The OFFICIAL FINAL CRISIS THREAD

[TheCorpulent1]

I find myself following creators far more than characters or stories now, actually. I'm planning on dropping Checkmate immediately after Rucka's departure, other creators' names are enough to make me pass on a comic without even looking at it... really, Thor is the only character whose comics I'd read regardless of who's writing or drawing it. That list used to be bigger.

 

[BrianWilly]

I think if more people followed creators as opposed to characters, I'd personally feel a lot happier.

 

[SouLeSS]

Final Crisis still doesn't sound at all exciting to me. Most of the announcements at WWLA, in fact, sound kind of stupid. I wonder if I'm just outgrowing superhero comics or something...

I think in this day and age of spoilers -- previews, so on and so forth -- arcs and events like Final Crisis, which people originally thought would be a huge status change so on and so forth, are taken down a step. It's like the Sinestro Corps crossover. If the whole "kyle being in countdown" thing never happened how it did, and if the few leaks didn't come out like they did, I'm sure the story would of been much more rich and just that much better than it already was. Knowing that Trinity will deal with an in-continuity Superman Batman and Wonder Woman we can assume that they're still going to be around. And knowing that it takes away somewhat from how the upcomming or current comics are.

Now, things I would like to see would be something like the three of them being teleported or throw into another universe or stuck somewhere and that's what the weekly is going to be about, their journey where Clark isn't under a sun of our type so he's not super superpowered, where Batman doesn't have his batcave and all the gadgets he normally has access too. Something like that, kinda like what Planet Hulk did for Hulk, where he was disadvantaged and what not. I'd like to see something happen to the three of them at the end or in the middle of Final Crisis and they're gone again for a year, except this time they're stranded somewhere and are trying to get home. Not just taking a break or lost their powers so they're just kicking it civi style.

I don't know, just rambling/bouncin ideas.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

yeah im dropping checkmate after rucka's tenure,such a damn shame too. i was always enjoyed the series but the last arc was really freakin sweet the current one should rock also.

not impressed by that idea soulless. I'm not intersted in any more weekly's or big events. i rather pay attention to an individual's book then the universe. thats the point me and corp are trying to get at.

 

[SouLeSS]

Don't get me wrong, I don't really like the weeklies, but if they have to have them, I'd prefer something like that.

 

[Assassin]

aww corp and GAH are agreeing, the devil is creating his own hockey team now that hell froze over

 

[SouLeSS]

Some believe Hell to be this place of intollerable cold, and the deeper into hell you go the colder it gets.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

aww corp and GAH are agreeing, the devil is creating his own hockey team now that hell froze over

It scared me, too.

 

[Shawkur]

I havent really been keeping up with the comic news\rumors, do we have any idea what the teaser image with the masked hooded guy holding the fiery scales with the word Injustice printed underneath? I figured it will tie-in with Final Crisis along with everything else....

 

[SouLeSS]

Libra?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's Libra. Libra's going to be a major player in Final Crisis.

 

[Shawkur]

Thank you both.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

i stoppped reading countdown and all of a sudden this dude named libra shows up i dont know if im happy or sad about that

 

[Sakuraba]

i stoppped reading countdown and all of a sudden this dude named libra shows up i dont know if im happy or sad about that

It's starting to look like Countdown proper has little to do with Final Crisis. I guess you get the Great Disaster, Mary Marvel is being set up for her throwdown with Supergirl, and there are some New God threads. But Final Crisis seems like an isolated event.

I think we're going to learn that LIBRA! has been hanging around the DCM for some time.

Also, Libra hasn't made an appearance just yet.

 

[Blader5489]

It's starting to look like Countdown proper has little to do with Final Crisis.

Starting to look like? I'm pretty sure Morrison already said that Countdown won't affect Final Crisis.

 

[Sakuraba]

Starting to look like? I'm pretty Morrison already said that Countdown won't affect Final Crisis.

Okay, okay, you're pretty. t:

 

[trustyside-kick]

Keep in mind, I haven't read any interviews so I do not bear much knowledge of Final Crisis...but how does Countdown not affect it much? It leads into it though.

 

[SouLeSS]

Starting to look like? I'm pretty sure Morrison already said that Countdown won't affect Final Crisis.

After they said it would lead directly into Final Crisis, issue 0 being a recap that leads into FC1 which just continues Countdowns story.

But meh. Either way, I've liked the last half of the issue of countdown more than I liked the first half of 52, if that makes any sense.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

This book is limping to the end...

 

[Aristotle]

After they said it would lead directly into Final Crisis, issue 0 being a recap that leads into FC1 which just continues Countdowns story.

The plan changed. There is no Final Crisis #0, there is DC Universe #0, followed by Final Crisis. The stories are not interrelated.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I bet they'll have their fair share of ties, even if they don't directly lead right into each other. That's the nature of the beast DC is dealing with right now.

 

[Aristotle]

Yes, there will be ties, I'm sure, with the whole New Gods stuff, and I think the guys have said there will be threads from DCU0 that work into FC. But generally, I think we're on the cusp of a new era at DC, one that eschews the obsessively shared universe. It's too bad, because that can be done right (pre-Infinite Crisis, for example), and I hope we get back to it someday.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Yes, there will be ties, I'm sure, with the whole New Gods stuff, and I think the guys have said there will be threads from DCU0 that work into FC. But generally, I think we're on the cusp of a new era at DC, one that eschews the obsessively shared universe. It's too bad, because that can be done right (pre-Infinite Crisis, for example), and I hope we get back to it someday.

I agree. They just wont leave the universe alone and keep setting up huge events. Theres just too much going on to keep it all straight.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yes, there will be ties, I'm sure, with the whole New Gods stuff, and I think the guys have said there will be threads from DCU0 that work into FC. But generally, I think we're on the cusp of a new era at DC, one that eschews the obsessively shared universe. It's too bad, because that can be done right (pre-Infinite Crisis, for example), and I hope we get back to it someday.

BrianWilly brought up a good point a while ago about the pre-IC era: it wasn't so much an obsessive interconnection between comics and stories so much as it was an obsessive preservation and acknowledgment of character relationships. Characters were pretty consistent across titles and people showed up in places that made sense and stuff.

 

[BrianWilly]

I said that? Oh yeah, I totally did.