Of interest for mr_weasel

twillits pointed me to a story about a Roman MMORPG player crucified.

In game, of course.

Hey, who knew there was a roman MMORPG?

Edit: This is, of course, the best POSSIBLE timing for them to do this (Easter week) and is probably designed purely to get publicity for the thing, which it is apparently succeeding at.

Tell me! Is this fake?

This article strikes me as more something written up as an April Fool's day joke than any actual community paper piece.

The lede is buried so deep it's not really apparent (is the story about Furries? The mascots? WHAT?!?), and it just seems like comedy.

Edit: Of course, if I'd read the comments on the original posting, I wouldn't have needed to ask that.

Cute bit, in any case.

Over to the Jukebox I staggered

[Poll #709042]

Infinite lameness

Okay, I know there’s another issue left, but can we pretty much consider it resolved that Infinite Crisis was lame? The overall story, while containing an acceptable FYMPI ratio (Fuck Yeah Moment Per issue), was pretty lame, and not quite as good as the lead up stories (at least, not as good as Villains United was).

The reintroduction of Kal-L, Alex Luthor, Superboy Prime and Lois, who quickly become A Dick (okay, that’s established), a low rent supervillain (Gold tights, red ‘fro? Eesh), a member of The Authority, and a corpse, respectively, is really nothing more than a cheesy plot point.

I mean, the whole “your world has become dark and horrible” can be easily rephrased as “you’ve had shitty publicity stunts that have failed to staunch the increased loss of readers, so why don’t you try to draw back the old and gray ones with a half hearted attempt to rekindle their love of comics that haven’t been published for two decades”.

What’s worse, they even cocktease the fans for a couple issues, before going “Nah, we’re just fucking with you”. At least with the original Crisis the last issue wasn’t a lame ass wrapup. There was story there.

You know, Civil War don’t look too great (in fact, it looks pretty bad), but it’ll at least be a somewhat new idea. And definitely better than House of M.

Why does Marvel choose to promote its crossovers with these cheesy giveaway sketchbooks? Man, put something IN that book, make it 8 pages in colour and that’ll be good. Just not the Young Warriors thing that’s been polluting my monthly reading.

Admittedly, I’m gonna get IC 6, and I’ve been enjoying the Superman arc with Busiek (the GL & Hawkgirl appearance? Awesome! “Time to get back in the game?” Righteous!) I’m halfway tempted to pick up a Batman book (only halfway) to see what’s going on with him.

But overall, this has turned out to be a bust. Which is a shame.