Follow

    DC Comics

    Publisher »

    Originally known as "National Publications", DC is a publisher of comic books featuring iconic characters and teams such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Justice League of America, and the Teen Titans, and is considered the originator of the American superhero genre. DC, along with rival Marvel Comics, is one of the "big two" American comic book publishers. DC Entertainment is a subsidiary of Warner Brothers and its parent company Warner Media.

    Wht new 52 books should I read ?

    Avatar image for gothamknight
    gothamknight

    69

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    I'm caught up with Batman now so I want you to recommend some other heroes to start reading.

    I've seen overall good reviews for Morrison&Greg Pack's Action Comics,Johns' GL/Aquaman&Azzarello's WW so should I start with those ?

    On the other hand I haven't read much about Superman's main book or the Flash so are they any good ?

    And how would you rate GL,Aquaman&Wonder Woman after they got new creative teams ?

    Avatar image for jj_was_here
    JJ_Was_Here

    515

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    Action Comics has been mostly good. You can't go wrong with Aaron Kuder's art. I always call Action Comics Superman's main book, but the self-titled Superman is more hit and miss than Action. Yes, Johns' run on Aquaman was delightful. Snyder's Batman is pretty good all around. I was a fan of the first New 52 Suicide Squad but hey, screw me right? They cancelled it and made the new one bad. My favorite book right now is Grayson, to be honest. It's just a ton of fun. Black Canary has been good too.

    Avatar image for theexile285
    TheExile285

    4353

    Forum Posts

    430

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 18

    User Lists: 4

    #4  Edited By TheExile285

    Justice League vol. 1-6, #40-45

    Trinity War TP

    Forever Evil

    Aquaman vol. 1-4

    Green Lantern vol. 1-3

    Green Lantern Corps vol. 1-3

    Wonder Woman vol. 1-6

    Sinestro

    Red Lanterns vol. 1-2

    Batman and Robin vol. 1 (probably great series a whole. Just haven't read past volume 1 yet)

    Superman vol. 2

    Gotham Academy

    Grayson

    Robin Son of Batman

    Superman: Lois ans Clark

    Starfire

    Harley Quinn

    DC Comics: Bombshells

    The Legend of Wonder Woman

    The new creative teams for Aquaman, Wonder Woman and GL were hit or miss. Vol. 7 of Wonder Woman was extremely meh and pissed off a lot of Donna Troy fans. GL has been kindly underwhelming since it got the new creative but I do like what they are doing with Hal Jordan right now. Can't speak for Godhead as a whole since I haven't read the entire event yet. Volume 5 of Aquaman was pretty decent with Jeff Parker but I can't speak for volume 6 or any of Bunn's run yet.

    Avatar image for zearing
    Zearing

    1539

    Forum Posts

    1125

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 2

    The Flash

    Forever Evil

    Grayson

    Green Lantern

    Green Lantern Corps

    Green Lantern: New Guardians

    Justice League

    Martian Manhunter

    Wonder Woman

    Avatar image for d_bones
    d_bones

    4843

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 2

    Aquaman was pretty great as well as wonder woman. Favourite was Swamp Thing though. Snyder was pretty good but I LOVED when Soule took over. Sinestro is also pretty good.

    Avatar image for deactivated-5c901e667a76c
    deactivated-5c901e667a76c

    36557

    Forum Posts

    10681

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    #7  Edited By deactivated-5c901e667a76c  Moderator

    Lemire's Green Arrow and Johns' Aquaman.

    Avatar image for cap10nate
    Cap10nate

    3629

    Forum Posts

    164

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 3

    User Lists: 2

    #8  Edited By Cap10nate

    The Azzarello run on Wonder Woman was fantastic and definitely worth a read.

    John's Aquaman run is very good although I have fallen behind on it so I haven't read the last few arcs.

    I also really enjoyed the Flash run.

    Other than Wonder Woman, my favorite book of the New 52 was Swamp Thing. Scott Snyder started the book out strong and I think Charles Soule made it even better whenever he took over the book.

    Avatar image for mysoulz
    mysoulz

    871

    Forum Posts

    14

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    Johns' Aquaman leads up to Throne of Atlantis crossover. It's good, but felt Johns' Aquaman series wasn't independent enough. Despite all of the push for the title after Johns' left the book, the sales still dropped tremendously. Rise of the Seven Seas sounds really good, especially that Ivan Reis is reuniting with Johns.

    I'm in the minority here, but I don't care much for Azzarello's run on Wonder Woman. The same can be said for Superman at the relaunch. Scott Snyder's Superman Unchained is a good read though.

    Johns' Green Lantern is good. But before the Sinestro Corps War, I find many of his GL issues to be wack :/ Other than that GL/GLC are good reads.

    Why not read Peter Tomasi's Batman and Robin? I find that series to be just as good if not better than Snyder's Batman.

    @theexile285: Are you talking about the first vol. of Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin?

    Avatar image for theexile285
    TheExile285

    4353

    Forum Posts

    430

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 18

    User Lists: 4

    Avatar image for mysoulz
    mysoulz

    871

    Forum Posts

    14

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #11  Edited By mysoulz
    Avatar image for gothamknight
    gothamknight

    69

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    Thanks a lot everyone for the help.I'll check them out as soon as I can.

    @mysoulz

    I read the 1st 2 volumes and they were both good especially the 1st one so I plan on reading the rest as well.

    Avatar image for goonage
    goonage

    2085

    Forum Posts

    931

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 2

    User Lists: 1

    #13  Edited By goonage

    Azarello's run on Wonder Woman and John's run on Aquaman are probably my favorite Nu52 comics. You have to check them out. Although I will warn you that, unfortunately, their successors aren't as successful.

    Avatar image for ultimatepower6
    UltimatePower6

    609

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 8

    User Lists: 0

    Tomasi's Batman and Robin run feels underrated to me, and one of the most addictive reading runs in the New 52. I literally kept going out to the store to buy the next volume.

    I'd also say Tomasi's GLC run. It's not to the level as Johns' (but what ever could live up to his level?) but it puts a very interesting view into the other characters in the corps.

    Avatar image for jb681131
    jb681131

    4252

    Forum Posts

    8660

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    @gothamknight: I guess eveyone sayd pretty much everything there is to read.

    I will confirm that Batman & Robin is a very good serie.

    I would also recommande as a Batman fan Nightwing followed by Grayson and the awsome Li'l Gotham.

    As a comment I would say that Batman is far from the best title amongs the new52. So pretty much anything else you pick up will be better.

    I heard Justice League Dark, Animal man, Secret six and Swamp thing are not bad.

    Avatar image for kcomicfan
    kcomicfan

    4690

    Forum Posts

    33

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 5

    John's Aquaman and Justice League.

    Avatar image for epyon007
    Epyon007

    303

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    Justice League: The Darkseid War has been fun to read. I also like Harley which is funny and nice change of pace. Superman has been hit or miss lately but I'll be reading Savage Dawn. Once the current Batman and Superman arc ends in March I'll switch from Superman's books to Batman.

    Avatar image for jurassicbond
    jurassicbond

    10

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #18  Edited By jurassicbond

    One thing about the Green Lantern recs I've seen is that Green Lantern wasn't affected that much by the reboot and those stories are a direct continuation of what Geoff Johns was writing before. I haven't read his run yet (though I plan on doing so soon), but I have heard that the New 52 GL is not a great place to try and jump into the series and that it's best to read all of Johns' run first.

    Avatar image for rurgandy
    Rurgandy

    480

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    Lemire Green Arrow

    Animal Man

    Grayson

    Omega Men

    Swamp Thing

    Secret Six

    Dial H

    All-Star Western

    Midnighter

    Avatar image for the_red_viper
    the_red_viper

    12961

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #20 the_red_viper  Moderator

    Constantine was not bad too.

    Avatar image for dclantern
    DCLantern

    169

    Forum Posts

    3089

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 12

    User Lists: 2

    #21  Edited By DCLantern

    Green Lantern

    Green Lantern Corps

    Green Lantern - New Guardians

    Red Lanterns

    Sinestro

    Batman

    Aquaman

    Justice League

    Avatar image for rabumalal
    RabumAlal

    5747

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    Just avoid the Flash.

    JL

    Sinestro

    WW (sometimes)

    Supes and Action Comics

    Batman

    Detective and Eternal, I find to be dull.

    You can also collect Future's End or World's End.

    Avatar image for batdad87
    BatDad87

    25

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    I'm enjoying new 52 green Lantern right now. I'm also reading new 52 detective comics which is really good as well. It's going to be sad when Snyder and capullo aren't teaming for batman anymore.

    This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:

    Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live.

    Comment and Save

    Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.