My 2 Cents about the DC revamp
By GraveSp 0 Comments
This past few weeks everyone has been talking about the DC Revamp so I figured everyone is probably wondering what my opinions are, I'm kidding I'm honestly surprised when people read the things I write. But I've been seeing a lot of other people write stuff so I figure why not throw my hat in the ring. I'm just going to go ahead and come out with it though, I am excited for this revamp. I also hate the word revamp but that's a different story.
And I'm excited for a lot of different reasons. Firstly and probably most importantly, this revamp has made me excited about comics in a way that I haven't been in a while. I regularly read the DC blog but this past week it is the first thing I check every morning. Every day I check and see what books are going to be released, who is going to be writing the books, and what the characters are going to look like. Granted every once in a while I see a costume that I don't like, I love the current Red Robin costume and have less affection for the new one, but I would say that 75% of the titles have been peaking my interest. Peter Milligan writing some of the best Vertigo characters in a book together seems like a great idea, we are finally getting a new Static book, Swamp Thing, Animal Man, The Demon, Red Hood teaming up with Arsenal, Firestorm, Green Arrow, JLI, Mister Terrific, Deadman. I can not wait to read this books, even though I know that most of them will probably not make it past the 6th or 12th issue. I have always wanted to read Deadman and Mister Terrific and I'm looking forward to picking these books up.
This brings me to another point which is more a counter to what I have been seeing every once in a while I see someone complain about a redesign. I really find this kinda ridiculous. Its been scientifically proven that the original Nightwing costume is the worst costume ever in the history of everything.
Finally it is true that higher number issues do make it harder for new readers to pick up the books. I started reading comics in 07 or 08 so I still remember looking at Batman and seeing it was over 600 issues. The first books I got were relatively short in their runs, I got Batman and the Outsiders because it was just starting, Green Arrow and Black Canary had started recently, Batman Confidential was still relatively new. I started reading Batman months after I started reading comics because honestly the number intimidated me. One of my favorite books now is Hellblazer, and I didn't start reading that until I saw that there was a new story arc starting, I have since gone back and picked up the trades but when I was a new reader I definitely went for the books that were relatively new. Hopefully a new group of readers will come and start reading new books and hopefully after they read Justice League Dark they will go back and start reading Hellblazer and Shade and Madame Xanadu. Hopefully people will pick up The Red Hood and the Outlaws and go back and pick up Under the Hood.