Last September, DC Comics relaunched their entire line of comics. Calling it the New 52, the DC universe has undergone a soft reboot that keeps certain events from their storied past while altering and updating many of their familiar characters and concepts for modern audiences and new readers alike.

Well, it has been six months so we now have a good read on what titles are the best, worst and perhaps most criminally overlooked of each of the fifty two new titles. We here at Level Up Entertainment have sat down, discussed, argued and ended friendships putting these lists together. May they entertain you and potentially serve as a guide for the new DC Comics. Remember, the trade paperback collections will be right around the corner in case you missed out on all the fun this last year. Here are our top ten New 52 comics!

Ever since Geoff Johns revived Green Lantern (figuratively and literally) in 2004, the title has been consistently high quality. That has been unchanged with the soft reboot other than Sinestro replacing Hal Jordan as the titular Lantern.

The only reason this book is so low on this list is because how unaffected it was by the relaunch. If you've been following Green Lantern at all these past few years, you can keep reading this without missing a beat.

You get a significant bang for your buck with this book. George Perez has packed this title to the brim with story and action. This comic is definitely one of the longer reads on stands these days.

It should be noted that the art by Nicola and Trevor Scott is equally packed with detail. One could spend as much time, if not more, getting lost in the art as you would reading the story.

The Flash was one of the characters that had received some retooling in the relaunch. He's no longer married to Iris and many of his supporting characters may not exist.

This really opens up the door for creators to really play with his character and history. Here we are introduced to a mysterious friend from Barry's past while also setting up a powerful new rogue.

Francis Manapul outdoes himself in the art department. The layouts in this book for fantastic. You really get a sense of wild kinetic energy when the action heats up and the pace is well maintained even when things move at normal speed.

Putting this book on the list almost feels like an obligation. It's the flagship title of the company wide New 52 re-branding. It features all the major superheroes everybody knows and loves, plus Cyborg!

Geoff Johns and Jim Lee however genuinely provide a fun and well polished "team up" story that will come to form the foundation for the world's greatest heroes.

Granted, it took a few issues to start getting all the characters into place but, like the Juggernaut, once the story gains momentum it becomes unstoppable.

This book has been a surprising treat. Mingling several characters from various companies DC acquired in recent years, this could have been a disaster. Especially when you consider how many of these characters were created with the sole purpose of parodying many of DC's main characters and concepts.

Previous knowledge of characters like the Midnighter and Apollo isn't required to enjoy this book but it might help. This book treats the reader a bit as if they are already familiar with the group and its members, eschewing the cliche team building storyline.

The concept is that the group known as Stormwatch handle all the big reality threatening events in the DCU in secret and, in fact, have been doing this for many centuries. This book is being touted as one that connects all the other New 52 titles and it does have time to show that a bit. There are references to Demon Knights, Superman and the ongoing Daemonite story being followed in Grifter and Voodoo.

This book is filled with some great over the top Sci-Fi adventures and more mature, sarcastic and dark superheroes.

This book is a true successor to Alan Moore's seminal work. Scott Snyder has managed to not only make the title accessible to new readers but also build upon the strange tale of Alec Holland and Abigail Arcane that has been set up all those years ago.

Alec Holland is back amongst the living due to the events in Brightest Day and is haunted by the monster that thought it was him. A new enemy of the Green called the Rot has returned and Alec is being coerced to give up his new lease on life to become the chosen champion of the plant world, the monster known as Swamp Thing!

While that may sound confusing, it really is explained in an easy to understand format and you'll get right into the horror and action before you know it. Staying true to it's Vertigo roots (puns, I love 'em!) this is book is dark fantasy with many horror elements.

There are many nice touches in the details. Keep an eye on the panel borders as they shift into either and organic state or a jagged chaotic state depending on the action they contain.

In many ways this is a sister title to Swamp Thing. Both were acclaimed comics written by now legendary writers. Both were instrumental in creating the Vertigo imprint. Both have strong dark fantasy and horror elements. And now they both same similar origins and a common enemy.

In the New 52, Animal Man's mythos becomes tied to some of the ideas from Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. Whereas swamp Thing gets his powers from the Green, the semi-sentient force that binds all plant life, Animal Man gets his powers from the Red, the semi-sentient force that binds all animal life.

While Animal Man is also dealing with the threat of the Rot, he and Swamp Thing are dealing with different aspects of it. They compliment each other without requiring you to read both. At least until the inevitable crossover.

What separates the two characters though is that Buddy Baker has a family. The inaugural story features his daughter starting to manifest powers connected to the Red, but with horrifying results!

In fact this is a horror book, don't let the cornball names deceive you. The monsters made out of flesh and guts are some of the creepiest things we've seen in comics in quite some time. The tension is compounded even more when you factor in the very human element the Baker family adds to the proceedings, giving the fantastical events grounding and a sense of urgency and danger.

Superman is one of the characters who got hit by the soft reboot stick that hardest in September. Both his parents are dead, he's not in a relationship with Lois Lane, his powers are noticeably diminished and he's not the beloved figure he once was.

Action Comics takes place a little over five years before the fifty one other books. Superman is shown as an idyllic champion of the down trodden. He is willing to bend the law in order to take down corrupt businessmen and exploitative landlords. Grant Morrison injects Superman with some much needed personality, he's still a "boy scout" but he isn't quite as clean cut as he was before the reboot.

We get a look at younger versions of his supporting cast as well. We get the origins of Metallo and steel, see how his rivalry with Lex Luthor is ignited, the expanded role of Lois Lane's father and the main threat of Brainiac.

As of the time of this writing however, things have started getting very "Grant Morrison-y", with concepts like a bullet containing a group of Krytonite powered super villains from the future lodged in Superman's brain. It's still an enjoyable read though!

Forget everything you thought you knew about Aquaman. From the very get-go Geoff Johns debunks every popular notion about the King of Atlantis the average Joe has.

The inaugural story sees Aquaman take on a race of monsters from the lowest reaches of the ocean called the Trench. While they serve to give us a solid story you can tell Johns is laying down ground work for much larger and longer reaching stories here.

Much like how Johns and Reis brought the Green Lantern line back from obscurity and into mainstream success, Aquaman is poised to be one of the most epic titles in the New DCU.

It has been almost universally agreed upon that Batman has the best rogues gallery of any superhero. The Joker, Poison Ivy, the Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Catwoman, Ra's Al Ghoul just to name a few. They are all complex, fascinating and could be the subject to endless discussion. Having said that, Batman may have met his greatest villain, or group of villains per se, to date.

The Court of Owls are a great foil for the Batman. They're like the Illuminati of Gotham City and have been in charge of it since it was first founded, and have had a major vendetta against the Waynes in every generation. They may even have orchestrated the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Having invetigated into them as his first case, Bruce concluded they were just a fairy tale and refused to acknowledge the clues of their existence until they sent their killer, Talon, to finish him off.

Scott Snyder has crafted a break neck story that puts Batman through the most punishment he's had to endure since Knightfall. Every issue things get worse for Bruce as the pressure builds. This has been one of the most introspective we've seen in a Batman title. We really get into Batman's head. We feel his fears and his uncertainties right along with him. In fact issue number five literally twists our perspective as Batman starts loosing his grip on reality. It's a great example of the strengths of the comic book medium.

This will be a defining Batman story for this generation, destined to be told and retold in all the future various Batman cartoons, movies and comics. Easily the best of the New 52!