nathaniel_1206's review
4.0
Of all the manufactured and stupid crossover events in comics, this is one of the dumber ones.
But sales of first issues are dependably gangbusters, so there is that.
Why is it dumb? How many times have they "killed" Batman? Superman? The Flash? There is no such thing as permanent death in comics, so why believe that anything they do here will actually last?
How many new first issues can they squeeze out this after its done do you suspect?
Let's remember less than five years ago they rebooted their entire comics line, essentially because there was too much history. They made their universe smaller. That's what 52 was about. DC said "Our universe is essentially these 52 comics and they all exist within the same universe." It ended the Justice Society. It axed Oracle/Barbara Gordon in a wheelchair as history. They dusted off Batwoman, of all things. The Red Lanterns and whatever else comes with it became a thing. For a while Gen-13 were in Titans, I think, and Static, from the Milestone world, were viable. (RIP Dwayne McDuffie. We miss you.)
So here comes a crossover that brings in their entire history, and every iteration, bastardization, lark, and one shot of any character, ever back. For God's sake Captain Carrot, the silliest, most 1980s of comics, matters in this!!! Captain Carrot doesn't have a comic for a reason. No one with any ability to write comics wants to put their time or effort into making Captain Carrot work for 2015 pacing and serialization.
About five year later. They're doing this about five years later.
Sigh.
Anyway, it's a perfectly readable opening salvo in the stupidity. I guess it helps to read a summary of the Earth 2 comic, but its really not necessary. It's comics, if you don't know, you're either going to go with it and trust what you need to know will be explained, or you're going buy the trades.
And hey it's a whole slate of first issues to tempt comic buyers.
But sales of first issues are dependably gangbusters, so there is that.
Why is it dumb? How many times have they "killed" Batman? Superman? The Flash? There is no such thing as permanent death in comics, so why believe that anything they do here will actually last?
How many new first issues can they squeeze out this after its done do you suspect?
Let's remember less than five years ago they rebooted their entire comics line, essentially because there was too much history. They made their universe smaller. That's what 52 was about. DC said "Our universe is essentially these 52 comics and they all exist within the same universe." It ended the Justice Society. It axed Oracle/Barbara Gordon in a wheelchair as history. They dusted off Batwoman, of all things. The Red Lanterns and whatever else comes with it became a thing. For a while Gen-13 were in Titans, I think, and Static, from the Milestone world, were viable. (RIP Dwayne McDuffie. We miss you.)
So here comes a crossover that brings in their entire history, and every iteration, bastardization, lark, and one shot of any character, ever back. For God's sake Captain Carrot, the silliest, most 1980s of comics, matters in this!!! Captain Carrot doesn't have a comic for a reason. No one with any ability to write comics wants to put their time or effort into making Captain Carrot work for 2015 pacing and serialization.
About five year later. They're doing this about five years later.
Sigh.
Anyway, it's a perfectly readable opening salvo in the stupidity. I guess it helps to read a summary of the Earth 2 comic, but its really not necessary. It's comics, if you don't know, you're either going to go with it and trust what you need to know will be explained, or you're going buy the trades.
And hey it's a whole slate of first issues to tempt comic buyers.
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