Dammit DC!

52's FINALLY almost over. I thought this finally meant, you know, a non-weekly drain on my wallet. I promised myself I wouldn't buy another weekly series.

But...darnit. Countdown looks really freaking cool.

Heck, Jimmy Olsen is involved! Jimmy Olsen. And Mary Marvel! Though Pied Piper is a villain again? That makes me sad. I know Bart's much less interesting than Wally, but that's no reason to go all Dark Side, man!

From the sound of it, this one won't be a flashback, which is very cool. I liked 52 a lot, but I thought the flashback format weakened it. Especially when all this stuff that was big during 52 never got mentioned OYL. (Though considering how long a year in comics tends to be, I'm not terribly surprised anyway. Things get forgotten pretty quickly.) Of course a lot of it's because they hadn't thought of everything cool pre-OYL, but still, it did make things a little awkward.

And I guess this means Kyle does survive Ion 12! (I never thought they'd kill him, well, permanently anyway. He's an appealing, interesting character that's proven himself capable of carrying a series, and he's in a franchise that supports multiple heroes without them becoming redundant. Of course, they could always kill him in Countdown... Fortunately the franchise also supports gratuitous resurrections.)

It does sound like the format will be different than 52, which is probably a plus. I do like 52, but no one can say it's without flaw. A different approach sounds interesting.

I'm also not really surprised by a new weekly comic, 52 proved it could be successful after all. And anything described as the "shit blows up" book can't be bad by my standards.

...darnit. I did like having money once upon a time. :-)