DC 2006:Year in Review

[Darthphere]

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.

I still dont see why theres so much hate on Arsenal?

 

[PWN3R]

I am shocked and amazed. Tip of the hat to DC on 52. 26 weeks in a row, and not one issue late.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I still dont see why theres so much hate on Arsenal?

Actually I have nothing against Arsenal or Black Lightning, they're just not League worthy. Arsenal gets his ass kicked way too often, and Black Lightning belongs on the Outsiders.

 

[GNR]

Its ok, you like Hal, youre half dead to me anyway.

spoken like a TRUE fanboy

 

[PWN3R]

spoken like a TRUE fanboy

you dropped Moon Knight, what else do you think he'd say?!








:heart:

 

[Bullseye]

I'm still wondering how DC managed to get these twenty-six issues of 52 out on time.

OYL was somewhat of a dissapointment. Some good, some bad. Detective Comics is DC's best book out as of now.

 

[The Leaguer]

No, it isn't.

 

[PWN3R]

Where is your God now?

 

[The Leaguer]

Right here.

 

[PWN3R]

The Leaguer had one weakness.
















Hal Jordan*cue music*

 

[Dwarf lord]

I still dont see why theres so much hate on Arsenal?

Either do I. Melzter's writing him very well and he's a great character. Plus he makes sense. It's not like he's being shoe horned in.

 

[CConn]

I...haven't been all that happy with DC this year. At least post-Infinite Crisis. While obviously, I didn't expect or desire anymore giant events (save for 52, of course), but, at the minimum, I hoped for/expected strong creative teams on DC's most prominent titles.

That, unfortunately, hasn't been the case in recent months. Sure, there's some gems - Batman, Detective, and Wonder Woman being foremost among them - but with Flash and OYL Nightwing being, well, horrible, and titles like Green Lantern, and nearly all of the post-IC titles being mediocre, I can't help but be sorta disappointed in DC this year.

That said, DC is looking pretty promising in 2007. The Spirit may very well be fantastic, Superman: Confidential is off to a pretty good start, Nightwing's finally been corrected with Wolfman being put on the title, and while it's not a very popular opinion, I quite liked the first issue of the Johns/Donner/Kubert run on Action.

 

[PWN3R]

Wonder Woman has had only two issues.

 

[CConn]

But a fantastic two issues.

 

[jaydawg]

Diana Prince is stupid.

 

[CConn]

But a fantastic kind of stupid!

 

[Assassin]

I dont want to quote every one, But I have two things to say, Allstar Blows, But i am entertained by Batman and Robin where Superman is just ****ing ******ed. It shows The Era that I hated the most in Superman. And secondly, Teen Titans was my favorite DC book before the crisis and still is after the crisis, Its not as good, but its still good.


Side note:
I bought almost everything OYL except Aquaman, Jona hex, warlord, and firestorm

I will Pick up firestorm when Mcduffie starts.

Since then I have dropped:
Catwoman, Birds of prey, checkmate, Uncle sam (after 1 issue, Not my thing, dont debate me on it) Shadowpact, The Next (too ****ing weird) and Wonderwoman

One of my favorite things to come out of the crisis was the new spectre, I loved the 3 issue mini he was in (crisis aftermath) I havent had time to read the tales of the unexpected, is it good?

 

[droogiedroogie2]

Oh, its no secret. Sale is just waiting out for his exclusive to end to run back to Loeb, and marvel will have some quality again. I dotn care what anyone says about Loeb, Loeb+Sale=Quality.

I'm sad.

 

[Assassin]

why does Sale's SUperman look like he eats only lemons?

 

[droogiedroogie2]

Side note:
I bought almost everything OYL except Aquaman, Jona hex, warlord, and firestorm

I will Pick up firestorm when Mcduffie starts.

Shoulda bought Jonah.

Why drop Checkmate?

 

[Assassin]

I'm not into 007 type stuff, esp in comics, plus i only bought it because Alan and Michael...

 

[Darthphere]

Actually I have nothing against Arsenal or Black Lightning, they're just not League worthy. Arsenal gets his ass kicked way too often, and Black Lightning belongs on the Outsiders.

Arsenal is only getting his ass kicked constantly because Winnick sucks at life. And Black Lightning on the current Outsiders would be ******ed. Ive come to the conclusion youre wrong.

 

[Doc Destruction]

Some notable ones from Marvel:
Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk
Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do
Daredevil: Target
Daredevil: Father

Uh, Civil War MUCH?

06 was a GREAT year for DC IMO. They won me over as a hardcore reader in a very short amount of time.

I personally have enjoyed %90 of the OYL titles, and even bought a GL book and a Wonder Woman book for the first time in my life.

Yeah, there was some clunkers, but you'll have that.

My favorite reads of the year are Uncle Sam, Checkmate, anything involving the Sinister Six, Justice, JLA, Outsiders, and the book that proved you can do it if you try hard enough: 52.

Simply amazing year.

 

[Darthphere]

Im totally surprised Doc.

 

[Doc Destruction]

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.

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.

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've decided to be constructive for once and provide a serious list of things DC could do to make '07 as good as '05 was.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

I'll post more later, after the initial wave of shock and awe of how right I am has passed.

Wow, every single point of yours sucks. I'm SO glad I don't have your taste. At all. Ever.