The Dark family / line: 8 months in, which is the best?

[FailureByDesign]

Swamp Thing, though Animal Man deserves recognition.

[Anthony_Matthews]

I, Vampire and Justice League Dark were pretty much neck and neck until the crossover. I Vampire pulled away, so that's my pick, although really it could have been any of the books I read from this line.

[Rawhide Kid]

I voted for Frankenstein Agent of SHADE because it is a fun action oriented comic with a lot of pseudo-science in it. Never a dull moment, we got sci-fi, monsters and fantasy.
Also, the arcs are short, we are not stick with a story that never seems to end like in JLA Dark (7 issues for that ?) or Demon Knights (8 issues and we are still on the same bloody village !!!).

Animal Man would be my second choice even if the story doesn't move as fast as I would like. But it is creepy and well done.
Resurrection Man is a good read but somehow fails to be as good as the first incarnation.

[LoneNecromancer]

Demon Knights all the way.

I'm a little surprised with the results so far. For some reason I was expecting Animal Man to be in the lead by a looooong way. Seems I can't go anywhere comic related without people raving about it. But I guess this just shows the strength of the Dark line overall that the votes are so varied.

I voted Demon Knights too, but yeah, I expected Animal Man to be in the lead.

I think what's happened is that Swamp Thing has been given the edge lately when it didn't before. The first few months of Swamp Thing were rife with people complaining about things moving slowly or over-exposition and the whole lack of actual Swampy, and it eventually got to the point that as other series were finishing their first arcs, the guy on the cover still had yet to appear half a year in. Some people even seemed annoyed because they felt it'd drag down the pacing of Animal Man due to the crossover, and issue 6 seems to have provoked a love-hate response for that reason. Now Swamp Thing has had Swampy finally show up and it feels like he's settling things, whereas Animal Man seems to be just picking back up (see Buddy kicking a goat/sheep's head off)with no end in sight, so it seems more people are preferring the former now.

Though I suspect that may change again in the next couple months.

[Rakzo]

Animal Man but the rest of the Dark family is pretty impressive too.

[Let's Kill Hitler]

Animal Man with Swamp Thing a close second.

Though I'm now ready for both series to hurry up and get to Deadworld.

[El Sombrero]

Animal Man is the best, but with Travel Foreman leaving, it's gone downhill a bit.

1. Animal Man
2. Demon Knights - fantastic book. Superb characters, great art, really solid storylines and drama.
3. Justice League Dark - awesome art, wicked cool cast of characters. Needs better plotlines, which Lemire should address.
4. Swamp Thing - overrated. Probably the weakest thing Snyder's written IMO, still not bad though. The art is gorgeous.
5. I, Vampire - nice art, good writing, I don't really care though.
6. Frankenstein - I think the concept is stupid and not really executed all that well. The art is really cool.
7. Resurrection Man - I could not care less, I often forget this title exists

[Reginleif]

Where is the "None" option? Im buying none of these and honestly dont care about them

[fishbonex]

Voted Swamp Thing, though I pull and love every single book in the line.

[fishbonex]

Where is the "None" option? Im buying none of these and honestly dont care about them

Then why do you care to reply in the thread, besides the obvious pretentious reasons.. Oh wait, I guess that's it.

[Joebleau]

JL:D and Resurection man ... the others are not even in the radar

[MajorHoy]

Where is the "None" option? Im buying none of these and honestly dont care about them

If you're not buying / not liking any of these titles, then in this case don't vote.

It's not so much a "Do you like" or "How do you feel about this line" thread as it is a "Which is the best" thread, so "none" didn't really seem to fit in.

(There are one or two of these polls where I didn't vote because I'm not reading any of the titles and don't really have any strong feelings.)

[Reginleif]

If you're not buying / not liking any of these titles, then in this case don't vote.

It's not so much a "Do you like" or "How do you feel about this line" thread as it is a "Which is the best" thread, so "none" didn't really seem to fit in.

(There are one or two of these polls where I didn't vote because I'm not reading any of the titles and don't really have any strong feelings.)

I think this guy answered it well

Then why do you care to reply in the thread, besides the obvious pretentious reasons.. Oh wait, I guess that's it.

[Reginleif]

Actually I just remembered that I like Frank though I borrow the issues so I have not read them in awhile. mabey I'll by the tpb

[paulski]

Swamp Thing ahead of Animal Man for me. And whilst it's a good group of books, I still put the Bat family of titles ahead of the Dark.