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COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS #1


Price: $2.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 0.0%

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  1. Avatar photo Nate says:
    April 21, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Thank Gods its over! I desperately wanted to like this series so I kept with it. Yet, it has been one big mess from the get go and it never recovered. I already pre-sold my set on Ebay for $75 and I was happy to get that back. Glad Final Crisis is from a totally other team. 

  2. kingvyper says:
    April 22, 2008 at 12:13 am

    If we are really lucky. Orion Wil open a portal to our world and Mary Marvel will beat Dan Dido to a pulp using Jimmy Olsen as a weapon

  3. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    April 22, 2008 at 4:14 am

    if we are luckier, Orion will open a portal to the past before they started this title and tell the DC staff to write something that doesn’t suck balls.

    I’ve never read every issue of something & been so glad it’s over. I wish I dropped it early on, because once it got past the halfway mark, I kept thinking "I better stay on board now, or I wasted all that time & money" … and ended up wasting even more time & money waiting for this series to get good.

    It never did. 

  4. boostergold4 says:
    April 22, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    Definatley not as good as 52, but I still loved it!!! Not sure why there is so much Countdown hatred going around..it was not that bad….much better than most of the stuff Marvel is putting out….and yes I do buy alot of Marvel books also!!

  5. Avatar photo Kimbo says:
    April 22, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    I didn’t care about any of the characters in Countdown so I never followed it.  I applaud DC for using C and D-listers to tell the story, thats a bold step, but Countdown never meant anything to me because of it.  And everytime I’d flip through an issue I found the art pretty ugly. 

    May be just me but I liked DC before Infinite Crisis.  I have loved certain books since written by a couple guys I’m sure we all agree are great writers, but on a whole I kind of don’t care about DC since I.C. 

     

  6. shogunt says:
    April 23, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    I love the way DC makes an effort to make their lower-tier characters important to major events. That’s something I wish Marvel did more of.  Still, this series sucked. I started it, and gave up pretty quickly.  Too expensive to stick with.

  7. Avatar photo Unoob says:
    April 23, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    THATS HOW IT ENDED!?!?!?!?!?

    WHAT THE FLIM FLAM F**K!?!?!?!?

    All the build up and hype and it ends with a little whimper where nothing is really resolved!?!?!?!?!?

    Where is the PAYOFF of 52 weeks of reading? The earth shattering conclusion? 

  8. Avatar photo Hoshigaki says:
    April 23, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    @Unoob- This was called Countdown to Final Crisis, so the payoff will be in Final Crisis.  Hopefully it will be in Final Crisis.  I do feel where you are coming from though.  This series has made me hate myself for continously buying it.

  9. Avatar photo Guardedmarman says:
    April 23, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    Not that I loved this seris i did like some of it and im willing to bet this will be much better if read in trade, kinda like 52 for me.

  10. Avatar photo Ratenef says:
    April 23, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    Okay, so this was the worlds longest introduction to a new ‘super team’, a redeemed villian and a bad girl team up? WTF?

    The only payoff this series had was $150+ to my comic dealer……it was kinda like extortion or ‘protection’ money. Except I feel more violated than protected.

  11. Avatar photo captamerica101 (@Autobot_Hunter) says:
    April 23, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    there is still a zero issue right? i havn’t read the book yet

     

  12. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    April 23, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    @captamerica101 – No, there isn’t a COUNTDOWN 0.  There is DC UNIVERSE #0 which is a primer for FINAL CRISIS.

  13. Avatar photo AlexG says:
    April 23, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    This is it…if Countdown doesn’t start to pick up soon I’m dropping this book!!

    Oh wait…I just wasted a year of my life on this CRRRAAAPPPP 

  14. Avatar photo wolf says:
    April 23, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    WHAT OF SUPERBOY PRIME!! WHAT OF SO MANY LINE THAT DIDNT PAY OFF!!

    fuckDC for giving the glorious ending of DEATH OF THE NEW GODS to this peice of garbage. 

  15. Fractal514 says:
    April 23, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    This book, combined with the Death of the New Gods should be retitle, how to make someone feel like an asshole for buying an entire series of books only to have NOTHING happen and feel like an entire year of waiting led to nothing.  Seriously?  This book was a god damned cock tease of nothingness.  Remember when they told us to look to the skies?  Well he was right, look to the skies cause they are more interesting than the WEAKLY shit DC is putting out.  The thing that pisses me off the most is that I got 7 issues into Death of the New Gods only to have the ending ruined in countdown 2 last week, and now I’m in the dillema of deciding to buy the last of an 8 part series in hopes of some big twist that we need to know, but no, no no no no no no….  I hate you today DC, 0 better be realllllllllly freaken good…

  16. Avatar photo Joppe says:
    April 24, 2008 at 1:22 am

    Like some doomsday sect this apparantly counted down to nothing at all.

  17. Avatar photo Paradiddle says:
    April 24, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    Glad I jumped off of this back around #23.

  18. Avatar photo Mart says:
    April 24, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Countdown was utter bilge and I want my money back. That was a year of my stupid life! DC should be ashamed for treating readers so badly. I was like a prisoner of Transformation Island, begging Wonder Woman to spank me.

    Talk about a Great Disaster.

  19. Avatar photo tdog says:
    April 24, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    well so much for coutdown be really good the last month. #2 should have been the last issue, at least it woul have been interesting, after reading this issue I was just dissappointed.

  20. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    April 28, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    I saw the rating on here before I read the issue & thought you guys were being a little harsh … then I read the issue. It’s totally justified.

    What a piece of shit, just like the whole series was. A character who hasn’t been in the entire 51 issue story (Orion) comes & saves the day? That’s gotta be the worst story idea in a long ass time. I am shocked the DC editors  approved it, & let them print it. Then the big finale issue wraps up with a bunch of 4th rate characters sitting around and talking? Wow. I really am stunned at just how bad this series was.

     

  21. Avatar photo Superyan says:
    May 1, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    Ya, that really left me with a "that’s f*cking it?" feeling.

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