DC's The New 52 often gets a bad reputation, there are a few series such as Batman by Scott
Snyder and Justice League by Geoff Johns that do get remembered fondly,
but here are a few titles that I think deserve a little bit more attention! WOOF WOOF! Hey guys,
it's me Marcus AKA The Maddogg and we're back with another video! now kicking off this list is a book
that I don't think is a complete Hidden Gem but I couldn't do a new 52 underrated titles without
mentioning it and that's because I'm going with Jeff lumia's run on Green Arrow but out of this
list this probably is the most well known which is why I'm putting it on here first but I think it's
so underrated when you consider everything that you had going against it but the new 52 was really
fast and loose and deciding which team he's got to live and which team he's got to die and there was
very rarely a second thought towards it as you'll notice throughout the rest of this list and for a
starting title to get to issue 17 and have no real Buzz about it yeah it wasn't looking good yet for
some reason Green Arrow was given a second shot at life with one of the biggest names that they could
get Jeff lemie him and Andrea Sorrentino gave us not only one of the best runs from the new 52
but one of the best story lines for Oliver Queen sure it's going to detractors and people will say
that it's not the Oliver Queen that they know and love but at the end of the day this is just pure
entertainment they are especially from 2012 was very different from what you'd expect to see from
either of the big two Publishers in the storyline avoided a lot of the hiccups that other runs from
this era could often fall victim to even though the new 52 Is My Jam there are a lot of other
titles that haven't really aged as well whereas I feel if nobody told you you wouldn't really know
that Green Arrow by Jeff Lemire was even a part of the new 52 but it was and it became a great
highlight of this imprint and its inclusion on this list should be a surprise to nobody
after a reviewed it last year it had a fantastic start and engaging mystery throughout and it even
had quite a satisfying ending and yeah you might have already known about this one but when I hear
people talking about the best series coming out of the new 52 this often seems to be left out of
the conversation next up I'm going with Grayson yeah this is another one that isn't complete on
known but it is a red enough and I know I'm biased because now wing is my favorite character over at
DC I even like the room before this so it was written by Kyle Higgins which was a little bit
more of a classic Nightwing story even though we had that new red costume which in all honesty I
didn't hate but spy Thrill is a story that reminds me of Mission Impossible but starring Dick Grayson
yeah okay sign me up and it just gives it this creative freedom that you wouldn't expect with the
first Robin without taking so many Liberties like what happened to him during the rebirth either
don't worry I'm not talking about the Tom Taylor stuff that's a return to form and having Tom King
on this title gave it an added sense of realism that you often don't get with many books and it's
also clear that Tim Celia was writing this had a massive love for the character and just wanted to
write an enjoyable story and also still feel like this book would work well today for somebody who
just wants a break from Modern superheroes and again that if you hear the concept of this it
sounds like it'd be something that's Goofy and cheesy and it just wouldn't work and don't get
me wrong it's not exactly the born identity but Grayson just does something right and for me it
just represents what the new 52 was supposed to be it was about Taking Chances and writing creative
and fun and unique stories it's definitely worth checking out today especially since the Omnibus
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below and you can use these codes as many times as you like so yeah there were a lot of bat family
books during the New 52 some of which are the best that this imprint has to offer and then there were
others like that Catwoman series that I don't think I can go into detail on here and then there
just seems to be a lot of other books on this middle section that were entertaining but they're
often falling into the Shadow with the Batman and one of those series that definitely deserves
to stand on its own two feet was batwing and this was also one of those bizarre series that just got
better the longer the Run went on and that's not Me Knocking the initial couple of arcs when David
was done in the wings because that gave us this really unique technologically advanced detective
story that was set outside of Gotham but for me this story really became something special when
Luke Fox entered the picture Jimmy Paul miati and Justin Gray also took over the writing which is
something that often feels overlooked and even if I feel like the art wasn't the best this is still
one of the best bat family books that came out in the new 52 which again is saying something because
I cannot stress how many of these are weird but part of me is never gonna forgive DC because he
did solicit an Omnibus of it all and then later you know canceled it which shouldn't surprise me
and joining them on this list is going to be Red Lanterns this is one of those series that
genuinely baffles me which isn't that difficult because it isn't talked about nearly as much as
it should be especially when you've got names like Peter melgan and Charles Soul working on
it spiraling out to Jeff Johnson's historic run on Green Lantern which I've already spoke about
in a video talk about why I think it's just the best this title took the most interesting group
out of the spectrum and gave them their own series and fleshed out the characters in a concept that
sounds like it would have been canceled after a couple of issues but I thought to myself that
if they were leading their own Series in the wind just the foil to another hero it would have ended
up feeling like Overkill and they would have fallen into a category with other characters
like Deadpool or Harley Quinn that they're pretty much just as a gimmick because you want to see how
crazy it can get but this series managed to expand on their Mythos and just give them an extra layer
of depth and that alone probably would have made it good enough to be included on this list but
the stuff that they did with Guy Gardner just puts it on that next level he also had great crossovers
with other members of a lantern course so if you wanted to expand your knowledge on anybody that's
ever held a ring then this would also be a great start the Art's also really enjoyable throughout
and just manages to capture the rage that every member of this team feels and I wish more people
knew about this series he actually saddens me that I have to count this as under 18. another
one I'm going with world's finest yeah maybe this is me just sharing my bias towards power girl
I've already done a video talk about who she is because I just want more people to know about this
character but this series followed the F2 visions of Robin and Supergirl as he migrated across to
the primary to adopt the new personas of Huntress and Power Girl George Perez did the art for the
first part and it's just a fun series that doesn't take itself too seriously there's this pseudo
buddy cop Vibe that's going on between Helena and Kevin and I just love that they get enough time on
their own but also as a Duo so if you only know a little bit about one character or the other or
you might not know anything about I've read them this is actually a pretty nice introduction and
even though towards the end it does ditch them off for the more traditional world's finest duo with
Superman and Batman which isn't to be confused with the other New 52 series called Batman and
Superman which I might touch on later this still tells a story that's worth reading and despite
this not being one of the cream of the crop titles for the new 52 he is still one of the longest
recent runs that you can read if you want to get into Power good following that though I'm going
with Omak and don't fact check me on this one but the O in the title stands for oh what could
have been I swear this title was canceled before anybody even had time to enjoy the first issue but
it was one of the first titles that they printed that really showed the variety that they could
bring to the table with this relaunch you know at least until it got canceled and I didn't know a
lot about omac when this first got announced just so he got mentioned a lot during Infinite Crisis
but what the omac new 52 series did was make me feel a bit more connected to the wider DC Mythos
sure it's a relaunch and they pretty much wiped away the continuity but because of this I went
back and I looked into Kobe's career this style which was big bold and dynamic was something that
I hadn't really seen in single issues and because I wanted to see more of this I did go back to some
of those older Kirby books and I had a newfound appreciation for them so this title did a lot for
me and it's such a shame that it was cut short as early as it was we only got eight issues of this
but it wasn't interesting plan between action and sci-fi that introduced me into some of the
bigger Concepts within the DC Universe so yeah we did only get eight issues but that's better than
nothing and I guess I'll take it I'm not really going with any kind of official numbered order to
these but next up I'm gonna go with Frankenstein agent of shade I had the choice of a character
becoming public domain this was another title from the first wave of books that just couldn't seem to
maintain any kind of momentum despite the fact it was written by both Jeff Lemire and Matt Kent and
I probably should have mentioned this way early on but when the new 52 first started they divided the
books into different families but there was about six or seven of them and the most underrated of
them all was the dark it also just felt like DC didn't have a way to categorize these and if it
wouldn't have been the dark they probably would have just called this other but this was where
all the supernatural stuff went on despite the fact that there was another group of books that
was just called The Edge but this series was a perfect mix of horror in action as Frankenstein
LED his own team of Creature Commandos and they operated like an army unit against Supernatural
threats later on in the series the organization of shade itself came into question which meant
that this was one those series that always kept me guessing the art was also quite unique with this
rough and Makey look to it and it just had this great consistent tone throughout and admittedly
I forgot that this series existed until I saw Frankenstein showing up again in other titles
like tomasi and Gleason's run on Superman and Batman and Robin and if nothing else I just find
it a bit ironic that this series was never brought back to life again this list isn't numbered but I
had to put this in the runner-up place because it says too and this is one of those runs that
I feel would have done much better if it would have come out with the initial batch of books it
was written by James Robinson and later on by Tom Taylor and it was set in an alternate universe and
there's no prizes if you guess it's in it too and it's this great reimagining of the members of the
JSA after the Batman Superman and Wonder Woman of F2 disappear Alan Scott and Jay Garrick and a slew
of other established members form a new team to defend the planet and the majority of the story
arcs within this run felt bigger in scope because it could take more risks because he didn't have
to worry about affecting all the titles and because it wasn't constrained to that main
continuity this really felt like it was something different and over the course of the 32 issues he
introduced different members and was allowed to take liberties with them and it's strange that
in a company-wide relaunch that allowed for new stories and creative choices the one that took the
most risks was one that was sat on a completely different cave to begin with now anytime I do
one of these list type videos there's always at least two people in the comments that get offended
because the book that they are thinking of doesn't appear as if I've got some kind of ability to read
minds or time travel and just go back and redo the video but before we jump into my number one
pick I'm just going to give you some honorable mentions I said it before Batman Superman pretty
much anytime this Duo comes together I'm going to enjoy it but Greg Pat worked on this series
and I remember really liking those opening issues the Art's also pretty fantastic throughout and I
definitely think this is worth checking out tell him which was a spin-off series that started over
at Batman it was written by Scott Snyder and James tinney in IV two big names that really
just helped to expand a character that was quite new to the universe but I think they did so in a
really believable way Justice League of America not to be confused with Justice League or the
other seven Justice League titles that existed during this imprint but this was an offshoot that
was still written by Jeff johns but you had some of the Lesser known characters and I think this
is where Martian Manhunter ended up secret Origins was a great Anthology series and each issue looked
at a few different characters and I'm also going to recommend secret six by Gail Simone and in all
honesty I almost forgot that this was part of the new 52 because it came so late into the imprint
it's pretty much just a return to form for Gail Simone I feel like she really got shafted during
the New 52 but all of the ones that she did were really enjoyable but I truly believe that the most
underrated run in the new 52 was All-Star Western and in all honesty one of the most underrated
characters throughout all of DC is Jonah Hex and if it wasn't for that movie that thankfully all
of us had pretty much forgotten now this probably would have just been his own title it was written
by Justin Gray and Jimmy palmiati who already had a wealth of experience with this character and he
pretty much just carries forward the same vibe that they had during the regular series which
unfortunately I haven't managed to read all of because it seems like DC really just doesn't want
to collect it but what the new 52 allowed them to do was inject that cowboy western Vibe but
in the modern day and also include Booster Gold do I really need to say anything more about why
this was a great book and admittedly this is a series of two halves but both of which are
great originally there wasn't that confidence to just make this a Jonah Hex book so it was him but
also alongside Amadeus Arkham he also put a backup feature in each issue which was some really great
Standalone stories but then once they were past that initial cancellation fee it just went back to
being a great Jonah Hex story but in a present-day setting and that gave him the opportunity to
interact with other characters within the DC Universe that you might not have done before
it went on for a good number of years but it still doesn't get talked about when people remember the
new 52 and it actually had an ending that felt satisfying while still being a great next chapter
for this character it was pretty much the perfect mix of everything that I love from The New 52 and
everything that came from the universe before it and because of that it's always going to be one of
my favorite series that came out of this imprint and it's also going to be the most underrated but
that's the video and hopefully you enjoyed it even though I know there is a section of
the internet that just loves to tell you how much they hate the new 52 but I love it and hopefully
you do as well but I'm gonna wrap this video up here because I'm losing my voice but until next
time just make sure that you stay safe and stay mad all you dogs with roof say that next video