Hey that Black Magick arc ending was pretty crazy!

Everything was fine for me until the last two minutes of the episode, at which point much goodwill was lost.

I don't necessarily disagree. Unfortunately that argument will never sell upwards in a corporate environment, which both the Big Two have to deal with. I think DC has made some good efforts to diversify and broaden their market, but their bad decisions in the years before that have poisoned the well.

Well, Annie Wu came on for an issue between Staples and Fish, and I think that helped ease the transition. It's really hard to top Staples' art on the book, but I think Fish has a great cartoony style that gives the book a lot of energy. It's not as objectively pretty as Staples' work was, but it's no slouch.

Yeah, I think it just felt like part of the pile-on. I follow a fair number of non-DC creators on social media, and there was this wave of anger at DC last night. Like I said, it's not all unwarranted by any means, and McKelvie has a good point, though I think it ignores that a lot of the attempts DC has made to…

I believe that Gleason has been confirmed through interactions on Twitter with Johns to be very much involved with Rebirth on some level. I'd expect Rob Williams to stick around too.

The all-powerful market share is how they talk upwards to corporate though. There's the rub.

32, but I believe 17 of them are double shipping. Which… woof.

It was a pretty good week. Nothing really disappointed me, so just a bunch of pretty solid books.

Oh man, Demon Knights was so much fun. That was a wacky series. The New52 tried some really crazy stuff early on.

Oh, and I'm also really sad to see the following titles go:

I see a Bleeding Cool headline coming…

It still annoys me that DC arbitrarily waits to price drop until after two months, otherwise I'd switch to a lot of things digitally as well rather than just, say, dropping them.

I'm with everyone else on my thoughts. Very cautiously hopeful, but really need to see creative teams and other information yet to come before I properly pass judgment. Returning a sense of legacy to the DCU can only be good.

Agreed. Very tricky. It certainly didn't ruin my enjoyment of the series, and the development basically set the entirety of Bloodshot's current direction in motion (Magic looking an awful lot like a more fragile Kay…), but it nevertheless stuck like a rock in the shoe I just can't shake.

Yes, I think it's probably one of Lemire's better comics out recently. It has a very strong identity (due in no small part to the art style) and feels very much like its own thing. But it also makes it clearer that the death was essentially a building block for another character. So, again, it was very well done, but…

I enjoyed The Valiant a lot (that Paolo Rivera art…), but found myself pretty torn on it by the end. The big death that gives the book its stakes really bummed me out. The Valiant universe lacks for a lot of good female characters, and the speedy offing of this one really frustrated me.

Here's how I think this went:

Convergence then did more damage by being a pretty awful crossover with an out-of-nowhere writer who'd never written comics before. Never mind the abandoning of the line for two months.

I find this comment interesting, since people complained about the "DC Art Style" for so long.