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[avengingtitan]

90% crap

[HNutz]

I'm not a fan of Defenders. Did they have to actually confirm what the porn-stache already told us about Dr. Strange? Perv...

..? What did they confirm?

[Arion]

Bullshit. Daredevil is brilliant. Captain America is excellent. I even like Defenders. I also have a great deal of respect for Robert Kirkman's books at Image; the man's a damn good writer.

Why don't you say this kind of things more often?

[Cat-Scratch]

Why don't you say this kind of things more often?

He doesn't want the Marvel folks to get a swelled head.

[gcoleman99]

I was joking, and I do think DC have good comics.

... now that they've been Marvelized.

Dork.

I think Hawk & Dove and Rage of the Red Lanterns are utter crap, and hate the direction Starfire has been taken in Red Hood. I think the art on Flash sucks. O.M.A.C. has been a little hard to follow (I'd prefer Giffen writing and only doing rough layouts, not complete art). I love the story in Animal Man, but hate the art.

The good has been the surprising All-Star Western, Aquaman (especially Mera), the Dark line and all of the Legion stuff. I'm looking forward to Earth 2, and am not really sad to see any of the cancelled books leave. I loved Perez's take on Superman, and will miss his writing and art on it. I'm still holding judgement of the rest of the Super and Bat titles, though.

[avengingtitan]

Good
Batman
Aquaman
Swamp Thing
Animal Man
All-Star Western
DC Universe Presents
Green Lantern
Green Lantern: New Guardians
Batwing
Batwoman
Green Lantern Corps

Okay
Red Lanterns
Grifter
Stormwatch
Legion
Legion Lost
Suicide Squad
Blue Beetle
Nightwing
Wonder Woman


Horrible
Action Comics
Detective Comics
Green Arrow
Hawk and Dove
Men of War
OMAC
Static Shock
Batgirl
Deathstroke
Demon Knights
Frankenstein
Resurrection Man
Superboy
Birds of Prey
Captain Atom
Catwoman
Red Hood
Blackhawks
Flash
Firestorm
I Vampire
Justice League Dark
The Ray
Hawkman
Superman
Teen Titans
Voodoo
Justice League

[nietoperz]

You think I, Vampire is horrible?

[avengingtitan]

You think I, Vampire is horrible?

Yes. The art is muddy and hard to figure out at times. The story didnt help a whole lot at first either. Just not for me.

[draco x]

Yes. The art is muddy and hard to figure out at times. The story didnt help a whole lot at first either. Just not for me.

This is almost DC's answer to Twilight.

[holtom2000]

Let's just look at JLA. In six issues we got one story full of splash and double splash pages. I hate that. Someone actually said they felt the first arc was rushed. Really? Maybe because it was lacking in any real story.
Let's compare this arc to, say, the first six of Morrison's JLA. In his first six issues we got the first arc, including a great exit scene for JL crap and the "death" of poor Metamorpho, a new HQ, the awesome Tomorrow Woman arc, and the introduction of future member Zariel.
John's first arc is actually closer to Metzler's first arc, which I also did not care for. Six issues, one story that I didn't care about. Johns used to be able to put some meat in those long arcs - look at his JSA work or even the JLA arc he co-wrote before Infinite Crisis (again, with too many splash pages for my liking).
And what about the Giffen-Dematties era. In the first six issues, we got the first team up, the Rocket Red/blue Jay and company story, Booster Gold joining, Dr Light quitting, met Max Lord, saw Guy get one punched, had the Creeper guest star, and the introduction of the Gray Man.
So yah, my thoughts on the new DC is that it's continuing a trend of not providing as much story while jacking up the price.
Frankly, Johns should be embarassed at how thin his big kickoff arc really was. Especially compared to what Morrison gave us, the first arc of JLA was crappppppppy

[Cat-Scratch]

Let's just look at JLA. In six issues we got one story full of splash and double splash pages. I hate that. Someone actually said they felt the first arc was rushed. Really? Maybe because it was lacking in any real story.
Let's compare this arc to, say, the first six of Morrison's JLA. In his first six issues we got the first arc, including a great exit scene for JL crap and the "death" of poor Metamorpho, a new HQ, the awesome Tomorrow Woman arc, and the introduction of future member Zariel.
John's first arc is actually closer to Metzler's first arc, which I also did not care for. Six issues, one story that I didn't care about. Johns used to be able to put some meat in those long arcs - look at his JSA work or even the JLA arc he co-wrote before Infinite Crisis (again, with too many splash pages for my liking).
And what about the Giffen-Dematties era. In the first six issues, we got the first team up, the Rocket Red/blue Jay and company story, Booster Gold joining, Dr Light quitting, met Max Lord, saw Guy get one punched, had the Creeper guest star, and the introduction of the Gray Man.
So yah, my thoughts on the new DC is that it's continuing a trend of not providing as much story while jacking up the price.
Frankly, Johns should be embarassed at how thin his big kickoff arc really was. Especially compared to what Morrison gave us, the first arc of JLA was crappppppppy

I prefer to think it was more the fault of Jim Lee. It was like any other comic he's drawn. Johns had to dilute the story down to the level of storytelling that Lee is capable of.

That or Johns is completely burnt out now.

Or both...

[Arion]

He doesn't want the Marvel folks to get a swelled head.

Probably true.

[sdsichero]

90% crap

Good
Batman
Aquaman
Swamp Thing
Animal Man
All-Star Western
DC Universe Presents
Green Lantern
Green Lantern: New Guardians
Batwing
Batwoman
Green Lantern Corps

Okay
Red Lanterns
Grifter
Stormwatch
Legion
Legion Lost
Suicide Squad
Blue Beetle
Nightwing
Wonder Woman


Horrible
Action Comics
Detective Comics
Green Arrow
Hawk and Dove
Men of War
OMAC
Static Shock
Batgirl
Deathstroke
Demon Knights
Frankenstein
Resurrection Man
Superboy
Birds of Prey
Captain Atom
Catwoman
Red Hood
Blackhawks
Flash
Firestorm
I Vampire
Justice League Dark
The Ray
Hawkman
Superman
Teen Titans
Voodoo
Justice League

You think I, Vampire is horrible?

Well worse, he thinks 27/48 = 90%

[alaska1125]

..? What did they confirm?

Uh...that anyone rocking the porn-stache is a perv...and not in the good way.

[avengingtitan]

Well worse, he thinks 27/48 = 90%

More like 40/48. The just okay books arent worth it. Just not a whole lot of good stuff there.

How dare you try and use math!!!