Genesis - One of hundreds of rubbish comic events

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Mainly notable for being named after a really rubbish prog cum rock band. "Sometimes even Darkseid is afraid of something". Yes, being drawn with comma eyes by John Bryne.

This thread can also be used for those moments you realised a crossover or event was actually crap and did not actually change everything.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2917/964/320/InfiniteCrisis5-thumb.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

QFT.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

all those x men crossovers in the early '90s where Apocalypse/Stryyffe/Mr Sinister etc was behind some sort of nefarious plan to change the fate of mutantkind forver. I never finished reading any of them and I still have NO IDEA what any of their mysterious plans were

― Mark C (Markco), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

There needs to be a thread about ridiculous villain motives.

Genesis was APALLING, even by the standards of DC crossovers. It might have conceivably been worse than WAR OF THE GODS which is saying something.

Only good thing about it - no Hal Jordan.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

http://superherouniverse.com/articles/ronald_reagan/reagan_supes.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I bet Alexander Luthor's motive is that he is trying to find an alternate earth where he won't be mocked for having ginger hair and a gold romper suit

― Mark C (Markco), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

At least the Anti-Monitor was just about COMPLETE AND TOTAL nihilism. Sun-Eater was just disembodied Galactus, I guess.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Damn. I thought this was about the story that kicks off that puply collection of hackery called The Bible.

That was a bit rubbish too...

― _chrissie (chrissie1068), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

(Pulpy, even. Look, I have flu. My mind's a bit off. I'm about to say something nice about John Byrne, which is vexing me greatly.)

― _chrissie (chrissie1068), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Don't do it!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

That's a good thing about the sun-eater though, it's like some giant space truffle-hunter, snaffling up stars. I believe DC have now had rub plots whereby they can be controlled, or something: boo hiss.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, there was some bunk in the Donna Troy miniseries about how the planet they were fighting the Titans of Myth for had a Sun-Eater FACTORY on it.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember Genesis. When was it?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Right, found it, I think that came out during my doomed "I'm 18 now and therefore too mature to read comics" phase. Good timing. And also blimey that looks rubbish.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember Genesis. When was it?

Right at the begining, before Exodus.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

It's the part with all the nudity in it.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

And cosmic mutation! See a woman created from a piece of rib!

And rampant (sexual) guilt! Which is the woman's fault, because she's a bit rubbish and inherently inferior, etc.

Robert Crumb's doing all this as a comic, I hear... sure hope he gives it the justice it's asking for.

;-)

― _chrissie (chrissie1068), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

I like the part at the dawn of time where they FITE.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

As oppose to DC 1,000,000 when they went to not even the end of time and they FITE! And Wonder Woman is blue. And Peter David did not want to play in Supergirl. And Kyle Rayner was THE BEST GREEN LANTERN EVER EVER EVER. For the two years he was the only GL in the Universe. And not as good as Halford Jordans.

(ie DC 1,000,000 was, despite Grant Morrison, a bit rubbish.)

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

There's some good stuff in there, which the collection does well at extracting - EG the Superman timeline, the Immortal man vs Vandal Savage fight.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

OK, the Resurrection Man "final issue" was actually pretty smart.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

I rather liked Dc 1,000,000 - it was in the midst of the GM fertile period when he was writing JLA. Although Superman 1,000,000 punching his way through the time barrier has a lot to answer for, I feel.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but "I've arrived in the 853rd century - with minutes to spare!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

You're saying there's something wrong w/ that line?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh no, I was pointing out the good side of Superman hitting things.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

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