Maybe I'm an acrobat.

[everlasting_day]

After being really impressed with Fabian Nicieza's first Nightwing issue in the current Bat-family crossover The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul, I started reading Chuck Dixon's run today, and I'm genuinely surprised at how much I'm enjoying it. Dixon will never be the finest writer to grace comicdom, but he's a got a pretty solid style, writes great

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[oddityangel]

Dixon can generally be counted on to write solid, if not particularly exciting, stories. I was pretty fond of his Nightwing: Year One, if for no other reason than I loved his exceptionally bratty Jason Todd. It's too bad later Nightwing writers failed to maintain Dixon's steady quality.

I'm in the minority, but I actually preferred Johns' Flash to Waids', but that's my Rogues bias speaking.

[everlasting_day]

After I posted this entry, I read the mini Scarecrow/Soames downfall arc which I thought was actually "really genuinely good" (particularly the scary #10) as opposed to "very entertaining" which it had been up to then. I hope there's more like that to come. As for Year One, I'm getting that for my brother for Christmas, so I'll probably read it that way. >_> People have been saying a lot of good things about it, so I'm looking forward to it

[oddityangel]

I'm especially pleased that Iron Heights is finally getting reprinted in a new edition of Blood Will Run early next year.

Huh, I didn't know that and now I'm a little annoyed. I was never able to find 'Iron Heights', making it the only bit of Johns' work on the title I haven't read. I'm not sure I want to buy another copy of 'Blood Will Run' to get it. Well, maybe I can sell the old one or something.

I've argued before that the Flash's Rogues are actually better than the Batman villains in a lot of ways (mostly because they tend to be used more effectively and avoid the traps and ruts of the Arkham crew) but I was shouted down pretty quickly. I admittedly have a bias, since I have a bit of a love/hate thing with the Joker.

[everlasting_day]

I'm baffled that Iron Heights wasn't printed in the Blood Will Run TPB in the first place, considering that it's quite important to Johns' run. That and gorgeous Ethan Van Sciver art. As I've been totally unable to find the TPB, I'm really happy about the forthcoming reprint, but I can see that it's a real pain for people who've already got it.

I personally find the Flash's Rogues far more interesting that Batman's. Batman may have some brilliant, iconic villains, but they don't have the same moral ambiguity, complexity and relationship with the hero as the Flash's. I especially loved what Johns did with Captain Cold, making you emphasise with and understand a killer. I loved how he turned The Top from some laughable nutcase into a genuinely formiddable opponent. And it's because of Johns run that I feel so annoyed with what they're doing with Piper at the moment. Argh.