Essential Comics for 6/1/15

My pull list for the week,

1. Action Comics #41

2. Batman Beyond #1

3. Green Arrow #41

4. Green Lantern #41

5. Justice League #41

6. The Omega Men #1

7. Nailbiter #13

8. Darth Vader #6

9. Princess Leia #4

10. Star Wars #6

Why is everyone pretending to care about the Darkseid War? It's a story that didn't have enough interest to be an event so they had to just change gears and make it a justice league story.

@grandharrier: then you have tried to read convergence and futures end that would have helped

@grandharrier: then you have tried to read convergence and futures end that would have helped

@teerack: Not sure who you're talking about. I'm not pretending. I got to read issue 41. Spoiler: I loved it.

@quinnofthestoneage: We'll add a link to it at the beginning of these posts like we sometimes did before.

I'm mostly talking about how everyone was kind of like "eh..." when they first started to tease it with the futures end stuff(i don't remember what those aliens that invaded were called but darkseid's minions), and then this last week I've seen so many people twitting #darkseidwar all hyped and I'm wondering what I missed that got everyone so excited about it when to me it just sounds like the first Justice League arch all over again.

@teerack: We don't want another event. Events are confusing and costly. I just want to read an intriguing book w/o a bunch of cash grab tie-in to understand whats happening. Darseid War is just that.

Action Comics, Arkham Knight, Justice League

Amazing Spiderman, Renew Your Vows, Secret Wars

All these new comics from DC is a bit overwhelming. I want them all!

I haven't been following GL but that cover and basic description sounds bad ass. I will give it a courtesy buy. Also, my body is ready for the next chapter of Secret War and Renew your Vows.

@grandharrier: then you have tried to read convergence and futures end that would have helped

I actually pre-ordered a bunch of the new DC stuff on Comixology. A lot of it looks pretty great and I'm curious to see what'll hold my interest. For this week I pre-ordered Green Arrow, Midnighter, and Omega Men. I'm also picking up Action Comics, Justice League, Green Lantern (maybe), and Spider-Man Renew Your Vows (maybe).

That's a pretty good point. The story becoming self contained does make it sound more appealing.

• Green Lantern #41
• Justice League #41
• Darth Vader #6
• Secret Wars #3
• Star Wars #6
• TMNT Mutanimals #4

• Justice League #41
• Secret Wars #3
• Giant-Size Little Marvel AVX #1
• Armor Wars #1
• Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1

New Grayson I want it to hurry up and return I love the direction they're taking with Dick Grayson

Nice

After the disaster that was Convergence, I'm eagerly looking forward to diving back into DC.

JL and Action! 7 bucks well spent.

All the Dc stuff, especially Bizarro!!!

Will definitely get Midnighter and JL but I'm curious as to how Hal is regular GL in JL but is renegade in his own book, how is that possible?

Will definitely get Midnighter and JL but I'm curious as to how Hal is regular GL in JL but is renegade in his own book, how is that possible?

Whoa, huge week for me. Cannot wait for Darkseid War!

Batman Beyond #1

Green Arrow #41

Justice League #41

Omega Men #1

Action Comics #41

Darth Vader #6

Star Wars #6

Princess Leia #4

Years of Future Past #1

Because DC is aiming for a "looser" continuity post-convergence in their lineup.

@mysoulz: meaning the writer can do what the F they wanna do no matter how confusing it may be? That's brilliant.

Action Comics #41

Wonder Woman Annual #1

Justice League #41

Lobo #7

Midnighter #1

Big Man Plans #3

Crossed Badlands #78

Groot #1

The Maxx Maxximized #20

King: The Phantom #3

I myself thought the Amazo Virus storyline was a ton of pure filler. I'm glad Darkseid War is finally here to make this book meaningful.

Dan DiDio and Jim Lee revealed their post-convergence plans in their interview. And this is what Jim Lee said on the subject:

Rather than having 52 books all in the same continuity and really focusing on keeping a universe that is tightly connected and has super-internal consistency and really like one flavor, we’ve really kind of broken it up.

He also explained the reasoning for pursuing their efforts to loosen the comic line in continuity. You could read more here if you're interested.

So yea, it's the reason why you see Hal being a Green Lantern in the JL book and wearing an ancient device in another. The same reason that John Stewart is in the Lost Army title where he and the Green Lantern Corps are no longer in the main DC Universe, but yet he's making an appearance in the Darkseid War.

But all titles that are lantern related will have a closer continuity, since Sinestro is going to be the new peacekeeping force in the DCU, while the GLC are no longer present in the main universe under the same writer.

@mysoulz: so they screwed up so big with New52 they just decided to say screw continuity and cohesion between books? Like I said brilliant. Thanks for the link man!

@wavemotioncannon: lol I know what you mean. I would say positively that you don't have to worry about investing in so much crossovers . But yea, it's a little frustrating when try to figure out the timeline on these characters.

No problem!

Justice League is the best comic series DC has going at the moment