The New 52 #1's... your thoughts?

[Earth 2 Chris]

Yeah, BUT she also didn't "DO" Cyborg, and Changeling, and Kid Flash, and Jericho...

If you read the articles on Titans Tower they hit the nail on the head. The character was passionate and emotional, but she didn't throw herself at men. She was loyal to a fault.

I had a problem when Devin Grayson had Dick sleeping with every chick in Gotham. Flies in the face of the character. When writers does this, it comes across as bad fan fic.

DC has had some bad press in their handling of female characters. This doesn't help at all.

Chris

[Riffster]

you do realize Kory was always about free love and the like... she had no problem doing Grayson and being married..i think it's much to do about nothing..

[The Toyroom]

I haven't read either book, but I can't imagine why you'd take these characters in these directions.

Why? Because the writers are hacks and DC thinks this type of stuff is "edgy"...

[MIB41]

Apparently both Catwoman and Starfire have been reimagined as super-****s.

The Big Sexy Problem With Starfire | Titanstower.com

I haven't read either book, but I can't imagine why you'd take these characters in these directions. To go from the strong Catwoman of Darwyn Cooke and the passionate but pure Starfire of Marv Wolfman to this is just beyond me. It really does seem like DC is being run by a bunch of horny fanboys.

Chris

Too much inspiration by Kevin Smith. That's my thinking.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Apparently both Catwoman and Starfire have been reimagined as super-****s.

The Big Sexy Problem With Starfire | Titanstower.com

I haven't read either book, but I can't imagine why you'd take these characters in these directions. To go from the strong Catwoman of Darwyn Cooke and the passionate but pure Starfire of Marv Wolfman to this is just beyond me. It really does seem like DC is being run by a bunch of horny fanboys.

Chris

[MIB41]

I'll be interested to see how the second issue of the 'new 52' does.

[The Toyroom]

I've been ordering these from Midtown Comics so I'm a bit behind the curve....looking forward to Week 2 (8-14) to arrive today probably...

[johnnystorm]

The 1st issue of Wonder Woman was very good, much better than what they've been doing. I'll probably go with this one awhile.

Catwoman was near softcore porn. The final scenes with Batman were...well if you haven't read it I won't spoil it, but wow. Just wow.

[Bruce Banner]

Picked up Batman and Supergirl on Wednesday.

Been anticipating the Supergirl issue to see how they're handling her in the reboot. Always liked the character. Was sorry to see her go back during the Crisis, but understood the reasoning behind it (making Kal-El truly the last survivor of Krypton, etc.).

Really liked Loeb & Turner's work reintroducing her to the DCU back in 2005.
The arc in Superman/Batman and the first few issues of her solo series were great.

The new 52 version might take some getting used to, but I'll give it a few issues.

[madmarva]

Suicide Squad was lousy, as was Deathstroke & Grifter..those I'm not buying again.

totally agree.

[samurainoir]

Just read Wonder Woman, and although I do enjoy the work of Brian Azzerello and Cliff Chiang, I have to admit I was skeptical.

Despite my misgivings, I really enjoyed this first issue. Particularly the reinvention of the Greek Gods into something strange and scary... it almost has a Sandman/Gaiman/American Gods vibe to it. They are definitely pulling some Vertigo style into the DCU.

From what I've seen so far, I don't think we'll be getting too much of Diana/Wonder Woman beyond the Amazonian Warrior in this first arc. Instead, Azzerello has pulled the trick of creating a sympathetic human character for us to view these events through.

One of my favourite New 52 titles thus far.

Although truth be told, New Avengers #16 for me blew everything else out of the water this week in terms of what's on the racks for mainstream superheroes. Mike Deodato has changed his style again to draw Daredevil and it's more Neal Adams than Neal Adams is these days!

[thunderbolt]

been tempted to read WW, the monster fighting angle sounds like fun.

[boynightwing]

Wonder Woman was sold out when I got there today. So I downloaded it. I liked it. A lot.

I bought Catwoman, Nightwing, Red Hood, Batman, Supergirl, and Birds of Prey. I still haven't read any of those yet. I'll likely read Nightwing today and spread the rest out over the week.

How did Static lose it's writer? Isn't Scott McDaniel the writer as well as the artist?

[johnnystorm]

Of the new DCU books I read, the best I thought was Demon Knights. I'm a sucker for period books.

Resurrection Man has a more supernatural spin on it than the original series, but still good.

Detective was interesting, I'll get #2.

Batgirl was dissapointing, I expected more from it. Maybe it's a slow start for simone, so we'll see how it plays out.

Hawk & Dove was mediocre but not terrible, Green Lantern was more of the same we've been getting, & Action was ok, again not great but not trash.

Suicide Squad was lousy, as was Deathstroke & Grifter..those I'm not buying again.

[The Toyroom]

Apparently two books have already lost their writers: Static Shock and Green Arrow