You won't regret it, Trevor.

Kevin, I'm thinking the JL book was more obviously mass ordered than DD, but DD was completely sold out according to the shop's message placard in the slot. I mean, this is Laughing Ogre in NoVA, and they're pretty good about keeping stock even on a niche book like DD. So I was pleasantly surprised to see DD sold out, bummed not to find the next ish, which apparently was delayed as indicated.

This is a shop smack near George Mason U., and quite a few students frequent it. I'm hoping they are the ones reading DD, and not aging men such as myself.

I feel like there were a lot of JL issues, more than I expected with the hype, on the day after release. I don't usually hit the shop right after a big release, and I can't say how many books had gone out the door. There was some discussion with a customer, a post-college grad and his wife and little kid, apparently the dude a former reader who'd checked out sometime in the past and was curious. I don't think there was a sale. In this economy, a starting family might not be up for that extra $4 hit.

So, if nothing else, I'll assume former readers are curious enough to step foot into a shop, even if they aren't buying yet. I say "yet" because, like many things popular and great ("Northern Exposure", "Millennium"), people don't arrive until late.

I'm still curious what "fun" means within the Nu 52.

Daredevil (pretty much the only superhero comic I can honestly use the term with), was fun because it had humor, and not smarmy self-referential humor but story-ingrained character-derived humor. It was fun because it portrayed a standard superhero fight scene with an evergreen approach and brilliant layouts. It was fun because I didn't even think about any melodramatic portents of doom, just the excitement of a sadly-novel approach of clear storytelling that will enable me to buy the book regularly.

Is that the kind of "fun" you all are talking about?

Chad, fun in not knowing what to expect.  For the first time in a VERY long time, I have no idea what to expect.  And to me, that's fun.  Just being able to open a comic and to not know.

Yes, I know the characters.  Yes, I grew up with them.  But they're revamped, for good or bad, and you won't know quite what to expect now.  They're familiar, yet different.

Man alive, those sales numbers are bad... didn't realize so many books were under 20k in sales.

How can Marvel legitmately say a book like Deadpool is a "mega-popular hit" when it only sells 25,000 per month.

What am I missing?

Chad, fun in not knowing what to expect.  For the first time in a VERY long time, I have no idea what to expect.  And to me, that's fun.  Just being able to open a comic and to not know.

Yes, I know the characters.  Yes, I grew up with them.  But they're revamped, for good or bad, and you won't know quite what to expect now.  They're familiar, yet different.

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Two thoughts about this. One, talented writers should be able to do that without throwing out most of the history and continuity.  Most of the titles I'm seeing could have been made to work without doing so. Otherwise, what I expect to see is a lot of retreads disguised as new: Batman and Superman meeting for the first time. Again. The new villains Brainiac, Titano, Chemo, Terra Man, Abra Kadabra, Mirror Master, etc. Barry Allen ultimately romancing and winning Iris West (or her death). The only thing I'm unsure of is exactly how they'll screw it all up this time. When and who will this continuity's Hawkworld Hawkman be?

Two, if what excites you is that you are just now "discovering" Superman and his mythos for the "first time" is what is turning me off. I've done that already too many times. When I pick up a Superman comic, I expect the plot and the villains and those concepts to excite me and take me somewhere new, but part of the attraction of Superman et al is that I already "know" the characters and status quo. I don't pick up a Sherlock Holmes story in order to see a character I don't recognize. I get books with new characters and/or creator-owned characters for that particular fix. Each serves a particular niche.