HassanT wrote:I saw the preview of the DC solicits and I was actually excited about them for first time in a long time. I have been very critical of DC lately, but these comics looks pretty good.
FACES OF EVIL: GRUNDY #1
FACES OF EVIL: PROMETHEUS #1
FACES OF EVIL: DEATHSTROKE #1
FACES OF EVIL: KOBRA #1
I think these will be interesting and at least impact the line down the road. I think the creative teams on the books helps me to pick them up.
I'll continue to be skeptical. Unfortunately DC does NOT have a good track record with me, their "bank of goodwill" is bankrupt, and they get no benefit of the doubt from me after the last 2 years of lackluster books:
FACES OF EVIL: GRUNDY #1
Written by Scott Kolins & Geoff Johns
Art by Scott Kolins
OK, I LOVE Geoff Johns, but this is Scott Kolins AND Geoff Johns, with Scott's name first. I am also not a big fan of Kolins art, so this is going to be a 50-cent bin pickup for me.
FACES OF EVIL: PROMETHEUS #1
Written by Sterling Gates
Art by Federico Dalbochio
Gates has done a couple of issues of GL Corps & a couple of issues of Supergirl. I don't see any other credits for Dalbochio in ComicBookDb
FACES OF EVIL: DEATHSTROKE #1
Written by David Hine
Art by Georges Jeanty
This seems to have the best creative team. David Hine did some good work over on Spawn & Jeanty has done a lot of decent work (most recently on Buffy), but I'd still classify him as a middle of the road artist, by my own personal artistic tastes. If I was to get one of these 4, this would be it.
FACES OF EVIL: KOBRA #1
Written by Ivan Brandon
Art by Jesus Merino
Most recently, Brandon has co-written Cross Bronx with Michael Avon Oeming, and he did the Machine Man story in Marvel Comics Presents. Merino has an OK track record on inking Superman stuff, but nothing that stood out in my mind as must-see.
What makes me saddest about this is that I was a HUGE DC fan a few years ago, and it has gotten to the point where they have turned out such a volume of sub-standard stuff (at least to my tastes, this is certainly a YMMV scenario) that I find it hard to get excited about anything they put out, especially the latest deluge of extraneous one-shots.
Why not tell the Grundy story in JSA, Deathstroke in Teen Titans, Prometheus in the new Justice League book, etc?
What I am rebelling against is them churning out so many extra books.
I'm going to "Just Say No".
HassanT wrote:
BTW, the Prometheus one-shot leads into a different Justice League title just called Justice League, JLofA will continue as is. I think DC learned from Marvel that if they could publish multiple Avenger titles, they could do the same.
The JL will be written by James Robinson so I think it might be better than JLofA.
Fair enough, I did not realize this (I don't tend to read the news sites except for solicits, I've had Newsarama spoil too many things for me). James Robinson certainly has a good track record, and I'll definitely try this book out, though I think that doing multiple Justice League books is a mistake. Whenever DC has done that in the past, one is good and the others are crap. It could be that this will be the "good one", so perhaps I'll switch to getting this and drop the other one.