The weekly experiment in Action Comics in the 90s -- beginning with #600 it went weekly for awhile with a variety of short, rotating series -- didn't work out very well.
I liked DC's more recent 52, which had an ongoing mystery or two, introduced new concepts and led into Infinite Crisis. Twas pretty good.
But COUNTDOWN was pretty awful. Ballyhooed as changing the fac eof the DC Universe forever, etc., it instead concentrated on minor characters, spiralled around a Ray Palmer quest that added up to not very much and had no real payoff at all except (spoiler warning), the 'death' of Darkseid who miraculously appears may not be dead at all in the new Final Crisis.
And the new TRINITY by Busiek and Bagley might be the worst of all. Mindless fights with a couple of panels of plot development in a short first story, then a back-up feature that only confuses things.
Spider-Man at least is doing three or four issue arcs, far more coherent and satisfying, whatever you think of the 'rebooted' web-spinner.
My bottom line: I like the idea of weekly comics -- the pace, the weekly gratification, the cliffhangers. But DC's seem to be getting worse and worse, inhabiting some alternate universe of Slugfest Theatre because we can't think of enough stuff to fill the pages for 52 weeks.
TRINITY needs to get way better way fast... Right now it is just about worthless...
david
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