POLL: One Year Later...What Do You Think About "The New 52" Now?

Yeah there's too many Batman titles.

I've really enjoyed Justice League and Green Lantern. Same for Aquaman and Flash.

Superman has been ok.

Bout to start on Wonder Woman.

FLASH! Flash forever.

Snyder's Bats is great, too.

Snyder's Batman has been the best, I didn't really like most of the other Bat titles, boring after awhile. JL is good, all the GL books are good. WW is ok, Superman and action comics are ok. Got board of Flash sadly, so I dropped it. Oh Batwing is pretty good too. Need to catch up on that one though.

Oh Aquaman is good too.

The New 52 gave me back Swamp Thing and Animal Man and for that I'm thankful. Batman has been great and Aquaman and Wonder Woman have become hit books which is no small feat. Still I loathe what has been done to Tim Drake and Green Arrow. Two of my favorite characters just wrecked.

My only disappointment with this reboot has been the muddled direction they've taken Superman in. It's like they had two different models for how to reboot the character, and so they decided to use BOTH of them, and tried to get them to meet in the middle. But that's all, really.

... Okay, that's a lie. I HATE what they've done to Superboy and the Teen Titans, and the new look for Mr. Freeze is kinda lame (I'm also not entirely keen on his new origin). And turning Red Hood into a superhero is a bad idea that DC's been trying to cram down our throats for a couple of YEARS now, but they just won't let it go; why can't they see that Jason Todd was most interesting as a villain?

But they've done some things pretty well, too. Aquaman and Swamp Thing are phenomenal reads, and as controversial as the opinion is, I actually like having Barbara Gordon back as Batgirl. Plus, they've done the smart thing by not changing much for Green Lantern and Batman (even if I wish they'd used the opportunity to wipe Batman Incorporated off the face of the Earth), allowing Geoff Johns and Scott Snyder to do some wonderful work on the books without having to completely reintroduce the characters. And personally, I've liked Justice League, and Grant Morrison has actually done some decent work on Action Comics (when he's not throwing in completely pointless detours to talk about Earth-9 Superman or the Legion of Superheroes).

So really, the New 52 has been kind of a mixed bag-- not perfect, but not total garbage, either. As always, you have to go on a book-by-book basis, and just cherry-pick the stuff you like.

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I love Azzarello's Wonder Woman, Lemire's Animal Man, Snyder's Batman, Johns Aquaman, Johns Justice League, Manapul's Flash and I think that's it.

Truly pissed with Superman books, and I feel it's not Grant Morrison's fault. Heavy editorial decisions put me off Superman once again. The concept behind what Morrison was going for I love it, I can even dig the Kryptonian suit, but I just can't enjoy the stories. Justice League is where I'm getting my Superman fix, hopefully Azzarello will find a way to keep Wonder Woman brilliant while working with Geoff Johns developments in Justice League.

What I hate about the reboot is that Superman used to be up there with Spider-Man and Batman as one of my favorite superheroes. Right now, I [frick]ing love Slott's Amazing Spider-Man and Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man, I [frick]ing love Snyder's Batman and I'm looking forward for Batman's reboot, Marvel NOW looks to have some cool concepts and I'm even anticipating Bendis All New X-Men since he is quite good writing adolescent characters.

But since Byrne's Man of Steel, I just find too hard to care for Superman. I'm looking forward for Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, but I just [frick]ing hate Superman in comics for SO [frick]ING LONG that is depressing. I just wish DC would give the same care and thought for Supes they do with Wonder Woman and Batman. Superman is completely SCREWED in comics right now. I'd love to see Snyder to come in and have his take in BOTH Superman titles, or I don't know, Lemire or someone. I just cringe when I think that Jurgens is writing Superman and now been replaced with Scott Lobdell. It's just depressing to me and I almost wish they could reboot him AGAIN. If not a reboot, just tell good Superman stories without so many editorial mandates.

I'm subscribed to Action and Superman and ive been let down o far. Prety poor art and basically nothing ha happened ad at times i hae absolutely no idea whats going on. Switched from only reading graphic novels and im probably gonna stay with that because comics by issue is just boring story wise.

I'm alittle disappointed by some Justice Society stuff I saw, but I like much of this new DCU. The original Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) is back (really glad about that); DC turning Superman and Wonder Woman into a power couple is awesome news! Go, DC, go!

One Word: EPIC !!! The reboot is awesome. I liked before the same but the new style especially the costumes are amazing cool. Best Comics JUSTICE LEAGUE, than CATWOMAN than GL and AQUAMAN- Glad they bring back CYBORG ! Hes looking cool! Great new member for the League! DC RULES

Better...now that Rob Liefeld has walked away from DC.

top three dc comics for me are.

1st animal man
2nd batman
3rd wonder woman

Thanks to the new 52 I was able to start reading comic books. It was a great idea for new readers but not only that, the whole reboot gave me a reason to read old comic books before the new 52 so I guess thanks to this, i feel more of a DC fan than ever. Marvel never gave me a reason to read their comics except spider-man but dc has me reading batman, nightwing, superman, green lantern and other titles, old and new. People may have mixed reactions but if it wasn't for it, I would've stayed with marvel for all the wrong reasons.

best thing to happen to Aquaman

I'm only reading Superman, and Justice League, for now and I hope they give Shazam his own title! I did read alot of titles before the new 52 but now only like 3 .

I don't think the options really capture the way I feel. Mostly it is poor to mediocre. Not everything has been awful but not much has been very good either.

I was interested in about 10 books when it all started but now I'm only reading action comics (and I'll finish when Morrison does), Batman, Swamp Thing, Animal man and Wonder Woman. And Animal Man is look precarious.

its been ok. i have stopped reading most of the titles. batman / batman and robin / detective have really been all i have stuck with. superman titles have been so so, death stroke was originally really good then i just kind of lost interest. same thing with teen titans.

I think there biggest mistake was saying that the universe was only 5 years old but still trying to have so much fit into the small time frame.

@earzmundo

I gotcha. Well maybe I'll check out GL instead. It looks great and I've heard good things about it.
Yeah, isn't Ghost Prison awesome? I checked it out cause it sounded interesting and the art looked fantastic. It ended up being pretty sweet. It's one of my regulars now.

The New 52 has been an unqualified success. You are simply not a fan of comics (or if you say you are you don't know what you are talking about) if you can't find something you like.

Titles Actively Read:

DC
Swamp Thing, Animal Man, Batwoman, Storm Watch, Batman, Justice League Dark, Birds of Prey

Marvel
Daredevil, Punisher, Hawkeye

Image
Thief of Thieves, Manhattan Projects, Saga, Revival

Dynamite
Flash Gordon Zeitgeist, Merciless, Bionic-Man, Kirby Genesis

Dark Horse
Savage Sword, The Creep, Mind Management, The Massive

Others
Ferals, Dead Man's Run

I'm enjoying the Batman and Green Lantern titles (all eighty-five thousand of them), but have really disliked the new 52 Superman. I went and bought "Superman vs the Elite" a couple of weeks ago, but only recently watched it. Watching the story and hearing Superman acknowledge that some may consider his values "outdated" and his arguments against them reminded me of why Superman has stayed so iconic for almost a century. Superman's argument to the Elite should be played for the higher-ups at WB and DC, so that they can reconsider this half-assed, reactionary, direction that they're taking Superman in and return him to his rightful place as the standard-bearer he has always been. The "boyscout" image was a big part of Superman's dynamic with other heroes and served as both a connection, inspiration, and/or (potential) conflict. Now, Superman is just another "hardass" with super powers. It would be no different to make Sabretooth a vegetarian, Spiderman an irresponsible drug addict, Wonder Woman a gold-digging whore who needs a man to feel complete, or to make Deathstroke a pacifist who prefers to talk his problems out.

Lord Loki has spoken

For the most part it's been ok. JL, Batman, Flash and WW have been good. Superman is showing signs of finding it's way. It's important to have good Superman titles, he's your flagship character. I do like Earth2 and Worlds' Finest.

Thing is, a lot of the good stuff I like (Aquaman, Batman titles) really didn't need the company wide reboot....they coulda been done under the previous Universe. Screwing with the Titans history and ruining Starfire is something I still hate.

I needed the option:

"I like a couple titles I didn't before, and dropped some favorites, but it felt like a rushed piece of shit then, and still does."