excess accessibility (rants on the DC relaunch part 3)
I might just call it a day for DC comics (Detective Comics Comics). I'm just a few months shy of thirty so it's a pretty good time for me to become that cranky old man who insists that the Bronze Age was the best time for comics (it probably isn't) and that the new generation just doesn't get it (nor do they care too).
Despite my above claims, DC "the Dark" line probably has me the most intrigued. Remember these are all just knee-jerk reactions to what will probably amount to nothing greater than a superficial temporary marketing ploy to hook today's hip, take-no-guff youth on reading. "The Dark" I guess is the new Vertigo. Really it's just all of DC supernatural-based heroes.
Chief among them is Justice League Dark, which includes Zatanna, Madame Xanadu, John Constantine and a few other guys I couldn't give more than a shit about. One writer who is glaringly missing from this cavalcade has been Paul Dini, who (with Bruce Timm) got me and every other kid my age into Batman. With his magic fetish, he should be the writing this comic.
The one comic that really has my interests piqued is Demon Knights with Madame Xanadu and Jason blood is set in the Dark Ages. I was just getting into the Madame Xanadu comic when it was cancelled only a year or so ago. Demon Knights seems to be continuing what Mdm X started. There are at least a few of the more esoteric DC characters they're trying to flesh out, explore, and bring back from obscurity (including a secret agent version of Frankenstein's Monster that has had me intrigued since I ran across him in Final Crisis). Relaunch or no I can appreciate that.
Despite my above claims, DC "the Dark" line probably has me the most intrigued. Remember these are all just knee-jerk reactions to what will probably amount to nothing greater than a superficial temporary marketing ploy to hook today's hip, take-no-guff youth on reading. "The Dark" I guess is the new Vertigo. Really it's just all of DC supernatural-based heroes.
Chief among them is Justice League Dark, which includes Zatanna, Madame Xanadu, John Constantine and a few other guys I couldn't give more than a shit about. One writer who is glaringly missing from this cavalcade has been Paul Dini, who (with Bruce Timm) got me and every other kid my age into Batman. With his magic fetish, he should be the writing this comic.
The one comic that really has my interests piqued is Demon Knights with Madame Xanadu and Jason blood is set in the Dark Ages. I was just getting into the Madame Xanadu comic when it was cancelled only a year or so ago. Demon Knights seems to be continuing what Mdm X started. There are at least a few of the more esoteric DC characters they're trying to flesh out, explore, and bring back from obscurity (including a secret agent version of Frankenstein's Monster that has had me intrigued since I ran across him in Final Crisis). Relaunch or no I can appreciate that.