Seriously! Really!

A Warning the subject I'm going into is one that probably will make it hard for me to keep my normal polite scholarly tone so I may get a bit colourful in my use of language from here on out.... 

Well I'm making my blog rounds Tuesday morning I head to one of my favourites the informative and fun DC Women Kicking Ass and I see this

It Can be seen in context here apparently Tony Harris is a Comics Artist, I don't know him or any of his work, but what I do see here is the tired old Fanboy bullshit of "Cosplay girls aren't real fans."  And it makes my piss boil that this opinion is so damn prevalent on the Internet from fans and professionals.

Because No One Asked.... My Opinion of DC's New 52 One Year Later.

Last Wednesday saw the release of the final twelfth issue of DC's line wide relaunch, which was an apparent attempt to gain new or lapsed readers. Since a year is passed I figured I'd  Hop on the Internet machine, and give my thoughts to the first year. And overall it's a resounding.

Meh!

The New 52 as it was so "hiply" called Started out strong, mostly on hype (Everything except the bat books is gonna change!!!) but very soon it devolved into same shit different day. True we had status quo changes except the bat books and hip and not so hip artists and writers on all steam but it really scarcely amounted to anything. I think it comes to two things. 

Ugg!

I wasn't planning on writing anything on the wonder blog until I made my "Year in Review of the new 52" then I saw this over at DC Women Kicking Ass.

According to writer Geoff Johns This is the new Status Quo, not a one off. Sometimes I despair.

(Goes and gets a whisky)

Alright,

This is a pairing that has never worked for me, and I've had to endure it in almost every Elseworlds as well as most of the Millerverse. It is the most fanwankish of fanwankish stories, as it only works in the physical, and usually stems from an over thought carnal fantasy ala Brody Bruce ... and really who wants to be him. really other than he's super, she's super, and she's invulnerable enough, what reason would there be for this pairing? On a character level they have close to nothing in common, they're even too far apart for "opposites attract" Superman's a farm boy She's an Amazon princess who is also a Demigod. True they care about justice but that only makes them co workers*. leaving once again the only point for them being together, sex. So in other words fanwank.

I will concede I may be being unfair to this, it may be a fling that leads Superman to fully realise how much he loves Lois, and Wonder Woman Steve Trevor, but with the way they've been sidelining Lois...  One thing I'll give em at least they did this early in the new DC universe, instead of trying to tack it on later.

Geoff Johns is a capable writer, even great from time to time, but this is why I have never liked him. He writes well in the technical sense, but many of his stories that I've experienced, have been Fanboy pandering, and don't let the talk of daring new ideas fool you, giving a group of vocal fans** exactly what they want is not daring and new it's pandering, but that's for the aforementioned "Year in Review of the new 52". This is not new and daring it's slash fiction.



*Also as a writer I believe that a superhero's best friend and or lover should not be a superhero, there is much more drama and capability for humanization of the superhuman character, that way. This opinion doesn't enter into my argument, but fuels it, so it's presented as an aside. 

**Silver Age fans I'm betting, many Dark Age fans hold a Lois is the love of his life opinion, and modern "new readers" raised on the DC Cartoons would probably prefer a Batman\Wonder Woman pairing ala "Justice League the Animated Series." 

It's Official.

Recently Lego Released a really cool new game, Lego DC Super Heroes.

What? Never heard of it?

Of course you haven't because it's not in fact called that it's Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes. The Game is probably awesome don't get me wrong. No Lego mashup game has been less. But it makes me sad, because it's now official, the DC Superheroes are now Batman's sidekicks, at least in marketing. 

I have gotten so sick in the recent years about DC and Warner's inability or unwillingness to market any of their heroes except batman, it started bad last year when the big re boot of DC The New 52 happened and Batman was left untouched (save for the removal of a few support characters). Really DC you thought nothing at all was wrong with Batman's status quo these days? Of course not the character is in those movies by that Nolan guy that print money for us right now. Feh. 


Honestly, Batman has not worked for me as a character for a while now, but that aside, it just burns me that They have so little faith in a game of DC Superheroes under any name other than Batman. And don't give me that "they already had a Batman Game" line. DC Superheroes as a name can sell, there are many cartoons with the characters and the kids love 'em. Plus even if the name recognition isn't there. Anyone when they saw a Lego version of Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and yes Batman it will excite. But did DC, WB, or Lego  have faith? 

No the made the DC Universe Batman's sidekicks. 

Rant over.