DyslexicDan
Name: Drew Larson
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I was originally going to pass on Frank Frazetta’s Creatures but thank god I didn’t. This was, in a nut…
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@Conor, fair enough but the emphasis DC is placing on which earth it is shouldn’t be over looked. To a new reader “earth one” in the title isn’t going to mean anything but to the DC die hards (DC Zombies?) it could me a lot. There is a point to it or why else brand an entirely new line of books with it? Its one of those nifty little details that really only comics, with their decades long narratives, have been able to do and frankly it’s the kind of thing that when discovered by a die hard fan makes being one worth all the trouble. And how DC did this is quite elegant. Here is a completely accessible book for new readers, and I agree that is the point of it, but right there in the title is an Easter egg just for the fans in the know. How is that not cool in the nerdiest way possible?
@Conor I’m fairly sure that this is the Earth One of the 52 and “New Earth” or Earth-0 is the DCU proper.
@Josh, I agree with you and Paul that it is an unimportant detail if it is true and would probably over complicate things for new readers but it is one of those small details that brings veteran readers, like my self, back to read a slightly different takes of the same story again and again.
When I first started to read Josh’s take on the book I didn’t see who wrote it. So when he said “not in continuity, but instead as a hardcover, with no continuity” I was put off by thinking I was reading a review by someone who didn’t do their homework before making claims. When I finally saw it was written by Josh I remembered that he is a smart fellow who would know that this would be in continuity as its part of the bigger DC multiverse. Then I remembered this is Josh. He probably doesn’t know and won’t care once some one points it out.
So that’s a long way of saying its funny how forgiving you can be of a writer when you think you’re familiar with their personality and tastes and how heartless and unforgiving you can be to Ron... Uh, I mean other writers.
They need to let Nightwing out of the Bat-family. He has the Titans again (for the moment) and there should really be a push to make that better. He came into his own a long time ago in the Titans and it was greate but for some reason DC feels he needs to be dragged back into Batworld.
One day long ago I had no money and had to decide what was more important playing World of Warcraft or buying my comics. Comics won but I still live out my WoW fantasies in this book.
Ian and Benetiz are a step up considering what DC has been pushing as of late. I see conor's point about Benetiz's style but its betten then art made by the monkies with parkisons that DC has drawing their B-List and some of their A-List books.
I know I cant always have Frank Cho and Adam Hughes drawing the books I read but I would at least like them to look better then something that came out of the mid 90s.
I wish this wasn't tied into Countdown and Monarch because I would have read this as its own mini series. Its kind of like a DC's take on a Marvel "What If?" story and its really good. I don't know if it would be as good if I didn't have my back ground knowledge of the Marvel universe.
Its sucks if what we saw of Havok in Countdown (Universe of Earth - 51 is blown to bits by Monarch and everyone dies) is the last we see of him because that would be total crap.
I miss the Waid and Barry Kitson team. Kitson's art was so good that I didn't really care if there was a story or not and Waid wrote the charecters and jokes so well that I didn't want a pesky plot interrupt the cheracter interactions.
With the new team I have been put off a bit. The art is a hell of a lot better then what we have been seeing sens Kitson left but the story has yet to pull me in to the point that I have to read Legion right away. I still have to read #49 because of it.