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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 94459, member: 3864"] Oh, big thumbs up for [I]Superman vs. the Elite[/I]. They actually brought back Manchester Black for a recent-ish Superman book by Morrison, [I]Superman and the Authority[/I]. It's a bit short, and got kinda swallowed by an event - a decently interesting one where Superman liberates Warworld as a gladiator trapped in the pits, Planet Hulk by any other name - but it was really cooking for awhile. Well that's funny, I think I actually dropped off around the same time you did, or just a bit earlier. Geoff Johns and his weird obsession with Alan Moore and Watchmen was exhausting, and his implications always bothered me. The short version is that "Watchmen" is blamed for bringing a kind of violence to comics, but Johns writes consistently bloody books himself. Johns wrote a whole event that sees Dr. Manhattan as the "evil mastermind" behind a new Crisis, but he doesn't have anything constructive to say. He replays some of the greatest hits from the original story with new characters, and ends with basically the same coda about Superman that he used in Infinite Crisis about a decade earlier. (The artwork was nice, admittedly, though it was maybe trying too hard to mimic Watchmen and Dave Gibbons work there.) Moving on though, Batman being related to one of his greatest enemies is fun drama *but* I agree that they downplayed him being an international super-criminal too many times. That being said, Morrison followed up his run and Damien's story with Batman Incorporated, and had Talia step into her fathers shoes to tear down Bruce's world, and *that* was pretty fun. I've had to go back and read a lot of the DC stuff from, say, 2015-2021; there's always exceptions, but a lot of it's pretty bleak. I haven't come across much that made me think "I really missed out, putting down comics for awhile." [/QUOTE]

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