Comments on: Entertainment Addendum: Comics Apocalypse

By: Todd Seavey

Todd Seavey — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:41:32 +0000

You know, I recently said that now’s the time to do _Crisis on Multiple Earths_ Vol. 5 because the next batch in that series of multiversal JLA/JSA team-up reprints would logically be the one featuring the 1980 Perez team-up that had the two teams meet up with the New Gods. Well, I may be wrong, but I think I notice online evidence that it was actually scheduled for April 2007 (slightly _before_ all the recent multiverse/New Gods usage started) but was yanked before publication. They should have just delayed until…NOW! It was a great story — and more relevant than ever.

Instead, its almost-ness cyber-haunts me, like the taunting ping of a Mother-Box from a parallel world.

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:16:38 +0000

“DC is all too eager to jettison their silver age legacy, when some of the best stuff they’ve ever published by Moore, Meltzer, and Morrison, Johns et al uses it as a starting point. ”

Eh. At this point, DC is all Silver (really Bronze, but they pretend it’s Silver) Age All The Time. Barry, Hall, Ollie, Kara,the Levitz Legion, Kandor, Diana Prince, Earth-2– it’s gone from interesting and nostalgic to a little weird and creepy (cf Identity Crisis) to boring in its own right, and annoying to those of us who thought the 20 years after Crisis had some good comics in them.

By: Todd Seavey

Todd Seavey — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:11:25 +0000

In just over a month, our March 4 Debate at Lolita Bar may well address a topic closely related to that complaint — and pit two comics editors against each other. But more on that closer to the date. Up tomorrow: a “multiverse” of political paradigms!

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:47:49 +0000

I love the Multiverse, but have always felt indifferent to the New Gods. I think, in hindsight, that Crisis on Infinite Earths was a huge mistake – DC is all too eager to jettison their silver age legacy, when some of the best stuff they’ve ever published by Moore, Meltzer, and Morrison, Johns et al uses it as a starting point.