DCU Dark

[Anubis]

Well, to be fair, being immortal, you'd have to think you'd get bored and maybe pick up a few lingering vices over the years.

Quite frankly, MOST immortals should be hooked or had been at one point hooked on something.

We're talking about people who could have actually been chillin' out in Opium dins and were around when Cocaine was perfectly legal to buy.

 

[Watchman]

My review of Justice League Dark #1:

http://johnleescomics.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/review-justice-league-dark-1/

Read Shade, the Changing Man! Definitely one of the underrated DC books of all time.

She didnt seem to jerky to me but her being a junkie did make me go 'Huh.'

Seeing visions of future horrors must be pretty awful but doing drugs to cope with it isnt the way Xanadu. You're going to make Mr T cry

Having Rac Shade in your life kind of has that effect on people.

 

[Mystirious]

Well, to be fair, being immortal, you'd have to think you'd get bored and maybe pick up a few lingering vices over the years.

Quite frankly, MOST immortals should be hooked or had been at one point hooked on something.

We're talking about people who could have actually been chillin' out in Opium dins and were around when Cocaine was perfectly legal to buy.

All I can picture now is Xanadu and Vandal Savage doing lines of coke together in a club bathroom

 

[Anubis]

And they probably did.

And Vandal probably was a coke hog.

 

[Mystirious]

And they probably did.

And Vandal probably was a coke hog.

Yep he looks like he would be a total coke hog

He needs to learn how to share

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Meh, she still kind of sucked. And the first issue as a whole was kind of just stuff happening. It was a bit too decompressed for my liking. Would've been nice if something actually important happened instead of just setup for the whole issue.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Did anyone read I, Vampire? I wasn't even going to buy this title at first, but I'm glad I did, as it was amazing. Even outclassed Justice League Dark, which I was looking forward to more.

 

[Mystirious]

I bought it today but haven't read it yet. I've heard great things about it though

Meh, she still kind of sucked. And the first issue as a whole was kind of just stuff happening. It was a bit too decompressed for my liking. Would've been nice if something actually important happened instead of just setup for the whole issue.

It was kind of a slow start yep

Though it caught my interest enough that I think I'll stick with this series

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Did anyone read I, Vampire? I wasn't even going to buy this title at first, but I'm glad I did, as it was amazing. Even outclassed Justice League Dark, which I was looking forward to more.

Justice League Dark didn't exactly set a high bar, in my opinion. But what was so great about I, Vampire? The thought of buying it never even entered my mind.

 

[CrimsonMist]

I thought I, Vampire was very good. The writing bugged me here and there, but it was really solid. Great artwork and a really nice atmosphere. Loved the set-up too

 

[Mystirious]

I would give it a as a pretty good set up for the series

 

[Pyro Man]

I was really surprised that I liked I, Vampire, I wouldn't put it on par with the other Dark books I've read thus far (which is everything other than Justice League Dark as of this writing) but I thought it was surprisingly good (especially since I expected it to be a pretty crappy attempt to cash in on the Twilight crowd).

So as of the end of September the Dark books have by far been the biggest success of the relaunch. It helps that most of them aren't bogged down by trying to cherry pick decades of continuity and mostly starts all their characters out with a clean slate.

 

[antonydelfini]

The Dark books have been great (Resurrection Man and JL Dark were not for me), but the JL guys (Supes, Bats, WW, Aquaman, GL, Flash) have more awesome titles IMO.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Uh... was Madame Xanadu always a drug-addled jerk like she is in this series? This is twice now that I've tried a comic largely based on Xanadu's presence only to find her totally unrecognizable.

Yeah, I felt about the same, but I'm a little more forgiving here than I was with Demon Knights. In JLD, at least, would have taken place well after Wagner's story ended, and this new world could have easily changed the Madame like it did in other past periods. I mean, I know that Wagner's stuff is being ignored, that seems obvious, but I'm still holding onto it like a boss.

And I'll also echo the praise for I, Vampire, too. I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed that one.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I have a feeling I'm just gonna drop JLD by the end of this arc and re-read Wagner's Madame Xanadu.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I have enough faith in Milligan to pull it though, and enough interest in the cast, to keep with it and see how it goes. But I am finding this a lot like Demon Knights in that I really want to like it, but the underwhelmingness of it is making it pretty hard. Odd that the two 'Dark' books I was looking forward to the most due to cast and writer have disappointed me pretty heavily with their first issue.

But re-reading Wagner's Madame Xanadu run sounds good right about now. Real good.

 

[X Knight]

how was Zatanna in JL Dark??

 

[Anubis]

She had moxie.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

"Unstable," according to Batman. She seemingly convinces him to establish a magic-centric arm of the Justice League, only he decides she ain't gonna be on it. So she uses her magic to bind him and runs off to deal with the Enchantress on her own.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I liked Zatanna's depiction. I thought it was cool where, after the superheroes got their asses handed to them, she's quietly confident she can succeed where they failed, pretty much telling them they're out of their league, no pun intended:

"Easy, no. But possible. Because this is my territory. Spells, hocus pocus, demons. It's meat and drink to me."

 

[Keyser Soze]

My review of I, Vampire #1:

http://johnleescomics.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/review-i-vampire-1/

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I, Vampire was surprisingly good. The first half of the issue really turned me off because it focused on the Twilight-ish aspects of the series, but the second half redeemed it.

 

[El Bastardo]

So, the last thing I really need is to add more DC to my list, considering of the ~25 issues I bought this month I'll only be canning Stormwatch, but were the Dark books such standouts that they necessitate purchasing?

Understand that I'm afraid of Milligan turning something good-starting into utter ****.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I have a feeling I'm just gonna drop JLD by the end of this arc and re-read Wagner's Madame Xanadu.

Same here, Justice League Dark was kinda underwhelming. Especially since I was really hyped up for it after being blown away by several DC Dark titles

 

[TheCorpulent1]

So, the last thing I really need is to add more DC to my list, considering of the ~25 issues I bought this month I'll only be canning Stormwatch, but were the Dark books such standouts that they necessitate purchasing?

Understand that I'm afraid of Milligan turning something good-starting into utter ****.

I'd recommend Animal Man, Swamp Thing, DC Universe Presents, Resurrection Man, and I, Vampire. Demon Knights and Justice League Dark were all right, but I'm still on the fence as to whether I'll continue beyond their first arcs.