I have gotten used to the Fables series of books so I had almost forgotten how gloriously free the artwork could be in a pretty mainstream superhero story nowadays. It is everything a reboot should be, new persona, tastefully updated milieu, new baddies, old baddies, reconnection with some old friends, new friends, and artwork that will knock your socks off. So it is with a tinge of bittersweetness that I have to tell you this book is just marvelous. Excuse me, I have to move this soap box out of the way now. Pangloss and I are concerned this world is once again a the best of all possible worlds.
DC hired a gay scab/stooge to continue the comic and smooth the whole thing over starting with issue #25, so as far as Dr. Well we here at goodreads all know what happens to free speech when the big corporations get involved now don't we.
The whole thing reeks of the comics-are-bad-for-you stigma that I thought the genre of "graphic novels" had shaken off decades ago. DC made some weak (as in hypocritical) response about superheroes never having healthy and happy lives, maybe another stereotype that should go out the window as well.
Little did I realize that DC had already screwed the pooch by running off the writer/illustrators when they tampered with their lesbian story line. My daughter actually hipped me to this book since she is a brilliant student and quite the comic aficionado.
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