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ericbuscemi's review
2.0
This review is for the entire Convergence event, not just the first issue.
It seems DC took an already confusing premise -- anything with the word "multiverse" in it -- and further complicated it at every possible junction. For example, the event cannot even decide who its overarching villain is.
My best guess is that in order to get the canon to a place the DC execs wanted it, they needed a lot of things to happen, and there was no elegant way to accomplish that. So what transpires here looks a lot like sausage being made -- the end product may wind up being good, but nobody wants to watch the process it takes to get there.
While I wouldn't recommend this main eight-issue run, some of the two-issue tie ins were interesting, as fortunately, this event did leave them an interesting premise.
It seems DC took an already confusing premise -- anything with the word "multiverse" in it -- and further complicated it at every possible junction. For example, the event cannot even decide who its overarching villain is
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Brainiac, Telos, Warlord, or DeimosMy best guess is that in order to get the canon to a place the DC execs wanted it, they needed a lot of things to happen, and there was no elegant way to accomplish that. So what transpires here looks a lot like sausage being made -- the end product may wind up being good, but nobody wants to watch the process it takes to get there.
While I wouldn't recommend this main eight-issue run, some of the two-issue tie ins were interesting, as fortunately, this event did leave them an interesting premise
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Cities from different universes battling each other for survivalnathaniel_1206's review
4.0
Of all the manufactured and stupid crossover events in comics, this is one of the dumber ones.
But sales of first issues are dependably gangbusters, so there is that.
Why is it dumb? How many times have they "killed" Batman? Superman? The Flash? There is no such thing as permanent death in comics, so why believe that anything they do here will actually last?
How many new first issues can they squeeze out this after its done do you suspect?
Let's remember less than five years ago they rebooted their entire comics line, essentially because there was too much history. They made their universe smaller. That's what 52 was about. DC said "Our universe is essentially these 52 comics and they all exist within the same universe." It ended the Justice Society. It axed Oracle/Barbara Gordon in a wheelchair as history. They dusted off Batwoman, of all things. The Red Lanterns and whatever else comes with it became a thing. For a while Gen-13 were in Titans, I think, and Static, from the Milestone world, were viable. (RIP Dwayne McDuffie. We miss you.)
So here comes a crossover that brings in their entire history, and every iteration, bastardization, lark, and one shot of any character, ever back. For God's sake Captain Carrot, the silliest, most 1980s of comics, matters in this!!! Captain Carrot doesn't have a comic for a reason. No one with any ability to write comics wants to put their time or effort into making Captain Carrot work for 2015 pacing and serialization.
About five year later. They're doing this about five years later.
Sigh.
Anyway, it's a perfectly readable opening salvo in the stupidity. I guess it helps to read a summary of the Earth 2 comic, but its really not necessary. It's comics, if you don't know, you're either going to go with it and trust what you need to know will be explained, or you're going buy the trades.
And hey it's a whole slate of first issues to tempt comic buyers.
But sales of first issues are dependably gangbusters, so there is that.
Why is it dumb? How many times have they "killed" Batman? Superman? The Flash? There is no such thing as permanent death in comics, so why believe that anything they do here will actually last?
How many new first issues can they squeeze out this after its done do you suspect?
Let's remember less than five years ago they rebooted their entire comics line, essentially because there was too much history. They made their universe smaller. That's what 52 was about. DC said "Our universe is essentially these 52 comics and they all exist within the same universe." It ended the Justice Society. It axed Oracle/Barbara Gordon in a wheelchair as history. They dusted off Batwoman, of all things. The Red Lanterns and whatever else comes with it became a thing. For a while Gen-13 were in Titans, I think, and Static, from the Milestone world, were viable. (RIP Dwayne McDuffie. We miss you.)
So here comes a crossover that brings in their entire history, and every iteration, bastardization, lark, and one shot of any character, ever back. For God's sake Captain Carrot, the silliest, most 1980s of comics, matters in this!!! Captain Carrot doesn't have a comic for a reason. No one with any ability to write comics wants to put their time or effort into making Captain Carrot work for 2015 pacing and serialization.
About five year later. They're doing this about five years later.
Sigh.
Anyway, it's a perfectly readable opening salvo in the stupidity. I guess it helps to read a summary of the Earth 2 comic, but its really not necessary. It's comics, if you don't know, you're either going to go with it and trust what you need to know will be explained, or you're going buy the trades.
And hey it's a whole slate of first issues to tempt comic buyers.
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