Thus far
Batman, Wonder Woman, Animal Man and
Swamp Thing have sustained nicely and in the case of the latter three have been cool intros to the characters for me me given I was a comic novice when all this Nu52 stuff started.
I also have
Action Comics on the go also, but after reading the first three (which I actually enjoyed, though with decreasing returns with every issue) I'm waiting for the initial Morrison run of 8 to finish before reading it as a complete story.
I said to myself when I started the comic collecting thing: "Get one of each of the Superrheroes you enjoy the most and try them out for one story run" - So I got
Action for Supes, the new Morales
Ultimate Spiderman for a "different" Spidey story and Snyder's
Batman based on his last story run on Detective Comics before the reboot.
Animal Man and
Swamp Thing have impressed me the most so far, given I have no character reference having not read a jot of their books before. I love the wildely differing artistic styles but also the way their ominous and mini-epic stories are beginning to blend together nad the fact that they are in the end quite personal little stories, be they of a stuggling family man, or a man who has lost his history.
Wonder Woman was a complete impulse buy and done solely because I had finished reading
100 Bullets and was enjoying the hell out of Azerello's
Spaceman. Although, again, the character is new to me, the introdution felt fluid and I'm enjoying the scope of the book.
How long any of these will last will depend on the authors I guess. They have, in the end, all been bought because I have enjoyed the author's Non-Big-Two work and i guess if/when the author leaves, likely so will I.
But we'll see.
And in fact the only one of the "New Wave" that I like the sound of is the book written by China Mieville (my favourite British author right now),
Dial H for Hero. It in fact sounds like one of the dafter ideas for a book, but firstly it is Mieville and secondly, I just finished
Nextwave: Agents of Hate, which was just about the daftest thing I have read in years. And I loved every page of it. So why the hell not
The one thing I can not do is the monthly read. So far I have collected the first 5 issues and THEN read them (
Action aside as noted above), to allow the story to build its momentum, and I feel it has worked. I guess I am an odd mixture of patient (Happy to wait 5 months read a book) and impatient (I want the complete story NOW!!)
Overall though I find myself not massively interested in the DC/Marvel world and spend most of my reading time in the Vertigo (yes I know, it's DC), Image, Boom! and Wildstorm prints.
Indeed it is now back to Brubaker's
Criminal: Last of the Innocent for me
Hugo - novice and waffler
