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09 October 2005

20 years ago, there was a Crisis in the DC Comics universe. Then came Zero Hour. Then Identity Crisis. Now we have Infinite Crisis. Confused? Catch up and get ready. This oughtta be good.

post by: WolfDaddy at: 05:44 | 9 comments

To this day, a serious discussion of DC Comics is going to be peppered with "pre-Crisis" and "post-Crisis". You can't get away from it, you can't ignore it, and you can't pretend it didn't happen. It will matter forever.

Hilarious!

posted by agropyron 09 October | 10:32

Every time I think about picking up a few comic books, I hear about stuff like this and I'm glad I stay away.

posted by ColdChef 09 October | 14:09

I read Dark Knight Returns a while back and got all confused about Batman and Superman's relationship to each other, so I did some research on the timelines. Then I realised it was way more trouble than it was worth and forgot it all.

posted by tracicle 09 October | 15:02

Hmph, you're all banned from the comic book shop. For life.

posted by WolfDaddy 09 October | 16:22

I quit collecting comics years ago because they were getting too damn x-pensive and took up too much room. Yes.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 09 October | 16:39

I remember when the X-Men had some sort of crazy shakeup, and then another, and another, and... I just stopped reading.

Really if the stuff we think is momentous just doesn't mater, then who cares?

It's just a scam to get you to buy more books.

posted by delmoi 09 October | 22:01

I think the one that had the most to push me from comics was the insipid Knightfall. Aside from taking the steroidal-psychotic Bane and turning him into some sort of mastermind, it was just really boring and poorly written. Batman had been in the toilet for the most part for a while then but that just pushed it over the edge.

Before I quit I was enjoying some things like Hate, Strangers in Paradise, and others that I have forgotten by now.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 09 October | 23:19

I still have 500+ comics, actually. I need to get them out, go through them and find any that I give a shit about (first twenty issues of sandman or so and some stuff like that maybe) and get rid of the rest.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 09 October | 23:20

WORST.
RETCON.
EVER.

When I was working in NYC, '87-88, I'd go out for lunch every day and buy a comic book. Cerebus was my true calling, but I was into Nexus, Love & Rockets, and so forth. I could never get into any of the DC/Marvel stuff except for DKR and maybe Killing Joke.

I tried to be a comic-book geek. I really, really did try. And I FAILED!

(The above should be in italic Comic Sans, inside a word balloon.)

posted by stilicho 10 October | 03:53

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