I was pretty excited, I'll cop to that, but you're correct about the general attitude.
Nearly a year later I'm still pulling a lot of ANAD books. Not all of them are great books (I freely admit the X-titles are pretty shit and I still pull those for some reason), but most of them are fun comics with cool spins on all sorts of characters. But there are a few that are really special.
I'd go so far as to say Rebirth hasn't been as successful as ANAD for me. I do appreciate the new price point. The twice-a-month shipping doesn't seem to be working out very well..a few are making it work but for most books it has lead to a lot of stories that feel decompressed and often as though the writer is laying down the tracks in front of the train. Yeah I know a lot of people love Green Arrow but isn't everyone going to look back on that and wish it had all been done by one artist? Most of the books I have tried I have quickly dropped, and there are only three that I truly love. Those three books are great comics, but they aren't special in the way The Vision or Moon Knight is. You won't find that sort of variety here. Granted there are still several books to try, and this is a new initiative so maybe they'll make it work over time. It's early yet, I could see a book like New Super-Man turn out to be something special.
If there's a defender of ANAD around here it's probably me and maybe one or two or other people, and I still feel pretty comfortable defending it.
