Re: Is 52 any good?
- From: "YKW '06" <ykw2006-at-gmail-dot-com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 22:49:12 GMT
On 27 May 2006, the voices tell me "Denny Colt"
<phdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
YKW '06 wrote:
On 27 May 2006, the voices tell me Dan McEwen <ferroboy@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"blackjet76@xxxxxxx" <blackjet76@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1148711717.433240.29410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
Picked up the first issue and it was terrible. A huge drop off in
quality compared to Infinite Crisis. Has it gotten any better
lately?
Parts of it are interesting, but those parts don't involve Booster
Gold.
Interesting. I would have said that the Booster/Skeets plotline has
been the strongest thus far, with both the Montoya and Dibny stories
beginning to gather steam, while the Black Adam and Steel stuff is
either going nowhere or annoying the hell outta me.
I think the Black Adam stuff is great - I like that he's becoming an
ambiguous antihero type. Although, they're clearly using Namor as a
model.
Exactly. There aren't even any new twists. I'd love to see him deal with,
say, a democratic movement in Khandaq; he obviously believes himself to
be the living embodiment of "his" people's hopes and desires, but what
happens when he's faced with evidence to the contrary? Is his hubris
stronger than his honor?
But, no, all we get is local-strongman-going-global. A less unserious
version of an old Bialya plot. Feh.
Booster Gold has always been a joke character and they're trying to
make him more important here, which is fine, but they've gotta drop
the gimmick eventually. If he's gonna be a real character who's taken
seriously he's gotta stop the whole endorsement, glory-hound thing
entirely, not have it around as a recurring gag. It's annoying.
It's not a joke, it's not a gimmick. It's key to understanding Michael's
psyche. He wants to be a hero. He wants to be a "good guy" -- and a
genuinely good guy. But he takes shortcuts. He's totally end-justifies-
means. And he's just a bit lazier and status-conscious than he's
comfortable with being -- or admitting, even to himself. The
endorsements, the PR, the shady use of historic records... they're all
emblematic of exactly who he is, and who he needs to stop being to be the
hero he wants to be.
But stopping all that, making total life changes, doesn't happen
overnight. It could easily take... um... at least fifty-two weeks... :)
Does anyone else think that they should make a live-action show out of
The Question/Montoya thing? I think they could pull that off. Anyway,
I'm looking forward to seeing more of that.
It seems like it's all set-up, though. I know they're bringing in a
bunch more characters as the series continues, and my guess is that
it's mostly a way to gauge how people respond to them and whether they
should get their own books. But I'd rather read this every month than
have to buy a bunch of other books of verying quality and importance.
That's why I like universe-wide stuff like IC and IDC - you get to see
all these characters in snippets without having to read an entire 30
pages about the new Batgirl written and drawn by a bunch of hacks.
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