Infintie Crisis 1

[sdelmonte]

No spoilers. Just a quick set of thoughts.

Good news: It doesn't suck. I wasn't bored.

Bad news: It's not much of a first issue.

Good news: Geoff Johns' script is great, and his portrayal of the Big Three in light of recent stories is great.

Bad news: Still not happy about how the DC heroes are acting in the first place.

Good news: Interesting surprise characters show up.

Bad news: Not-so-interesting deaths of characters I bet most readers don't care about.

Good news: Great art by Jimenez

Bad news: I can't see this becoming anything more than the next in a series of Big Events that only leave the reader confused and frustrated. Hopefully, the usually reliable Johns will prove me wrong. but if I had to guess, I'd say that this will be a dud.

Comments

[badninja.livejournal.com]

" I can't see this becoming anything more than the next in a series of Big Events that only leave the reader confused and frustrated."

...I hate to say it, but.

Are the big events ever anything but that? What was going to make this one different?

[sdelmonte]

Well, I was hoping that three years of planning and Geoff Johns' talents would make it different. The only Big Events I truly liked were Grant Morrison's delightfully warped DC 1,000,000 and Mark Waid's Trickster-centric Underworld Unleashed. The thing about both of those is that the writers were having fun.

Johns doesn't seem like he's having fun. Feels more like he's got an assignment, nothing more.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

It coudl be he's just waiting around for the lightening up after.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm falling into major fanboy mode with this issue, especially that final page. So it's hard for me to be critical...

[sdelmonte]

Fair enough. this is for teh fanboys, clearly.

But it's worth adding that Batya - who despite reading DC comics for ten years lacks the vast knowledge we have - was lost. She didn't know from the Freedom Fighters or the Rock or Eternity, and while she's read the original Crisis, she was even confused about that last page. If nothing else, this comic fails the accessibility test big time if Batya is that lost.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if the comic was supposed to pass the accessibility test. How accessible was CoIE #1 when it came out?

We'll see how #2 does...