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Ten from the old year, ten for the new

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Grumpy Old Fan

Last January, I listed ten items I'd be watching in 2008 from (or related to) DC's superhero line. Today I'll revisit each of those and offer ten new items.

Can you stand the excitement?!?

Yeah, I thought so. Let's cruise on.

2008

1. The Dark Knight. I was afraid that a too-intense Joker might confirm for the normals that they didn't want to have anything to do with modern Batman comics. I don't think that happened, exactly. As far as I could tell, Heath Ledger's Joker didn't spark any protests from parents afraid to buy their kids Dark Knight toys. (Of course, I didn't see any "Magic Trick Joker" action figures out there either.) Instead, while Ledger's performance turned out to be one of the movie's big selling points, TDK seemed to do more for superhero movies than it did superhero comics. In any event, I doubt that all the upheavals in 2008's Batman books would have made them especially friendy to the general public.
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