supposedly the reboot was his idea, but I doubt it would have had the same impact had he not had the likes of Johns and Morrison on board.

The writer rooster is excellent, but Didio has never striked me as a great editor. To his credit, the reboot is a great idea, now he needs to show the editor skills to back it up.

Originally posted by -Pr-
Yeah, he really is. Supposedly the reboot was his idea, but I doubt it would have had the same impact had he not had the likes of Johns and Morrison on board.

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Without Johns and Morrison, easily the top two writers in DC, and arguably in comics right now, this would have likely gone sour quickly. I honestly think the reboot was more Lee's brainchild than DiDio, and Lee managed to get Geoff on board early on. Morrison seemed like he was pretty whatever about it; so long as he got to do what he wanted, he seemed happy - as am I.

Originally posted by Bentley
The writer rooster is excellent, but Didio has never striked me as a great editor. To his credit, the reboot is a great idea, now he needs to show the editor skills to back it up.

He's a bad editor, and generally a bad writer; I was a huge Outsiders fan, but all it took was one issue written by him to put me off.

This is the guy who said Countdown was "52 done right".

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
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Without Johns and Morrison, easily the top two writers in DC, and arguably in comics right now, this would have likely gone sour quickly. I honestly think the reboot was more Lee's brainchild than DiDio, and Lee managed to get Geoff on board early on. Morrison seemed like he was pretty whatever about it; so long as he got to do what he wanted, he seemed happy - as am I.

Same. Morrison says he wants to stick with Superman, and if his run on Batman is any indication, we have a lot to look forward to. Johns basically runs DC now, i'd say. He took a company that, to be fair, wasn't hitting the heights it could have, and turned things around. He might have his issues, but you can't fault what he's done for Wally West, Green Lantern, Superman, and now JL and Aquaman.

The man can print money at this point.

Originally posted by -Pr-
He's a bad editor, and generally a bad writer; I was a huge Outsiders fan, but all it took was one issue written by him to put me off.

This is the guy who said Countdown was "52 done right".

Same. Morrison says he wants to stick with Superman, and if his run on Batman is any indication, we have a lot to look forward to. Johns basically runs DC now, i'd say. He took a company that, to be fair, wasn't hitting the heights it could have, and turned things around. He might have his issues, but you can't fault what he's done for Wally West, Green Lantern, Superman, and now JL and Aquaman.

The man can print money at this point.

Yeah, my issues with Johns are usually little things or when he really tries overly hard to sell you on Character X, but overall, I'm a fan of his.