I hated 52 when it first came out. Too many z-listers, cruddy art, all in all, not impressed. Plus it irked me that they didn't seem to use the full potential of the weekly story device - ie, sometimes only using one or two days per issue.
But now I'm re-reading it all in the trades and I am absolutely loving it. Maybe that's the best way to read it.
Perhaps part of the reason for this is that Countdown is so crap. Really bad art, a very lightweight story, minus-Z list characters, and a story concerned with tying in too much with current events in the DCU. Plus I miss the little next issue preview panels. 52 is such a dense, engaging read, and, sadly, you can't compare Countdown to it.
Maybe 52 is just a one-off classic... I hope not.
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Well I loved 52 from the get-go, but, yes, Countdown, not so much. I find myself being more eager to read the 52 spin-offs than Countdown. Countdown feels like a comic that it treading water until the next big Crisis mini-series debuts. 52 never felt like that, even though it was supposedly moving towards "One Year Later". It's a damn shame, because I think there are a couple of good ideas in there with a lot of possibilities -- dark Mary Marvel and the Donna Troy/Jason Drake team-up.
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