Six months in, and DC is already taking the axe to 6 titles from their New 52 reboot roster. As was to be expected, the lineup was more or less incredibly bloated, especially with Bat-titles. None of those have been fussed with though, instead a pretty obvious handful of the lesser known characters who weren’t grabbing any new readers (the whole point of New 52 in the first place). The only one that I’m really sad about is Mister Terrific, which I was enjoying even though it was having a little bit of trouble balancing the quiet genius of Michael Holt and their need to include over-the-top action and intrigue.

Hawk & Dove was never going anywhere with Liefeld’s out of touch art, Men of War was fine but I won’t miss it, and I never got the chance to check out Static Shock but I heard it was nothing special. Mainly I’m just surprised that DC is culling the fold so quickly, but I guess when something isn’t working it just isn’t working. As comics have their own relativity, there is a new batch of returning or original titles to fill in the gaps.

I suppose the most notable is the return of an already rebooted Batman Incorporated (more Batman!!), which is still in the hands of Grant Morrison but will take place in a post-Flashpoint universe. Interested to see what, exactly, the effects of that will be. There will also be a new title called G.I. Combat which will be an umbrella for some of the best old DC war titles like The War That Time Forgot and The Unknown Soldier (YES!).

What I’m most excited for is the return of Dial H For Hero, an awesome old title which had no star but instead was an episodic story about a mysterious device that would grant an ordinary person extraordinary powers for a short time. It’s a great comic already, but the read draw for me is the author: fantastic sci-fi novelist China Mieville has been put in charge of the reboot, after a one off issue of Hellblazer in 2008. Mieville (King Rat, Kraken) is, in a word, awesome, and I think this title has great potential.

- Whole Milk