52 | What Is The True Legacy Of The DC Universe?

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

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[@ComicDrake]

Thank you so much for having me in this as my favorite boy!

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Always glad to have you, Drake! It wouldn't be the same without ya!

[@YuukitheMighty1]

The Black Adam story was so devastating. Really made me feel for Black Adam as he was just trying to do good for his family and his people.

[@MutantsInDisguise]

52 is easily the best weekly comic I've ever read. Action, adventure, drama, what else could you ask for in a superhero comic? Plus, I love Johns, Morrison, Rucka, and Waid chose to focus on DC's lesser known characters. The best ones are easily both Renee Montoya and Black Adam.

[@SnapperChannel]

Late to the party, but great video dude. 52 remains one of my favorite DC comics. It helped me get into characters I never really gave any thought about such as Steel, Renee Montoya/Question, Black Adam and Booster Gold. I wish DC would take more lessons from this story is showed you don’t need your flagship characters to tell a good story. After all, DC was all about legacy but the company would rather make 100 more Batman titles.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks so much! I totally agree with you, too. To me, comic books are at their most fun when they’re pushing what’s new and different. I don’t have a problem with more popular heroes like Batman, but when they start to monopolize the publisher’s output, the DC Universe starts to feel a lot smaller.

[@SnapperChannel]

@@ForEveryKindofGeek oh yeah I love Batman too but I don’t want DC to keep making mostly Batman book while other parts of the universe go underrepresented

[@pistaalkohol]

I love 52, I had problems when I first wanted to read it. Every search engine assumed I wanted some new 52 books.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

I know, right?? I always have to put the release year in too

[@retroboyadvance2017]

I haven't finished the video, however, I've binged and loved each one. Thanks for giving me something to watch and enjoy 👍🏼😁

[@keithgehman3945]

I have started 52 a few times. It gets a little hard to keep up with with so many plotlines but this video really got me to want to keep reading. Reminded me what excited me about DC in the first place. Also good job on mentioning the behind the scenes drama. It's so unfortunate but has to be mentioned.

[@troyoboyo17]

52 BABYYYYYY LETS GOOOOOOO

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@MattDraper]

Amazing work as always!

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks a million, Matt!

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Here's the thing that irks me about looking back on this otherwise great series: after 1886, the Big Three were NOT that important. WW was a "new hero" in the continuity, Batman was isolated in Gotham with his Pre-Crisis place in the superhero community just considered still canon but not really stated so, and Superman was rendered so generic by Byrne that he had no corner of the community for himself and no real influence on much judging how everyone else's history got hinted or told. Following IC, historical aspects were restored with Pre-Crisis elements, but those tales and anecdotes were published largely after this one. The series was great, but at the time of publication, it seemed as the Trinity was (in story wise) overstated. You never felt the vacancy these three heroes left because they were just another bunch of heroes after 86. We knew canon was altered, but did not know how far and with what specifically at the time. Hate to say, but Marvel did the absence of major heroes betters with its status quo prior to Heroes Return.

[@littlekinginc124]

This was the first big event that got me into reading western comic (used to be an 'only manga' kid). I'm going to purchase it on sale at comixology and give it another read.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Can't recommend it enough. I came across it right around the time I was watching Justice League Unlimited for the first time, and it opened me up to a whole new world of cool characters I wouldn't have known about otherwise.

[@littlekinginc124]

@@ForEveryKindofGeek Same here. Have you ever though of doing a video on Hickman's East of West Comic? I think it deserves a ton of love, as it is the best of Hickmans work so far IMO.

[@littlekinginc124]

@@ForEveryKindofGeek And if you do a video on it, I call dibs on voicing Archibald, who is the most savage southern speaker I've ever seen in comic history.

[@scotthunt4206]

These are really high quality video essays. Between this and your overview of Hickman's X run, you just earned a very enthusiastic new subscriber.

[@mitch-TO]

Late to watch, but wanted to say this is a great video. Thanks. I’ve meant to read 52 for years, but never got around to it. Knowing that Dan Didio hated it makes me want to read it immediately. I’ll almost certainly love it.

[@Who_Tye709]

I only ever got to read the first 3 issues of this series but I was in love with it back when I was in middle school when It was first coming out. Thank you for making a video explaining the series, I never got the full story till now

[@johntrieschmann3099]

I haven’t read 52 but your video makes it sounds like it’s the exact type of comic I need rn lol.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

I seriously can't recommend it enough. Easily one of the publisher's best stories, in my opinion.

[@YuukitheMighty1]

If Dan Didio hates something you know its gonna be a good book.

[@TevyaSmolka]

I love 52 it was such a awesome story and one of the best dc stories i read in a very long time. :)

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

No arguments here

[@TevyaSmolka]

@@ForEveryKindofGeek indeed and it blows my mind that every time dc tries to replicate 52 they keep failing miserably.

[@taylorpechter5422]

Great video. Hopefully you follow up with some of the stories that came after 52, maybe Batwoman: Elegy or the Renee Question stuff. This is one of my favorite DC stories and I am happy someone has finally covered it.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks so much! I'm a massive Question mark (ha!), and I'd love to cover more of Renee's stories at some point in the future.

[@keanucomics]

This was so much fun to be a part of!!

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Glad to hear it, man! It was great to have you on this.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

I loved 52 so friggin much. I borrowed the tradebacks (I didn't read the comics until years after the fact) and bought them. I even read the novelization.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

I've always been curious about the novelization, seems like a pretty cool concept!

[@katherinealvarez9216]

@@ForEveryKindofGeek it's okay. They did have to cut out a lot. One being the Steel plot

[@zemox2534]

Another great video. I have heard of 52, and read the first volume. After watching this video, I plan on buying the compete collection one day.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Glad to hear it! 52's easily one of my favorites, and I'd definitely recommend checking it out.

[@rtdc2604]

How do you still have so few subscribers?! You make some of the best comic book content I've seen in ages.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks so much, it means the world to hear that!!

[@cosmos1610]

Your videos are of incredible quality its a crime that you dont get the attention you deserve

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks so much! And hey, as long as I get to talk about stuff I love I’m counting that as a win 👍

[@CyniSchism96]

Production quality is as always, top tier. Thanks for another video

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

So glad you liked it, thanks for checking it out!

[@Cassieniemann2541]

How does this have under 1000 views? I thought this guy would have at least 100k!

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

haha thanks so much!

[@geeksplainedpod]

Another homerun man. This video rules, and you are raising the bar for everyone else on this platform. Well done!

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks so much, Aeric! But a video's as only good as its VO cast, it wouldn't be the same without you guys!

[@pdpablogamez7434]

Great video as usual! Keep it up!!

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks!

[@fakemccoy3060]

Hey man. As both a comics fan and as a fellow motion designer, I gotta say I love what you're doing with these. I've watched this and the Court of Owls one and I love them both. Great job!

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks so much!

[@Nuff.98]

Jesse Quick got cake in that thumbnail

[@Negi2468]

52 made me love booster gold fckin epic. DC reader since zero hour

[@armandotorres8962]

Ha! Doesn't surprise me DiDio despised the story. It was a story that had no real big editorial involvement and was largely off the backs of the writers. The man loves micro management and hates any story that embraces change or accepts legacy, the latter of which has become infamous with DiDio considering his hatred of the Titans, especially Dick Grayson. It's why the New 52 came to be as it erased legacy and makes the characters DiDio grew up younger.

[@stephen8805]

I may have to pick this series up in trade. I have dropped current day DC and I’m going back to the 2000s books which I think was the golden age of DC. Finished identity crisis and infinite crisis so this is next.

[@kylecarter1599]

Marvel and DC should take the 52 idea and make weekly anthologies with all their characters and make a true American manga magazine.

[@HedaKlark]

Never read a superhero comic in my life but i wanted to start readin ab harley quinn, batwoman and catwoman so i thought id start by reading 52.

[@WarmLillie]

The New 52 was definitely brought something new to the table.

[@galactic85]

This isn't about the new 52. It's about the comic series 52 by Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Geoff Johns.

[@zemox2534]

@@galactic85 In other words, the superior 52.

[@positiveproductions6699]

I just wanted to ask is prime Earth what we're in now in terms of DC or is that like the 616 universe of marvel where it's like that was the early universe before they started using multiverse? Thanks

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

I think prime earth is what DC uses for all of its current ongoing stories. 52 actually took place on something called "New Earth," but during Flashpoint that was rebooted into what became Prime Earth.

[@jaredgarcia8638]

So Dark Crisis can be seen as a reformation of 52

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

I've seen a lot of comparisons between the two for sure. I still haven't read Dark Crisis but if it shares any DNA with 52 I'm definitely giving it a shot.

[@jaredgarcia8638]

@@ForEveryKindofGeek well before the story's beginning, the Justice League has been taken out by pariah

[@katherinealvarez9216]

Ray Fisher, a brave man and honestly, I hope he has a long and happy career

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Couldn't agree more.

[@stephen8805]

You’re way too kind about DC in 2021. The company is creatively dead.

[@pdpablogamez7434]

Poo