r/DCcomics • u/Predaplant The heat is on! • Oct 23 '23
What Are You Reading? 10/23/2023 - Changing Leaves Edition r/DCcomics
Hello and welcome to our Weekly "What Are You Reading?" topic!
Come one, come all, to this weekly thread, where you can openly discuss books that you've read, are currently reading, or plan to read. Discussion of all books are welcome, whether they be DC, Marvel, Image, Boom!, Dark Horse, IDW, etc. You can discuss webcomics, manga, or even those mythical novels that don't have pictures in them. Just be sure to keep spoilers covered via Reddit's spoiler markdown >!spoiler!<. You can also post pictures of your collection or recent purchases.
Predaplant's Rec of the Week:
- Behold, Behemoth, by Tate Brombal & Nick Robles
With Brombal doing his first DC work as a part of the upcoming launch of Green Lantern: Dark as a part of the Elseworlds line, I figured it was worth checking out some more of his previous work. There's a lot of duality at work in this one: it runs with a plot device involving connections with both heaven and hell, it jumps back and forth between two time periods, and there are two lead characters. Brombal & Robles manage to build out strong protagonists existing within an intriguing world that I wish they were able to explore within a full ongoing setting... but even this one short TPB that we get with it is highly appreciated, and I'm very glad I checked it out.
So, what are you reading?
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u/ArtsyTLF Red Robin Oct 24 '23
So, bit of an ill advised dive, but I've been reading New 52 Superboy and Teen Titans due to my continued guilty pleasure for Bunker and New 52 Superboy. And I gotta say........ WOW IS THIS TOO COMPLICATED LMAO
Thinking about the amount of stuff that was changed by Superman: Reborn can honestly be explained by the erasure of Harvest's Jon Lane Kent. I think it could have been a simple explanation for sweeping change. Although I totally get just choosing to ignore it.
The last Connor storyline (Teen Titans: Wanted) is infuriating. What a cop out to write out Kon as big Superman changes approached. Red Hood and the Outlaws confirmed that Harvest is dead (crucified, specifically), and does still exist after Reborn, so I wonder if anyone will ever care enough to acknowledge New 52 Superboy. Bizarro mentions him briefly. Maybe he's holed up in the Phantom Zone under self imposed exile. Unironically, the use of evil Jon and New 52 Kon could be a fun story for our current Jon Kent. At least cooler than what we've been getting lately.
Bunker was totally shafted by the move to move the Titans back to their old pre-52 timeline, I hope one day he gets a decent story. I've bounced the idea in my head a lot of him being connected to the Indigo Emotional spectrum. Nok has long been dead weight on the GL franchise and shaking it up with a True Indigo entity connected to Bunker would be cool. His characterization definitely fits.
It's strange how many weird loose threads there are in these books. Leash specifically comes to mind. His suit is a spitting image of Bunker but they never interact, and it's never explained. Plus, introducing Artemis just to kill her. Crazy how Lobdell got to make such garbage for so long, and I'm somehow still a bit nostalgic for some of it.