3 of the books I read on a regular basis, one of which was on my favorites list, are being/have been cancelled by DC. It's rather sad really, because they were all rather good books. I will say though, that Shadowpact did have a lull there before Matt Sturges took over from Willingham.
Yes, these three books I speak of are Shadowpact, All-New Atom, and Infinity Inc. And by the way, DC does a spectacularly bad job of announcing the cancellation.
All New Atom had just started getting good in Remender's story arc. The first two issues? No, not so much. Last two issues? GREAT. There just wasn't a great transition between Gail Simone's take and Remender's take. One more issue of that.
Shadowpact is already over and done with, though apparently we'll see most of those folks in Keith Giffen's Reign in Hell. Looking forward to that, and thankfully, we are seeing members of Shadowpact bump around a little more often than we used to. But still, mystical DC book inside the DC Universe doesn't seem to do fantastically, sadly enough.
And finally, Infinity Inc., which aside from the first issue ads, has probably had the worst promotion by DC, EVER. No interviews with Milligan, no nothing. Which is a shame. Milligan has done some clever work here, with each character's power being someone representing in their power manifestation. And we get to see a bit more of the lives of these kids introduced in 52 than we previously had, not to mention some John Henry Irons action.
For those interested, the first trade of Infinity Inc. just hit this past week. I believe 2 trades of All-New Atom are on the shelves as written by Gail Simone, and 2 of Shadowpact, the first being a decent price at what I believe is 8 issues for 14.99.
From here on, this will be "You should be buying this," in hopes we can avoid this sort of thing in the future for decent books.
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