Hi guys, I heard some news about DC doing another reboot of the universe and restoring it to pre-crisis (like, pre-original crisis on infinite earths) status, so I decided to get back up to speed on the current goings-on, since I kind of dropped off after New 52.
I decided to pick it back up after researching what that whole Metal thing was about. I read Death Metal (which was NUTS and awesome), and now I’m moving on to New Frontier, I think. Hopefully I get caught up soon.
What are your impressions of DC lately?
Like you I dropped off at the new 52 but jumped back in for Rebirth. Think I got about 50 issues into Batman and just dropped off again. Just couldn’t warm to Kings version of batman and I just don’t have the energy any more to be following multiple stories across different books to try and keep up with what’s going on or invest time into a character that they’ll just reboot in a years time. I pretty much have given up on the big books and stick to either undies or limited edition runs.
Yeah, I hear you on that. I seem to tune-in for the reboots and then drop off when they’re not rebooting… which is probably why they have done so many reboots, because I know I’m not alone in that.
Grant Morrison’s 7 Soldiers and Infinite Crisis got me back into comics (I had dropped off since the mid 90’s - I was all about Reign of the Supermen and I was also into X-Men and Wolverine).
But then when New 52 hit, I wasn’t hooked on any one book and just dropped off again. I also started getting caught up on older stuff like the entire run of Wolverine from beginning up until they tried to retcon his origin story to just some dude in the 1800’s instead of him being 100’s of years old, which I always thought was cooler. Read Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing and Grant Morrison’s Animal Man, both of which were amazing.
Anyway, I missed Flashpoint which everyone says is good. Haven’t read that yet. I did just read Bendis’ “Unity Saga” with Superman and I really liked it. It was cool to have some big development in regard to how Krypton really exploded, and the fact that Jor-El was still alive somehow was intriguing. But even just Bendis’ Superman’s personality was great, and I love Kal-El as a dad. It just feels so right to me. And I’m loving Jon Kent. He’s a great mix between Lois’s headstrong opinionated style and Superman’s considered, good-natured personality. Loving where DC is headed right now.
I’m not a batman fan but if you enjoy Nightwing, the run Tom Taylor is doing currently is great
As much as I love DC they are really going over the top with crisis level events. In the last few years we had metal, doomsday clock, death metal and dark crisis. They have all been fun events but Its hard to keep track with the multi/metaverse changing every year or two.
I haven’t heard about DC going back to pre-crisis, but I think everything is canon again due to some event (maybe infinite frontier or death metal). I think DC are too focused on crossovers and crisis level events, they need to focus on smaller scale down to earth stories. All that said I’m currently really enjoying the current Nightwing and Shazam runs!
Nice! I believe that Dark Crisis (On Infinite Earths) is the latest one that makes basically everything canon, but returns the characters to their pre-Original Crisis characters? But then what happens to characters that were created post-crisis? Like, I really am liking Superman’s kid Jon and Batman’s kid robin as well.
I feel like this might be the start of them letting things get back to single-character story arcs. I like that they’re opening things up to an infinite multiverse now too, though. Not just “52” universes.
I’ll have to check out Nightwing and Shazam. I’ve never been big on Nightwing before, but it might be time for me to give him a chance. Shazam too.
Haha maybe it was dark crisis that changed canon, theres so many I loose track of the continuity changes. I dont think it affects and of the post-crisis characters as Damian and Jon are still alive and well in the current ongoings. I think they just merged the backstories of all the other characters with their pre-crisis versions. I’m definitely a big fan of having more universes, I find elseworld/non-canon stories are often better than prime earth stories.
I recommend that you give nightwing a shot, I’ve never been big on him either but Dark Crisis really piqued my interest in him and the current ongoing is fun. Same with Shazam its a fun low-stakes story.
Awesome. I just read Bendis’ Man Of Steel for the first time and I think he did an okay job. I’m intrigued about how the heck Jor El is alive though. I need to read whatever books came after that.
The “Dawn of DC” era that started with Death of Justice League and Dark Crisis is the best D.C. has been in years.
Also digging the new characters spinning off from the Lazarus event.
Awesome. Can’t wait to get caught up on everything. I’m kind of liking Future State so far.
