Aldo reads DC's New 52 (So you don't have to)

Kwaku
08/22/2012 AT 3:28 PM
Whatever anyone thinks of Liefeld, this talk of last minute changes by editors has been repeated by a lot of others writers and is worrying.

monopole
08/22/2012 AT 3:42 PM
They were probably asking him to draw feet or something…

Snoopy otm

Way to build a third of your line (and much of an upcoming imprint!) around such a reliable dude.

If DC were an employee instead of a company, they would've been fired for gross incompetence so many times over the past year.

Batwoman #12: JH Williams is back concentrating on the artowrk again and, although the art doesn't actually look much like him (which is kind of weird) the layouts are an absolute delight. Not so much the story, which sort of continues the old plot (which was supposed to be done) but not really and crosses over with what appears to be the JLA Wonder Woman and not the Wonder Woman Wonder Woman. I don't feel any worse for reading it, whichis sometimes all I can hope for from DC these days.

Brids of Prey #12: Ummm, when did Black Canary get standards again? She gets all snotty with Poison Ivy because "I said no kiliing". YOUR TEAM-MATES ARE A WOMAN WITH A GUN AND A WOMAN WITH A SWORD (not a Liefeld sword). You know, with an offensive strategy like that there's going to be a number of corpses along the way and indeed there have been SINCE #1. But when OOPS SPOILERS Katana apperently kills Ivy at the end, she barely even gets a telling off. WAY TO PLAY TEACHER'S PET, Dinah.

Blue Beetle #12: Paco is safe after being turned into Blood Beetle (dunno, another evil alium from the beginning of time or something because BB stabbed him through the chest the other week). You want to know how? Really? Are you sure? OK. BECAUSE BB'S SUIT ASKS HIM WWJD. Put this book out of its misery.

Captain Atom #12: Oh god, I can't do this any more. Human Captain Atom has buttsex on the couch with One Hand Captain Atom (IDNSH Trucker Hat) before she gets upset because her other boyfriend - that's the one she had dinner with ONCE, when Human Captain Atom was watching them through the window - has sent her a couple of texts so RUN to the base. Where Human Captain Atom merges with Captain Atom and unwrites the last issue. Then decides he's not human so needs to go and live on the moon. OH WAIT, along the way JT Krul explains the Big Bang Theory. No, really. You know how Dave Sim did it and everybody called him barking? This is even more mental - The Big Bang is just a reboot of the universe, destroying the previous universe in its path AND IF YOU TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT YOU CAN WATCH IT DESTROY THE OLD UNIVERSE. Once you've travelled fast and far enough to get to the edge of it obviously, which by definition must be faster than light. Words fail me. Only #0 to go though.

Catwoman #12: Some dolls get smashed, there's a couple of double crosses and Selina's latino fuckbuddy gets shot. Here's a basic tip in comocs writing though - if you reveal in the text and in vision in the same panel who the bad guy on the other end of the phone is, it just doesn't work. I know you saw it in that Bruce Willis film that time, but trust me it doesn't work when the pictures aren't moving. Apart from that, this is a typical uninspired issue. Not awful, but not any good.

DC Presents #12: Kid Flash fights Hyper-evolved dinosaurs in New York. Well, I say fight, he tries to charm one of them by buying her egg foo yung. Kid Flash is the best thing about Titans and he's great here too - a wisecracking prickly teen like nobody else is writing. Why can't more books be like this?

GLC #12: WHO CARES. But for those of you that do, the Not Manhunter that Guy and John made from bits of leftover manhunter in the last one fails to beat the Alpha Lanterns, but then it turns out that Guy and John have always had the ability to remove thier power batteries, so they commit suicide. The Guardians don't care, because they're too busy thinking about the Third Army. But it looks like they're going to kill Guy in any case, which would make sense for Baz turning up because they're not going to replace John with him now, are they? I sometimes wish I was more into the whole GL thing, then I slap myself round the face and wise up.

Green Lantern #12: And talking of which, blah blah Black Lantern blah blah Blackest Night blah blah Third Army blah blah Yellow Battery blah blah blah. This is so dull that Black Lantern stops and has a wank in an attempt to liven things up. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8300/7852508766_ac774b30c7_z.jpg

LoSH #12: A slugfest of an issue, but at least Bouncing Boy gets his moment in the sun. It's billed as the "final" battle with the Dominators, but I'll lay CASH MONEY that won't be true. Still for fanboys only though.

Nightwing #12: Policemen trapped in the Gotham sewers after an explosion? Seriously? Does nobody at DC take a corporate view of their product? So, in a COMPLETELY UNFORSEEABLE turn of events it seems that the Penguin is that bad guy in this as well, which could be heading us for another second tier Bat-crossover. HOLY MARKETING, BATMAN!

Red Hood #12: Hooray! A 50 Shades reference! Which makes no sense, as our heroes have been in space since it became a thing which leads us then to the Secret Origin of Arsenal. Roy must be Twilight fanfic guy. I would never have guessed. I'm quite enjoying this as a campy space opera, even if it is a bit hard to follow at times because of the daft names and it does feature The Blight who (presumably are the Tamaran version of The Rot. Or it could just be coincidence.

Supergirl #12: Kara's Fortress Of Solitude turns up under the ocean, having been built in secret by the bad guy from the first couple of issues (last seen in bits in space and being held together with jelly). She doesn't trust Superman any more either because he's not a real Kryptonian according to her, which smacks of Nationalism slightly. I never thought I'd be hankering for the byrne-isms already. A Superbook too far.

Wonder Woman #12: Apollo decides to pretend to be Zeus and reform Olympus, exiling Hera to Earth and mortality. Hermes rescuse Zola from the fighting which is going on, and then steal her baby from under everybody's noses to form a pact with Demeter. BUT NEVER MIND ANY OF THAT, ORION OF NEW GENESIS IS BACK ON THE LAST PAGE. A great book in any case, but suddenly made awesome in four panels.

All-Star Western #12: The Crime Bible/Owls stuff concludes pretty much as you'd expect it to, with extreme violence from Tallulah and some inappropiate sexing. Doctor Jekyll's mate turns up at the end? Is ASW going all LoEG on us? Time will tell, I guess, but I'll still be here as this remains a most solidly entertaining read. The Terrence Thirteen backup is great steampunky science hero stuff, but at two issues of 8 pages is actually about as much of it as I want to read. So good job it's Tomahawk next then.

Dark Knight #12: Scripted in such a way to make the most of Dave Finch having given up everything else, this is mainly a stream of pretty (and some, frankly, not so pretty - the Btaman chained to the bench is pretty awful) [ictures which advances the Scarecrow story pretty slowly but at the end it's clear why - Zero Month has to tie into this so the Scarecrow possibly is only there to enable THAT story. In which case, a let-down.

GL:NG #12: Right, so this is over and they break up at the end. But more new team coming and more Kyle Rayner. The Weaponer, who is obviously not Hawkman, manages to switch off the button which is keeping Invictus out of his statue and he just sort of peters out until Larfleeze stands on him. Who could like this?

I, Vampire #12: The broad comedy in this book continues to work well, especially in this Stormwatch crossover which is the most fun they've been since Warren Ellis stopped writing them. But then at the end Andrew seems to have removed the premise of the book. NOW GET OUT OF THAT.

Justice League Dark #12: A very slow-moving stroll though many new minor DC magic characters and a bit of progression on the Tim Hunter stuff. This Felix Faust arc has been fun but it needs to go somewhere, and taking a month off to tell an untold Constantine/Zatanna story in Zero Month will not help.

Superman #12: Crappy 80s monster of the month issue. But then he tells Superman that he can't know what it's like to grow up alone on an alien planet DO YOU SEE. This makes Clark give up being Superman for the day to go bungee jumping. No, me neither.

Titans #12: Look, let's just make this a romance book and then we'll all be happy. Young Heroes In Love. I would buy the shit out of that. It's the bext thing about this title, except for this month's random backup which is a linking piece around DC Presents #12 and will make no sense to anyone who didn't read it. Change tack. Please? For me?

Flash #12: SYNCHRONICITY ALERT. I mentioned Golden Glider in this month's Batgirl review, and who turns up here? OOOH SPOOKY PSYCHIC "Raeppa redilg nedlog!" The Rogues are at war with Captain Cold. How can this suck? It can't, that's how.

Firestorm #12: All the international Firestorms fight each other, and Indian Firestorm gets blown up by somebody else. Then they have another fight, and the Ronnie Firestorm and Jason Firestorm hold hands and sing Islands In The Stream, which makes Russian Firestorm disappear and then at the end French Firestorm blows up Not Madame Masque, possibly blowing herself up in the process. A new beginning is promised after Zero Month, which almost makes me wonder whether they can make it any good.

Hawkman #12: As if we didn't need any proof of Rob L's lack of ideas, his new villain he introduced in this has a bike like Lobo did in Deathstroke and the dialogue is pretty much identical. So rather than recycling his artwork, he's moved ahead to recycling scripts IN THE SAME MONTH. And this is the guy who struggles to understand why DC might not be fighting about him going. In other news, this is shit. Again.

Voodoo #12: Voodoo escapes Lord Of The Rings by being taken into space by the Blackhawks, and then goes and lives in suburbia. Other Voodoo goes and lives in a cave, and will soon turn up in Grifter. Oh good.

Why non-comics writers shouldn't write about comics:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/7867366280_2fde44c86b_z.jpg

To be fair, the current editorial staff makes that kind of accurate.

gpwm

This looks to be a total mess. Have the sales started to tank yet?

I figure this thing would end up DC Implosion 2: Electric Boogaloo.

I, for one, look forward to the DC Comics revamped range of Marvel Comics.

Didn't writers used to get fired for not even trying (applicable to article writer and much of DC's talent pool)?

This looks to be a total mess. Have the sales started to tank yet?

Aldo reads DC's New 52 (So you don't have to)

Aldo reads DC's New 52 (So you don't have to)

Aldo reads DC's New 52 (So you don't have to)

Aquaman #12: Top work DC. Zero month means there is now a pointless origin issue between the two climactic issues of the plot. In short, Mera is still jealous and isn't shy about showing it. This makes Georgette of the Jungle furious and she sets her jaguars on anyone who speaks to her. Luckily one of them is Black Manta, who is able to fight them off. Unluckily the other is Doctor Shin, who is just an old Chinese bloke, after all. Luckily Vostock stops her. Unluckily this means he gets killed by Manta. Luckily that means Geoff Johns gets to have everyone stand around bleeding Superhero Sadface. Well, luckily for him. Not so much for the rest of us.

Justice League #12: Sadface Bad Guy has a pile of ghosts deny the Justice League their sadface by telling them how they're better off without them. And Steve Trevor is also there, contradicting Justice League Dark. OR IS HE, EH? The power of Sadface actually means he isn't really dead, which makes everyone else think their Sadface isn't real. This is bad for Sadface Bad Guy, but quite lucky for Wonder Woman and Superman because it makes them Super Horny. Diana has the small matter of being in a relationship with Steve in the way, but she resolves it pretty quickly by dumping him in his hospital bed. Ever the gentleman, Hal Jordan leaves Earth so the press can write about that instead. And if that makes sense to you, then you are Geoff Johns aicm£5.

Detective Comics Annual #1: An inconsequential story about a battle between the Mad Hatter and the Black Mask to be the chief mind control villain in Gotham. It's set in a circus, which diminishes the story as it's too close to the main Nightwing/Owls setting - unless we're supposed to think there are two cursed/evil/bad circuses in Gotham? In which case, no wonder their main villain is a clown... anyway, these 30-odd pages are very definition of contractual obligation. Don't waste your time.

Green Lantern Annual #1: Fifty pages later, I'm none the wiser. Two stories go on here: The GL plot with Black Hand concludes (of sorts) and/or the Guardians do some shit about the Third Army. In the first, Black Hand forces Hal to decide between seeing his dad again or having manhugs from Sinestro. He can't, so hits Black Hand on various headstones until his eye is hanging out; in which time Sinestro has turned up and they reacharound Hal's Lantern. Elsewhere in space, the Guardians let some other Guardians out of a big metal box in space where they've had them chained up for "billions of years". They have a big fight about whether the 'First Lantern' should be released. The plots then collide when the bad Guardians turn up and tell Black Hand he's their favourite, which makes Hal and Sinestro disappear in a swirl of Sadface. The Third Army seems to involve the Guardians covering people in their blue muck, until only their eyes are visible. Has Johns got a bukakke fetish or something? I don't know any more. THERE ARE ONLY 16 PARTS OF THE THIRD ARMY TO GO.

JLI Annual #1: In short, the SHOCKING CONCLUSION is that OMAC is still the same character he was at the beginning of his own title and is only there to get information for Brother Eye so he can destroy the JLI (presumably as part of his vendetta against Maxwell Lord). Booster turns OMAC back into Kevin, before staring down an alternate Booster that Rip Hunter has sent from another time stream to stop the Super Horniness from JL#12. Before he goes, OMAC depowers the Scarab suit and sends Blue Beetle back to The Reach, which you would think would have horrendous implications for that not-cancelled book set in NYC. If only the e-i-c of the Johnsiverse had had a hand in this to stop it. This book with a DiDioco-writing credit. Nothing happens in this that couldn't have been wrapped up in the JLI book, which implies the only reason for this annual was not to spoiler Super Horniness. Which the press had done, and DC's publicity material. It could be worse, I could have paid for this book.

Superman Anuual #1: Helspont punches Superman into the moon, where Grifter shows how much stronger and more powerful than Superman he is. Martian Manhunter gets beaten by a minor Daemonite and in doing so he refers to his role in Stormwatch #12. Which is AFTER he left the title. There's a scene with Stafire which takes place after "pretty much any issue of Red Hood". Which is tricky, since for the past 8 months it's been a space opera set around Tamaran. Seriously, am I the only guy bothering to read these comics? Scott Lobdell and Fabien Nicieza clearly aren't. To skip to the end, ignoring Hawkman getting beaten up for no plot-related reason, Helspont has had some sort of relationship with Jor-El before the destruction of Krypton, which makes Superman cry in space. This has been a Sadface-fuelled month and no mistake.

Flash Annual #1: It's explained where the Rogues got their enhanced powers and we get a great (if slightly old-fashioned) Rogues story. Which suits me, because the Rogues are one of the best backup casts in the DCU. THEN GORILLAS INVADE! And no sadface in sight! WHy aren't more DC books like this? Oh yes, BECAUSE OF THE JOHNS.

In fairness, the Green Lantern Justice League abdication makes some sense; since it looks like he's the one who started the fight to outside observers, it makes sense for him to be the fall guy and allow himself to be "kicked out" of the League for being a disruptive influence.

Most of the rest of it was eye-rolly sadface/suckface; how could Wonder Woman dump someone she apparently dumped 5 years ago?

aldo are you going to take zero month as an opportunity to stop buying all this hopeless rubbish?

fucking hope so. i don't even see how you can get through it a'la torrents

I haven't been buying most of it for ages, and I got it down to about half a dozen books two weeks ago. (Flash, WW, Action, Bats, Bats Inc, Swampy, Dial H, ASW, Suicide Squad - but the two GMoz books go when he's off it)

I'm going to do a review of the year at the endof Zero Month and whether I keep going afterwards will probably depend on what my work status is.

Demonoid's disappeared so is there somewhere torrenting comic stuff still?

The main torrent sites still up normally have a couple of DC and Marvel packs every week.

newsgr0ups imo

Is there any intersection at all between the excellnt Wonder Woman if her own title and the JL version? I can't see how they fit together.

hey aldo, was just reading the popmatters article on the first year (well focusing on JL) which seems to take a very different point of view on the whole experiment,

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/162929-ill-be-rooting-for-you-dcs-grand-popcultural-experiment-one-year-on/

think this, as in yer thread, has been a wildly entertaining and informative endeavor, and frankly far more believable than their take on it, was wondering what you thought

wow, this sounds really lame

“I’ll be rooting for you,” Green Lantern Hal Jordan says as possibly his last words to the Justice League just before he teleports out. There’s a salute, a wry smile, and a glint in his eye. This will be Jordan’s last time leaving the League’s satellite base, you can already sense that even as the teleporter flickers into action. The panels directly preceding this one detail perhaps one of the most heroic moments in the New 52—the League was disgraced by villain David Graves, manipulated into infighting in front of the world’s news cameras. Their credibility in the public eye was shattered. But what if one Leaguer took all the blame? “You don’t have to do this, Lantern,” Batman protested against Jordan’s decision to play the scapegoat. “No,” Jordan replied, “but I should.”

Gut feeling? They haven't read enough of it to judge. They claim the entire universe has been rebooted, for example, despite the fact Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps haven't. Green Lantern:New Guardians has only been semi-rebooted, in that Kyle Rayner has but everything else in it hasn't. Some of the books have been soft-rebooted again within the 12 months of publishing. Some of them bear no resemblance, and often contradict the other books being published - Wonder Woman being a standout example. And, most heinous of all, it holds Geoff Johns up as a good writer. Probably the biggest problem with the Justice League as it stands in the JL book, for example, is that Cyborg is established in the first plot as being overpowered compared to everyone else.

I was going to do a year end analysis myself, but I suspect that concluding that over 20% of their titles are still worth reading is maybe a better hit rate than they've enjoyed for a large number of years.

think this, as in yer thread, has been a wildly entertaining and informative endeavor

agreed! your pain is really our gain, aldo

tbh I have always been a secret Cyborg fanboy so I don't really have a problem with Cyborg being overpowered

No results found for "cyborg domination slash".

aldo, you are the best.

Action Comics #0: Very nice and all, but am I alone in thinking this is utterly pointless? We get the story of Superman's t-shirts (told a couple of issues ago in the Solly Fisch backup), the story of Clark's landlady and Mxyzptlk (told in the main feature last month) and an inconsequential little story about the cape maybe having some of the powers in it rather than in Supes. Throw in an admission by Clark to Jimmy that he only started working at the Planet to get close to Lois and a throwaway couple of panels giving the SHOCKING SECRET ORIGIN OF NU-JIMMY OLSEN. The backup is just confusing. It tells an old story of the threat which was fully explained in the main title over the past couple of months. Does that mean Adam is coming back? Is the Planet Cuckoo plot ongoing because, you know, it seemed kind of final and closed? How does this square with GMoz going in a couple of months? GET ME AN EDITOR FOR THE WHOLE LINE.

Animal Man #0: Right, in short the plot is this: Arcane/The Rot are too powerful and Kill Animal Man/the Red Avatar. The Red discuss things and know Maxine is supposed to be the new avatar (even though she isn't conceived at that point) so send the GMoz aliens to operate on Buddy and make him a stop-gap. Ellen doesn't get to grips with the new Buddy, especially when she becomes pregnant with Maxine 6 months later. Arcane/The Rot then decide that although they know she's the real chosen one and it would be really easy to wipe her out as a foetus it's far more beneficial to allow her to live and be the centre of a crossover event which will make DC lots of money. Which for me raises this question - what are the GMoz aliens actually for and why do The Red have them if the only time they have used them is the one time they've been forced into botching a stop-gap avatar because their next one (who doesn't need operated on) doesn't exist yet? I feel like we need a "The Tailors" #0. But don't get ideas. I wouldn't buy it.

Batwing #0: You know what's handy about UNSPEAKABLE ACTS? You can't show them, or even talk about them because they are UNSPEAKABLE. This is somewhat of a drawback in an origin issue. Ultimately, David gets a thrill out of dressing up and beating up criminals. Part of this is because he was disgusted when a fellow police officer offered him a bribe at a crime scene. This didn't stop him from accepting it, or make him leave the police force, just made him dress up and be violent. Despite this, Bats likes him and gives him everything he wants. CONSORTING WITH CRIMINALS, EH BRUCE? He could probably have afforded to buy all the stuff with the cash he's creaming off during his day job. So what's he spending it on? Eh? EH? Inquiring minds want to know, Winick.

Detective #0: I am now completely confused as to who buys this shit. Oh wait, it's me, isn't it. Crap. In the first story, we learn how Bruce had all the emotion driven out of his heart in the Himalayan monastery, including having the girl he fancied murdered for money by her own family to prove that everyone is scum. In the second story he returns to Wayne Manor because he loves Alfred so much and immediately tells him everything about how he wants to be Batman. They obviously didn't teach discretion at the monastery.

Dial H #0: Awesome. What would happen if we had an ancient Eqyptian Dial H, complete with giant stone sun-dial dial and modern-era heroes. A women who can fly in her fairground dodgem car? CHECK, MOTHERFUCKER. And if an entertaining story wasn't enough, we actually get a bit more plot as to how the dials work and the consequences of using them. Top, top stuff.

Earth 2 #0: So, a past tale of the Justice League of Earth 2 prior to EVERYTHING that the Earth 2 book has been doing to date. And is going to be continued in Earth 2 #5. So, a reboot of the book then. Which came from a reboot (post-cancellation) of Mr Terrific. Who hasn't really featured in it since #1. Who is the secret Justice League member he isn't mentioning? Who cares.

GI Combat #0: The Unknown Soldier part of this is pretty good. We find out (possibly) that there have been Unknown Soldiers through history, providing a mystic dimension, or it could just all be a drug hallucination. Does the museum even exist? "You're really into this, aren't you?" says a crow. Yes, yes I am. Do you need me to tell you that the JT Krul segment is shite? "Couldn't rest. Couldn't eat. Couldn't sleep." COULDN'T WRITE, MORE LIKE.

Green Lantern #0: OH GOD, GEOFF JOHNS, JUST FUCKING STOP WITH THE SADFACE. Page 1, Panel 5. We get this image:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8316/7976087678_063910ed15_z.jpg

PANEL FUCKING 5. An Arab family in Michigan are watching 9/11. The next day, some people write 'Arabs go home' on their community centre. Five years later, a girl gets teased by some boys. In 2011, a guy gets searched in an airport. This turns Baz into a suicide bomber. BY PAGE 3. But by accident though, because he was only being a thief. This doesn't stop him getting Guantanamoed by people who doubt he's American because he doesn't have an American name. Despite the fact their names are Valdez and Fed (which is a common British surname, according to Johns). And Agent Fed is doing this BECAUSE HIS SON DIED IN 9/11. Stop, please. I can't decide whether this is the funniest thing I've ever read, or the craziest. I can't understand what Geoff Johns' point is. More to the point, I can't understand WHY THE FUCK A COMISSIONING EDITOR THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA. In the end, he gets rescued from Waterboarding Death by Sinestro/Hal Jordan's ring after they went off into blackness at the end of the GL Annual. This is bound to end well, obviously.

Green Arrow #0: Judd Winick writes the 'playboy Ollie gets dumped on a deserted island and learns to shoot' story. In the Johnsiverse, playboy Ollie gets dumped on a deserted island and learns to shoot. It's as essential a read as that makes it sound.

Phantom Stranger #0: Ok. An origin issue for a title not being published. Which DC have always shied from telling the origin of, given that would remove all the mystery from a character whose only power is... mystery. Written by Dan DiDio. On about page 5 we get shown the three "greatest transgressors mankind has ever known". Hitler? Stalin? Pol Pot? Idi Amin? Ghengis Kahn? Vlad The Impaler? No. A ginger bloke who looks a bit like Guy Gardner, a woman in a cloak (who looks pretty much like Countdown woman) and the guy who becomes the Stranger (whose transgression is avarice causing him to betray his mate). He then pleads to the wizard to forgive him, like Jesus would have done. My head hurts. In the actual story, the Stranger thinks he can stop being the Stranger by turning Jim Corrigan into The Spectre. He does, but then the spooky voice goes back on his promise. CURSE YOU, SPOOKY VOICE! JESUS WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT (PROBABLY)!

Stormwatch #0: Oh you're kidding me. AT-ATs controlled by dolphins? Jenny Quantum is really the force behind Demon Knights? And then she became a nun so she could have sex with Merlin, because he only has sex with nuns. Then the Demon Knights fight the Daemonites, and are forced to change their name to avoid Dark Ages confusion over homophones. Unreadable, really.

Swamp Thing #0: Having slagged off the other books for retelling stories that didn't need retold, and shoehorning in crossovers, I am eating my words. Scott Snyder takes the well-worn story of how Alec Holland becomes the Swamp Thing and retells it changing only ONE detail (which I'm not going to spoil for you if you haven't read it). In doing so he links it into Rotworld and Animal Man #0 effortlessly and still tells a cracking story in the process. Victory from what should be, if you'd described it beforehand, the jaws of defeat.

World's Finest #0: Basically, how Helena and Kara meet on Earth 2. But ultimately this takes the bits I've been enjoying of World's Finest (the Levitz/Maguire bits) and gives us 20 pages of it. Which is nice. Good stuff, but inessential frippery really.

Dial H is easily the best thing I'm reading right now

It's easily the best thing DC are publishing right now.

It's better than anything Marvel is publishing too.

Bizarrely-to-my-20-year-previous-self-but-I've-learned-to-come-to-terms-with-it, the only thing I'm enjoying as much is from Image - Brandon Graham's Prophet.

Let's face it, it's the best comic pretty much anybody has put out for some time.

I would actually encourage anybody who can get a free read of GL#0 to do so. It's maybe the worst thing I've read in years.

I let out a large guffaw on the bus when I saw that panel, which probably is super inappropriate today

Haha, I didn't even notice today's date. That maybe makes it more Johnsface.

http://www.crisisoninfinitemidlives.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/facepalm_green_lantern.jpg

prophet is pretty amazing

Let's face it, it's the best comic pretty much anybody has put out for some time.

I'm not reading it (am happily buying Prophet every month though) but better than Snarked, Beasts Of Burden, Reset, Thickness, I Want You, Zegas, Lose, TDTMY Thrizzle and Pope Hats?

I have no idea, I haven't read any of those

I've read Snarked and Reset, and as much as I love both Langridge and Bagge, it's better. Beasts of Burden is that Dorkin/Thompson book? The one issue I read of that was horrid. Zegas has what, 2 issues in as many years? Same with Thrizzle and Pope Hats. No clue about the others you mentioned.

How about "the best comic pretty much anybody has put out for some time that appears monthly or bi-monthly or even semi-regularly"

since I have to internationally mail-order any of those past the first three, monthly would be a huge detriment

will read an issue in the shop though and check it out

(Lose is Michel DeForge's "main" book, on Koyama, but let's face it his output is high enough to do at least a bimonthly; Thickness is Brandon Graham and DeForge and homies doing sex stories; I Want You is Lisa Hanawalt's book on Sammy Harkham's new imprint and I've only seen one issue but it was so mindfuckingly great I would read it two pages at a time and put it down)

Thanks for the heads up as to what those others are. The Hanawalt I'm definitely gonna check out.

BECAUSE SUPERHEROS MAKE SUCH EXCELLENT SCAPEGOATS.

Why are you even reading that drivel? That only works in VERY SERIOUS Batman movies.

DIAL H is still pretty good, but A) it's not in the 52 and B) its sales are plummeting like a rock.

I'm down to just ACTION and that won' t be for long.

If Dial H isn't in The New 52, why does it have a "The New 52!" banner at the top of each issue?

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2012/05/02/dial-h_240.jpg

Yeah, it was the flagship book of wave 2 of the Johnsiverse.

I stand corrected.

Still, it doesn't feel like anything else they're putting out at the moment. Which, I suppose, is why it's good.