tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post1044842519944338273..comments2024-03-21T19:12:11.065-07:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: DC's May previews reviewed...and "Rebirth" discussed as little as possible, through a great deal of willpower on my partCalebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-74142011738889599192016-02-21T17:41:05.068-08:002016-02-21T17:41:05.068-08:00Much topic of discussion at the shop — who is the ...Much topic of discussion at the shop — who is the audience for those H-B books?Bramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12224971335907211925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-87725866978452735982016-02-20T07:07:30.497-08:002016-02-20T07:07:30.497-08:00I probably AM as old as your mom... and yes, I rel...I probably AM as old as your mom... and yes, I religiously watched Jonny Quest. I also had a crush on Race Brannon. So this all looks quite fabulous... although after experiencing the joy of "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" I am no longer sure I can read about him without giggling.SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-86632780525963858672016-02-19T09:45:58.469-08:002016-02-19T09:45:58.469-08:00as if the real problem with the DC Universe was th...<i>as if the real problem with the DC Universe was that Superman wore shorts</i><br /><br />I think the evidence is pretty clear at this point that the entire New 52 initiative was just a way to boost sales with a relaunch and to solve one single solitary "problem" that DC had - ending Superman's marriage without making him divorced or killing Lois or making it the result of a cosmic entity (that readers would assume would get beaten and the marriage restored eventually). They could not figure out a way to do it without breaking their universe and putting it back together, so break the universe they did. Other than that it was an excuse to slap new #1s on comics, give the characters a fresh coat of paint, and make their continuity so confusing that even the writers couldn't figure it out for four years (no naturally it's time to confuse things again!)<br /><br /><i>after DC hit that button... during Multiversity and during Convergence</i><br /><br />I read both of those - no reset buttons were hit. Multiversity doesn't even touch "Earth-0" - I think the only character from Earth-0 in the book is Nix Uotan (though I could be wrong - a few others might be in the Hall of Heroes - but they're certainly not the focus characters). And Convergence wasn't a reset button it was a weird retcon that wasn't even a retcon. It was just amazingly confusingly told so I can see why people thought it was doing something when in fact it was inserting itself into DC history "Forrest Gump" style as an explanation for something that didn't need to be explained.<br /><br />At the end of Convergence Superman, Parallax, and a handful of others go on their mission to prevent the end of the Multiverse at the end of Crisis. They succeed but - for reasons that are not explained at all - their success transforms the Multiverse into the 52-niverse that was revealed at the end of 52 and that was explored in Multiversity and Countdown. Different Earths morph into their new 52-niverse counterparts - which is what those final splash pages are supposed to be showing (Earth-S becoming Earth-5, Earth-X becoming Earth-10, etc.). It's really confusing because as far as we the reader are concerned this is the multiverse that already exists but Convergence is giving an explanation for why the singleverse that was created at the end of Crisis is gone now and has been replaced by the 52-niverse that was revealed at the end of 52. Basically we (the readers on Earth-33) been living in that alternate timeline all along, we just didn't know it.<br /><br />(The one hole in this reading is that "Earth-no-number-because-it-was-earth-Post-Crisis-Pre-Flashpoint" appears to be the original version of Morrison's Earth-16 - suggesting that Earth-1 and Earth-post-Crisis were actually different worlds and not transformations of the same world. Which I personally like and wish they had gone with instead of rewriting timelines to do reboots, but it is weird).<br /><br /><i>[Future Quest] is the most promising of the fairly insane-looking Hanna-Barbera cartoons-for-grown-ups comics that DC recently announced. </i><br /><br />Agreed. It's the only book in that group that I'm even halfway interested in. But after seeing what Parker and Shaner did with Flash Gordon and with Captain Marvel, I'm actually really excited to see what they do with the Hanna-Barbera properties. I just wish that Thundarr were in that group too. Or maybe they can just do a Thundarr book at some point...<br /><br /><i>Jonny Quest, which was a cartoon of my mom's generation,</i><br /><br />Jeez. Make me feel old.<br />Jerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10060430253113856206noreply@blogger.com