Post by Marvel Boy on Aug 17, 2015 15:33:20 GMT -5
Wow, I'm reading more DC now than in previous years.
Credit to DC though, unlike in Secret Wars where you don't know which version of what character you are reading, in their Convergence event, DC did rather well in clarifying which multiverse version of the characters you are reading. I didn't read all the 2 issue tie-ins though, mainly just checking out the characters I loved (Superman, Flash, and Shazam) or favorite creators back on certain characters (Jurgens/Weeks on Superman, Wolfman on New Teen Titans, Rucka/Hammer on the Question). Overall, I enjoyed the tie-ins that I read.
As for follow-up series, I'm reading:
Superman
Flash
Justice League
Justice League of America
Superman/Wonder Woman
Green Lantern
GL: Lost Army
Also, DC has apparently become less strict on tight continuity, instead trying to focus more on quality stories, an approach that I think is working for the most part.
For example, in the Bat-Family books, Jim Gordon is now Batman, wearing a Bat-mecha suit as Bruce Wayne has 'died'. Yet in both main JL books, Bruce is still Batman. In the Supes-Family of books, Clark's identity has been exposed and he's suffered some form of power loss. Yet in both main JL books, he's his normal self. Same with Hal as GL in the JL books yet in his core books, he's a renegade on the run as the Corps has vanished. (In fact, he's not even wielding a ring. He's using a power gauntlet, a prototype before the rings, developed by Krona).
So in some ways, I'm looking more forward now to DC's releases than Marvel's.
Credit to DC though, unlike in Secret Wars where you don't know which version of what character you are reading, in their Convergence event, DC did rather well in clarifying which multiverse version of the characters you are reading. I didn't read all the 2 issue tie-ins though, mainly just checking out the characters I loved (Superman, Flash, and Shazam) or favorite creators back on certain characters (Jurgens/Weeks on Superman, Wolfman on New Teen Titans, Rucka/Hammer on the Question). Overall, I enjoyed the tie-ins that I read.
As for follow-up series, I'm reading:
Superman
Flash
Justice League
Justice League of America
Superman/Wonder Woman
Green Lantern
GL: Lost Army
Also, DC has apparently become less strict on tight continuity, instead trying to focus more on quality stories, an approach that I think is working for the most part.
For example, in the Bat-Family books, Jim Gordon is now Batman, wearing a Bat-mecha suit as Bruce Wayne has 'died'. Yet in both main JL books, Bruce is still Batman. In the Supes-Family of books, Clark's identity has been exposed and he's suffered some form of power loss. Yet in both main JL books, he's his normal self. Same with Hal as GL in the JL books yet in his core books, he's a renegade on the run as the Corps has vanished. (In fact, he's not even wielding a ring. He's using a power gauntlet, a prototype before the rings, developed by Krona).
So in some ways, I'm looking more forward now to DC's releases than Marvel's.
I don't read new comics (well, once in a blue moon) but I do have a more favorable impression of DC at the moment.