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newnumber6I went down to the comic store today for the first time in several months. What I got wasn't new, they'd come out in the past couple weeks, but I'd forgotten about them.
I got:
New Mutants #25 (new direction, new creative team, seems enjoyable so far but I'm worried about potential cast changes)
Batman: Gates of Gotham #1 (buying this solely because it has the return of Cassandra Cain in it.. first issue was okay, nothing special though).
Though, maybe I should have just skipped the Batman one, because it looks like DC is rebooting their universe at least to some extent. Not all the details have been made available, but apparently they'll be starting 52 different #1s in September, not starting the titles from scratch but at a 'early in their career' point, with some variations (they promise more diversity, for example, but I have no faith in it). Rumors so far have Batgirl #1 starring Barbara Gordon as Batgirl... and that's my personal 'no go' rule. If they reset the clock to bring Barbara back as Batgirl, I no longer have any interest in the DC universe. Batman is probably my touchstone of the DC universe, and this is the One More Day/Brand New Day of it... because I don't long for the nostalgia days of Babs as Batgirl, and Dick as Robin (although rumors are he'll be Nightwing, just presumably an earlier Nightwing, maybe from when he first struck out on his own). I love Babs. But I love Oracle, the hero who didn't let a tragedy get her down and found she could be even more effective in a different way. I love Cassandra Cain who succeeded her as Batgirl. I love Stephanie Brown, as Spoiler, or to a lesser degree, as a short-term Robin or the third Batgirl. If we're going back, I want to go back to a time that includes them all. Not Barbara Gordon swinging through the city in tights, and no room for the others because they'd clutter her story. So, if this turns out to be true, goodbye DC.
Also got the following books:
The Jennifer Morgue, by Charles Stross
Digital Domains (short story collection - fiction that debuted in online magazines)
Newton's Wake, by Ken Macleod
Oh, and I forgot in my last 'media consumption' post to comment on some of the shows that I loved that had passed on... (spoilers will be behind cuts). Only one will be missed, by me, and we'll start with that one.
So, Stargate Universe: Sadly, it's over. And, unlikely are we to get any closure anytime soon, thanks to MGM's financial difficulties. And it's a shame. It started a little rough, but it was really finding its stride and I actually think if it continued I'd have grown to like it more than Atlantis (it was already edging up there). They had some cool ideas in the pipeline Like the idea of their descendents populating that galaxy due to time travel shenanigans, letting them have humans to interact with and no worries about language difficulties or the huge suspension of disbelief of yet another group of humans. Then again, they ended with them fleeing that galaxy, so maybe they wouldn't have encountered any more of them.
Speaking of, I do think it was kind of nice how they ended it. Everybody in cold sleep, except Eli, who's trying to look for a way to fix the last, broken pod. Destiny taking at least a year to travel to the next
galaxy, and if calculations were wrong it could be hundreds of years. It sort of leaves it in such a way that you can tell yourself, as a viewer, "Well, of course there are no new adventures... they're still in transit!", and even if there never are, you can sort of hold on to that.
It's also clever in another way, in that if they ever DO manage to get something together to bring back the show, for a movie, or what have you (I know it's all but hopeless, but you never know), it's structured pretty much perfectly. Any actor who can't or won't return, for whatever reason, can be written out - the pod malfunctioned, they died. Or Eli died if it's him (although, if there is no continuation, in my personal continuity he couldn't find a way to survive normally so he sat in the chair and uploaded his mind to the computer, where he could be happy with Gin).
V: While I probably still would have watched, it was pretty bad, with almost hilariously stupid science (really, apparently taking DNA samples can only be accomplished through TORTURE of innocent humans, who must then be convinced into thinking it was all a dream). The finale did promise some developments which might have led to some renewed interest, like the death of the annoying kid, and the good guys joining the government in the underground quest against the V's but with it still being written by the same people, it would only lead to more badness.
No Ordinary Family: I've said it before, but the show was very 'by the numbers'... often I could predict the 'shocking plot twists' because it was the most obvious way to go from there. So I can't be too disappointed about this, either. I'd have watched it, if it continued, but I won't be loosing sleep over what happens to the characters - I don't even entirely remember what happened in the finale, except for a couple key points.
Other shows that were cancelled I'd already given up on.
I got:
New Mutants #25 (new direction, new creative team, seems enjoyable so far but I'm worried about potential cast changes)
Batman: Gates of Gotham #1 (buying this solely because it has the return of Cassandra Cain in it.. first issue was okay, nothing special though).
Though, maybe I should have just skipped the Batman one, because it looks like DC is rebooting their universe at least to some extent. Not all the details have been made available, but apparently they'll be starting 52 different #1s in September, not starting the titles from scratch but at a 'early in their career' point, with some variations (they promise more diversity, for example, but I have no faith in it). Rumors so far have Batgirl #1 starring Barbara Gordon as Batgirl... and that's my personal 'no go' rule. If they reset the clock to bring Barbara back as Batgirl, I no longer have any interest in the DC universe. Batman is probably my touchstone of the DC universe, and this is the One More Day/Brand New Day of it... because I don't long for the nostalgia days of Babs as Batgirl, and Dick as Robin (although rumors are he'll be Nightwing, just presumably an earlier Nightwing, maybe from when he first struck out on his own). I love Babs. But I love Oracle, the hero who didn't let a tragedy get her down and found she could be even more effective in a different way. I love Cassandra Cain who succeeded her as Batgirl. I love Stephanie Brown, as Spoiler, or to a lesser degree, as a short-term Robin or the third Batgirl. If we're going back, I want to go back to a time that includes them all. Not Barbara Gordon swinging through the city in tights, and no room for the others because they'd clutter her story. So, if this turns out to be true, goodbye DC.
Also got the following books:
The Jennifer Morgue, by Charles Stross
Digital Domains (short story collection - fiction that debuted in online magazines)
Newton's Wake, by Ken Macleod
Oh, and I forgot in my last 'media consumption' post to comment on some of the shows that I loved that had passed on... (spoilers will be behind cuts). Only one will be missed, by me, and we'll start with that one.
So, Stargate Universe: Sadly, it's over. And, unlikely are we to get any closure anytime soon, thanks to MGM's financial difficulties. And it's a shame. It started a little rough, but it was really finding its stride and I actually think if it continued I'd have grown to like it more than Atlantis (it was already edging up there). They had some cool ideas in the pipeline Like the idea of their descendents populating that galaxy due to time travel shenanigans, letting them have humans to interact with and no worries about language difficulties or the huge suspension of disbelief of yet another group of humans. Then again, they ended with them fleeing that galaxy, so maybe they wouldn't have encountered any more of them.
Speaking of, I do think it was kind of nice how they ended it. Everybody in cold sleep, except Eli, who's trying to look for a way to fix the last, broken pod. Destiny taking at least a year to travel to the next
galaxy, and if calculations were wrong it could be hundreds of years. It sort of leaves it in such a way that you can tell yourself, as a viewer, "Well, of course there are no new adventures... they're still in transit!", and even if there never are, you can sort of hold on to that.
It's also clever in another way, in that if they ever DO manage to get something together to bring back the show, for a movie, or what have you (I know it's all but hopeless, but you never know), it's structured pretty much perfectly. Any actor who can't or won't return, for whatever reason, can be written out - the pod malfunctioned, they died. Or Eli died if it's him (although, if there is no continuation, in my personal continuity he couldn't find a way to survive normally so he sat in the chair and uploaded his mind to the computer, where he could be happy with Gin).
V: While I probably still would have watched, it was pretty bad, with almost hilariously stupid science (really, apparently taking DNA samples can only be accomplished through TORTURE of innocent humans, who must then be convinced into thinking it was all a dream). The finale did promise some developments which might have led to some renewed interest, like the death of the annoying kid, and the good guys joining the government in the underground quest against the V's but with it still being written by the same people, it would only lead to more badness.
No Ordinary Family: I've said it before, but the show was very 'by the numbers'... often I could predict the 'shocking plot twists' because it was the most obvious way to go from there. So I can't be too disappointed about this, either. I'd have watched it, if it continued, but I won't be loosing sleep over what happens to the characters - I don't even entirely remember what happened in the finale, except for a couple key points.
Other shows that were cancelled I'd already given up on.
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Date: 2011-06-01 11:24 pm (UTC)Oh, man, they can't get rid of Oracle. She's awesome, and her story shouldn't be erased. *cranky*
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Date: 2011-06-02 11:33 am (UTC)Rumors are also that they're ditching the Superman/Lois marriage and setting the clock back there too (probably to when she didn't know he was Superman), and no doubt in a whole lot of other areas, which also kind of sucks, but like I said, the Batverse was my entry point to DC as a whole, and if they close that, it doesn't matter as much to me.