really great, it has some messy parts, but overall a great and good comicbook.
It made felt in love with DC characters.
It is so good, I strongly recommend this comicbook, I read it in 2008/2009.
I'm surprised at all the highly positive responses. I thought it was kind of a wet turd, though not complete diarrhea.
The art was very mediocre, however, and I don't condone that shit.
it was a massive freaking disaster in terms of editorial. Peeps either forgot things after a few issues, characters needed to juggled on who could be used, the sales numbers looked good so they had to keep it going long enough...
I didn't like it but I can divorce my personal dislike and recognize it was just okay, certainly doesn't belong to be heralded as one of DC's best of all time lists.
The stupid escalation to world war adam was weird >Waller sends suicide squad for little reason and when somebody dies, they publicize it, and she goes' we pushedt hem and the pushed back'. >Collection of villainds creates robot apocalypse expies to murder and infiltrate khandaq because...? >All this when Adam finally calmed down and got married >Only actual casualties of him fighting like a hundred heroes but almost no main justice league member is a couple teen titans includingd a reborn/clone terra or something
Yeah, the whole shit with Black Adam stunk of editorial meddling... which, given how Didio was pissed off by everything else in 52, is hardly surprising.
>weekly comic >noting but b and c tier heroes >multiple writers and artists
It somehow worked and DC tried to make it work again and hasn't gotten close.
Starts off strong but turns to shit when Rucka murdered Question to steal the name/costume for Renee Montoya. Not even Black Adam's roaring rampage of revenge could salvage it after that bullshit.
>turns to shit when Rucka murdered Question to steal the name/costume for Renee Montoya.
shit taste, also it saved Renee from becoming a shitty batman villain, Also Gotham Central was kino
Obviously not as good as Countdown. Remember when the big thing Palmer or one of his alternate selves was important for was immunity to a virus that made everyone furries? Isn't that a current event actually?
It's good
and it's fantastic how much the production of it made Didio seethe so hard he shat out like four weeklies over the next 10 years trying to prove to people that editorial can make better weeklies than 52 only for all of them to be horrible
>It also felt ultimately pointless by the end IIRC, I remember feeling like I wasted my time reading it when it was finally over.
That is also 100% correct the ending was moronic and all about leading into a shitty batman beyond book that didn't even have Terry McGinnis, but the middle, that was good
Weird, I remember hating Future's End (dropped it after the first issue) but World's End hooked me in a disaster porn sort of way. How often do you get to watch the bad guys win?
I don't remember what was E2, what was World's End, and what was Society. I remember literally nothing about that comic besides having read it.
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Then I will remind you.
He died when he used his growth abilities to hollow out a hole in the ground for people to hide in.
Not that it did them any good, they all died.
I liked the booster and ralph arcs
largely indifferent to the rest
it had the right idea though, showcasing unheralded parts of the dc universe as opposed to batman, batman and more batman
The most ambitious big two superhero book ever published. Fricking loved it when it was coming out.
Reading it as a collection loses the magic, so I'm assuming all the people shitting on it weren't buying it as a weekly.
>I'm assuming all the people shitting on it weren't buying it as a weekly.
That's correct in my case. I only read it long after because lots of people swore it was great. The "magic" is a gimmick anyway, so I'd probably feel exactly the same about it.
Calling it a gimmick is reductive. It's no different than a good mystery series like Morrison's Batman or Hickman's New Avengers. Half the fun is opening another layer of the mystery box week after week and speculating with your friends about what it all means. You don't sit and marinate on the individual issues when you can binge-read the entire omnibus.
No, it isn't reductive. The difference is that you're choosing to be bullshitted while I'm not. I'm just not willing to bend over, forwards or backwards.
I'm fricking desperate for good comics and this didn't deliver.
I have no love for the DCU, only for its best stories.
Bullshit, Ralph's subplot was genuinely fantastic, as was Question's and Will Magnus' arcs.
Genuinely mediocre, at best. The Question's arc was frustrating.
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>I have no love for the DCU
That explains it. The appeal of 52 is being a universe you love, dusting off interesting corners.
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*inside
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I think it makes a stronger case for it not being that good. If it was good, reading it would make me love at least some of that stuff.
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You are just trolling, very predictable.
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I'm being serious.
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No you're not. >uh your point actually makes my point stronger!!
is classic moronation
You'll just keep rotating your angle endlessly to stay "on top". Last (You) from me.
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I didn't rotate anything. You got this upset out of nowhere, maybe because you think I'm right but you aren't willing to accept it.
I've only read the first trade but I liked it. It wasn't anything amazing, but it was a good romp through the DCU in a 52ish kind of way. Pied Piper and Trickster, Donna and Jason, Jimmy shenanigans, etc.
I've heard it shots the bed later but the beginning is fun enough.
Didio's not wrong. The point of 52 was to show the events that created One Year Later. And then the writers just... well... completely forgot to lead into One Year Later, so everything had to be cobbled together half-assed at the last minute.
Nobody gave a shit about setting up OYL because all the major titles had moved past it by 52 Week 16.
Instead of shitting on 52 Didio should have embraced its success. He should have kept the creative team together and strapped a rocket to the Multiversity project instead of prioritizing Countdown and Final Crisis and the New 52.
I didn't like it at all.
really great, it has some messy parts, but overall a great and good comicbook.
It made felt in love with DC characters.
It is so good, I strongly recommend this comicbook, I read it in 2008/2009.
I'm surprised at all the highly positive responses. I thought it was kind of a wet turd, though not complete diarrhea.
The art was very mediocre, however, and I don't condone that shit.
You'd be wrong on both counts, then.
I'm right.
Writing is great for the most part, as is the art, some exceptions.
It really isn't. No part of it is great.
Bullshit, Ralph's subplot was genuinely fantastic, as was Question's and Will Magnus' arcs.
>Will Magnus' arcs.
Most kino part of 52 IMO. Based Morrison.
I was entertained and will probably read it again. I got the four trades fir next to nothing when the two trade set was announced.
It's kind of insane a series like 52 was even able to happen when it did.
elaborate
According to BTS stuff,
it was a massive freaking disaster in terms of editorial. Peeps either forgot things after a few issues, characters needed to juggled on who could be used, the sales numbers looked good so they had to keep it going long enough...
/co/re material
But doesn't that mean people would have to read Identity Crisis and Infinite Crisis?
Kino
One of the best stories ever written.
Incredibly overrated
Is this code for “I didn’t like it”?
Then just say that. Overrated is a stupid fricking term.
I didn't like it but I can divorce my personal dislike and recognize it was just okay, certainly doesn't belong to be heralded as one of DC's best of all time lists.
>certainly doesn't belong to be heralded as one of DC's best of all time lists.
Agreed.
It's garbage. Better?
The stupid escalation to world war adam was weird
>Waller sends suicide squad for little reason and when somebody dies, they publicize it, and she goes' we pushedt hem and the pushed back'.
>Collection of villainds creates robot apocalypse expies to murder and infiltrate khandaq because...?
>All this when Adam finally calmed down and got married
>Only actual casualties of him fighting like a hundred heroes but almost no main justice league member is a couple teen titans includingd a reborn/clone terra or something
Yeah, the whole shit with Black Adam stunk of editorial meddling... which, given how Didio was pissed off by everything else in 52, is hardly surprising.
Great read, but I think Seven Soldiers was better.
No contest, 2 different animals
Countdown was better.
Remember when Mr. Mind at the final stage of his growth could literally eat space time? Wonder why they never brought this up again
>weekly comic
>noting but b and c tier heroes
>multiple writers and artists
It somehow worked and DC tried to make it work again and hasn't gotten close.
>It somehow worked
It didn't.
Starts off strong but turns to shit when Rucka murdered Question to steal the name/costume for Renee Montoya. Not even Black Adam's roaring rampage of revenge could salvage it after that bullshit.
>turns to shit when Rucka murdered Question to steal the name/costume for Renee Montoya.
shit taste, also it saved Renee from becoming a shitty batman villain, Also Gotham Central was kino
Obviously not as good as Countdown.
Remember when the big thing Palmer or one of his alternate selves was important for was immunity to a virus that made everyone furries? Isn't that a current event actually?
It's good
and it's fantastic how much the production of it made Didio seethe so hard he shat out like four weeklies over the next 10 years trying to prove to people that editorial can make better weeklies than 52 only for all of them to be horrible
What weekly did he do besides Countdown?
Futures End and World's End at least.
I liked Futures End, but I won't call it good.
World's End was one of the biggest pieces of trash I've read.
>Futures End
It's good if you get past the cringe edgy intro
It also felt ultimately pointless by the end IIRC, I remember feeling like I wasted my time reading it when it was finally over.
>It also felt ultimately pointless by the end IIRC, I remember feeling like I wasted my time reading it when it was finally over.
That is also 100% correct the ending was moronic and all about leading into a shitty batman beyond book that didn't even have Terry McGinnis, but the middle, that was good
Weird, I remember hating Future's End (dropped it after the first issue) but World's End hooked me in a disaster porn sort of way. How often do you get to watch the bad guys win?
A valid point, but they only won because the heroes were absolutely useless and moronic.
Remind me how The Atom died.
I don't remember what was E2, what was World's End, and what was Society. I remember literally nothing about that comic besides having read it.
Then I will remind you.
He died when he used his growth abilities to hollow out a hole in the ground for people to hide in.
Not that it did them any good, they all died.
Technically five, if you count Wednesday Comics
I liked the booster and ralph arcs
largely indifferent to the rest
it had the right idea though, showcasing unheralded parts of the dc universe as opposed to batman, batman and more batman
The most ambitious big two superhero book ever published. Fricking loved it when it was coming out.
Reading it as a collection loses the magic, so I'm assuming all the people shitting on it weren't buying it as a weekly.
>I'm assuming all the people shitting on it weren't buying it as a weekly.
That's correct in my case. I only read it long after because lots of people swore it was great. The "magic" is a gimmick anyway, so I'd probably feel exactly the same about it.
Calling it a gimmick is reductive. It's no different than a good mystery series like Morrison's Batman or Hickman's New Avengers. Half the fun is opening another layer of the mystery box week after week and speculating with your friends about what it all means. You don't sit and marinate on the individual issues when you can binge-read the entire omnibus.
No, it isn't reductive. The difference is that you're choosing to be bullshitted while I'm not. I'm just not willing to bend over, forwards or backwards.
I'm fricking desperate for good comics and this didn't deliver.
It helps to have a love and knowledge of the DCU of the late 90s and 2000s
I have no love for the DCU, only for its best stories.
Genuinely mediocre, at best. The Question's arc was frustrating.
>I have no love for the DCU
That explains it. The appeal of 52 is being a universe you love, dusting off interesting corners.
*inside
I think it makes a stronger case for it not being that good. If it was good, reading it would make me love at least some of that stuff.
You are just trolling, very predictable.
I'm being serious.
No you're not.
>uh your point actually makes my point stronger!!
is classic moronation
You'll just keep rotating your angle endlessly to stay "on top". Last (You) from me.
I didn't rotate anything. You got this upset out of nowhere, maybe because you think I'm right but you aren't willing to accept it.
Great, every different story thread was enjoyable and I never disliked a POV change
Countdown wasn't that bad tbh
Besides the 4 Search for Ray Palmer Elseworld issues it was shit.
I've only read the first trade but I liked it. It wasn't anything amazing, but it was a good romp through the DCU in a 52ish kind of way. Pied Piper and Trickster, Donna and Jason, Jimmy shenanigans, etc.
I've heard it shots the bed later but the beginning is fun enough.
Somebody should pick up the Super-Chief subplot that was just dropped. Also, Mark Waid owes us a Jeru the Merboy story still.
Didio's not wrong. The point of 52 was to show the events that created One Year Later. And then the writers just... well... completely forgot to lead into One Year Later, so everything had to be cobbled together half-assed at the last minute.
Nobody gave a shit about setting up OYL because all the major titles had moved past it by 52 Week 16.
Instead of shitting on 52 Didio should have embraced its success. He should have kept the creative team together and strapped a rocket to the Multiversity project instead of prioritizing Countdown and Final Crisis and the New 52.
Grade B slop.
Last good weekly DC made.