Did you actually read my post, or did you just go into a mindless rage as soon as you saw a sentence that was critical of DC?
I didn't say DC didn't have good books. I was reading Action, and Red Robin, etc., etc.
My point was, one of the goals for the Big Two is always to have your top characters being written well. That is, of course, the best way to translate creative success to financial success.
And while Action Comics was great (believe me, I'm not knocking it, I like Luthor 50 times more than I do Superman), but it didn't even feature Superman. And the same is the case with JLA.
While all/most of those books you listed were great, they mainly featured secondary or lesser known characters.
Except most of their major books were well written. Action Comics by Paul Cornell was great, even for the single arc that it starred Superman. Detective Comics by Scott Snyder was great. Batman Incorporated was great. I personally found myself really liking the Flash. Green Lantern was great. Justice League of America, despite not having the major characters, is still a major book, and overall it was pretty good. Green Lantern Corps was almost always a top 10 selling book, so it counts as a major book. And in my own personal bias, Teen Titans is a major book, the book has had some major highs in the charts when Marv Wolfman and Geoff Johns were on board, was finally getting good again with Krul writing it.
Yeah, some of the major books were crappy like Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, but overall, most of DC's major books were pretty damn good. Although I'll certainly concede that Secret Six, Red Robin, and Batgirl aren't major books, but I found most of DC to be thoroughly enjoyable overall from the major and smaller titles.
With the relaunch, however, for the most part DC got the best creators on the top tier characters' books...and that's a big win.
That was my point. Not that DC didn't have any good books prior to the relaunch. Just that they distributed the talent a bit better this time around.
I didn't interpret that you said that DC didn't have any good books. But most of their major books were pretty damn good to begin with. Both major companies have a few crappy major books. Hell the only major titles I would complain about were Batman (and even then you had other good Batman books to go to), Superman (again, there was a good Superman book to go to), and Wonder Woman (yeah, she got the short end of the stick here, readers really didn't have a place to go for her).
As for distributing the talent better, I dunno. I think that Paul Cornell should have been put on Superman, Jeff Lemire is still treated as a B-lister in DC's stable, Joshua Hale Fialkov was put on I, Vampire, etc. Tony Daniel is still being put on top tier titles. And Scott Lobdell, the less said about him the better. The only difference is that it feels like Scott Snyder and Gail Simone have been promoted to DC's stable of A-listers as opposed to DC's A-list writers being just Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison.
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