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[superboyprime]

Jeff Lemire (Vertigo's Sweet Tooth, Essex County) takes over writing duties and takes the book in a new direction...





Dr. Mist went missing on a mission in the Amazon.

Comments

[mrstatham]

Lemire's one of the strongest writers doing the reboot, whereas I personally don't think Milligan works well in a straightforward superhero book. If a lot of the DCnU hadn't been so editorially mandated, seemingly, and they'd let him have fun, as with say, X-Force or X-Statix at Marvel? It'd be fine. As it is, he's a little too esoteric for the current DC.

So Lemire's definitely a more solid choice, given.. Well, Animal Man. If he can carry on with that creepy vibe, his JLD should be solid.

[q99]

Oh, I had forgotten Milligan did X-Statix. Loved that one. Yea, didn't have that sense of fun.

-As it is, he's a little too esoteric for the current DC.-

NuDC does seem to aim for just a few feels, period. You got your superheroes, you got your dark, and you got your people with guns.

[arbre_rieur]

Sadly, limited as that is, it's probably still more feels than the old DCU had.

[q99]

Dunno about that. You had stuff like lighthearted heroics in Batgirl and Power Girl that there's not a lot of at the moment. And most of the stuff that's there now.

At the least, I liked the selection of feels then more.

[arbre_rieur]

Stuff like Power Girl was an outlier. So is OMAC, in which the main character activated his powers by shouting "OMActivate" and fought talking cyborg alligators in the sewers, to pick a DCnU example. I'd say that both pre- and post-Flashpoint, that kind of material was a rarity among DC's line, rare exceptions rather than the rule. It's highly unlikely that a book like X-Statics would have seen the light at old DC, too. (Hell, it's mind-boggling that it ever saw the light at Marvel.)

When I say there's more selection now, I mean that before the new 52, everything DC put out was *very* superhero-y, and almost all of it was either one of the evergreen "iconic" characters or a spin-off of those characters. At least now they're giving a chance to the likes of G.I. COMBAT and I, VAMPIRE. It's only the tiniest smidge of an improvement, and the majority of the books are still very superhero-y, but I don't know, at least it's something?

[q99]

But it feels like the 'superhero-y' stuff is more narrow. Almost all the titles have a conspiracy or secret organization of some sort, for example.


Old DC did have Jonah Hex and such too. Is I, Vampire all that different from, say, the Vertigo Xanadu book?