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Originally Posted by Andanzas
Well, I just purchased 52. I hope you understand it was your fault.  |
I just dug out my old TPBs to do a re-read over the weekend (except for Volume Two; I still can't find wherever I left Volume Two
), and it's still as enjoyable as I remembered it.
And a bonus of the TPBs vs the single issues (there were backup stories in the singles that weren't collected, according to Wikipedia) is that the creators added extra commentary about all the issues and their decision-making and notes about what they were intending to do with the characters as each week of the serial went by, which may be helpful when reading.
Tell you what, if it happens that 52 really just doesn't click with you for whatever reason (it's rather heavier on DC continuity in-jokes than I remembered, but in a way that hopefully doesn't impede understanding the story and the creators explain in the commentary anyway, and moves a bit away from some of the stuff that I described in my comment upthread that may have been the main pull for you and $20 USD is kind of pricey for a story you might end up not liking and won't re-read), please let me know and I'll PM over the codes for these 2 $10 Kobo gift cards (in CAD, but should be convertible to the currency of wherever you have your Kobo account set) I got months ago and am not using, so you can at least recoup part of your costs and maybe get that Grant Morrison-containing Indian comics Humble Bundle if you end up wishing you'd saved your money for that instead.
(This offer does kind of depend on your having and using a Kobo account, sorry.)
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Originally Posted by Andanzas
I also got The Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Nights, and Superman: Doomed.
Grant Morrison's Final Crisis and Batman RIP will have to wait. The reviews were mixed and both seemed to be rather convoluted and difficult for someone not familiar with the DC universe.
I hope I made a good choice.
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Sometimes TV Tropes has nifty write-up pages on comic book characters, series, and event storylines which can be helpful in deciding what to read (or just seeing what people consider to be the important/funny/awesome stuff worth reading for in them) or avoid (Identity Crisis has its own page of Stuff That Doesn't Make Sense And Why, and Countdown to Final Crisis is mocked, it is mocked for so very many reasons).
Here's their
index page for the various DC comics and the
index for some of the more prominent characters (or just the ones that have some really dedicated fans; and you can sometimes get descriptions of the minor characters associated with a major one such as
Superman by checking to see if there's a Characters tab at the top of the page), if you're interested, and the write-ups before you get to the descriptions of the tropes used are generally non-spoilery (or not more than you'd get from reading a blurb on the back of the collection which wants to tell you a couple of the key plot points and maybe a twist or two).
I generally find that they're a better choice for quickly looking up stuff than dedicated comics fansites (which are better for getting a more in-depth going-over of some story point you might not have understood), as there are fewer spoilers for the storylines if I haven't read them since they just do scattered comments on the tropes used and certain stuff that happens that caught their attention rather than going over the entire plot and What It Means™, and it's a good way to get an impression of how stuff looks to a mixed audience of dedicated comics fans and more casual readers.
As an aside, I finally started watching my Blu-Rays of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold animated series, and I can give it a firm thumbs-up for the episodes I watched, which present a more Silver Age sort of light-hearted Batman with sillier gadgets teaming up with characters from all over the DCU. Not quite as high quality or with as much story depth as the original DCAU cartoons, but still a good and enjoyable approach to the character, with entertaining tales to watch.