Things I've had a problem with at DC recently:
- Turning Batgirl into a murderous villain, thereby invalidating pretty much
everything about the character, then backtracking when they saw how angry fans were and claiming that Deathstroke was just drugging her, then having the drugs wear off and turning her into a murderous
anti-hero, thereby invalidating everything about the character
again. So, basically, everything that anyone has done with Batgirl since her series ended.
- Killing Conner Kent right when he was getting interesting.
- Resurrecting Kara Zor-El as an obnoxious *****ebag whose only mission in life initially appeared to be beating the crap out of every other hero she met.
- Turning Tim into an angsty, emo amalgam of Dick and Bruce. I ask you,
why was it necessary to ruin everything unique about Tim that made him an even better Robin than either Dick or Jason were? It's ******ed.
- Giving Johns, Waid, Morrison, and Meltzer free reign to resurrect the Silver Age in its entirety.
- Resurrecting Jason Todd.
- Getting rid of the rich, interesting cast of characters from Gotham Central and replacing them with Commissioner Gordon and Harvey Bullock again. Bringing Gordon back to lead the GCPD? Fine. Focusing all interaction between Batman and the GCPD on Gordon and Bullock? Not so fine. Rucka and Brubaker built up a cast of characters better than most in comics in Gotham Central, and now they're being totally wasted simply because DC believes readers are too stupid to accept a GCPD without its familiar mascots Gordon and Bullock.
- Putting the Silver Age Legion back in Superman's history. I don't mind the Legion so much, but if they were gonna do it, couldn't they have at least maintained the New Earth timeline's consistency and used Waid's current Legion? The fact that Superman and Supergirl were each members of different Legions is just gonna lead to confusion later on, which'll probably inspire someone else to do more retcons down the line, and the whole thing'll just suck.
- Turning Captain Atom into an awe-inspiring badass in Captain Atom Armageddon, only to bring him back as a catatonic ****** in Battle for Bludhaven, then slap him in the Monarch armor and take him out of play for a whole year with his fans wondering whether he's good or bad, still himself or developing into the Monarch as he was supposed to do years ago, etc.
- Using Bart Allen as an ultimately pointless place-holder in the Flash legacy between Wally's disappearance and reappearance, with horrible writing and no mention of Wally's status for about a year. It was a disservice to Bart as a character and Wally's fans, and it made the people behind DC look like utter *****es who don't give a damn about their characters.
- Quite a lot of things going on with Wonder Woman. I don't like the secret agent angle, I don't like the fact that Picoult has made Wonder Woman seem like a moron when it comes to modern life, and I
really don't like Amazons Attack or the fact that Hippolyta is now a villain and Artemis and Philippus are citing the ol' Nazi "just following orders" mantra.
- That Helmet of Fate Zauriel issue. What the **** was that about? Zauriel was barely even recognizable in it. Worse, that characterization of Zauriel as "Heaven's good soldier" has carried over into Shadowpact. Since when is Zauriel a good soldier who'll follow Heaven's orders--even if they require murder--without question? I miss the Zauriel of Morrison's JLA and Millar's Day of Judgment.
- Killing off Hector Hall, who had loads of potential to be an incredibly interesting Dr. Fate. Even more, I hated the fact that the stupid editorial mandate that Vertigo couldn't cross over with mainstream DC pretty much ruined a good portion of Hector's potential coolness, given that his son is Dream of the Endless. That also brings me to my next point...
- The way Johns has managed the characters of JSA. I enjoy JSA, don't get me wrong. But Johns has spent his entire run focusing on Stargirl, Mr. Terrific, Power Girl, and Dr. Mid-Nite for the most part, leaving other great members of the team out in the cold. The android Hourman, Sand, and Dr. Fate--some of my favorites on the JSA roster--have barely had a single arc where they played a major role. I didn't even know if Sand was still a member of the team for months.
- Killing off the android Hourman and making the Golden Age Hourman retire, leaving us with Rick Tyler, the very least that the Hourman legacy has to offer. This one's mitigated a bit by having Rick marry Jesse Quick, which was a good pairing and makes both of them a little more fun. Still, I really loved the android Hourman.
- Giving Wildcat a long-lost kid--absolutely
never a good idea to begin with--and then playing up his self-ascribed inability to be a father, despite the fact that he's been a surrogate father to Black Canary for almost her whole life. Simone devoted an entire bloody arc in Birds of Prey to that relationship, for Christ's sake.
- Having Kingdom Come crap bleed over into the mainstream DC universe more and more.
- Killing off the Question and then cramming Rene Montoya into that role. It's not a good fit, period.
- Making the JLA boring as all hell.
- Getting rid of Ray Palmer and replacing him with an Asian copy of himself. This may be nullified by the upcoming Search for Ray Palmer, which looks to be pretty awesome.
- Making Connor Hawke the pacifist monk a murderer.
- Allowing Adam Beechen to write anything.
I'm sure I have more problems with DC's current comics, but this is all I can remember at the moment and I've already spent half an hour at work coming up with this much.
