I largely agree...



...but some of these books look awesome.  My wallet's going to hate me...

I wouldn't mind at all if DC took advantage of the Convergence event to whole heartedly embrace the multiverse idea, like Multiversity. Give different things a try and see if people support it well enough for it to be an ongoing. If that means, for instance, a series starring the original Justice Society members, so be it. Considering that comics have become primarily for adults (maybe some teens), I don't think many people would be confused by having Justice Society characters published at the same time as the new 52 Earth 2 characters. If it means the Justice League of Outer Space, why not? The only reason that all the characters have to be in one big continuity is that the publishers think that's what people want (what will sell). I'm looking forward to some of the more off-beat choices coming out in June like the Harley Quinn/Power Girl mini and Bizarro, and hoping that maybe some more creativity may creep in if the talent isn't constrained to the one continuity/company line idea.

I think there is a LOT of room for a Wolfman/Perez era New Teen Titans. It would be great if this could be set on a different earth. Nightwing, Kid Flash (Wally), Wonder Girl (Donna), and Changeling/Beast Boy are four really great characters that I would love to see together again in their teen-age prime. It would be nice to have Roy as Speedy again too.


...and if Kole, Jericho, and Starfire WEREN'T a part of the deal, that would make it even sweeter!

I wouldn't be surprised if we get some if the sales of the Convergence specials are through the roof.  Particularly, the second issues since first issues sell more because they're first issue. If one of the specials ends up selling over 100,000-- something I doubt's going to happen, but it could-- and retains most of its audience for the second issue, I'd expect DC to want to follow up on it. In that sense, judging by the way characters sell, I'd expect a "Batman: Retro" or "Superman: Retro" title, but not much else.

Oh, okay. That makes sense. I'd put the tipping point a couple years earlier - Crisis and Secret Wars (Black Costume! She-Hulk joins the Fantastic Four!) Still, I'd argue that the early eighties is the first time that anyone was thinking about characters having a long term future at all. - Obviously most of the business choices Marvel made in the '70s were based on the quite reasonable assumption that the superhero genre was a fad with a limited shelf life. And in practical terms making bad choices about the future of the characters doesn't feel so different from not caring at all about the future of the characters.

I do agree that the fan press at about the same time took a turn away from amateur and towards the professional which made hype possible - along with comics companies figuring out that there were enough consumers invested in their characters long term to make hype rewarding.

But, remember, comics publishing was originally financed in a large part by whiskey bootleggers. There's a slightly different brand of short sighted money-grubbing driving the comics industry today, but the underlying motive has always been the same.

I was born in '76 and have sampled tons of pre-crisis, post-crisis and some trades from the nu-52. The idea that the nu-52 is somehow worse is kind of comical. Comics are always generally 75% terrible, 20% readable and 5% amazing no matter what era you go into.

The idea of post crisis fans being irate about the nu-52 is hilarious considering how much was wiped out during the original crisis. Jim Lee is nothing but the nu John Byrne as far as that goes. A hot creator who through their popularity is able to shape the line into what he thinks looks cool at the time. All the same.

Nothing I've heard or seen recently from DC has attracted my attention. When it comes to DC I'm mainly interested in the New Gods, so those are the characters I usually look at to judge how things are going. I don't like what I've seen online from appearances in series such as Wonder Woman and the various Earth 2 books, or whatever that big event they have going is called with the Lanterns vs the New Gods vs Apokolips, or something like that. Very poor work, IMO, from a New Gods perspective.