Infinite lameness
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thebitterguyOkay, 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.
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.
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Date: 2006-04-12 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 02:40 am (UTC)Punching reality wrong...
Date: 2006-04-13 06:57 am (UTC)The lame lameness of the lame-ity of that lameness drowns me in a vast lame sea of endless lameness.
People bitch about "No More Mutants" and say that HOUSE OF M changed nothing (see the first half of this very sentance to prove they don't know what they're talking about), but Superboy-Prime "tantruming continuity glitches into and out of existance" is brilliance???
GAHH!!!!!
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Date: 2006-04-12 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-12 10:01 pm (UTC)--T.C. Badass
(Who also just happens to bring a flamethrower along)
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Date: 2006-04-13 02:34 am (UTC)It's just not as powerful as the original, that's for sure. Hey, maybe #7 will prove me wrong. But so far, it's not as enjoyable as Invasion.
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Date: 2006-04-12 10:30 pm (UTC)I dunno, I've rather enjoyed it; I'm not going to be happy with the ending, to be honest - I think a return to an official multiverse would be a great way to go. Bring back Earth-2, rejuventate the Justice Society so that they're all young and not 90 year old superheroes, and let that be a world of more four colour heroics. Have DC Earth/Earth-1 as the current heroes with a slice of darkness that most of them are right now... and then let's make Earth-3 a big part, a world of villains - think of the (*gasp*) stories that could be told with that!
Anyhow. I doth digresseth. I've enjoyed this, b/c I grew up on Supes of Earth-2 and Lois-2 and Superdickhead Prime, and even Alexander Luthor, yes. I am engaged in the story of Alex and Superdickface being such complete asshats. When I read it to my gf over the phone I growl and snarl and "omigod" and she has to ask, "What? What?"
So, no, I don't find it lame. Sure, it could be better, but then most big comic book events could.
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Date: 2006-04-12 11:45 pm (UTC)That said, the Young Avengers are involved, and I am all over anything with the Young Avengers.
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Date: 2006-04-13 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-13 12:28 am (UTC)Sometimes that worked. It seemed pretty lame, what I saw crossover, though. I hated that two Supermen fighting thing.
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Date: 2006-04-13 07:00 am (UTC)There was a LOT to hate about this mess.
Now I'm wondering how long Superman is meant to be an unpowered spectator in his own comic? No wait - his THREE comics...
Another year?
GAHHHH!!!!!
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Date: 2006-04-13 01:27 pm (UTC)That, and the Action #1 homage in IC #5. That was one of the FY moments.
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Date: 2006-04-13 01:49 am (UTC)I'm with you on the side of 'meh.' It just hasn't done anything I got really excited about.
On the upside, 52 looks kinda good.
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Date: 2006-04-13 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 06:52 am (UTC)There's no way I'd pay for 52. Fortunately I don't have to.
Each issue of INFINITE CRISIS was $5.50 Canadian - half as much more as any other book out there, mostly.
GAH!
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Date: 2006-04-13 01:23 pm (UTC)Hey, bra. Can you set a brother up?
I figure, they get 4 issues to prove themselves.
Any idea what the trade schedule is gonna be for 52?
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Date: 2006-04-13 02:24 pm (UTC)I don't think there *is* gonna be a trade schedule.
And yes, you can read my issues of 52.
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Date: 2006-04-13 06:53 am (UTC)Why should any series need to be explained by books that aren't in the series and that the company that is producing them insists are unneccessary to buy to follow the story?
This whole thing has just annoyed me, man...
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Date: 2006-04-13 02:02 am (UTC)In answer to your post from the other day, btw, this is why I read your lj.
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Date: 2006-04-13 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 06:50 am (UTC)I can see what you're saying, but what does SEVEN SOLDIERS (truly a magnificent braided series of seven seperate mini-series) have in common with INFINITE CRISIS at *all* tho?
I mean, if we really need to have something to throw the awulness of INFINITE CRISIS into shatrp relief, doin't we have the original crisis for that?
SEVEN SOLDIERS is really, breathtakingly, fresh and good.
Well...
Date: 2006-04-13 03:39 am (UTC)Prime example would be House of M. Reading it as a trade made for an ok what if style read. If I had read it in individual issues, I would have screamed bloody murder at the pacing and seeming incoherence. The DC comics I have read seem to be a bit better at the individual issue pacing than Marvel, but all and all I have completely given up on picking up single issues now. Between long drawn out issues that seem pointless to read on their own, to the seemingly more common delays I find its just better to let the entire thing have its run and then pick up the completed stuff in one volume.
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Date: 2006-04-13 06:48 am (UTC)I've been saying this since issue two and I've been saying it LOUDER since the all-head-punching issue.
It's a cheap trick to go for a "fan-pop" by having the heroes get the shit kicked out of them for OVER FIVE ISSUES in a Seven issue series, only to have them suddenly be able to get over their angst and do the heroic things they should have been doing all along for the last two.
All Alexander Luther needed was a fricking Persian cat to stroke in all of his scenes, particularly the two issues he spent talking to the "captives" in the big-used-to-be-the-antimonitor-vibratory-device-of-doom and his role as Donald Pleasance in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE would have been perfected.
The One Year Later stuff has been MUCH better, but Infinite Crisis has just *blown*, and this strange, obsessive need to elliminate "sillyness" (be it in the form of the Metal Men, Metamorpho, or Plastic Man to the systematic killing-off of the Giffen / deMatheis Justice League) has been the strongest indication, in my opinion, of a company that is trying so hard to be "taken seriously" that it can't laugh at itself anymore.
And *that*'s the lamest thing of ALL.
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Date: 2006-04-13 09:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 02:18 pm (UTC)Well, welcome to the "DC NATION"!!
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