DC Writers Ruining Comics?

[TheMightyBoosh]

Damn that woman and her enormous breasts!

I know that comics these days tackle more... grown-up issues, but I always thought of those issues as being presented as a means to show kids that drugs are bad and whatnot. Like those shorts at the end of the old sonic cartoon telling the kids at home not to talk to strangers who offer them puppies.

It almost seems as if the writers are killing off heroes for the sake of killing them off, like when the Thor clone blew a hole through Black Goliath in Civil War. Yes it created dramatic tension, but was it really necessary?

Besides which, The goddamn Batman is supposed to be indestructible. He's the best at everything, after all. So why was he so lame at dying?

[Vman]

*In eerie voice*
No one knows.

So has anyone seen the new Justice League roster yet? Check it out.

Green Lantern(Hal Jordan)
Green Arrow
Supergirl
Captain Marvel
Batwoman
Congrilla
Atom
Starman

What are you talking about?  I would say Final Crisis but isn't Batwoman part of the Anti-Life camp?
The actual Justice League is Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Black Canary, Red Arrow, John Stewart the Green Lantern, Firestorm, Hawkgirl, Black Lightning, Vixen and Zatanna.

The new JLA arc that just started looks promising though.  Dwayne McDuffie is writing it and bringing over the old Milestone Comics characters to the mainstream DCU!  The Blood Syndicate has made their appearance!

There's going to be a spinoff series so there will be two Justice League series running at the same time.

[OrcishIncubus]

And then one gets canceled due to low ratings? >.>

or is the setup for the other one just as lame?

[Vman]

No idea what the setup for the new one is going to be I'm afraid. My guess is that with Batman gone SUperman and Wonder Woman are off doing whatever and the League ends up split. I admit I'm exited to see Hal Jordan and the Green Arrow teamed up again, it's classic. Please let there be a rebirth of the boxing glove arrow.

I'm hopin gthat they manage to do it righ tthis time.

[w!ng-w!ng]

No idea what the setup for the new one is going to be I'm afraid. My guess is that with Batman gone SUperman and Wonder Woman are off doing whatever and the League ends up split. I admit I'm exited to see Hal Jordan and the Green Arrow teamed up again, it's classic. Please let there be a rebirth of the boxing glove arrow.

I'm hopin gthat they manage to do it righ tthis time.

this kinda upsets me.  while i DO wanna see a League run by Jordan & Queen, it's not as if the OLD JLA has to go!  i actually enjoy that series!

[Vman]

No idea what the setup for the new one is going to be I'm afraid. My guess is that with Batman gone SUperman and Wonder Woman are off doing whatever and the League ends up split. I admit I'm exited to see Hal Jordan and the Green Arrow teamed up again, it's classic. Please let there be a rebirth of the boxing glove arrow.

I'm hopin gthat they manage to do it righ tthis time.

this kinda upsets me.  while i DO wanna see a League run by Jordan & Queen, it's not as if the OLD JLA has to go!  i actually enjoy that series!

Well I think the old one may be staying around with a couple of roster changes. Red Arrow and Hal Jordan are gone so yeah. I actually liked the new story too as far as the roster was concerned. Especially Red Tornado. I'm thinking the Atom is goin gto be the one who ends up running this version of the league though.

[w!ng-w!ng]

They just need to bring back the Super Buddies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Buddies) and call it a day.

[Vman]

Booster Gold, the original Blue Beetle, and Fire hell yeah!

[Kais86]

 Power Girl has always had massive knockers, even when she was younger (golden age) she was way more stacked than the current Supergirl is (she is Supergirl from the original universe) it also doesn't help that she works out a lot (hence the massive biceps). 

I was typing about the things I find massively wrong about comics today and I realized two things A) that's a text wall B) I hate the "big name titles" that are out right now. The only things worth a damn are comics like Marvel Adventures The Avengers, Deadpool, and other comics which only hit on the big crossover of the week when they absolutely must, additionally I like Gold Digger and Hellboy, but those aren't written by idiots, otaku maybe in the case of Gold Digger but still not idiots.

[Hellmark]

Both DC and Marvel are too kill happy anymore. Yeah, it is a good thing that characters die from time to time, since everyone is mortal, but they've cheapened it. Yeah, the industry where the running joke was "Only ones to stay dead is Uncle Ben and Bucky" is now cheapened by this bull. They aren't really even giving good, or original deaths. Look at how many they've killed off in recent years. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dead_comic_book_characters and see how many are in the last 10 years, or even look at those killed since 2006.

[kospowinc]

Both DC and Marvel are too kill happy anymore. Yeah, it is a good thing that characters die from time to time, since everyone is mortal, but they've cheapened it. Yeah, the industry where the running joke was "Only ones to stay dead is Uncle Ben and Bucky" is now cheapened by this bull. They aren't really even giving good, or original deaths. Look at how many they've killed off in recent years. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dead_comic_book_characters and see how many are in the last 10 years, or even look at those killed since 2006.

What's cheapened it is the use of alternate universes.  Kill one, you still have an infinite number of iterations to go through.  BUT, these iterations could be edgy and interesting depending on the needs of the creators!

[Vman]

Personally I like alternate universes used the right way. They be fun to see how characters play out in other scenarios but I do agree that they're just overused for the most part which makes them awful. Does anyone remember the old "What If..." comics Marvel used to put out? I think that stopping those hurt the writers because they losta place to run these crazy ideas that never work in the actual comics. Shey just started putting them in the real comics.

[kospowinc]

They still "What If..." stories, but they've been using them only for the big story arcs.  I haven't seen many fresh "What If..."s.

[Vman]

Yeah I mean they used to do those like regular comics. The big story ones don't really count to me, "What if Captain America Won the Civil War" comes to mind and it just doesn't have the same feel.

[Kais86]

That wasn't even "What if Captain America won the civil war" , it was "What if Iron Man had died instead of Cap" which is quite predictable in that Tony is dead and Cap is rotting in prison instead of rotting in the ground. Which makes that a lousy "What if". I'd fire the guy who thought that was a good idea, from a cannon, into the sun.