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Post by majorjay on Aug 22, 2014 5:39:36 GMT -5
i just wanted to get a feeling of how people were feeling about different runs in the New 52 so am asking for your views of the best and worst Top 3 | bottom 3 rated by books I have dropped after picking them up | Taylor - Earth 2 | Nocenti - Katana | Johns - Aquaman | Jordan - Green Lanterns New Guardians | Simone - The Movement | Liefeld - Hawk and Dove (did not get a chance to drop, it was cancelled - bad Liefeld!!!)
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Post by lennyreid on Aug 22, 2014 11:11:18 GMT -5
Great thread idea. The New 52 got me back in to comics like a lot of folks. Top 3Batgirl (Simone) The Movement (Simone) Animal Man (Lemire) Bottom 3Green Arrow (Nocenti) Trinity Of Sin - Pandora (Fawkes) Superboy (Lobdell) majorjay Good shout for Earth 2, Aquaman, and (of course) The Movement. I never picked up Katana or Hawk and Dove, but have liked all of the Green Lantern titles in the New 52. I would agree that New Guardians is probably the weakest though.
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Post by IncredibleD on Aug 22, 2014 11:56:49 GMT -5
I can't say what the worst books are, because i haven't read that much New 52 stuff and none of the books that i have read were bad or something.
But this is my top 3 of the best ones
I Vampire(Joshua Hale Fialkov)
Red Lanterns(Charles Soule)
Wonder Woman(Brian Azzarello)
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Post by CaptainSuperior on Aug 22, 2014 13:31:09 GMT -5
Top 3 - Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman
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Post by tomoe on Aug 22, 2014 14:49:36 GMT -5
World's Finest - before they switched artists The Movement - Simone Earth 2 - Taylor
Aquaman (Johns) and Batgirl (Simone) were great as well.
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Post by Simon on Aug 22, 2014 18:28:10 GMT -5
Now is my time to shine because I have a lot of the new 52 volumes (I'm only missing a handful of the first volumes)
Writers
Best (Or my favourite ones anyway)
Joshua Hale Fialkov - I,Vampire Scott Snyder - Swamp Thing/Batman Jeff Lemire - Animal Man/Justice League Dark
My Least Favourite Runs
Ann Nocenti - Catwoman/Green Arrow/Katana Scott Lobdell - Superboy George Pérez - Superman Gail Simone/Ethan Van Sciver - The Fury of Firestorm...
Shout Out to the Artists
Andrea Sorrentino - Green Arrow/I,Vampire Mikal Janin - Justice League Dark Mahmud Asrar - Supergirl Francis Manapul - The Flash
The majority of the New 52 stuff hasn't been bad, there's just so much negative press by some very loud people about the New 52.
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Post by Czor on Aug 22, 2014 20:01:52 GMT -5
My top 3 are as follows:
Red Lanterns - Charles Soule
I was READY to drop this book as soon as Wrath of the First Lantern ended....boy, did Soule make this my favorite Lantern book!
Aquaman - Geoff Johns
I trusted Johns would make Aquaman good, and he did make it great! No one can ever say Aquaman is a joke and the book is still solid...
Earth 2 - Tom Taylor
Robinson did a good job in building this Earth and having great twists on the "JSA" and Taylor took this to great heights with the Legacy and new characters showing up while also paying attention to the previous ones.....
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Post by Bob Reyer on Aug 23, 2014 7:17:25 GMT -5
World's Finest - before they switched artists The Movement - Simone Earth 2 - Taylor Aquaman (Johns) and Batgirl (Simone) were great as well. A-h-h-h, Mo, the Levitz/Perez/Maguire Worlds' Finest was one of my favorites...
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Post by captainsaxon on Aug 23, 2014 8:07:51 GMT -5
Top Three Tomasi/Gleason - Batman And... Lemire/Forman - Animal Man Johns/Reis - Aquaman
Bottom Two: only ones I flat out hated that I read. Nocenti - Green Arrow Lobdell - Teen Titans
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Post by wamphari on Aug 23, 2014 14:13:12 GMT -5
Preface by saying I've not read a ton of them but...
Wonder Woman - Great story, super nervous about the new creative team
Batman - Snyder is solid
Animal Man - Great book but sort of fell off while they were doing the crossover craziness
Multiversity - Very Turned off by the first bit and won't be continuing
Catwoman - Pretty forgettable
Superman - Just didn't seem to be much going on (have picked up the latest couple issues and we'll see..)
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Post by Nick on Aug 24, 2014 21:46:40 GMT -5
I can't say what the worst books are, because i haven't read that much New 52 stuff and none of the books that i have read were bad or something. But this is my top 3 of the best ones I Vampire(Joshua Hale Fialkov) Red Lanterns(Charles Soule) Wonder Woman(Brian Azzarello) Red Lanterns by Soule is fun as hell.
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Post by Nick on Aug 24, 2014 21:48:17 GMT -5
My top 3 are as follows: Red Lanterns - Charles Soule I was READY to drop this book as soon as Wrath of the First Lantern ended....boy, did Soule make this my favorite Lantern book! Aquaman - Geoff Johns I trusted Johns would make Aquaman good, and he did make it great! No one can ever say Aquaman is a joke and the book is still solid... Earth 2 - Tom Taylor Robinson did a good job in building this Earth and having great twists on the "JSA" and Taylor took this to great heights with the Legacy and new characters showing up while also paying attention to the previous ones..... I jumped on Red Lanterns with the Red Daughter of Krypton arch and love it. I love the art too.
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Post by thephantomwelshman on Aug 25, 2014 3:46:16 GMT -5
Top 3 Wonder Woman - Brian Azzarello Demon Knights - Paul Cornell The Movement - Gail Simone
Honourable mentions to Robert Venditti for the rest of Demon Knights, and J.H. Williams III for Batwoman.
Bottom 3. Sad to say it's 3 female characters written by females, Nocentis stuff in my opinion is just flat out bad. I really didn't enjoy any of the Batgirl stuff I've read but that I imagine is more down to editorial that Gail Simones writing. Katana - Ann Nocenti Batgirl - Gail Simone Catwoman - Ann Nocenti.
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Post by majorjay on Aug 26, 2014 10:32:50 GMT -5
it is amazing how many of us really liked the movement... so why oh why did is fail
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Post by tomoe on Aug 26, 2014 23:30:56 GMT -5
it is amazing how many of us really liked the movement... so why oh why did is fail Poor marketing? After seeing the adds I wasn't all that interested in the book. I only picked it up (near the end of the run) because Bob recommended it.
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