As for Seven soliders or whatever the hell the mini is called... We shouldn't have to read it to know whats going on.  A good "Universe Changing" event has always been contained within it's own 6, 7, or 12 issues.  Their are always tie ins that flesh out the event more, and of course there will be a truckload of material that happens before the event to build hype and anticipation, however with every other arc I can think of, all of that extra wasn't necessary for the actual story to make sense.  House of M, Civil War, Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Crisis on Infinite Earths, etc., all made sense by just reading the core issues, however final crisis does not, and even worse, picks parts of DC's history that people really don't care about.  Does anyone, or for that matter, has anyone, ever cared about the New Gods?  No.  They've always been small bit players in the DCU, and focusing a major event around them is stupid.  Starting off Slow is one thing, I remember reading posts about Infinite Crisis where people questioned the flow of the story, same with several marvel stories, however I can't remember an arc where people were outright disappointed and willing to drop a story after a single issue. 

Bottom line here is that DC messed up the launch of their big summer event, and unless issue #2 see's much MUCH better story pacing, and improvement in the art department, this will be a HUGE letdown for DC fans.

I enjoyed Villians United and the Spectre DAys of Vengance minis and got stuck on Rann-Thangar War, which was boring and confusing, the rest of Infinite Crisis > 52 are just sitting there in a pile.

The only DC's I have been able to keep up with have been Batman (my interest renewed after the film came out) and The All-Star line.

Now Vertigo is a different story.  I buy and Read all of those...

Agreed, this has nothing to do with being  a fair weather fan. It has everything to do with how Morrison wanted to tell a story.

You want to kill a main character, create the suspense. Where was it here? It wasn't. It was a "drive by" without any peril, any danger and any chance for the reader to emotionally connect with the possibility of a characters death. I had to look at that page thre times to really see if they killed the character.

I get it, really. Sometimes a writer wants to just show how radom life can be. Steven King takes 100 pages to develop a character and kills them in one sentence. If DC wanted the wow factor, this approach is not always desirable.

Seven Soldiers, Wolfie? Gimme a break. They have not been a factor in the DC Universe in years and even if something happens, then fricken recap it.  

Anyone check the DC boards? Yeah, we all tend to be critical  but we had to have an explanation of what happened because not only was this not accesible to new readers, even long term readers were confused.

I  believe this will get better. I think this still will be the wow factor of the summer. But Morrison is hit or miss with his story telling. All Star Supes is amazing. This one however was a big miss, not for the content but for the layout and the story.

Ok, then why the above post? Please wait until you READ something and then post.

whoa whoa whoa.... what is that for>? Lookie didnt read it yet either, and I didnt see you jump down his throat.

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