Human Target by Tom King and Greg Smallwood

[Saithor]

Dude you are worrying over nothing.

HIC was a mainline event, Human Target is a Black Label maxi-series. There is absolutely no point of comparison there beyond the fact that they both share the same writer.

Like seriously how many Black Label stories have actually looped back into effecting the main continuity? The events of King's Mister Miracle aren't ever referenced and that wasn't even a Black Label comic.

Didn’t Orion start acting like his Tom King black label counterpart shortly after that miniseries was finished?

[Mantis-Ray]

Didn’t Orion start acting like his Tom King black label counterpart shortly after that miniseries was finished?

In fairness the New Genesis Gods have been portrayed a lot more antagonistically in recent works. They were the main villains of a huge Green Lantern crossover during the New 52 I recall.

Its hardly a Tom King specific issue. Thats more a general issue of the misuse of the New Gods brand.

[CaptCleghorn]

Didn’t Orion start acting like his Tom King black label counterpart shortly after that miniseries was finished?

King's Mister Miracle was a dream. Anyone taking anything from the first eleven issues of that series really didn't read it.

[DABellWrites]

DC has no confidence in the overwhelmingly white male superhero reader, yes, and for good reason. This audience has consistently shown a disinterest in non-sexualized superheroine comics.

Outside of that insular market of man children, DC has plenty of confidence in Supergirl

So, you're saying all other readership doesn't want sexualized superheroes?

[G-Man27]

Just read the Tales Of The Human Target, and while I am slightly upset I didn't catch on to the twist of what all three stories had in common until the big reveal, but the ending really does make you rethink the first half of the series and wonder where the second half is going to go, especially with the implications of her motivations...

[TheKryptonMan]

Honestly, King is one of the only writers at DC I will give an honest chance to. I don't love everything he's written (HIC, Adam Strange, Supergirl), but the stuff of his that I have loved I've LOVED (his Batman run, Mr. Miracle, Human Target, Batman/Catwoman, Superman - Up, Up & Away).

I have King's Batman run , Adam Strange , Supergirl , and half the Bat/Cat series. Only picked up half because of too many delays.
But I have to agree that you have to give him a chance on anything really, because sometimes it's really good.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

So, you're saying all other readership doesn't want sexualized superheroes?

Of course not. Audiences are not monolithic entities.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Of course not. Audiences are not monolithic entities.

And besides that, in less than 10 minutes on google, you can find better porn than anything DC would/should print

[thefinalguy]

Fire grew up poor? Or did King just add that in?

[Eskana]

Fire grew up poor? Or did King just add that in?

Pretty sure he made that up. In "Checkmate," it was revealed that even though Bea DID do model work, she was actually trained by her father as a spy and there were some pictures of her training as a child in the yard of a mansion. Could she still have "grown up poor" and the house just wasn't theirs? Possibly. But it's more likely, knowing King, that he just didn't do his homework. Or ignored it.

[Eskana]

I thought that King might at least put together some entertaining stories in the "Tales of the Human Target," at least something to justify where he was coming from with his series. Instead, it felt really hard to read (with the constant jumping from story to story with no transition) and very odd.
I don't think he really improved on his take of Guy or Booster, and Fire's was just kind of odd. I get what he was going for, but I think he missed the mark with the storytelling aspect. There are better ways to show Fire's loyalty than having her hang out around somebody's dead body.

And Booster is not an idiot... seriously wish he'd stop characterizing him like that. And Guy... well, it seemed that Guy was more or less authentic to his 1980s personality. But it didn't match up with how he acted, really, in King's Human Target series so far. So I'm not sure what to make of it.

[Frontier]

I really liked the art in Fire's portion of the story.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Fire grew up poor? Or did King just add that in?

Added it.

Which is odd, as he went with Ice's super racist origin.

[D.Z]

Different universe.

[Pete26]

I'm sorry but that top cover looks like an episode of Bewitched.