It seemed like after Infinite Crisis, and the One Year Later directional changes being poorly received, DC was in a bit of a rut. Do people agree? Do people think it's turning a corner?

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I'm not sure it is just yet. Marvel still seems to be the center of attention right now (not all of it good in the community, but rather positive by the mass media), while DC is seldom heard about outside of resurrecting old heroes and killing off [i]Teen Titans[/i] characters. They need to work on their marketing, I think. All they have right now is the [i]Brave and the Bold[/i] cartoon, with no coverage of what's going on in the comics outside of Batman's "death".

I did pick up [i]Power Girl[/i] #1, but after reading the solicitations for #2, I'm not certain of it's future in my pull list. Hopefully the comic itself will surprise me, but if it doesn't, I'll still be getting only two comics from DC, and they're both Johnny DC superhero titles (I miss Cosmic Supergirl). They're still crossover-obsessed, what with the upcoming "Blackest Night" story coming up.

i'm super biased, i'm not a fan of marvel characters and love the dcu, but it seems to me things are on the upswing, 52 was awesome, then a huge rut, cont down, final crisis, trinity all were pretty lame, the story's on all three seemed tacked on to the idea of each, like "lets do a crazy crisis, what could happen in this one to top what we've already done?" but with batman rip and now balckest night, you have great stories that formed organically around great characters, nothing rushed or forced.

the crossovers have been a little ridiculous....especially final crisis....but its safe to say that every blackest night comic/tie in will be worth buying.... Final Crisis isn't that good...and was definitely a let down as far as big events go.... but recent and ongoing stories like Batman RIP, Blackest Night,Secret Origins, and Superman Brainiac have been some of the best comics ive ever read.... so as long as they keep letting ppl like geoff johns and grant morrison write/rewrite/and define the DC Universe its only going to get better

Sorry, but it's one thing (and bad enough) to kill off a number of great characters as a PR stunt, but to then bring them back as zombies and continue to focus on how little death means in the DC Universe is salt in the wounds. There's no drama unless there's the possibility that the characters won't make it out alive (even if they will, being important characters and all) and that there's a price to being a super hero/villain. Besides, I have my issues with the Technicolor Corps to being with.

As far as Trinity, it wasn't a tie-in event but stood on it's own without messing up everyone else's stories. If only the other Eventitis plagues could say the same.