Fantastic!
Anybody pick up anymore of the 52? I just got Batman, The Flash, and Hawkman.
I’ve read them all and I have to say that some are better than others. It strikes me as odd that some titles would maintain continuity from prior to Flashpoint and others would have a complete overhaul. Either way I am enjoying the current books but I feel that newer readers may become lost with the references to past events that they are unaware of.
Yeah. Which is weird since they were doing this to basically reset everything so new readers wouldn’t be lost.
Finished the first trade paperbacks of The Walking Dead, Irredeemable, and Incorruptible, and loved all of them.
Picked up Aquaman #1 today, and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, they were out of Swamp Thing, Animal Man, and All-Star Western, but they’re getting them back in stock tomorrow.
EDIT: And as a new reader, I thought they did a good enough job of explaining what was going on that even in Green Lantern, which didn’t reset at all, I understood what was happening, though the references to past events did escape my understanding.
Some of my favs of the new 52 were the relaunched or the totally new titles. Some of the older titles I just was not that impressed with.
I absolutely hate Aquaman, and I feel the same way. It was a great first issue.
Why’s that? I think he’s a pretty interesting character, though I don’t know much about him.
There’s just something about him.
Aquaman was just downright amazing. I never thought he could be that… awesome.
I’ve been reading Detective Comics and thoroughly enjoying them. I picked up #2 today, but I haven’t read it. Still, I don’t really dislike the whole “No-face Joker” thing that’s going on. I think it’s neat. I mean, as crazy as the Joker is, I really never saw that coming. I’m excited to keep going. The Dark Knight, on the other hand, was disappointing, as well as Batman and Robin (Robin may be the worst son of all time).
My girlfriend and I are sharing a comics collection we’re building with The New 52, and so far our favorites are Resurrection Man, Aquaman, Detective Comics, Animal Man, and Suicide Squad. We’re picking up Animal Man #2 tomorrow, and I cannot wait. Also, my girlfriend is named after a comic book hero. How cool is that?
I really, really like the red hooded person thing that’s going on. I personally find it to be really neat and intriguing.
I sincerely hope Green Lantern: New Guardians is really good. I love the concept of a team with one member from every corps. Also, its #1 issue had my favorite cover art.
Suicide Squad is currently my top comic. I’m really excited. Like, REALLY excited for more.
So DC did an overhaul? It’s a shame I don’t know where the closest comic book store is or else I would join in the fun as well.
They also made all their new 52 comics available online the same day as they release.
Sadly reading online just doesn’t have the same feel as having a comic on hand reading it.
True, but for some of us the only option is digital download of their favorite comics. I for one prefer the tactile feel of a comic in hand but sometimes the only way to get a copy of your favorite comic is via digital download.
As a side note the next wave of New 52 #2’s are interesting but I still find that a few of them only okay over the awesomeness of the others. The list is as follows:
Action Comics
Animal Man (a favorite)
Batwing
Detective Comics
Green Arrow (a favorite)
Hawk and Dove
Justice League International
Men of War (a favorite)
O.M.A.C. (an absolute favoite)
Red Lanterns (a must read)
Static Shock
Stormwatch
Swamp Thing (a favorite)
A couple of mini-series were added this week to expand the new 52 Universe with The Huntress and Penguin: Pain and Prejudice.
Awesome, thank you. And sad to say I must live in a sad area, no comic stores for 20 miles.
I finally got to pick up a bunch of comics yesterday! Read Firestorm and Birds of Prey, both of which I enjoyed. It was weird to have Babs up and walking for her cameo on BoP, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it. I don’t think I like Black Canary’s new costume, but we’ll see if it grows on me. I haven’t gotten to read Batgirl yet, but I’m looking forward to it. Gail’s influence on the Firestorm dialogue was obvious and brilliant.
As far as non-DC, I’d added Ultimate Spiderman to my pull list, so I got #2, but forgot to pick up #1 because I’m an idiot. I’m not a huge Spidey fan, but I’m all for giving this run a chance, if for no other reason than it’s nice to see not a white dude as a book lead 
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A couple of mini-series were added this week to expand the new 52 Universe with The Huntress and Penguin: Pain and Prejudice.
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Oooh yeah, I’m SO picking up the Huntress mini. I’d forgotten about that.
That “non-white dude” has about the most racist name ever though, apart from the fact that there’s only one Spider-man, and that’s Peter Parker. Not Ben Reilly, not Kaine, just Pete. Change who’s under the mask on anyone else, but Peter Parker is Spider-man, and Bruce Wayne is Batman.
Aside from all that, there are tons of books with non-Caucasian non-male heroes. In fact it’s more than safe to say the MAJORITY of comics now are about non-Caucasian non-Male heroes. Even in the group books like X-men, you have Wolverine and Cyclops, and everyone else is a girl or a minority. So to favor a change that is for its own sake and for Bendis’ guilt for being a white guy just because the new Spidey is not a white male is not only ridiculous, but is also reverse racism.
Morales just sounds like a generic hispanic last name to me, and Miles is just a generic guy’s name that’s alliterative with Morales so I didn’t read the name as racist. However I’m not intimately familiar with either black or hispanic cultural names, so I’ll let that debate happen among people who know more than I do.
Really? Just looking at the new DC because it’s a quick and simple list I count:
49 white men/boys
22 white women/girls
8 black men/boys
3 black women/girls
1 Asian woman
Not counting a number of aliens (who don’t look human) and such, and a few people of indeterminate race or gender. Specifics below the rest of my post if anyone cares.
I don’t want change just for the sake of change, but I DO think that everyone should have a hero that they can look at and see themselves in at least a little bit. And those heroes shouldn’t be caricatures of their race or gender or sexuality or whatever it is about them that is a “minority thing”. Don’t even get me started on “reverse racism”. That is such a BS loaded term that I’m not going to bother with it. Just the first page of this will take care of that better than I could.
I want to see more black/Asian/Hispanic/Middle Eastern/gay/bi/poly/asexual/jewish/hindu/muslim/pagan/disabled/women/transgender/fat/WHATEVER people in my comics and books and tv and movies, because it’s interesting and it’s representative of the world around us, not out of some sort of hate for the majority.
Most of these are my knowledge from looking at covers for the new comics, so forgive me if any of the covers lead me to incorrect assumptions. I still think it’s a good general idea of the numbers
- Justice League: 5 white men, 1 white woman, 1 black man
- Wonder Woman: 1 white woman
- Aquaman: 1 white man
- Flash: 1 white man
- Fury of Firestorm: 1 white teen boy, 1 black teen boy
- The Savage Hawkman: 1 white man
- Green Arrow: 1 white man
- Justice League International: 3 white men, 2 white women, 1 black woman, 1 dude in a mech suit, one glowy chick, and one rocky/chitinous dude
- Mister Terrific: 1 black man
- Captain Atom: 1 Silver guy (Too lazy to research race previous to gaining powers :P)
- DC Universe Presents: Variety of characters
- Green Lantern: 1 white man
- Green Lantern Corps: 1 white man, 1 black man, 1 white woman, a plethora of aliens, one of whom reads as female
- Green Lantern: The New Guardians: 1 white man, 1 white(?) woman, 1 woman who reads as dark skinned on a couple of covers, but white on another, more aliens.
- Red Lanterns: a bunch of pissed off aliens (side note:this cover is creepy as hell. wtf?)
- Batman: 1 white man
- Detective Comics: 1 white man (batman)
- Batman and Robin: 1 white man, 1 white boy
- Batman: 1 white man
- Batwoman: 1 (super pasty!) white woman
- Batgirl: 1 white woman
- Catwoman: 1 white WOman (Fixed! thanks for catching my error, TheJayMann!)
- Birds of Prey: 2 white women, 1 black woman (who is sadly lightened on all these covers in a way she isn’t on the inside), 1 asian woman
- Nightwing: 1 white man
- Red Hood and the Outlaws: 2 white men, 1 orange woman (who pretty much reads as white),
- Batwing: 1 Black man
- Swamp Thing: 1 white man/1 plant man
- Animal Man: 1 white man
- Justice League Dark: 2 white men, 2 white women, 1 literally WHITE man
- Demon Knights: Hard to tell, 2nd cover has 3 white women, 1 white man, 1 white or maybe middle eastern looking man. and one androgenous person in a silly helmet, all around a demony dude.
- Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE: Frankenstein’s monster, a green woman with 4 arms, 1 white teenage girl (Also, holy crap how did I know know something this ridiculous looking existed?!)
- Resurrection Man: 1 white man
- I, Vampire: 1 red vampire man, 1 white vampire woman (?)
- Voodoo: 1 (half alien hybrid? o_O) black woman
- Legion Lost: 1 white man, 1 black man, 1 white woman, 1 guy in a suit, a couple of aliens
- Legion of Superheroes: 2 white men, 1 alien woman (?)
- Teen Titans: 3 white men, 1 white woman, 1 darker skinned woman, 1 flaming woman (I adore wonder girl’s outfit!)
- Static Shock: 1 black man
- Hawk and Dove: 1 white man, 1 white woman
- Stormwatch: 3 white men, 1 green man, 1 silver woman, 1 maybe darker skinned man and one white person of indeterminate gender.
- Blackhawks: 3 white men, 1 black man, two women of hard to determine race, one white person of indeterminate gender.
- Sgt. Rock and the Men of War: 1 white man
- All-Star Western: 1 white man with facial disfigurations
- Deathstroke: 1 fully suited man
- Grifter: 1 white man
- OMAC: 1 giant blue dude
- Suicide Squad: 1 white woman, 1 shark dude, one man in a mech suit
- Blue Beetle: 1 hispanic teen boy
- Action Comics: 1 white man
- Superman: 1 white man
- Supergirl: 1 white woman
- Superboy: 1 white man
EDITED to fix Catwoman listing and final list tally.