THE COUNTDOWN IS OVER! INFINITE CRISIS IS HERE! (Spoilers obv)

At least someone's getting something good out of this.

OMG SO BITTER

Fite!

My money's on Morrison in this matchup. He's wiry, he's aerodynamic and sleek, and there's been more insight in just about any single issue of SEVEN SOLDIERS than there has been in all of the IC fooferall that's been printed to date.

But maybe that's just me.

I read the Sacrifice story (3 Superman issues, one Wonder Woman) which came between OMAC 3 and 4.

SPOILER

They're the issues where Maxwell Lord fucks with Superman's head so that he beats the crap out of Batman, later the whole JLA. Then Wonder Woman goes toe-to-toe with Superman, and kills Maxwell Lord with the necksnappy.

SPOILER

They're quite well written in so far as if you hadn't read OMAC, you would get a great sense of unease as it became clear that what Superman thought was happening wasn't what was happening. Am I right in thinking that there isn't really a separate Action title, that people picking it up and hoping to have any grasp of the story will have to read the others? And what was happening in the Batman comics at this time?

Hmmmmmmmmmm............

While most publishers dread the next crisis, DC Comics spent the past two years planning one. Infinite Crisis, launching on october 12, stands as DC Comics's biggest, most-aggressive venture in 20 years. The seven-issue tale - penned by Geoff Johns, arguably the best superhero writer in the genre, and featuring art by Phil Jimenez, one of sequential art's most prolific and well-respected artists - will streamline the DC universe of heroes, villains, and stories, redefine the publisher's most well-known characters, and serve as a jumping-on point for new readers.

START THAT ARGUMENT RIGHT NOW!!!!

Is there a petition we can sign, to get him to stop writing comics?

xpost - it's not going to be a real long argument :)

Matt Mr. Published Funny Book Writer Sir: plz don't establish strawdood slapfights, esp. when you know folks here are either gonna go for A) SS or B) neither.

Andrew: the main Batbook is kinda knee-deep in the IC hoopla, tho not directly so; mostly, it's da betrayed Bat going "OMG JASON TODD!?!?!" while holding tweezers and/or getting kicked around by OMG JASON TODD?!?!?

And, um, could you (or someone else) plz clarify what yous meant by: "Am I right in thinking that there isn't really a separate Action title, that people picking it up and hoping to have any grasp of the story will have to read the others?" Because there is a separate Action title, and I just assumed that folks would need to read the other parts to understand what was happening. (That goes more for folks reading Return Of The OMAC than folks reading the 4-parter between Supes & Wonder Wrowrman.

Yes, you can! Tho I haven't tried it so much. It's defintely the best of the Supes books, tho. Best Supes / Lois characterization this side of Warren Ellis' story in Justice League Classified. Even if John Byrne seems to be drawing Lois and Jimmy a bit ... oddly. Be warned: Ms. Simone seems to be taking a few months off. (The Abnett / Lanning folks seems to be hoping on board in the meantime.)

Low points: (SPOILERRRRRS)
Incoherent six-issue magic-fest. What? Eh? And it doesn't end?
Incredibly dull space balls. Which doesn't end.
OMAC has an ending that makes even less sense than no sense - in fact it falls over about when one of the characters turns into an endlessly winking version of that computer woman from Superman III.

AND OF COURSE EVERYONE IS EITHER MASSIVELY INCOMPETENT OR A DICK.

OMAC not only has an army of killer robots, it also has mad PR skillz!! gasp!

I just know they are leading up to Wonder Woman dying so (a) she is "punished" for killing Max, (b) they can do a version of the Superman/Dead Supergirl "Nooooo!!1!11!!" cover from Original Crisis, (c) Batman and Superman will go "doh, we treated her like a dick but she was a TRUE HERO and so now we are inspired to kick some arse, oh yes." and (d) with Donna Troi back there are now three Wonder Wenches running round - too many! one must die!

I firmly believe Batman is all 'get out, ho' to her because he can't abide stupid people.

And there’s one more Green Lantern-related bit that I can add with certainty is that, in the future, Kyle will not be saying, “Great Guardians!” I read someone’s explanation as to why Kyle said that after the last interview I did here, where someone suggested that “Great Guardians!” was the power ring’s way of covering up profanity. After all, they’re Green Lanterns, so they can’t be going around the galaxy cursing in their own tongue, or the native tongue of the sector they’re in.

I liked it when Kyle said "Great Guardians!"

OMAC has taken over the Geoff Johns msg bds!

The Clock is ON.

CLOSED UNTIL INFINITE CRISIS #1 HITS TOMORROW - DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, RESIST IT, STAY OFF THE INTERNET UNTIL YOU READ #1 TOMORROW! GO HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS OR FAMILY FOR THE NIGHT!
(or better yet go play Halo or World of Warcraft)

HERE'S TO MAKING WEDNESDAYS FUN.

BEST,
EVERYONE AT THE COMIC BLOC

Batman gets hid back broken by Bane!!!

SPOILER***

Mild spoiler that gives away the tone of the entire comic -

Superman to Wonder Woman: "I just don't know who you are anymore!"

Though, y'know, ah, SPOILER, I guess. If they're bringing back Multple Supermans For Realz, that's I don't know, shitty, because the idea, as I understood it, behind the original Crisis on Superfluous Earths was to, you know, make sure that the characters were SPECIAL. Like, oh, there's 50 Supermanses running/flying/leaping around? So what's the big deal, then? Oh, there's only one, and he's the honest-to-gosh ONLY survivor of Krypton? Okay, now he is A STRANGE VISITOR FROM ANOTHER PLANET.

It's all Alex Luthor's Myspace.

Why Johns didn't take this opportunity to bring back the single best concept anybody in comics has ever thought of is beyond me, though.

I have to admit I've quite enjoyed this series so far. I couldn't call it "quality" in any sense, but it's good fun. I've liked it more than most DC comics that I've read in the past year or so (that were not written by Grant Morrison or Kurt Busiek.)

...agree with douglas about the multiverse thing, though.

...also, impatient for 52 now.

Hands in the air like you just don't care, Superb- NOOOO YOU ONLY HAVE ONE!! AND YOU'RE A ZOMBIE!! Techno techno techno techno CORE!!!

I plan to explore this new facet of the dancetastic DCU in a fanfic called "Zombies are good, zombies are good, he's Ebenzombeezer Goode!!" Featuring Hero! Watch for it.

Answers on a postcard please...

Worst issue yet. Is it me or does #6 make even less sense than usual? Because, of course, it was making lots up to that point, I'm sure you'll agree..

I am wondering what is going to happen in the final issue - presumably WW, Superman and Batman defeat Bad Superboy, making friends and deciding to stop being annoying in the process. Then Wonder Woman says "OK, so what's my origin this time???" Everyone else fights the Secret society of villains in NY and then the Spectre shows up and tells everyone to stop messing around and go home?

The following POTENTIAL SPOILERS are from a comic book distributer who claimed to have seen an advance draft copy of IC7:

Superboy Prime will be consumed by the Parallax entity, who will then be defeated by Ion (Kyle Rayner)
Alexander Luther and Kal-L will die fighting each other
Kal-El will allow the Spectre to "remove" his powers to "inspire" other heroes to think of their human, rather than super-human, sides
Wonder Woman and Batman will share a kiss as Bruce forgives Diana for her killing Max Lord

Parallax is ringing some bells, is it the "and now we kill Hal Jordan" thing? Has it been seen since?

Also "How old is Geoff Johns etc". I hope that Superman is reminded of his essential humanity by Snapper Carr, who has aged normally since the 50s and now looks like Alex Ross's da. Superman thanks him for reminding us all of this vital fact and, as a final gesture before depowering, idly twists his head off.

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