When the initial book solicits were released for the New 52 # 1s last July, there was not a single book I was less looking forward to than Teen Titans. These are characters that I have a stong, long-standing personal investment in, and they looked to be changing more than any other characters in the […]
Black Manta is a joke. Not even a very good joke. He’s the epitome of the lame, cheesy comic book villain – I mean, look at him. He’s an evil top-heavy scuba-diver from Hell. But now he’s cool. Heck, now he’s a badass. I blame Geoff Johns. Ever since Aquaman started last September, it’s had […]
Sometimes, an idea works – other times, in other circumstances, the same idea can fall completely flat. The idea of taking a mostly-forgotten character or characters, and doing a fresh take on them that’s equal parts retro and reinvention is not a new one – in fact, its not new to either of the creators […]
In which Batman finally acts like Batman. Full disclosure: I haven’t been nearly as enamored of Scott Snyder’s Court of Owls storyline as most of the rest of the world has. I love Snyder as a writer, and his craft has been rock-solid throughout, but up till now, I haven’t felt that Batman reacted to […]
Much in the same way that The X-Files, upon which Saucer Country draws no small amount of inspiration from, used what were essentially two seperate-but-equal pilot episodes to first establish the characters of Mulder and Scully, then to establish the government conspiracy they would be fighting against for the next six years (7? 8? 9? […]
It was well known even going into The New 52 that Green Lantern would be changing the least out of any of DC’s line, with the September-released Green Lantern # 1 continuing directly on from Green Lantern # 67, released several months previous. At the time the initiative was announced, it was thought that Green […]
What better way to ring in the Easter holiday than to discuss the completion of the modern reinvention of America’s favorite non-religious messianic figure? What started 8 months ago as a fresh look at Superman’s roots has turned into one of the most thorough reconstructions of the character and his surrounding myths to appear in […]
Swamp Thing excited a lot of people when it started seven months ago. Part of it was the creative team – Scott Snyder is extremely buzzy at the moment, and Yanick Paquette just seemed like a perfect choice to draw Earth’s elemental. A lot of that excitement has worn off, though, at least around Ground […]
Last September, there was one book that more people around Ground Zero were talking about and anticipating more than any other, and that was Justice League Dark. Arguably the best concept to come out of the New 52, it unfortunately lacked somewhat when it came to follow-through. While very much a solid book, with some […]
One of the most contentious points of the entire relaunch thus far has been the induction of Wildstorm characters into the mainstream DC milieu. While some have embraced it as another step in DC’s longstanding tradition of taking abandoned characters and giving them a shiny new coat of paint and a good home, others have […]