Countdown to Infinite Whining
A lot of people seem really peeved about Countdown to Infinite Crisis. It invalidates the comedy years of the JLA! They kill my favorite character! Etc. I guess I just don't get this sentiment. These must be the same people who read Identity Crisis and decided that they could never read a Sue Dibny story the same again. Did Dark Knight Returns invalidate Silver Age Batman? What the hell? Appreciate each story on its own merits people.
Jiminy.
Jiminy.
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I will be honest. I delight in these people's suffering. It's the Blue Beetle, people. Settle down.
On the other hand, Countdown is a story that relies on your knowledge of the comedy JLA era, and then pretty much turns the truck around to grim and realistic. So the reaction shouldn't be that surprising. But geez, it's the Blue Beetle, people. Get a life.
I wrote that comment before actually reading Scott Tipton's thoughts, and he actually makes several points I made on my blog last week. In an effort to court new readers, DC may be alienating its core fanbase. Then again, New Avengers sells twice as much as Old Avengers used to (the first issue sold a quarter million copies), so that could very well pay off for them.
the problem with dc's new shock comic tactics is that -- some man I never heard of who used to run the justice league killed a character I never cared about! Now I don't have to buy the issue!
They disenfranchise old readers who like the Beetle and possibly even that era of comics and do not get new readers. I don't know this Max guy or what era in the JL and I don't care about the Blue Beetle. I'm not buying nothing.
They are full of dumb ideas lately.
I just bought Countdown today. I haven't read it yet. I have read the last two issues of "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League!," and I'm pretty sure that that will prove far more enjoyable and worth my money that what's inside Countdown. And yes, I'm well aware that Countdown is $1.
Alison, didn't you make the same argument about Identity Crisis? You know, one of the biggest selling series of last year?
COUNTDOWN was fantastically executed comic book creation, end of story. I hated it in the same way anyone who loved the JLI years did, but anyone who can critically think has to admit that it is a great twist, and fits in with everything that comes before. As for alienating people, hell, I want to read it just to see Max get his comeuppence. And as for people who don't know the characters not carign, that was the point of the entire book, to make you care for and understand the character of Blue Beetle, so that, whether you know him or not, the end has some emotional impact. And they even introduce Max and his relationship to Beetle early in the book. This was a well-done comic book, and I, for one, am anxious to see where it all leads. Ted Kord's blood is all-over Batman's hands now, and I want to see what he does about it.
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