DC's Post "Infinite Crisis"/"One Year Later" Blunders (Possible Spoilers)

[Spider-Man]

So, we all know that DC has been having a bit of a rough time since Infinite Crisis and 52 folded. One Year Later has been judged a misfire and Countdown isn't doing so hot right now. On top of that, some fans are upset over how they've handled some of their most beloved characters (i.e., The Question, to name one) and also their erratic and embarrasing creative team/shipping problems. What do you think have been some of their biggest blunders?

While I could easily go on and on about how they have dropped the ball on so many characters there is one thing that bugs me, and that is now they really messed up on their hyped creative teams. Books were late, some storylines have yet to be concluded, and "hot artists" only contributed a handful of comics before being dumped. Gary Frank is now the regular artist on the Johns/Doner penned Action Comics. Shouldn't he have been there from the beginning of One Year Later? And same with Tony Daniel, taking over for Kubert on Batman. DC made some really bad judgments when it came to all of this and they're paying the price for it, no question. Sales are down and fans are leaving in drones. They need a miracle or two to get back what they've lost here.

And personally I would have preferred Gary Frank on Action Comics from the get-go.

[Jin Kazama]

I actually like the current Batman comic. Which is weird, because I thought that once they introduced his son into cannon, it'd be horrible. But the comic is very good, and it had some tough shoes to fill after "Under The Hood."

The biggest ball dropped has to be Nightwing. That comic went from being the best out there to the worst. The Blockbuster arc was amazing, and now it's barely readable. All because they wanted to kill him and backed out. Now they have zero direction for him. He's one of my favorite characters, but I'd almost have rather they did kill him than it to be as bad as he's been lately.

[GameBrain]

This is by no means DC's biggest blunder but it bugs the hell outta me.

What's with Superman's new powers? Since OYL, his brain has supposedly started working faster and can now hold more information. In addition, something about Supes is messing with electromagnetic fields, which allows him to disrupt electronics when he can control it and regressing his office equipment to a typewriter the rest of the time. What's up with that? It only comes up from time to time in Action Comics and the man's title book. Are they going to bother to explain this at any point, or is it just going to be quietly retconned until somebody decides to resurrect the idea and follow up on it 2 years from now?

[Anthonynotes]

This is by no means DC's biggest blunder but it bugs the hell outta me.

What's with Superman's new powers? Since OYL, his brain has supposedly started working faster and can now hold more information. In addition, something about Supes is messing with electromagnetic fields, which allows him to disrupt electronics when he can control it and regressing his office equipment to a typewriter the rest of the time. What's up with that? It only comes up from time to time in Action Comics and the man's title book. Are they going to bother to explain this at any point, or is it just going to be quietly retconned until somebody decides to resurrect the idea and follow up on it 2 years from now?

Superman having a photographic memory/super-intelligence isn't really a new power---more a revival/update of his old pre-Crisis super-intelligence power. Not gotten wind of that electromagnetic thing though (huh?!), but I've just been reading "Superman" (not "Action")...

[Robin2099]

I actually like the current Batman comic. Which is weird, because I thought that once they introduced his son into cannon, it'd be horrible. But the comic is very good, and it had some tough shoes to fill after "Under The Hood."

The biggest ball dropped has to be Nightwing. That comic went from being the best out there to the worst. The Blockbuster arc was amazing, and now it's barely readable. All because they wanted to kill him and backed out. Now they have zero direction for him. He's one of my favorite characters, but I'd almost have rather they did kill him than it to be as bad as he's been lately.
Seriously? Wolfmans run on Nightwing has been head and shoulders over the crap that his title had been featuring up until that point.

[Stu]

There have been serious problems with DC's book for a while now - Detective Comics keeps getting fill in writers to my annoyance, the best creative coup in recent memory (Donner on Action Comics) has been hindered by the lateness of what can only be described as average artwork and Grant Morrison on Batman has just wandered off the radar.

Countdown doesn't interest me whatsoever and everything seems to be tying into it now.

On the plus side of things though, whenever we do getting Dini penning Detective, it usually is insanely brilliant. Especially the recent two-parter, that reveal was just spectacular. The best Batman story I've read since The Long Halloween, easily.

[Hawkman]

so this may not be the bigist blunder but it shur tics me off the fact that one year latter saw it fit to turn Hawkman into Hawlkgirl witch by it self isn't that bad but after one year of crapy writing and crapy art the comic is now canceld there was no lets give anther team a shot there was no hey lets switch it back to hawkman but canceled and that my frends sucks bigtime