I miss the days when nothing was connected.

[TheCorpulent1]

I didn't even buy that issue.

 

[Mee]

You go girl!

 

[signalman]

Read Jonah Hex and Bat Lash.
Two Excellent Western series.

 

[seblopez]

Problem is consistency. When they get alignment for a major event, everything is connected and you have to pick up issues from every single series until the event is over. When they don't, nothing is connected and a world-menacing threat very similar to another world-menacing threat that required intervention of dozens of heroes (and dozens of tie-ins) couple months ago, is utterly ignored by all but one series.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

Problem is consistency. When they get alignment for a major event, everything is connected and you have to pick up issues from every single series until the event is over. When they don't, nothing is connected and a world-menacing threat very similar to another world-menacing threat that required intervention of dozens of heroes (and dozens of tie-ins) couple months ago, is utterly ignored by all but one series.

This is very true,

What I hate is even with the weekly series, they skip events or battle scenes ( Ive seen this a lot in Countdown) and your like huh? . Its too many tie ins and no reedeeming qualities.

I still hate myself for picking up Four Horseman. Jesus what a boring self indulgent book that was.

 

[Aristotle]

I'm mixed on the whole thing. On the one hand, reading a story in JLA that's just a frivolous prelude to Superman's Reign, a story that doesn't even really need to involve the JLA, that pisses me off. The thing that's wrong right now is not that everything's tied into an event--that's what the runup to Infinite Crisis was, and that was awesome to me. The problem is that everything's just tied up to something else. JLA's tied to Superman's Reign, Countdown, Salvation Run, Legion of Super-Heroes, Action Comics, Justice Society, Outsiders, and probably Titans soon. Meanwhile, Salvation Run's tied to Suicide Squad and Gotham Underground, as well as Countdown. Countdown's tied to a whole lotta ****. Gotham Underground's tied to the Bat-books. The Bat-books are tied to Grant Morrison. Action Comics is tied to Legion of Super-Heroes (they're gonna reveal the reason for two Legions. THEY MUST.)

Basically, there's the Countdown plot, which is not the same plot as the Countdown plot from a month and a half ago, there's the SR/GU/SS plot, there's the Superman's Reign plot, and then there's ANOTHER Brother I plot that MIGHT hook into SR and Countdown, or it might not.

All of this has me intensely looking forward to Final Crisis, which appears to be marking the switchover from events ruling the comics, to self-contained comics with looser continuity and a looser shared universe. I'm sure I'll be *****ing about that within a couple of months, but for awhile, it'll be a welcome change from the cluster**** that is current DC continuity. As for now, the problem isn't that everything ties together. It's that everything's tangled up.