Countdown: New Weekly Series

[Assassin]

countdown is doing better and better every week

 

[Assassin]

Go Up Up and Away...

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

You buy Countdown for the same reason you buy all star batman... for the lulz.

Barring the lulzy comment by prime, he'd have to dislocated his right arm to wrap that punch around his enormous head. You ever try to punch someone from behind your head? Prime has...

except all star bats reads better then countdown.

I'm reading all star bats as satire and it's really good at that, countdown is just outright bad.

 

[/Co/mrade]

You reading it as satire and Miller writing it as satire are two different things altogether. And no, it's not really good at it.

They're both bad, lulzy bad.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

If you say so.

 

[/Co/mrade]

I do say so and I am right.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

no, not really.

 

[Assassin]

ignore the newb

 

[/Co/mrade]

Assassin, you're quite lulzy.

 

[WompuM]

Come on guys. Be nice. We are all newbs once. Except me, I was here pretty early on.

 

[BrianWilly]

You know a series is bad when it's so bad that its creators had no choice but to roll with the punches and start using the "Hey guys we're just going for lulzes 'kay teehee" explanation.

And even then it's still not very good.

 

[Assassin]

Who are you to judge whats good, you like Whedon for gods sake.

 

[/Co/mrade]

And you think countdown is actually getting better.

 

[BrianWilly]

Who are you to judge whats good, you like Whedon for gods sake.

Well you see, good taste is all a matter of subjective opinion and just because you like something differe oh wait I just remembered I don't care what you think.

 

[xisaacx]

Everyone has an opinion, and when it comes down to it if something is so horrible why dont you simple break in to the industry, and join up with dc or marvel and you write an amazing series? people always knock something when they havent done better and possibly cant. dont hate on something just cause everyone else does. If it was that easy, WED ALL be working for the big two

 

[BrianWilly]

So unless we're paid representatives of comic book companies -- which is like...what, 1% of anyone who actually reads comics? -- we don't get to think that a piece of entertainment is bad?



Or, alternately, we can continue to divulge our positive and negative thoughts on comic books like this forum was meant for.

Here, I'll go first: Countdown sucked, sucks, and looks like it will continue to suck.

 

[WompuM]

I disagree. I think it has improved drastically the last few weeks especially seeing how slow it started. The upcoming weeks seem even better.

 

[BrianWilly]

See? And yet somehow we've managed to coexist for all this time. I'm proud of us. Mostly of me, sure, but of us as well. up:

Meanwhile, I disagree that just because Countdown has improved means that has suddenly joined the ranks of decent books. Sure, it comes out smelling like roses compared to the cluster-rape that it was even a month ago. But the list of books out there that are considered "okay" or even just "average" by the masses and yet still manage to kick Countdown's ass up and down the street and back again in terms of quality are almost too numerous to count.

Countdown frankly doesn't make it very hard to do so. All that any book on the shelves needs in order to completely outdo this event are marginally rational plots, meagerly-developed characters, and antagonists that sort of don't insult your intelligence. It's not a tall order.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Is it good enough to warrant buying the last ten issues? I've been wondering if I should get back into Countdown for the final ten, just so I know what the hell is going on in the DC universe.

 

[Doc Destruction]

I would say so.

 

[moraldeficiency]

You know I've been wondering that too. Has it improved in the way a slap in the face is better than a kick in the balls or is it actually at acceptable storytelling levels?

 

[Norman Osborn]

You know I've been wondering that too. Has it improved in the way a slap in the face is better than a kick in the balls or is it actually at acceptable storytelling levels?

Somewhere between a slap in the face and acceptable..leaning heavily towards the slap.....seriously.....Countdown seems to have made a bit of a turn quality wise around the time Trickster was shot.....

...in short it's not as bad as it was......of course syphilis isn't as bad as that Countdown mess once was...you make the call

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe I'll just follow the final five issues instead.

 

[Norman Osborn]

Maybe I'll just follow the final five issues instead.

Gonorrhea it is!!

 

[moraldeficiency]

Maybe I'll just read your reviews of those issues.