February 26th, 2013
I checked out of the New DC close to a year ago. Now comes news that they’re killed off another Robin. (This one is Damian, the son of Bruce Wayne–not dead!–and Talia Ah-Gul.) It’s hard to work up any sort of interest in this development–it’s not outrageous or even sad. It’s just predictably boring. So DC killed its entire continuity so they could start telling fresh stories and then they have to resort to stunt deaths after–what?–18 months?
Eventually this management regime at DC will take a place next to the team behind New Coke in business school case studies of corporate folly.
But I will just note that if you click on that link and look at the three panels DC gave the NY Post, the art is, again, just embarrassing.
In other comics news, after going nearly a year without buying any current books I’ve gotten sucked in by two really promising Image titles: Revival and Thief of Thieves.
The former is something like Northern Exposure meets Wonderfalls meetsWalking Dead. The latter is sort of an appropriation of John Robbie from To Catch a Thief, but then thrown into a modern noir setting. Both series are in really early vintage–I don’t think there are even ten issues of either of them yet–so you can still jump on the train easily. Highly recommended.
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I’m still buying “Legion,” probably mostly out of nostalgia/inertia (nostertia? instalgia?), and I pick up the trade paperbacks from “Fables” and related titles. But nothing else even tempts. Your recent note about comic books maybe turning into the loss leader for comic book movies might be too optimistic. Old geeks might one day stop pretending they want to read anything new when they can re-read great old stuff and no kid will get bit by the bug because no parents want to take them into a shop where they’ll see stuff like “Crossed” or a half a hundred other gory boob-fests.
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[…] it feels like I’m always talking about how craven and awful and truly, truly stupid the New DC is, well, that’s because I […]
Galley Lurker February 26, 2013 at 10:24 pm
Whew. You had me worried. I saw the “Robin Dies” link last night on Bing and I immediately came here and….nothing!!
I agree with Brett about the “great old stuff”. I’m buying my kids all the early Marvel Masterworks collections. We just got to the Fantastic Four Coming of Galactus story arc. Uatu the Watcher, the Silver Surfer, Galactus(!), the Ultimate Nullifier — that’s what comics are all about.