Re: FINAL CRISIS #1: A Very Short Review


"grinningdemon" <grinningdemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9a6c44hpqdiee9m0e1ujkgni8njq31aui7@xxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:14:47 -0500, "Magnus, Robot Fighter"
<Me@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:47:03 GMT, Brenda Clough <clough@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have deliberately refrained from getting sucked into all the
crossovers, mega events, miniseries, and tie-ins that preceded
this issue. This has saved me vast sums of money, and I don't
believe I've missed anything important.

Furthermore, I am now at a considerable advantage. I can read
FINAL CRISIS with a pure mind, assessing it as a stand-alone arc
on its own merits.

And, reading it, I feel that it is incoherent. Too many
characters in costume and out, unnamed, going through the
motions of some hazy ticket-punching plot arc. It feels as if
the writer were handed a list of things that had to be included,
and he's just going down the punch ***. It does not help of
course that the primary villain, Libra, is a retread from the
70's who was almost totally unmemorable in the day.

Actually that story and the others in the 100 page run are very
memorable.....to me at least.

But from what you and others have said, I wouldn't pick up a comic
book these days unless they rebooted the entire DC Universe. And I
mean a REBOOT. Start with a six issue World of Krypton, a Batman #1,
LSH #1, Flash #1...Sgt. Rock#1 and go from there.

Then you're missing out because, for all the problems I have with DC
these days, there are still some great books coming out...Detective
Comics, Batman & the Outsiders, JSA, Jonah Hex, Checkmate, Action
Comics and Superman, Legion of Superheroes...and that's just off the
top of my head...and not even including Vertigo books.

A DC Universe-wide reboot would put me off completely...one of the
things I love about DC is the sense of history that comes not only
from the length of time the characters have been kicking around but
also from the successive generations of characters existing within...a
reboot would basically erase everything I like about DC...it would be
throwing the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.

Sense of history??? They've rebooted twice so far...maybe even three times.

Crisis, Zero Hour, and then recently in Infinite Crisis, what history? It's like each character has more histories than Donna Troy.

Mark

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