The Dark Group Solicitations May 2013

[Outside_85]

I think you misread his post.

That's unlikely.

[Mac!]

why Hellblazer is so much better, other than it's a Vertigo book.

It's written by Peter Milligan.

[Bruce Kent]

For those wondering, Charles Soule has said he didn't go back and re-read the Moore run on Swamp Thing, specifically because he didn't want to be aping it.

He's doing his own thing, which is definitely the way to go I think. Whether I like it or not, I don't know, but part of Snyder's problem was that he was regurgitating a lot of Moore's Swamp Thing stuff without adding enough of his own. Consider, he contributed exactly one thing -- the Rot -- and he co-contributed even THAT with Lemire.

Not really. The Rot was Snyder's concept. Lemire just added his ideas to it.

[Desaad]

Not really. The Rot was Snyder's concept. Lemire just added his ideas to it.

Yeah, I'm definitely going to take your word for it.

[Rakzo]

Not really. The Rot was Snyder's concept. Lemire just added his ideas to it.

Yeah, I'm definitely going to take your word for it.

Actually, I would say the The Rot started as Lemire's idea of a threat to Animal Man then Snyder started to develope the plot to connect both AM and ST.

It would make sense considering both author's writing styles, Lemire wanted to make the enemy more personal while Snyder wanted to tell a long, damn long, story.

[Dr. Cheesesteak]

What if I cba? The problem I have here is that people immediately starts complaining over this book, while giving no reason at all why Hellblazer is so much better, other than it's a Vertigo book.

Don't forget it was written by British ppl mostly. They're the gods of comics who define the meaning of life in their work!

As for the solicitations, I'm glad Animal Man is finally over the Rotworld arc and the past 2 solicitations seem to be what I was hoping Animal Man would be more about - fun, personal type stories that (hopefully) don't last a year. I may actually pick this one up (along w/ #19).

[The Animal Man]

is anyone else disappointed that swamp thing's going back to his classic appearance....i thought the king of the forest appearance was pretty cool? another thing will swamp thing have anything to do with the green now or will it just be short stand alone stories where he does something random like fight the scarecrow or superman

again shouldn't he be able to destroy the scarecrow unless he got some magic artifact to boost him?