Rant

[vettecat]

So, who else has been reading DC's Final Crisis? [spoiler warning] And did it make any sense at all to you? I could go on all night pointing out spots where there were plot holes you could fly a shuttle through, and jump-cuts that could give you whiplash... beyond which, there was no crossover whatsoever with most DC titles. (I regularly follow Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey, JLA, JSA, with an occasional side of Green Arrow/Black Canary. They've killed Catwoman again, sigh.) When they did the first (and only, as far as I'm concerned) Crisis, it tied into every title. You couldn't read any DC comic without knowing a piece of what was going on. This time? While WW was possessed by Darkseid in FC, in her own title (the same week) she was perfectly normal and fighting a random villain. This made it really hard for me to take any of the FC "aaaah! we're all going to die!" seriously. I mean, if everything's normal in all the other titles, the universe can't really be coming to an end, right? Though even after reading all 7 issues I'm still not sure what happened. But I'm also not sure if I care.

I'm sure I could go online and find any number of sites with detailed annotations explaining what happened. But I shouldn't have to. If I buy a miniseries, I expect that miniseries to contain a coherent story. If the story is not self-explanatory, that is a sign that something is deeply wrong with the miniseries.

In the meantime this month all 4 of "my" titles are Faces of Evil crossovers. Though there's no explanation of what FoE is, or how/if they're supposed to tie together. So far I'm not seeing any connections.

I'm getting so tired of the constant crossovers, and their destroying the universe yet again, and the total lack of continuity, that I'm seriously tempted to drop them all and just cut back to PS238. That is still brilliant.

Grumble grumble...

Comments

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Very frickin' much motto. I actually started a bit of a brouhaha on scans_daily, because I said that, with their insanely convoluted and frankly stupid and badly-written mega-epics, DC and Marvel have driven me away as a customer.

The Marvel Age, DC Animated Universe, Fables, and JMS's Thor are the only things I care about at this point.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I figure I'll give them a couple more issues to pull out of it; then I'll either decide to ignore all crossovers completely and try to take each issue one at a time, or throw up my hands and stop bothering with them. (Giving up WW would be weird for me, I've been reading her since the mid-70s... though I don't like what they're doing with her lately. That's a whole separate rant. I want Perez back!)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Final Crisis made very little sense to me, although there were parts of it that referenced so much in DC's past.

Maybe that was the problem.

And I agree with you that the lack of crossover with the other regular DC books made no sense to me either. You say Catwoman is dead? She's alive in this week's issue of Batman, playing a prominent role.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Well, if it made little sense to you, that's really saying something, since you're generally more tuned-in to the overall DC universe than I am.

I'm glad you agree with me about the lack of crossover being a problem. I wonder whether they're been hearing feedback about it.

And I said "they killed Catwoman" (the title), not "they killed Catwoman" (the character) - sorry I didn't phrase that more clearly. Though honestly, even if they had she could still show up in Batman, given the lack of consistency of late. I'm waiting to see whether Batman is still part of the JLA now that he's (maybe sort-of not really) dead.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not, because I value what little is left of my sanity.

Two friends of mine who are are sdelmonte and __marcelo.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Smart woman. :-)