>>149839321 (OP)
I'm something of a Nu52 defender myself, but it's caveats all the way down.
If you were a 'Batman Family' person it was mostly turds all the way down. I liked the early Snyder stuff, Tomasi did solid work on B&R, and Batgirl was the definition of 6/10. Honestly, that's like saying 15% was decent enough, which is not good.
'Superman Family' was utterly worthless dogshit with the exception of Supergirl. That was solid, and they actually played with the language barrier for an extended period, which I liked.
Titans was basically a write-off. Anything Scott Lobdell molested with his retarded fingers was beyond fucking cancerous.
Merging in Vertigo and Wildstorm was destructive, reductive, redundant, and pointless; you've taken R-rated characters, and put them in a world where they cannot function on the scale they were intended for.
With all that said, you had a lot of amazing titles come out of it; Demon Knights, Dial H, I, Vampire, Wonder Woman by Azzarello (fuck your dogshit Amazon lore, it was about time there was a decent WW story with strong art - a worthy sacrifice), All-Star Western, Animal Man, Swamp Thing (both runs, especially Soule), Sword of Sorcery, Aquaman, Earth 2 (forget the name and focus on the first 16 issues before editorial fucked it), etc.
There was great stuff mixed in that we've barely seen the like of since years before, and especially since. "Muh continuity", especially DC's spaghetti continuity, being fucked for 5 years is a small price to pay to get something fucking different.
>"They could've been done the good stuff without the New 52."
They could have. They wouldn't, though. The only reason they did different stuff is because the Nu52 was such a massive marketing push that wasn't just limited to comic stores that it was seen as viable to branch out. It didn't fucking work, but it was the only reason it happened. If you think it could have EVER happened without the Nu52 then you're a business illiterate bitch.
