1 Year Later

[lynxreign]

I just finished Detective, JSA, Outsiders and Aquaman. So far the 1 year later event seems like an opportunity for DC writers to be cryptic and coy and not much more. A very unsatisfying week as far as these titles go. Aquaman seems set to go even further down the road of "What are you thinking!? This is crap!" Lots of mentions of "what a horrible year" and "my but this past year was a bit of trouble, wot?". I'm hoping that someone says "We shall never speak of it", but no-one has yet.

Update: Apparently Marvel is restarting the New Universe line as recreated by Warren Ellis. The Star Brand issue was actually quite good. The art was fairly Ditko and the story telling had a Hernandez Bros feeling to it.

One more thing: Marvel's Nextwave is surprisingly funny. Ellis again, but who knew?

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to Detective and Batman because James Robinson is writing them now, for the next couple of months. And then Grant Morrison taked over. Which should be yummy.

I figure the opaque references to the lost year will be more annoying than anything else. Some of them may handle it well and actually be intriguing.

So with Aquaman (and this isn't spoiling me because I'd NEVER read it) - is the new guy just some schmuck who HAPPENS to be named Arthur Curry?

And did you get Infinite Crisis #5?

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

It seems to be a new instance of Arthur Curry through what I'm betting will be a magic thing. The Old Squid-beard guy is the oringial Aquaman. That much is clear even though they tried to be all coy about it.

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

Old Squid-beard guy

Now THAT's a description!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

They call him that in the comic.

[head58.livejournal.com]

LOOK AT MY SQUID HEAD!!!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.
BTW, with your whole "No Spoilers" thing, which I think I followed here, do you care if I post about things happening to very minor characters?

[head58.livejournal.com]

nah, that's fine. I'm spoiling IC because I had been so far anyway so why stop now, and other things I don't care enough about to track down the individual issues so it wouldn't matter to me anyway.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

OK, then I'll mention that they killed the KGBeast.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Now see, here's a good example of something I couldn't care less about if I tried really, really hard. I don't even know who the KGBeast is! Impact of knowing about his death on me? ZERO!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Excellent, then I'll keep telling you things at that level.

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to make stuff up every now and then for him as well. :)

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

That's your job.

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

But he knows I don't read the comics you do, he would never believe me. :)

Of course, he probably won't believe you either....

[wizardru.livejournal.com]

Ah, so it's started, has it?

I'm so far out of the loop on this stuff, it's ridiculous. Grew up a Marvel fan, learned to love DC throughout the 80s, eventually becoming mostly DC by the 90s...and then abandoning comics in general in 2000s. This constant rebooting type stuff is certainly part of it. DC is generally better at this sort of thing than Marvel...but they both have pretty terrible track records.

I mean, it says something that I'm more interested in the JLU and the DCAU than I am in the DCU itself. Oh, what about the NKVDemon? Heh.