Love him
Too early to tell, give it time
Dislike him
Well to detract from the typical fanboy mentality, i would say give the character time to grow. Most young people are overeager, and ambitious, why would this young man be any different. Further more why are some people trying to use that to say he's a worthless and can't-shouldn't be used. The thing I'll say is where the heck can he fit in at?? the batfamily is so darn big as is.
Outsiders will appear in Tec first and then there are plans for them down the road according to Snyder.
I really don't likr thar they give again a solo to one of their new creation, while Dick and Barbara are the only of the more establiched charcaters that get one.
So lets see the pages of complaints about those books like Mother Panic, Hanbaara Barrera books, All New SUperman, Superwoman and others before the Duke bashing starts.
Funny it's an issue when it's DUKE but not everybody else.
We are going to ignore the folks in charge who have issues with Tim and his generation and Wally West. When do they get called out instead of these Duke witch hunts.
The books are not done by the Batman editorial/Batman writers.
I have a similar problem with the current Batwoman title, and the previous Talon and Batwing titlles, and the current line up of TEC and I don't see much of a point in bringining the outsiders back into the continuity.
Voting for the 1st time went with love him because there is no like option. I like duke . The character has done nothing but grow on me.
Yeah, just using the examples, I don't know much about Mother Panic but the concept is interesting, Superwoman is a mess and I don't really see too many people sticking their head out for it, and the Hanna Barbera books are mostly for a different market. New Super-Man though is the most recent example of a countpoint to all the people who have said to give Duke time. See, they knew what they were doing. All new setting, all new characters, and yet it's one of the best Rebirth titles, being a critical darling despite its low sales, among those who do read it, I've never seen anyone call it worse than "Good", and within the first 8 issues, I'd come to really care for the members of the Chinese Trinity, Kenan and Peng becoming two new favorites of mine, and with how her character has been acting these past few issues, Avery is on her way as well. No multiple years of build up, just great new stories with excellent new characters.
Plus you know something's good when Pwns and I can actually agree on it.
Oh, and just giving my current thoughts: Still indifferent.
While I'm definitely frustrated with Duke's push and upcoming solo title, he's still too bland for me to say I hate him. As such, I will be giving the first issue of his solo a shot. But that's it. It is going to get one issue to completely sell me on Duke as a character, and prove that he's worthy of a solo. Unless it wins me over, I'm done.
I like him. But he needs a bit of spark to him, a bit more character injected into him. It seems odd for him to have a solo at this point, I'm in no way against it, but it's purely because he hasn't got a codename nor a solid schtick yet. Maybe Metal will change that for me.