* Oops, nothing interesting seems to have crossed my radar comics-wise. So I'll tell you about something that happened on Facebook. Someone was talking about whether Agents of SHIELD has gotten any better, and I'm like, not really. Someone else said "Check out Arrow, it's great!" And I was all, "Yeah, but it's about Green Arrow, so, no thanks." The lesson I learned: I'd rather watch a mediocre Marvel-derived TV series and hope it gets better than be reminded about anything having to do with DC. I can occasionally get into the Justice League cartoon because it was just that awesome, but other than that I just don't need any new DC stories in any medium. Which I knew abstractly, but this Facebook exchange really brought it home for me. There would have to be a paradigm shift of unimaginable proportion for me to invest in any DC intellectual property these days, ironically because so little intellect has been involved at the editorial level for so long.
* So there were a bunch of words, I hope you enjoyed them. I am on the brink of leaving for Seattle for a week for my day job, so posting will likely be spotty-to-non-existent for the next week or so. After that things should settle back normal, whatever that means.
* Uncomics: Lefsetz on what's hot and what's not and what's snot. He's really good at reading the times and reporting back on what he finds.
I feel exactly the same (fitting because I was involved in that exchange). Of course, I read very few DC comics growing up. But over the years I've tried and tried to stoke some interest in the Distinguished Competition, and while of course there's some genius to be found - particularly in Wildstorm and Vertigo - it just never clicked with me. And the largely abominable to mediocre quality of their New 52 garbage has finally sealed the deal. Or unsealed it. Sure there are individual books I might pick up, but as far as their cooperative super crap is concerned, I have zero interest.
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