the dcu reboot

[ane]

Anyone interested in starting some discussions about the dcu reboot?

What titles did you read? Are you trying out any new titles?

I made two posts on my journal with short comments about the titles I read.
DC Comics
the rest of the new dcu comics

I rarely do any serious reading outside of the Batfamily titles so the ones I read were heavily weighed toward the bat titles. I thought the best two of the ones I read were Nightwing and Batman. The one new title that I didn't read before that I think I'll continue with is Blue Beetle.

Comments

[ane]

I've seen a couple other people mention that Aquaman was really good, so maybe I'll take a look at it.

I didn't read any interviews with any writers so I didn't have any expectations for any of the titles. There certainly seemed to be a lack of collaboration in the art between Batman and Nightwing. In Batman, Dick looked tiny and very young, then in Nightwing he did look mid-20s-ish. Since I didn't know he was supposed to be 21 it didn't jar me. In Batman I'd wondered whether Dick had still been Batman for a year because I didn't think that anyone would have ever believed he was Batman since he was so much smaller than Bruce.

I'm going to give Red Hood and the Outlaws a chance. I can't resist a Jason and Roy title.

[coldfiredragon]

Dick was still Batman for a year. They kept everything that happened in the Batman titles before the relaunch and really didn't change a thing for the DCnU except for moving Dick back to Nightwing and healing Barbara so she could be Batgirl again. The worst thing about this is that DC is trying to apply their 5 year timeline idea to the Batman books without editing the history. Each of the Robins... yes there were still four of them, Dick, Tim, Jason, and Damian.... each was only Robin for about a year each.

The Batman characters all got deaged some. Higgins has stated that Dick's 21 but the artist for the Batman book stated somewhere that he was told that Dick was only 19... and that Bruce was only 30... with Tim being sixteen and Damian being ten. That is why they look so young in his art.

It pisses me off that there is such a change from one book to another and that DCs being so unclear that their own creators don't even know the right ages for sure.