Why do you think the "Year of the Villain" isn't catching the reader's interest?

[manwhohaseverything]

Start a year of the superpets. Then i will call it interesting.

[Pohzee]

Better question, why would I care about it?

[Mr.B]

Its too kino.

[Frontier]

Isn't it too early to say Year of the Villain hasn't caught on yet? Can we really quantify the fact that it doesn't seem to be catching on?

[Robanker]

Isn't it too early to say Year of the Villain hasn't caught on yet? Can we really quantify the fact that it doesn't seem to be catching on?

Yeah, isn't November when everything hits the fan and becomes "the day evil won."

You know, like the last time.

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God, I really hate Didio in charge.

[BohemiaDrinker]

You know, like the last time.

That's not the last time. That's at least two or three times ago.

[Robanker]

That's not the last time. That's at least two or three times ago.

It's the last time I remember them using that phrase specifically in the promotional material. While I'm sure it happened during Forever Evil, I was a lapsed reader at that point and can't confirm it myself.

[Tzigone]

Because new powers does not an interesting villain make?

Villains should be foils. They should have depth. They need not be redeemed, but they at least should be sympathetic or understandable. Only a few villains can get away with sheer menace, or evilness.

Since we know the villains won't win, we need something to absorb us into the story. Using the villains as foils does that. Extra power does not.

Giving the Rogues powers, for instance, takes away from their every-man status and turns them into gimmicks

I agree on the powers. But I'm not fond of sympathetic or understandable villains - very few should be that, to me. I miss old-school-in-it-for-the-money villains. I do not like woobying, which sympathetic portrayals lead to. More than that, my sympathy dries up very, very quickly if they're hurting people, and it's just an extreme irritation to read the story and think I'm supposed to feel sorry for this murderer. Like I said about Nora-based Freeze - it's good for one or maybe two stories, but then my sympathy has dried up if he's hurting/killing people.

[Frontier]

It's the last time I remember them using that phrase specifically in the promotional material. While I'm sure it happened during Forever Evil, I was a lapsed reader at that point and can't confirm it myself.

I know they used that "villains only have to win once" thing during the story.

[Jekyll]

I’ll admit I don’t really care for the premise, but so far the JL title is at least fun and I FINALLY am getting my JSA fix.

[Lee Stone]

This would be good for a three-issue story in the Justice League.
But not as an event.
Been done. To death.
And frankly, I'm just tired of DC glorifying the villains.

[Rac7d*]

becasue we already did this in forever evil and it gets old
not to mention the heores have been off their game

[Arnoldoaad]

It just doesnt feel like a real event at all

I personally disliked Trinity War and Forever Evil but those felt more like events than this

[Skedatz]

It just doesnt feel like a real event at all

I personally disliked Trinity War and Forever Evil but those felt more like events than this

I was looking to say the same thing.

It's an event, but it almost doesn't feel like one. Almost like a weird lead-up or through-line or tone for DC, like Marvel's "The Heroic Age." And it doesn't help that DC has like three or four "events" going on right now in Doomsday Clock, Event Leviathan, the upcoming 5G, and DCeased (which I know isn't really an event, but it sort of feels like one to me for some reason.) It's not that comics should/shouldn't have multiple things going on, but it feels like there's some clashing headlines and YotV just doesn't stack up for me. It's not to say I'm not enjoying the titles or the concept or anything, it's just not the same.

[Jekyll]

This would be good for a three-issue story in the Justice League.
But not as an event.
Been done. To death.
And frankly, I'm just tired of DC glorifying the villains.

Absolutely agree with everything you said. Villains aren’t why I read comics.