The Universe-Threatening Crossover It's OK To Like

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To my immense surprise, I am really enjoying Annihilation. Anyone else?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 24 April 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

i started the prologue and found the art really jarr-ing put me off buying the individual arcs,

you're liking them? does having all but no knowledge of the characters harm the enjoyment?

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

No, it probably helps. I mean it helps if you have a basic Marvel cosmology I guess - I know about the Skrulls, and Annihilus, and the Silver Surfer, but I've never knowingly read a comic with Drax or Nova in it before.

It reminds me of Giffen's LSH series actually, except a lot less complex and more FITEtastic, but he's very good at doing frontline-of-a-big-galactic-throwdown yarns.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

What is the basic plot so far?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Count me in! Both SS series have been fun so far (Kid Skrull ahoy!), as was the Drax mini that unofficially lead into this thing (which I assume / hope you've read, Mr. E).

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

figures...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

No! I will do that forthwith!

Basic plot: Annihilus invades our universe with really, really huge army. His purpose - aside from just killing people - is pretty much unknown. Each of the miniseries is following a different character as they try to deal with this.

There are really quite useful primers on the characters, alien races etc involved at the back of each issue, which takes care of a lot of the exposition: Rann-Thanagar War could have really used this approach.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

in other words there's not actually that much plot yet. The main interest in it is the well-done sense of real actual catastrophic war, and the way Giffen especially is good at quickly sketching convincing and conflicted motivations for his leads - I particularly like his Super Skrull, who is viewed - understandably - as a bit of a joke by Skrullkind on account of the way he continually gets hammered in fights by Earth people.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Unless reading Power Pack on brownies counts, I've got little history with Cosmic Marvel. I'm digging this quite well thus far, though. Four issues in (out of, what, eighteen, total?) and we're still basically at the point where everybody's running around trying to figure out what even happened, much less how to react. The set-up has thus felt appropriately epic thus far, yes.

― chocolate kuegelhopf (Garrett Martin), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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― gsdaf shgdhysg, Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

So Thrill Power aplenty then, I'm guessing?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 14 May 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

i read an issue of super skrull, and it was better than i expected.. but not quite good enough for me pick up the 2nd issue.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 15 May 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

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