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Dec. 6th, 2014 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreHere is a completely ridiculous complaint about current DC comics*:
So, it may not be entirely evident because I don't talk about it as much as I do the Flash, but I have sort of a New Gods thing. I don't know how that happened, one day I found myself reading Jack Kirby comics from the 70's and now you can basically get me to read just about anything by telling me that Metron or Orion or Desaad** is in it. (It's a little bit of a problem because do you know how much ridiculous stuff Darkseid is in? So frelling much. Usually, when I try to read everything a character's been in, it ends up being someone like the second Captain Boomerang, where that's actually doable.) The New Gods are absurd in all possible ways, but they are also amazing and I love them. (Part of this is because 70's Jack Kirby is so stupidly quotable. Like you don't want to yell things like, "I am the tiger-force at the core of all things!" at people.)
And now, okay, the nu52. Darkseid is all over the place, Orion and Highfather and Metron are around, we've seen Scott and Barda and Kalibak, Desaad is over on Earth 2. Hell, we brought back Glorious Godfrey.*** But as far as I can tell - and the internet confirms my impressions - we have yet to see any sign of Granny Goodness. Which is just a crime. I mean, all of the New Gods stuff in the nu52 is a mess, absolutely - I feel like no one quite knows what to do with them - but the lack of Granny Goodness and her terrifying orphanages just makes me sad.
DC comics, don't you love your Granny?
*Okay, there are a lot of things to complain about regarding current DC comics, all of which are much more serious than this, I admit that. I also admit that, for the most part, I am currently really enjoying all of the comics I read, which are 90% DC. Also, the first issue of the new Secret Six came out this week and I haven't stopped being happy about it yet.
**He is a squirrelly evil toady guy in a purple robe who is literally the god of torture. Of course he is my favorite. Yes, I feel suitably ashamed.
***This is not a complaint. I love Glorious Godfrey.
So, it may not be entirely evident because I don't talk about it as much as I do the Flash, but I have sort of a New Gods thing. I don't know how that happened, one day I found myself reading Jack Kirby comics from the 70's and now you can basically get me to read just about anything by telling me that Metron or Orion or Desaad** is in it. (It's a little bit of a problem because do you know how much ridiculous stuff Darkseid is in? So frelling much. Usually, when I try to read everything a character's been in, it ends up being someone like the second Captain Boomerang, where that's actually doable.) The New Gods are absurd in all possible ways, but they are also amazing and I love them. (Part of this is because 70's Jack Kirby is so stupidly quotable. Like you don't want to yell things like, "I am the tiger-force at the core of all things!" at people.)
And now, okay, the nu52. Darkseid is all over the place, Orion and Highfather and Metron are around, we've seen Scott and Barda and Kalibak, Desaad is over on Earth 2. Hell, we brought back Glorious Godfrey.*** But as far as I can tell - and the internet confirms my impressions - we have yet to see any sign of Granny Goodness. Which is just a crime. I mean, all of the New Gods stuff in the nu52 is a mess, absolutely - I feel like no one quite knows what to do with them - but the lack of Granny Goodness and her terrifying orphanages just makes me sad.
DC comics, don't you love your Granny?
*Okay, there are a lot of things to complain about regarding current DC comics, all of which are much more serious than this, I admit that. I also admit that, for the most part, I am currently really enjoying all of the comics I read, which are 90% DC. Also, the first issue of the new Secret Six came out this week and I haven't stopped being happy about it yet.
**He is a squirrelly evil toady guy in a purple robe who is literally the god of torture. Of course he is my favorite. Yes, I feel suitably ashamed.
***This is not a complaint. I love Glorious Godfrey.
