Sunday, December 5, 2010

Cheapest Infinite Crisis


While not as repellant as Identity Crisis or Emerald Twilight, or as unmercifully boring as the Death of Superman or Knightfall, Infinite Cop-Out takes a huge mistake: the original Crisis on Infinite Earths and it's retroactively changing of DC's then 50 years of history and mutliplies its flaws to infinity. Once you've contradicted and rewritten what has come before the audience feels inherently betrayed and has that much harder of a time enjoying new stories. The orginal Crisis was at least an entertaining read despite its shameless padding but it dealt the DC mythos a mortal blow. Infinite Crisis may well be the coup de grace. Since it came out I haven't enjoyed a single DCU comic. The only ones I can read anymore are the ones outside of the so-called continuity. DC fans need a "continuity report" to make any sense of any titles these days since the continuity seems to change as often as the weather. Geoff Johns is a talented writer but this is a hopeless task. The first couple of issues were actually kind of engaging but it quickly collapses as every single DC and Marvel big crossover has done. I hated Crisis on Infinite Earths, Secret Wars, Legends, Millenium, and so on up to this and Civil War, which I didn't even try to read. The treatment of the Golden Age Superman is unforgivable as is bringing him back as a zombie in Darkest Night. I could go on about how worthless this is but it's too painful to me. It made me realize how much I hate DC as a corporation that has betrayed and exploited countless writers and artists over it's 70 plus year history. The arrogance and short sighted stupidity of DC is truly mind boggling. They have taken mythic heroes that almost everyone loves and made their stories utterly innaccesible. No wonder the audience is shrinking for comics. It's similar to how other corporations like GM slit their own throats by outsourcing jobs until no one can afford to buy their cars and they go bankrupt. For shame DC Comics. The D clearly no longer stands for Detective since you obviously have no clue.Get more detail about Infinite Crisis.

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