That's my feeling. I'm too beaten down to care. I think parts of it worked well early on, but then it just seemed like Grant Morrison was being inscrutable on purpose. I read a separate essay about all the things D.C. is doing wrong, and the handling of FC is a great example. We were led to believe that Everything Would Change, but all we got was an creatively odd, seemingly self-contained story.
On Feb 4, 12:33 am, "Shag" <[email protected]> wrote: > That is a good analysis. > > Now that I've finished Final Crisis #7, I have a few other things to add > that might alienate readers of Final Crisis. > > First off, what the hell was this comic book about? After the first few > pages of #7, the rest of the comic makes no sense AT ALL! It's a bunch of > random scenes thrown together. It's like someone cut up a bunch of Bronze > Age comics, took random panels, and stitched them together to form this > comic. WTF! > > So was Final Crisis un-done at the end? Did billions of people die? Or > were they somehow saved by ... hell, I don't know. > > Anyone got any idea? I'm seriously confused and frankly don't care that > much anymore. > > The Irredeemable Shaghttp://onceuponageek.comhttp://firestormfan.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Erika > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:57 AM > To: The Unique Geek > Subject: [The Unique Geek] Good analysis of Final Crisis fallout > > http://savagecritic.com/2009/01/i-dont-want-to-be-left-behind.html > > "If you add up all of the comics that are meant to be part of this > overall plotline as Didio has positioned it in interviews, starting > with that TITANS mini where they killed Donna Troy, through the build > up to INFINITE CRISIS, IC itself, 52, COUNTDOWN straight through to > FC, you're talking hundreds of dollars - perhaps in the $500 range. If > you tried to READ it that way, you'd probably go insane, being given > only crayons to write with in your padded cell. Extremely little of it > adds up, or builds to anything of real lasting significance." > > "That's why I think FC was 'the last straw' for a really large chunk > of my DC readers. I have customers dropping DC titles left and right, > and they tell me the reasons are that they're confused about DC > continuity, and they feel like they're being sold things that are not > what they were told they are." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
