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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 13, 2014 22:44:18 GMT -5
I had high hopes for Final Crisis. I read it about six months ago. I had just read All-Star Superman (which I like a lot!) and I thought that maybe Grant Morrison would live up to the hype. Um, no. Final Crisis is kind of a mess. And worse, it's a pretentious mess. It was nice to see Kamandi, I guess. It's not unreadable. But it's also not very good.
So far, I've found Morrison's Batman to be more like Final Crisis than like All-Star Superman.
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Post by the4thpip on Jul 14, 2014 1:37:29 GMT -5
Infinite Crisis at least has some nice Phil Jimenez and George Perez art, though the extreme violence turns me off from liking it The death of Phantom Lady might be the worst thing in comics, ever.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 14, 2014 2:18:38 GMT -5
Infinite Crisis at least has some nice Phil Jimenez and George Perez art, though the extreme violence turns me off from liking it The death of Phantom Lady might be the worst thing in comics, ever. I posted a scan of that scene. It certainly should have been an off panel murder.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 14, 2014 3:02:31 GMT -5
The look on Wonder Womans face is like she just got date raped.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 14, 2014 14:47:56 GMT -5
Infinite Crisis at least has some nice Phil Jimenez and George Perez art, though the extreme violence turns me off from liking it The death of Phantom Lady might be the worst thing in comics, ever. The more I hear about Infinite Crisis, the less I want to read it.
It sounds worse than Identity Crisis.
Does the Rolling Head of Pantha come from Infinite Crisis?
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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 14, 2014 15:00:52 GMT -5
The death of Phantom Lady might be the worst thing in comics, ever. The more I hear about Infinite Crisis, the less I want to read it.
It sounds worse than Identity Crisis.
Does the Rolling Head of Pantha come from Infinite Crisis?
It does indeed, at the hands of the cypher Superboy Prime no less!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 14, 2014 16:43:24 GMT -5
Infinite Crisis at least has some nice Phil Jimenez and George Perez art, though the extreme violence turns me off from liking it The death of Phantom Lady might be the worst thing in comics, ever. The gal Cheetah attacked and the Deathstroke ran through? Is it because of the violence? I'm interested as it didn't offend me but it seemed par for what I had read do far. I think the most ridiculous I've read of it so far is Mongul battle with Superman. It just seemed so out of place and weird.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 15, 2014 1:08:41 GMT -5
The look on Wonder Womans face is like she just got date raped. I...think that would be a different look.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 15, 2014 1:34:32 GMT -5
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Post by the4thpip on Jul 15, 2014 1:36:19 GMT -5
The death of Phantom Lady might be the worst thing in comics, ever. The gal Cheetah attacked and the Deathstroke ran through? Is it because of the violence? I'm interested as it didn't offend me but it seemed par for what I had read do far. I think the most ridiculous I've read of it so far is Mongul battle with Superman. It just seemed so out of place and weird. Because she went out like a chump (I don't think she was granted the panel time to prove that she had put up a fight), and they sexualized the death by graphically stabbing her with a big phallic weapon in her infamously low cleavage. It was basically misogynist snuff porn.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 15, 2014 1:36:57 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 15, 2014 5:41:32 GMT -5
I remember reading that all the dialogue in the next to last panel was actual word balloons from other comics for that month.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 15, 2014 14:49:55 GMT -5
IIRC that panel is from Superman #10. I still have a copy too.
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Post by mrc1214 on Jul 15, 2014 15:01:13 GMT -5
The death of Phantom Lady might be the worst thing in comics, ever. The more I hear about Infinite Crisis, the less I want to read it.
It sounds worse than Identity Crisis.
Does the Rolling Head of Pantha come from Infinite Crisis?
I like the art..the story is terrible though. You won't be missing anything if you don't read it. And yes that's where that image comes from. I had to search it though cause I wasn't familiar with who Pantha was.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 15, 2014 15:08:36 GMT -5
I've never read a comic with Pantha. But the blogger Scipio of Absorbascon used to have a running joke about the Rolling Head of Pantha.
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