All that has to happen for that spiral to be over is for books to not suck. Currently, they don't. At least, not at nearly the same rate. They're much closer to where they were when Infinite Crisis started (except back then, I can't think of a single book they were publishing that wasn't at least solidly good.)
Countdown's over. Trinity's what's coming out now. I mean, I'm never going to forgive them for what they put us through for those two years (well, for me, it's really only the Year of Countdown that extremely pissed me off), but now they're putting out good books.
How are the Amazons and Olympians doing at the moment? Captain Atom? Batgirl? Each and every one of the Titans, Teen and otherwise? And, as per the topic of this thread, the Marvels? More that I'm not remembering? Until DC fixes what they
broke, they have not done nearly enough. The stories of the past two years weren't bad simply because they were bad. They were also bad because they wreaked holy hell on an unforgivable amount of characters and mythoi.
Those things have to be the things addressed, not just for a steady stream of solo books to be good on their own merits.
I will say that DC seems to have, at the least, addressed the nigh-legendary lateness that
invaded their books last year.
First of all, it's nowhere near as bad as a Bruce Jones book should be. Second of all, the worst thing about it is that it just doesn't focus on the same characters as Rucka's run, or on the same general theme. It doesn't belong in the Checkmate book. But the story is not really that bad.
The story is bad because it twists what Checkmate stood for and turns it into yet another generic shadowy government agency that does shady and questionable things, even to their own members, which is the exact sort of thing that Checkmate was very specifically created to
not be.
Oh well. Different strokes.
Same exact issue here. Within the first
two issues of Remender's run, he took everything that was likable and unique about Simone's universe and turned it into an unrecognizable mess. He casually killed off a major supporting character, brought him back with as little fanfare, and then killed him off
again! And the retcons, one after another; now Ryan was never Ray's protege, he was just some random rube that some random villains picked out to, I dunno, make a mess of things. Remender did pretty much every single thing that a new writer
shouldn't do when coming onto an existing book. Not that it ultimately mattered since DC was obviously set on canceling the book anyway, before he even came aboard.
Blue Beetle, GA/BC, Booster Gold, BATO, Robin, Brave and the Bold, Spirit, and BatCon.
Also Supergirl. My goodness, the majority of DC's books barely have the same writers for more than a year anymore. It's like the exact
opposite of creating a stable and cohesive company 'verse.
Blue Beetle's still just as much fun as it was at the beginning.
The last two issues have been decent, but Pfeifer isn't the longterm writer. Sturges is, and he hasn't even started yet; we have no idea what he's going to do.
Booster Gold appears to have a strong guiding force from Johns, even if he won't be involved with writing it, based on that preview page.
Chuck Dixon takes over for two issues, and then...TBD. We have no idea who the new writer would be and what's going to happen with this series, ie A disruptive creative team change.
