The New 52 Review Revue: October’s #2s, Part One

This month is a bit different from last month in that I’m only covering here comics which I’ve actually read. Last month, of course, I bought and read 52 new DC #1 issues but in October I only bought the books that appealed to me while I stood there at the comics shop. Since I set the stage for my expectations last month, I’ll also keep the reviews relatively short, but here’s my rundown of opinions on the second month of DC’s ambitious line-wide relaunch.For the sake of flexibility and information, I’ve also switched the way I grade comics in these reviews. It’s self-explanatory enough to require no explanation, but that will head up each paragraph.Is this representative of the entire line? Of course not; these are the issues I felt were strong enough last month to warrant ongoing reading and so most of the genuinely lower grades have been weeded out. Still, there are some surprises in terms of which stories got dramatically better or worse between issues.