Jumping off the DCU

[dewline]

According to the news just received from my local comics shop, Flashpoint # 5 - the last issue of the DC Universe version 3 as I understand it - will be arriving in stores this week.

With the exception of catching up on titles I've fallen behind on up to this point and reprint collections(those most likely republishing material from the 1985-2011 timeframe in particular), that will be the last DC Universe book I buy for the foreseeable future.

I won't rule out ever coming back as a regular weekly customer, but given the misgivings already discussed, DC's reported intent of sticking with their current plans for the next half-decade, and the caveats just mentioned, that's it for me for now.

To the freelancers working on DCU v.4 titles who happen to read this: I'm sorry.

Comments

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

I might end up buying stuff in trade form, eventually. That's about it.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I can't see myself getting collections of stuff originally published from 2011 onward at this point, but depending on how their editorial policies evolve over the next few years?

We'll see.

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

I'll be reading some of the books because of the reviewing gig on Chronic Rift, but if not for that? I'd be ignoring the DCnU...even the Supergirl book (their response here with criticisms of the last version of the character seems to be to make the reboot a fused-with-Power Girl characterless bitch who's no longer stuck with the belly shirt but now instead has a loincloth and a Kryptonian Brazilian.)

Flashpoint, in my opinion, was horrible through and through, a supremely sub-par Elseworlds that's justifying the rebooted DCU and the appalling return to the 90s in terms of style and feel.

The more I hear about the way this was approached, the less hopeful I am -- there's the same sort homogenizing influence that you see in television and film...and while there's always hope that something good will occur, the usual effect is to produce something bland and mediocre.