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

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @ForEveryKindofGeek
    @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +4

    Hey all, if you enjoyed this video, please consider liking, sharing, and if you feel like it, subscribing to my channel! I'd love to keep doing this and any bit of support helps immensely:
    ruclips.net/channel/UC1YTnBnE6TfAnJGAOZlTF8Q?view_as=subscriber

  • @ComicDrake
    @ComicDrake 3 года назад +45

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

    • @ForEveryKindofGeek
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +4

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

  • @YuukitheMighty1
    @YuukitheMighty1 3 года назад +19

    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
    @MutantsInDisguise 7 месяцев назад +1

    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
    @SnapperChannel 3 года назад +12

    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
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +3

      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
      @SnapperChannel 3 года назад

      @@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

  • @retroboyadvance2017
    @retroboyadvance2017 3 года назад +8

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

  • @MattDraper
    @MattDraper 3 года назад +3

    Amazing work as always!

  • @keithgehman3945
    @keithgehman3945 3 года назад +10

    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.

  • @scotthunt4206
    @scotthunt4206 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @keanucomics
    @keanucomics 3 года назад +2

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

    • @ForEveryKindofGeek
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +1

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

  • @littlekinginc124
    @littlekinginc124 3 года назад +13

    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
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +2

      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
      @littlekinginc124 3 года назад

      @@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
      @littlekinginc124 3 года назад

      @@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.

  • @pistaalkohol
    @pistaalkohol 3 года назад +10

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

    • @ForEveryKindofGeek
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +1

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

  • @mitch-TO
    @mitch-TO Год назад +1

    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.

  • @CyniSchism96
    @CyniSchism96 3 года назад +2

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

  • @taylorpechter5422
    @taylorpechter5422 3 года назад +5

    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
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +1

      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.

  • @johntrieschmann3099
    @johntrieschmann3099 3 года назад +2

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

    • @ForEveryKindofGeek
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +1

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

  • @Who_Tye709
    @Who_Tye709 4 месяца назад

    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

  • @rtdc2604
    @rtdc2604 3 года назад +6

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

  • @cosmos1610
    @cosmos1610 3 года назад +3

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

    • @ForEveryKindofGeek
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад

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

  • @TevyaSmolka
    @TevyaSmolka 3 года назад +7

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

    • @ForEveryKindofGeek
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +2

      No arguments here

    • @TevyaSmolka
      @TevyaSmolka 3 года назад +4

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

  • @zemox2534
    @zemox2534 3 года назад +3

    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
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад

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

  • @geeksplainedpod
    @geeksplainedpod 3 года назад +4

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

    • @ForEveryKindofGeek
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад

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

  • @fakemccoy3060
    @fakemccoy3060 2 года назад +2

    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!

  • @troyoboyo17
    @troyoboyo17 3 года назад +3

    52 BABYYYYYY LETS GOOOOOOO

  • @DCMarvelMultiverse
    @DCMarvelMultiverse 2 года назад +3

    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.

  • @pdpablogamez7434
    @pdpablogamez7434 3 года назад +3

    Great video as usual! Keep it up!!

  • @YuukitheMighty1
    @YuukitheMighty1 3 года назад +2

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

  • @katherinealvarez9216
    @katherinealvarez9216 3 года назад +4

    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
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад

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

    • @katherinealvarez9216
      @katherinealvarez9216 3 года назад

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

  • @stephen8805
    @stephen8805 3 года назад +2

    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.

  • @Cassieniemann2541
    @Cassieniemann2541 3 года назад +2

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

  • @armandotorres8962
    @armandotorres8962 2 года назад +2

    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.

  • @Negi2468
    @Negi2468 Год назад

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

  • @Nuff.98
    @Nuff.98 11 дней назад

    Jesse Quick got cake in that thumbnail

  • @HedaKlark
    @HedaKlark 2 года назад +1

    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
    @WarmLillie 3 года назад +6

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

    • @galactic85
      @galactic85 3 года назад

      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
      @zemox2534 3 года назад

      @@galactic85 In other words, the superior 52.

  • @positiveproductions6699
    @positiveproductions6699 3 года назад +2

    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
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  3 года назад +1

      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.

  • @kylecarter1599
    @kylecarter1599 Год назад

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

  • @jaredgarcia8638
    @jaredgarcia8638 2 года назад +1

    So Dark Crisis can be seen as a reformation of 52

    • @ForEveryKindofGeek
      @ForEveryKindofGeek  2 года назад

      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
      @jaredgarcia8638 2 года назад +1

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

  • @katherinealvarez9216
    @katherinealvarez9216 3 года назад +4

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

  • @stephen8805
    @stephen8805 3 года назад

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

  • @pdpablogamez7434
    @pdpablogamez7434 3 года назад +1

    Poo