New 52 didn’t last even 5 years and I’ve heard some things like Batman and green lantern were good during this time but does anything else stand out as being the few good things during this period?

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If so, what was their relationship like?

I don’t have access to the dc showcase but I’m assuming she’s from that

Super sorry. But I'm new to comics and I am in love. I have always been a super big fan of the hero's and now at 27 I decided to dive in and now see how much I missed. I started with the 1962 spiderman and I'm at issue 13 and in love. I want to read dc too and got these because I thought this was the correct order. I have the dc app and the marvel app. I read batman year one and robin year one and now reading nightwing year one. Sorry for the long post. Basically just want any insight I can get and if this is the correct order or if I'm missing a lot.

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Like say a policeman got a lucky shot on the joker and hit him somewhere potentially fatal, would batman do his best to keep the joker alive (cpr vague surgery etc)

I haven't read the comics so sorry if this question is already answered. I've seen a YouTube short saying Wonder Woman killed him, but in another short it said Superboy Prime killed him. So who actually did it?

This is a long one boys.

In DC the Olympians are real. They seem to be "more real" then say, the Egyptian gods in the Sandman books. They don't seem to "feed off worship" in the same way and are just as powerful even though no one believes in them anymore. Atlantis is not a mythical "story made real" like in the Books of Magic Series (Yes I know technically everything in DC is a story made real). Its an objective place that existed even when people stopped believing in it. Zeus (and sometime Hera) is so powerful he has become a member of the Quintessence along side beings like Phantom Stranger and Highfather. The Quintessence is the highest authority in the MULTIVERSE. In the DC All In special they state that each individual member could kill Darkseid....But the Greek gods pretty much only show up in WW comics.

Wonder Women books are often treated as insignificant because her larger mythos only applies in her books. Ill start with the basic things. If Zeus is a member of the Quintessence and exists outside earth and spacetime why is he only worshiped on earth? The Guardians of the Universe are members of the Quintessence and they are known on every planet. Imagine a Wonder Woman story where she travels to other planets and meets aspects of Zeus on Mars of Thanagar.

Then there are the other Olympians. Hermes, the literal god of speed in DC, has nothing to do with the Speedforce. Aphrodite, goddess of love, has nothing to do with the Desire of the Endless or even the Star Sapphire Corps who gain power from love. Demeter, goddess of plants, has nothing to do with the Green. Artemis, goddess of animals, has nothing to do with the Red. In DC there is a literal SAGE force that is the source of wisdom and it is completely unrelated to the goddess of wisdom. Imagine a WW story where she has to deal with all these cosmic forces to appease the Olympians.

DC cant decide what they want from Greek Gods. In Ancient Greece, and in the original WW comics, they are thought of as pieces of the fabric of reality. Then later in comics you kind of get the impression that they are just really powerful superheroes from other dimensions. Like we aren't expected to believe Hermes could beat the Flash in a race. But then Neil Gaiman came along and decided that everything magical in DC is based around stories. So WW is punching a story when she fights Aries and Aquaman comes from a land of stories that came into existence because we believed in it. -Technically everything in DC is a story and human collective unconscious retcons reality. But gods in Neil Gaiman's books are "more" stories because they feed off belief-

This is part of the reason why the WW lore keeps changing. No one knows what to do with it. They need to decide, are the Olympians Gods, Superheroes, or Stories?

When Sin was introduced, their relationship was parent/child. Sin used "sister" because "mother" brought back bad memories. But, the current BOP run depicts them as sisters.

Which do you prefer?

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Hi,

I’m a guy who read some but not a lot of DC back in the 80s (Perez’s WW, Batman Year One and Two, TEEN TITANS, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Checkmate, Starman) but mostly stuck with Marvel, and now I’ve got the DCU Infinite subscription and want to catch up on the good stuff that I missed. I’m already very familiar with some of the big notes - HUSH and LAST HALLOWEEN, ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, King’s WW, the original GL/GA…but what do you recommend I check out?

Thanks!

I've been wondering about this for a day or two, but is Crazy Jane based off of Legion? I know there are drastic differences in their character, with Kay being able to create new alters but not new powers, while Legion can, and how Kay has less control over them unlike how Legion does.

This is just a weird thought that popped into my head, but I realized it's irrationally bothered me for a while.

Why does Red Hood wear the Bat-Logo on his chest? He's not bat-themed in the slightest. A large part of his character post resurrection is how much he's against Bruce's way of handling things, and not being tied to Batman's shadow or even association.

And off and on, we've seen countless times Batman explaining how important and sacred the mantle and symbol of Batman is to him and others, so it feels weird that he'd allow Jason to plaster a red bat on his chest when Todd is literally against everything he represents.

I guess you could argue it's like a badge to symbolize he's a member of the "Bat-Family' when they're all on good or tolerable terms, but as a sucker for good, clean costume design, it's always just annoyed me that the "Red Hood" designed a costume/combat outfit and at some point just thought "Yeah, a nice bat right here to symbolize...my hoodness? To let people know I'm friends with Batman? I'm a Red Hood but also a bat?"

So, if we think from Existentialist point of view, we can say that,

-> Jim Gordon - Idealist, Represent's Sartre's "Bad Faith". -> Joker - Nihilist, victim of post modernism. -> Batman - The Authentic Person - Didn't give in to nihilism and not restrained by Bad Faith like Gordon.

Do you guys agree?? 🤔

What could DC do now? Is DC rivals realistic?

I think its bad writing, Batman not giving hal a chance in Green Lantern : Rebirth, it felt forced to me 😐