The new 52: Good or Bad

Discussion in 'Comic Books and Graphic Novels' started by Hotshotprime43, Jul 25, 2013.

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New 52: Good or Bad

  1. Good

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    33.3%
  2. Bad

    18 vote(s)
    30.0%
  3. indifferent

    22 vote(s)
    36.7%
  1. wheelman

    wheelman Well-Known Member

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    I love Batman, Aqauman, The Flash, and the Justice League books. I would have never read them if it were not for the New 52 reboot. Those books are on par if not better than most, if not all, of the Marvel books. Daredevil aside. That book is awesome. Unfortunatly, Green Lantern has gone down hill since the reboot in my opinion.
     
  2. Dr Kain

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    I'm indifferent to it. I have no problem with the reboot, but they didn't go far enough. Not enough has changed, and the writers that sucked before the N52 still suck after it. It was more like a half-boot because all of the Batman and GL stuff still happened, which makes it incredibly confusing. I like some of the new costumes. I think Aquaman came out as one of the best characters for the N52. I really want to read Phantom Stranger , JL Dark, and Constantine (waiting for two paperbacks to be out first), I would love to see how they would do the Spectre in the N52. I love the Swamp Thing series (have both paperbacks, waiitng for Pt3), and I'm waiting for a few paperbacks to read Flash, but I do not like the stories they were doing. Red Lanterns got boring, I am not a fan of what they did to Harley (love the design, but not the story behind it), and they were taking too long to tell a story. Sometimes I don't want 5+ issues for one story. Sometimes I want a nice one issue stand alone story that is well written and enjoyable. One that I can pick up and read without having to have read a million other stories before it and after it.

    However, the only individual comics I'm still reading is Batman Beyond Unlimited. That series has been going very strong for me.

    I can, I prefer his N52 costume. The red underwear being gone is a plus, and I like the concept of the costume being nanites. Don't get me wrong, his old costume was fine, but between the two, I really love the N52 look. In fact, most of the costume changes I don't have a problem with. Costumes change all of the time and have done so for 70+ years in DC. Sometimes the changes are bad (like 80s Black Canary), sometimes they are great (Sinestro Corp Sinestro). but for the N52, there weren't too many costumes that were completely radical. Flash, Aquaman, Superman, Batman, Nightwing, Batgirl, MM, GL, and WW only had some changes to their costumes compared to Harley, Raven, and Captain Cold.

    I think the worst of N52 though is Starfire because she became an intergalactic slut while Bruce became a sex crazed James Bond.
     
  3. Megastar

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    It has it's ups and downs.
     
  4. DarkAngelPrime

    DarkAngelPrime Lawful Good

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    I was buying more DC books prior to the reboot than I ever had before and pretty much contracted back to just the bat books afterwards, which is where I started back in the early 90s when I first got into comics. I used to always buy the big event books, but I have no interest anymore.

    For me, it's not about whether the stories are better or worse now, it's about whether the good ones required the reboot. Speaking from bat-land, they didn't. So much of the New 52 was change for the sake of change. Now, characters I followed for their entire lives like Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain no longer exist, and I'm stuck with characters like Tim Drake who share a name and nothing else with characters I grew up with. I used to consider myself a big DC fanboy, but I can't bring myself to care about the universe anymore at all.
     
  5. Takara_destron

    Takara_destron Mainly lurking these days

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    He's popped up in Phantom Stranger a few times. Not a lot to go on yet but I'm hopeful it's going to build up to more.