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After going through random comics connected to InfiniCrisis, I've noticed the ones that need background not present in their pages, and those that take an element or event from the main series, and just run with it.
The ones that require other reading seem to be the ones that give a sense of being IMPORTANT, while the tangential stories seem to me more real, or significant, in that they illustrate that sometimes shit happens that is not directly connected to you and yours, and that, once in a while, you simply catch the shrapnel of other people's problems.
Case in point: 'Birds of Prey'
Batman humans up, again (and getting kissed by Black Canary - and, seriously, if you were in her fishnets, wouldn't you?) and trying to be a decent, please and thankyou, person.
Talia, Doc Psycho, and Calculator become culled because of Calculator having a problem, rather than any deeply tethered universal plotting that will rock the foundations of the DCMultiverse to its consciously-glimmering beginnings.
Deathstroke just tries to kill folks and can't manage it wiht anyone of note. As usual.
And the Blackhawks gal doesn't really seem to care about anything but beefcake, intergalactic monstrosity wars and strange omniversal warpage and Superboy-spawned-slaughter all happening around, regardless. Irregardless. Whatever.
What I mean is simply that I'm noticing a preference for reading the cross-overy stuff that isn't requiring the characters to be right in the thick of things, but simply dealing with and/or acknowledging them.
It's like reading stories set at the time of the Vietnam War or the Victorian Era... the protagonist doesn't have to be, say, right at the most decisive moment of a war or connected directly to an imporant player in historical progression and socio-political events. So, why should they be in fiction? In fictional events of massive scale? |
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