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22:08 / 20.02.08

All right, considering what's planned for the Green Lanterns and how the whole New Gods thing is turning out, I should declare myself the Prophet of Doom (TM) after that last post. Heh.

Back to the thread. #10. Now that's the kind of crack these guys should be smoking. Daaaamn. This is all I need to say: The ACME Magical Mallet of Thalia. If they can just keep it like this for the rest of the run...

15:48 / 22.02.08

#10 was actually semi-decent? Do tell... I'm shocked. I'll have to skim it/Byrne-steal it in the store...

06:45 / 28.02.08

It was, in a sort of way. I can picture these guys going all "fuck this, we're bored, the readers are bored, let's go nuts". Cracky, and of course several "wait, what?" moments. #9 is somewhat back to normal, but the last pages had me again "wait, what?".

I begin to notice a repeated pattern all over Countdown: huge baddies getting obliterated (sometimes more than once, so who knows) in somewhat bizarre ways. Unless they plan a big resurrection party for Final Crisis, I begin to wonder who's going to be left to fight. Except for Mr Mystery Man from the current New Gods mini, who might be "IT".

23:31 / 28.02.08

read the last 2 issues .... (in the store) - still seems like crap to me. Bring on Final Crisis!!

The upcoming TRINITY by Busiek & Bagley might be decent... seems like it has a greater chance of being good than Countdown (consistent writer, consistent artist).

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

01:15 / 29.02.08

Trinity -- enh. Do we need more Big Three action? I can't help but think I'd be interested in it if it was the crazy shared adventures of Hellboy, Scott Pilgrim, and Yotsuba. You know. Instead.

14:06 / 29.12.08

So, a little late, I've just finished reading the collected books (four volumes) of this and thought that as a grand comic opera it worked on a few levels, but ultimately was a badly done job that collapsed in on itself by obsessing on trying to paint the grandest worlds will die canvas that it could. For the most the characters felt badly written, and the pacing was terrible, with the first two books feeling slow, the third feeling distant and the fourth rushed. Mary Marvel's transformation back and forth made little sense in the end, and the whole "Karate Kid must die!" mantra was tiresome when read as a collected piece.

It seems quite telling to me that the modern DC world seems more competent in telling a story about a spoilt brat who wants to just smash everything up in his search for the perfect world than it does in telling the more existential story of a god searching for the un-answer to non-life and rebuilding that universe in his design...

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