The Leaguer said:
Justice League of America is so damn boring. Nothing happens. Meltzer: if you're going to base a story around third-tier characters that no one cares about, at least balance it out with a sub-plot or two about people we do. And having the Big Three sit around in a cave and pick a team that was already on the first f***ing cover does not count.
It's not boring, it just needs to pick up the pace and needs to have members that are better than Arsenal, Black Lightning, Hawkgirl, and Vixen.
Busiek's Superman run has been astonishingly weak. Action Comics was so much better, it figures that's the title that Johns would show up on and ruin.
I think that both Superman titles are great at the moment.
Geoff Johns. There's a name I'm f***ing sick of hearing. But not sick of saying. Like "Geoff Johns sucks." Everything he's working on is floundering (not including 52, because he's got three kick-ass writers picking up his slack).
I agree that Johns needs to lay off of a few books, give Green Lantern to someone else and keep him on Teen Titans and Justice Society of America.
- Give Joe Kelly a bigger role.
No one is more under-appreciated at DC right now than Kelly. It's a true shame that the only current run people have to judge a man who has had kick-ass runs like Deadpool, JLA, JL: Elite and Space Ghost, among others, is Supergirl. I pray that DC editors and fans alike picked up Superman/Batman Annual and saw how perfect Kelly can be.
Agreed. Take him off of that piece of crap book Supergirl and put him on some bigger title worthy for him. I think he could write a killer Green Lantern. I don't know why, I just have that feeling.
- Fix Batgirl.
It doesn't matter how. At this point, anything is better than what she has become. Blame it on the Lazarus Pit, blame it on a clone, a long-lost twin sister, Hell, outright ignore it, I don't care, just undo this travesty.
At least Aquaman hasn't been raped like Batgirl was
- Figure out what is working for their Batman books, and apply it to Superman.
DC needs to take the same two-pronged approach to the Batman books with the Superman books. Detective Comics focuses on the street-level detective aspect of Batman, while Batman proper seems to focus on the high-flying, super-heroics aspect. Action Comics should live up to it's name and capitalize on Johns' ability to create quick-moving stories that focus on Superman as a super-hero, while Superman should focus on his interaction with "mere mortals," and maybe explore his Clark Kent side. Make it the reporter to Detective Comics' detective.
Right now, DC's "two-pronged" approach to Superman seems to be crappy and crappier.
I like how the Superman books are at the moment. The way I see it is that Superman deals with Superman's human nature and Action Comics focuses on his Kryptonian heritage (hence why I think the "You're not one of them fits in that book). And both Superman and Action Comics are doing what they should be doing on the dual sides of Superman.
- Embrace Parallax.
Ever since Johns came on Green Lantern, it seems he's made it his mission to undo everything that made Jordan interesting. Someone needs to tell Johns that there are other ways to bring Jordan back without erasing what changed him that are better and far more interesting.
Green Lantern has been a disgrace since it started.
I think Green Lantern is good, despite it being Johns' weakest book. My main problem with it is that he tends to forget about Paralax. Thankfully the post-OYL Green Lantern book is starting to remember Paralax.
- Turn Teen Titans into something other than a side-kick factory.
Since One Year Later started, it seems like the point of Titans was to produce as many teenaged knock-offs of established heroes as it could. The first few years of Titans were fantastic because they explored characters that already existed and fleshed them out. Post-OYL, Johns has thrown character after character at us that we either don't care about, like Kid Devil, or characters we down-right hate, like Marvin and Wendy.
I like that Teen Titans is a book concentrated on sidekicks, Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Superboy, Speedy, Ravenger, and Kid Devil. I would have liked the book add Aquagirl, Offspring, and Misty Kilgore to the roster. If I want a book that concentrates on simply teenaged superheroes, I'd go read Young Justice (which consisted of both sidekicks and non-sidekicks) or Young Avengers. However, they have been taking it a little too far with Little Barda, Power Boy, Zatara, the Joker's Daughter, and the Riddler's Daughter.
- Get rid of on-goings that suck and replace them with books that truly deserve on-goings.
The one book that probably first springs to most people's minds is Supergirl, followed not long after by Atom. Both of these books have served as wastes of otherwise fantastic writing talent (Simone on Atom, Rucka and Kelly on Supergirl) and receptacles for amazingly bad art (Byrne on Atom, Chruchill on Supergirl).
Even though these books are bad in their own right, their biggest crime is that they are taking up time, attention and resources that could be spent on books far more deserving, primarily Uncle Sam and Ion. Both of these books have been fantastic from the get-go, and both have extraordinary amounts of potential. Uncle Sam is yet another gem for the Palmiotti/Gray Team Extreme, and Ion is a showcase of Marz in his element: writing a Green Lantern that is better than Jordan in every way.
Agreed, except with the All-New Atom, I'm liking that book (asides from Byrne's awful art, but thankfully he's gone). Supergirl needs to get canceled (the book is downright awful). All-Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder needs to get canceled (pure crap). Robin should get canceled (Robin's been getting a lot of time in the main Batman books and the Batman line should just be reduced to Batman and Detective Comics). Catwoman should get canceled (having the baby not be Bruce's was just a very bad move and reduce the Batman line). All-Star Superman should get canceled (DC should just give up on the entire All-Star line, it would free up Grant Morrison a little bit). Hawkgirl needs to go back to being Hawkman.
Books that need ongoings are Ion like you said, the Martian Manhunter (but with a different writer), Zatanna, Plastic Man (one that takes place in the DCU), the Question, Black Canary, Connor Hawke, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, and Red Tornado.
Also, I like to add, put Waid on the Flash: The Fastest Man Alive and restore all books (Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Justice League of America, etc.) to their original numbering
