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alexandraerinEvery once in a while I get someone who sends me money with an instruction to "buy something fun with it". I'm usually in a position where this is something I can reasonably accommodate. Today I had someone offer to send me $25 if I'd spend it on DC comics. I understand the thinking there... they want to support the relaunch (I do, too), I've been blogging about my impressions culled from preview and reviews, and I said in a comment that I'm not in any position to buy any right now.
But by that token: at this point in time I would rather have the $25. So I talked them down to this: $25, and I spend $10 on DC's digital comics. Now, if the donor hadn't budged I would have accepted and abided by the conditions.. I'm not complaining about having basically been offered free comics.
Anyway, this left me with some hard choices. Action Comics was the first thing I picked, because that's the one that has me most intrigued. It's not necessarily the comic I want to read the most on an ongoing basis, but I've obviously been interested in what Morrison is doing with it and I wanted a clearer picture.
The next thing I decided was "no Batgirl". No, I'm not boycotting it or anything over the de-Oracling... but I want my purchases to have some impact and Batgirl has been the breakaway pop hit of the relaunch. Another sale the day after launch is not going to help it. Me getting a copy after the price drops is not going to hurt it. If I weren't so dang curious about Action Comics I would have skipped it, too.
My next selection was Green Arrow... again, curiosity. Ollie is one of my favorite DC characters, and I love everything that's been done with him since Kevin Smith brought him back. (I don't love everything that's been done to his son Connor, but I love Connor, too.) This means he's one of the ones I have very mixed feelings about rebooting. And this is also one of the books that's been talked about the least. So I wanted to 1) scope it out and 2) give my $3 "vote" to its continued existence in case it's good.
The last choice was the hardest. Though some of them rate lower than others, is no book that's dropped yet that I'm not interested in checking out, but going with the principle of giving my initial purchases as much impact as possible, I decided to make sure I wasn't picking yet another book focused on a white guy. By title alone, Justice League International sounds like it should be perfect, but... well, to judge by the previews it's another book focused on a white guy. (The more things change...)
I almost grabbed Static Shock, but Static has an established following that I hope is giving him a boost. In the end, I picked Batwing. There are bound to be some problematic aspects of a character who's been advertised as "The Batman of Africa" (given that the whole point of Batman Incorporated is that one man can't be everywhere, shouldn't a continent merit more than one?), but I'd rather those problems have time to be addressed than see the book fail and have that failure be chalked up to a lack of interest in anything other than whitebread All-American Heroes.
I'll be reading them now and posting my impressions.
But by that token: at this point in time I would rather have the $25. So I talked them down to this: $25, and I spend $10 on DC's digital comics. Now, if the donor hadn't budged I would have accepted and abided by the conditions.. I'm not complaining about having basically been offered free comics.
Anyway, this left me with some hard choices. Action Comics was the first thing I picked, because that's the one that has me most intrigued. It's not necessarily the comic I want to read the most on an ongoing basis, but I've obviously been interested in what Morrison is doing with it and I wanted a clearer picture.
The next thing I decided was "no Batgirl". No, I'm not boycotting it or anything over the de-Oracling... but I want my purchases to have some impact and Batgirl has been the breakaway pop hit of the relaunch. Another sale the day after launch is not going to help it. Me getting a copy after the price drops is not going to hurt it. If I weren't so dang curious about Action Comics I would have skipped it, too.
My next selection was Green Arrow... again, curiosity. Ollie is one of my favorite DC characters, and I love everything that's been done with him since Kevin Smith brought him back. (I don't love everything that's been done to his son Connor, but I love Connor, too.) This means he's one of the ones I have very mixed feelings about rebooting. And this is also one of the books that's been talked about the least. So I wanted to 1) scope it out and 2) give my $3 "vote" to its continued existence in case it's good.
The last choice was the hardest. Though some of them rate lower than others, is no book that's dropped yet that I'm not interested in checking out, but going with the principle of giving my initial purchases as much impact as possible, I decided to make sure I wasn't picking yet another book focused on a white guy. By title alone, Justice League International sounds like it should be perfect, but... well, to judge by the previews it's another book focused on a white guy. (The more things change...)
I almost grabbed Static Shock, but Static has an established following that I hope is giving him a boost. In the end, I picked Batwing. There are bound to be some problematic aspects of a character who's been advertised as "The Batman of Africa" (given that the whole point of Batman Incorporated is that one man can't be everywhere, shouldn't a continent merit more than one?), but I'd rather those problems have time to be addressed than see the book fail and have that failure be chalked up to a lack of interest in anything other than whitebread All-American Heroes.
I'll be reading them now and posting my impressions.