Final Crisis Spoiler Shocker

[twilitezoner]

I was going to pick this up, but decided at the last minute to pass on it. So far it sounds like I made the right decision.

[MEMEGO]

Every Issue Will Have 2 Covers. The Gl One Being The Better Of The 2, Which Does Not Really Say Much. I Love Dc Comics, But Between This And Batman Rip(off) I Am Saddened To See How Badly Things Are Going In The Editorial Region At Dc. Maybe Its Time For A Fresh Start And Get New Writers In. Maybe Fans Who Know About The Characters And The Dc Universe.

[The Toyroom]

^ Tell 'em to pay me...I'll write it.

[Bo8a_Fett]

It was ....all ...a bit quick for a MAJOR comic charector to die....even Orion lasted more that 2 panels...

[MegoSteve]

I bought three comics tonight... Action, All Star Superman and Final Crisis.

Guess which one really sucked.

[The Toyroom]

^ See Grant Morrison's "All-Star Superman" is good...maybe it's his epic universe-spanning sagas like "Final Crisis" that suck! Stick to the little stories Grant that are outside of continuity so you can do your magic and leave the earth-shattering eventts (and Batman) to someone else.

[kingdom warrior]

^^^^^^^^^ LOL!!!!!! Glad i avoided it.

[The Toyroom]

OK...just read the first issue...once again (like Morrison's "Batman:R.I.P") this seems like a throw together-let's see if it sticks approach. Nothing seems connected, plot-wise...almost like a sampler for stories that could've been showcased in other titles. At least the original "Crisis On Infinite Earths" stuck to a basic story (even though it went off on some tangents) and hit the ground running with a threat...crisis if you will...of cosmic proportions. This one felt like....ennnnh...let's throw in some "New Gods-as-humans-in-disguise-crap-left-over-from-Seven-Soldiers", "another-rehash-of the Secret-Society-of-Super-Villains", a few one panel deaths, some Green Lanterns (GLs are always cool), some Monitor mumbo-jumbo (who gives a @$#%?), and oh, yeah...a cool cover by JG Jones (the GL one, not the other garbage).

Sigh...I hope this IS the "Final Crisis".

[The Toyroom]

Oh, yeah..and the Martian Manhunter's one-panel stabbing? Absolutely pathetic! But after wearing that hideous costume for the last few years, maybe he deserved it...

[ctc]

>this seems like a throw together-let's see if it sticks approach. Nothing seems connected, plot-wise...almost like a sampler for stories that could've been showcased in other titles. At least the original "Crisis On Infinite Earths" stuck to a basic story

I'd almost bet you're right. Crisis had the advantage of having been planned out AHEAD of time, and was working towards a specific goal: the cleaning up of DC continuity. (For better or worse.) New stuff like this seems like... well, yeah; a sampler: meant to generate publicity and see what people go for. The they'll run with it until sales dip and they gotta try something else. Hence the redos.

Don C.

[wyatterb]

Oh, yeah..and the Martian Manhunter's one-panel stabbing? Absolutely pathetic! But after wearing that hideous costume for the last few years, maybe he deserved it...

Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond) got the same treatment.

[The Toyroom]

Yeah Firestorm was basically non-existant in the DCU at that time and then they brought him back just to off him...and then give his costume and powers to a new guy in a book that didn't sell. Go figure...