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Thursday, March 30, 2006

A.V. Club looks at One Year Later

The Onion's A.V. Club takes a look at DC's One Year Later titles (some spoilers below):

Leaving aside the ethics of stringing along superhero-comics fans with one event after another—including the soon-to-debut weekly series 52, which will fill in the gaps between Infinite Crisis and "One Year Later"—what's most galling is that the latest set of remodels leaves the DC Universe even messier than it was one year ago. There are duplicate Nightwings on the streets, Hawkman has been retitled Hawkgirl, Catwoman has had a baby (and trained a replacement Catwoman), Black Canary has left the Birds Of Prey (and been replaced by a former villain), Supergirl has joined The Legion Of Super-Heroes, Green Arrow is the mayor of his city, and super-teams from The Teen Titans to The Outsiders have been restaffed. And since nearly every "One Year Later" issue ends on a cliffhanger, the stories are bound to get even more complicated. So much for bringing in new readers.

Despite these complaints, they have positive comments on the Superman titles and Sword of Aquaman. In their Comics of Note section, they also review Mom's Cancer, La Perdida, Ganges and several other books.

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