So's I'm reading all of 52 for the first time

[Jerome Gibbons]

Decided to give it a look after Morrison said that Final Crisis was mostly a continuation of plot threads started in it and Seven Soldiers. Figured with him, Johns, Rucka and Waid on writing duties, it probably wouldn't hurt to read. I'm about 30 issues into it.

It's...really wildly uneven, though. I mean some things, like the stuff with the Question and Montoya, are kind of interesting. Others like the thing with Steel's niece and...basically everything that involves some cosmic something or other, are just kind of boring. It really seems to me like getting all these wonderful writers together to produce a book and trying to homogenize their styles and the stories they were trying to tell was a mistake. Sometimes it feels like everyone is pulling in different directions at the same time while also running into each other whilst trying to run together. I don't know if I'm as crazy about it as a lot of people seemed to be back in '06.

Next up: Countdown. I'm kidding, I'm not reading Countdown.

[shoelaceless]

It picks up a lot at the end.

[(akaRyanHoffman)]

I enjoyed it.

I think it was meant to be read week-to-week, though.

[Kedd]

I'm going to pick up the first trade of 52 this week. I'm very unfamiliar with DC as a whole, so I'm hoping it gives me a good idea of the characters

[Joe Kalicki]

I enjoyed it.

I think it was meant to be read week-to-week, though.

Definitely. I haven't even tried reading it again, but few comics have ever been as exciting to look forward to than this one.

[Benel Germosen]

I just think 52 kind of failed as to what it set out to do. What it set out to do, originally, was explain OYL and what a world would look like without the big three.

What it was, was something completely different. At the end, they just sort of tacked on some cheap explanations for shit. I think the lack of explanation for the status quo shifts was what killed the OYL more than the failure of a few new titles.

[Ben]

The status quo shifts should've been dealt with in the individual books. I had no problem with 52 veering off course.

I agree that it was uneven. Personally, I liked the Booster Gold and outer space stuff the best. I think I liked the Question stuff, too. I don't remember liking the Steel and Black Adam stuff too much.

[Jerome Gibbons]

I'm going to pick up the first trade of 52 this week. I'm very unfamiliar with DC as a whole, so I'm hoping it gives me a good idea of the characters

Uhhhhm...well, I don't know how much it'll help with that. Depends on what characters you want to get a good feel on, and on how much you know about what's happened in the DCU during the last four years or so, I guess.

[Jerome Gibbons]

I just think 52 kind of failed as to what it set out to do. What it set out to do, originally, was explain OYL and what a world would look like without the big three.

What it was, was something completely different. At the end, they just sort of tacked on some cheap explanations for shit. I think the lack of explanation for the status quo shifts was what killed the OYL more than the failure of a few new titles.

Yeah, I read about that. I thought that was pretty funny.

[Joe Kalicki]

I liked the Black Adam stuff best of all, followed by the space stuff and Ralph Dibney.

I really liked the Question stuff least, well, after he died anyway. Before then it was pretty good.