This week, Vince and I tackle a couple other new DC 52 titles; Animal Man and Swamp Thing, which share some story elements. Vince quite likes both, though I simply could not bring myself to care that much for either title.
What I did love however, was Avenging Spider-Man #3! Insanely awesome.
Discussion
Animal Man
Swamp Thing
What We’re Reading
Vince: Demon Knights
Roger: Avenging Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man
New Releases
Marvel
Captain America #8
Carnage USA #2
Incredible Hulk #5
Journey into Mystery #634
New Mutants #37
Powers #8
Scarlet Spider #2
Secret Avengers #22
Venom #13.1
Wolverine and the X-Men #5
Fantastic Four Season One Hardcover
DC
Batman & Robin #6
Demon Knights #6
Green Lantern #6
Huntress #5
Other
The Strain #3 (Dark Horse)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol 1: Change is Constant (IDW)
Thief of Thieves #1 (Image)
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I think the point of the defenders is that this isn’t that bad a comic, it’s aarvege, maybe slightly below aarvege and is being singled out because of its high profile. There were truly excellent super-hero comics in the DC relaunch (Batwoman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, Animal Man, Action Comics) and some which are much worse than JL#1 (Legion Lost, Legion of Super-heroes, Deathstroke, Mr. Terrific). JL #1 is bang in the middle tier of quality (in my opinion), it just feel slightly spiteful to single it out for harsh criticism when there are considerably worse super hero comics out there in any of the big two.