The Outsiders Appreciation/Discussion thread 2020

[lemonpeace]

Hill has mentioned that his next plan for the book (should it survive) does involve stuff for Duke, which I know will please some posters here, especially lemonpeace. Hope it's dope and his fans respond well. Hell, I hope Hill can make me one. I buy this book for Jefferson, Tatsu and Dexter Soy's art. Everything else is a bonus.

I seen this and I wanna believe, I really do, but DC has demonstrated over and over that creators can promise the world and still not deliver; sometimes even if they want to deliver, you never know when DC's gonna pull the leash. i actually do like Bryan Hill, I think he is a solid writer, but his Outsiders run hasn't been without it's issues - the main thing being it's pacing. he has had some legitimately promising issues but sometimes it's like he's kinda spinning his wheels and having these characters talk about a lot of the same stuff over and over with superficial-feeling payoff, or in service of a pay off down the road. It's an issue that highlights his television background, he's playing to the next episode, which is fine in television because it's a weekly basis usually but comic issues are too spread out to be so overtly decompressed to the point of thinning out the momentum. if he does get a season 2 (which I hope for, if for no other reason than to see more from one of DC's most diverse titles and creative teams)
he needs to find a better build-up/pay-off balance, and for the love of god drop or pull back on Batman and let Black Lightning play that dominant role. Batman should be M, not Bond.

My problem isn't that Duke hasn't done stuff.

It's that he's only interacting with the same people (Cass, Bats and now Shiva) over and over. It feels like the new Outsiders are walled off from the old ones, for whatever reason.

I have no real issue with them needing to link up with the old Outsiders (it's a different incarnation of the team that's like 50% old members anyway) so much as I would like to see them dealing with characters from the wider DC universe in general. even still, they've had some pretty interesting appearances: we've had Lady Shiva, Ras al Ghul, Superman, Martian Manhunter - which is pretty good considering how large the cast is.