Re: FINAL CRISIS #1: A Very Short Review

On Jun 8, 4:01 am, grinningdemon <grinningde...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:32:12 -0400, Joe Sewell <ultra...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



In article <15eh4491b1nm5v5ijvt8a484q86kc3r...@xxxxxxx>,
grinningdemon <grinningde...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A true reboot would mean starting the entire DCU over again from
ground zero...which means the various generations of heroes wouldn't
even be able to exist at all for a significant period of time (the
Teen Titans, for instance, couldn't exist for a long while...and the
current roster couldn't exist for decades if ever)...and where would a
reboot even start?  Do you start with the Golden Age heroes like the
JSA in modern day?  Because then the JLA and other Silver Age heroes
wouldn't even exist...and personally I think making the JSA
contemporary would ruin them.  So do you start with the Silver Age?
Meaning the JSA has already existed for decades and their history is
thoroughly vague (which is one of the things people usually hate most
about retcons),  Do you use the multiverse as an excuse to seperate
all the different generations of heroes out onto parallel earths?  In
this case, the DC Universe would essentially cease to exist...there
would be no history, coherent or otherwise, and crossovers would all
require dimension-hopping (which would get real old, real fast).

Not really. It worked prior to COIE. (Well, it did for me.)

I'd go back to the pre-COIE Multiverse, with one extra little twist:
Earth-One's 2008 would be Earth-Two's 1970. No, I'm not even
*suggesting* bringing back disco, but rather keeping the JSA fresher
without some lame excuse for their longevity.

Titles would be placed on one Earth or another, with crossovers
necessarily limited *because* of the dimension-hopping.

That wouldn't be a true reboot though...the orignal poster suggested a
full-on reboot with every character starting from the
beginning...which would not work at all if for no other reason than
the disparity between characters first appearances...you're idea would
basically just be the opposite of what was done after CoIE...and would
have the same problems they had then because the characters would
suddenly have all new histories that would either be glossed over or
restarted from the beginning...and it wouldn't be all one or the
other.

I don't see the need for any more continuity revisions (hell, they
haven't even clearly defined the last batch of changes from infinite
Crisis) nor do I want any...I just want editors to do their damn jobs
and coordinate the books so it actually feels like these characters
inhabit the same universe again...there have always been problems but
they did a FAR better job of it even just a few years ago before the
One Year Later jump.

To me COIE was the start of a downward spiral. Shoving everything in
one universe was a huge mistake. If it was such a great idea we
wouldn't have to keep having these damn reboots every few years. I
actually enjoyed the JSA/JLA cross-overs. I'd love to see it revert
back to the way it was originally.

Each crisis dealing with this keeps getting worse. And so far it looks
like Final Crisis is the worse.
.

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