Just to follow up, I spent the afternoon catching up on some of the new books.
Green Arrow, I'm ashamed to say, I approve. I'm not fond of the in-your-face Apple comparison trying to pose as hipness, and the new costume...eh, but I like the character for the first time, and I get a kick out of his past reincarnations (the whiny liberal and the pissy avenger) working as his interns.
Mister Terrific...it'd be great if it didn't seem to overlap so much with Green Arrow, and I could have done without "look at these integers," which was probably a typo. But that aside, it's fast-paced and packed with weird ideas, which I haven't seen in a comic in a long time.
Action Comics? Granted, I had low expectations with Grant Morrison running things, but this is what Superman should've been like for a long time. The artwork is seriously muddy and I'm sick to death of the "heat vision eyes," but this Superman is "edgy" enough to bring the kids (and Alan Moore-worshipping adults) in without sacrificing Superman as a hero and nice guy. I hope it's to stay, and the little bit of Jimmy and Lois I see looks promising. New Luthor, though, stinks.
(However...he's still a newspaper guy? Seriously? Is that even really a job anymore...? I thought everybody just reprinted the AP and Reuters feeds.)
Hawk and Dove is weird. Bland story and apparently everything's still in continuity for them, but it's got good characterization that's surprisingly true to the Kesels' series, I think. Then there's Liefeld's art. It's ugly. Very, very ugly. Unspeakably ugly. But, it's also solidly done. Everybody may look like they're on steroids and have motorcycle helmets for skulls and bad facelifts, but the craft side of it, the storytelling aspects, are probably the best I've seen of the "new 52" so far, and a million times better than anything I've seen Liefeld do.
And the last I had time for today was Static Shock. I don't have any familiarity with the character, but I think I like it, for the most part. The story's straightforward enough to jump right in (and like Mister Terrific, started right in the action), but the dialogue...Scott McDaniel needs to meet some black people, I think, rather than, say, trying to guess what they might sound like by watching Robin Williams pretend to be black.
So, Justice League aside, and granting that I'm only looking at a handful of issues, the revamp actually looks surprisingly good, so far.