Why I Hate Infinte Crisis, Part 6
Back by popular demand, it's my reasoning for not liking Infinte Crisis! You too can share these thoughts, even if you currently don't. All you have to do is hit a wall and it'll change reality!
OK, that's enough BS, at least for the moment. Infinite Crisis is good again. The ratio is currently three out of a total of six issues not pissing me off.
In the past month or so, my respect for Connor Kent, the one true Superman--oh, he's a minor... he has to be called boy--has greatly increased. He's truly a badass. I'm loving his character. So rich, so full of depth. Unlike his utopian counterpart, Clark, Connor has interesting problems. He doesn't have a perfect life. His (should be) archnemesis also is his father, Lex Luthor. Great stuff. I will discuss Connor more in a moment.
Mr. Terrific. Damn. He did exactly what I thought he would in the fight against the true villain of Infinite Crisis, Brother Eye. Being the second smartest man in the DC universe, he is the solution to our technological problem. I know he said "third," but he recently got promoted.
How? Look at what Lex Luthor wears in Infinte Crisis. A purple jumpsuit with a collar right out of 1972! No one on the top 5 smartest list can even consider looking like that in public.
Actually, this particular post should be entitled, "How DC bitched Infinte Crisis." I'm going to talk freely about that book, Teen Titans, and a few other selected events. If you haven't read issue #6, stop reading this and go read the comic. It's really good.
So, how about that Superboy? Damn. Ass-whooper. And all those guys hanging out with Batman. They concluded a story thread left over from a Countdown miniseries. Awesome. Unfortunately, the final ratio comes to 1/3, and I don't think there's anything of a major plot left for Catman and company. However, having Brother Eye say "Eye" in place of "I" is really annoying. It's distracting. I don't care who thought to do that little technique--even if it was Greg Rucka--that person needs a lesson in how not to alienate readers. Incessant use of wrong words will do that.
Next issue, we'll get the Big 4 (or Big 3 and Wonder Woman, if you prefer) and Earth-2 Superman against Anti-Monitor Prime. The world is safe thanks to Superboy, who is, sadly, dead. He didn't go out a bitch, though. He took a page out of Wonder Woman's playbook; "who gives a crap about me, let's beat this asshole." Thank you, Superboy. Your sacrifice will--
*****Commander's Interjection*****
--Be rendered pointless. The same day.
*****End Interjection*****
Right. If you turn your attention over to Teen Titans, you'll see that Superboy is mourned, remembered, and in the process of being resurrected. A significant death occurs, a powerful sacrifice is made--and the impact of that sacrifice is lessened the exact same day. By the exact same writer! "But it's been a year for the characters." Well, it hasn't even been five minutes for the comic reading public. At least it's cloning. It could be punching a wall.
Apparently, if you want to change the timeline, you don't get into a time machine and you don't release some negative energy blast. You could say some cheap line ("No more mutants"), have a flash effect, and expect dumb readers to buy it. But if you really want to sound stupid, if you want to sound like a severe idiot, you explain your history as the effects of a character punching a wall.
This tactic makes smart guys like Dan Didio and Geoff Johns sound like preschoolers. It's stupid. I can't find a better explaination. It's stupid. Anti-Monitor Prime punches a wall, so Jason Todd comes back from the dead. What???? No.
Basically, don't bitch Infinite Crisis with dumb thoughts and idiotic concepts. Also, don't negate the impact of THE BIG STORY with another comic you release the same day. With some help from a friend of mine, I know exactly how Superboy is coming back, less than 24 hours after his death hits stands.
What you do instead of stupid concepts, is you have something great come along like Green Lantern. Issue #10 was incredible. Have you read this? Do you read this? You should, it's great stuff from the mind of Geoff Johns.
In short, Infinite Crisis is good. Stupid ideas are bad.
OK, that's enough BS, at least for the moment. Infinite Crisis is good again. The ratio is currently three out of a total of six issues not pissing me off.
In the past month or so, my respect for Connor Kent, the one true Superman--oh, he's a minor... he has to be called boy--has greatly increased. He's truly a badass. I'm loving his character. So rich, so full of depth. Unlike his utopian counterpart, Clark, Connor has interesting problems. He doesn't have a perfect life. His (should be) archnemesis also is his father, Lex Luthor. Great stuff. I will discuss Connor more in a moment.
Mr. Terrific. Damn. He did exactly what I thought he would in the fight against the true villain of Infinite Crisis, Brother Eye. Being the second smartest man in the DC universe, he is the solution to our technological problem. I know he said "third," but he recently got promoted.
How? Look at what Lex Luthor wears in Infinte Crisis. A purple jumpsuit with a collar right out of 1972! No one on the top 5 smartest list can even consider looking like that in public.
Actually, this particular post should be entitled, "How DC bitched Infinte Crisis." I'm going to talk freely about that book, Teen Titans, and a few other selected events. If you haven't read issue #6, stop reading this and go read the comic. It's really good.
So, how about that Superboy? Damn. Ass-whooper. And all those guys hanging out with Batman. They concluded a story thread left over from a Countdown miniseries. Awesome. Unfortunately, the final ratio comes to 1/3, and I don't think there's anything of a major plot left for Catman and company. However, having Brother Eye say "Eye" in place of "I" is really annoying. It's distracting. I don't care who thought to do that little technique--even if it was Greg Rucka--that person needs a lesson in how not to alienate readers. Incessant use of wrong words will do that.
Next issue, we'll get the Big 4 (or Big 3 and Wonder Woman, if you prefer) and Earth-2 Superman against Anti-Monitor Prime. The world is safe thanks to Superboy, who is, sadly, dead. He didn't go out a bitch, though. He took a page out of Wonder Woman's playbook; "who gives a crap about me, let's beat this asshole." Thank you, Superboy. Your sacrifice will--
*****Commander's Interjection*****
--Be rendered pointless. The same day.
*****End Interjection*****
Right. If you turn your attention over to Teen Titans, you'll see that Superboy is mourned, remembered, and in the process of being resurrected. A significant death occurs, a powerful sacrifice is made--and the impact of that sacrifice is lessened the exact same day. By the exact same writer! "But it's been a year for the characters." Well, it hasn't even been five minutes for the comic reading public. At least it's cloning. It could be punching a wall.
Apparently, if you want to change the timeline, you don't get into a time machine and you don't release some negative energy blast. You could say some cheap line ("No more mutants"), have a flash effect, and expect dumb readers to buy it. But if you really want to sound stupid, if you want to sound like a severe idiot, you explain your history as the effects of a character punching a wall.
This tactic makes smart guys like Dan Didio and Geoff Johns sound like preschoolers. It's stupid. I can't find a better explaination. It's stupid. Anti-Monitor Prime punches a wall, so Jason Todd comes back from the dead. What???? No.
Basically, don't bitch Infinite Crisis with dumb thoughts and idiotic concepts. Also, don't negate the impact of THE BIG STORY with another comic you release the same day. With some help from a friend of mine, I know exactly how Superboy is coming back, less than 24 hours after his death hits stands.
What you do instead of stupid concepts, is you have something great come along like Green Lantern. Issue #10 was incredible. Have you read this? Do you read this? You should, it's great stuff from the mind of Geoff Johns.
In short, Infinite Crisis is good. Stupid ideas are bad.
posted by LEN! at 1:59 AM
3 Comments:
I can't say I was impressed with IC #6 as a whole. Yeah, Batman's Dirty 9 or 10, whatever, was cool.
Brother Eye showing what it thought was Grayson's impending death to mess with Bats, cool. Brother Eye saying "Eye", lame. Batman just calling Green Arrow to see if he'd show up? Uh, check back with me later. Right now I'm not sure whether Bats was just trying to be an ass by bringing Ollie along and letting him feel useless, or if it was a reaching out moment.
Whiny-Bitch-Prime coming back from wherever he went, with modified Anti-Montior armor? Where the hell did he find that? How the hell can he be smart enough to modify it to collect yellow sunlight, but he doesn't know the word "hypocrisy"? I call massive bullshit on that, as if him somehow coming back in the first place wasn't massive bullshit. Worst Character in Comics of the Last Year. He's a McGuffin, the magical cure-all explanation for everything that's gone wrong. Why didn't his punching reality make Sue Dibny not get raped, or Dr. Light not get mindwiped? You're telling me that every punch makes things worse? What are the statistical odds of that? OK, I'll calm down.
The mystics trying to call the Spectre to help, heh, that was kind of funny. "Yeah, this guy was trying to kill us all a few days ago, let's summon him and try to get him to help us. I'm sure he'll be chomping at the bit to do so!" Geez, I thought mystics were supposed to be smart.
As for Conner's seemingly imminent return (and that scene at the end of Teen Titans reminded me of the movie Darkman, what with the "97th attempt commencing"), ugh. I can't honestly believe Robin would try that. Does he really think it's going to fix things? Tim oughta be smarter than that.
After this week I've decided that the scheduling of Infinite Crisis, 52 and One Year Later will ultimately damage the massive mega-crossover on the whole. Since most of the DC comics have restarted the last two issues of the series are pretty much pointless. They don't have to be ... but they are. The suspense of "ooh, what's going to happen" isn't there, because we pretty much know what happens, or at least what comes out of it.
Now, I fear for 52. Because if the end of IC is deflated, what does that mean for the filler between IC and One Year Later?
I hadn't thought about who was the worst character of the last year, or any other year. I do agree, "Superboy-Prime" is the worst character of last year and is just a McGuffin.
This ties back to some of my other "Hate" posts, Geoff Johns has been dropping the ball with Infinite Crisis. His villains are usually really strong characters, even the ones that are just mindless beatsticks. Superboy-Prime, not in the least.
I'm going to try to be optimistic. I'm hoping issue #7 will be good, making the series, as a whole, worth the effort. Also, like you said Jim, if Infinite Crisis doesn't work, then 52 is automatically deflated.
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