Happenstance

Gail Simone just tweeted:

Here's a thing. Gail Simone is the new Batgirl writer. :)

Finished reading Volume 1 last night and really enjoyed it. Writing felt slightly dated at times with a bit too much emphasis on telling me what was happening on the page but apart from that I thought it was great. Its been nice to read some Avengers stuff that I wasnt familiar with.

Hopefully should be able to order Volumes 2 and 3 tomorrow.

In the beginning I thought I was enjoying the DCnU but the further its gone along the more im realising thats not the case. The only books I still properly enjoy are Batman, Green Lantern and Aquaman, all 3 which barely anything changed (less so for Aquaman but I would say hes on track from where we left him in Brightest Day.) Maybe Justice League gets a pass but im not entirely sold yet.

Superman especially annoys me. Gone is the character that everyone looked up to and would always say the right thing, I loved that about his character. Now we just have a mopey guy in crappy looking armour.


I really wanted to embrace this new universe and not cling to the past but it doesnt look like its worked out that way.