My 10 Most Anticipated DCnU Comics (And Why I'm So Excited For Them)

With more than a month to go before the release of the first DCnU comic, there's not much to do besides think about how good or bad these comics might be. I really like keeping track of my initial thoughts about something before it comes out. It's fun for me to see where I really called it and where I really missed the mark. Before a new television series starts, I often make predictions as to how well they'll do, and I guess this feature is sort of like that, on a larger scale. I have a lot more to say about some books than others, but I have plenty of opinions about everything DC's putting out, and I plan to voice them all.

I'm a positive person, and it's always more fun for me to talk about things I'm genuinely excited about it. These are all titles I really want to see succeed, and I hope that in talking about why I think they'll be great I'm able to drum up a little enthusiasm for them among others. There are a lot of books I think have promise, but these are the ten that, more than any others, I really can't wait to get a chance to read.

1. Action Comics

Superman is one of my all-time favorite characters. Grant Morrison is one of my all-time favorite comic writers. It doesn't get much better than this, folks! The cover pictured above is very likely to be pictured on my wall, and every time Morrison's talked about his plans for the comic, he's managed to raise my already very high excitement levels to a fever pitch. Superman as a champion for the socially oppressed? Yes please! A comics with so much going on that there are no scene cuts in the entire issue? OH GOD WHY CAN'T THIS COMIC COME OUT ALREADY.

There's a part of me that wishes Grant Morrison would keep writing Batman forever. He's introduced so much to the Bat mythos, and I feel like a lot of that will never be fully explored, even with Batman Inc. coming back next year. But All-Star Superman has shown that combining Supes and Morrison results in pure comics joy, and if he can recapture even a little of that magic for this book, I'm sure it'll be one of my favorites every month.

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I love comic books. I have for as long as I can remember, and I suspect I'll keep on loving them no matter what the comic industry throws at me. I enjoy books from many different publishers, including Image, Marvel, and Dark Horse, but DC has always had the top place in my heart. They gave me Batman, the character who helped me to stay passionate about cape comics year after year. They gave me Booster Gold, and helped me to love and appreciate the company's entire roster of B and C list heroes. They gave me Superman, who took me way too long to appreciate, but who is now an inspiration to me on a daily basis. And then they told me that everything was going to change.

The news of the DC relaunch came as I was going through a rough time in my life, and as a result of this, my response wasn't particularly positive. I wanted my comics to be my constant, something I could count on with the rest of my life was falling apart. The idea that characters I loved might change until they were unrecognizable or vanish from continuity altogether was painful to me. I didn't want to lose the history of Young Justice or the Justice Society of America. I didn't want Babs to stop being Oracle or for Mr. Terrific to lose his wonderful jacket. It was just too much change, and I was miserable about it.

But somewhere in the flood of new announcements, my feelings about the relaunch began to change. I still thought all the lines on the new costumes looked silly, and I still thought they were wasting years worth of potential stories, but in the midst of all these feelings I started to feel some excitement. Part of this was due to the contagious enthusiasm I saw in creator interviews, but something else had started to form in my head. A challenge.

And so, I decided that I would read every single one of the new 52 comics, and review them as well. I also decided that I wanted to encourage others to do the same thing, and to try and collect as many reviews of these new comics as I possibly could.

52 issues is an awful lot of comics, and I imagine I won't be reviewing many of them past the first issue. But I'm committed to giving each of these new comics a chance, and to keep on reviewing them for as long as I'm reading them. If people enjoy this site, I may even branch out into reviewing more than just new DC comics.

I fully expect to hate some of DC's new comics. But I'm pretty sure I'll like or just plain feel neutral to a whole lot more, and I imagine I'll love a couple of them too. No matter what, I want to have a whole lot of fun with the DCnU, and I hope that the books make this challenge worthwhile.

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