tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post111809570720257041..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: In Medias ResScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1118161392336311802005-06-07T11:23:00.000-05:002005-06-07T11:23:00.000-05:00The thing that makes it hard for me to find the ju...The thing that makes it hard for me to find the jump very interesting - aside, of course, from the recent direction of all things DCU - is that we all know going in that the "one year" will wind up compressed and retconned away into about a week and a half in a few years. It's very, very difficult to set "real time" benchmarks in a universe that is by its very nature hostile to real time.Matter-Eater Ladhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07582100232490047227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1118152514771365662005-06-07T08:55:00.000-05:002005-06-07T08:55:00.000-05:00Sending the entire DCU timeline forward by a year ...Sending the entire DCU timeline forward by a year sounded like a pretty gutsy move to me. I'm intrigued already.<BR/><BR/>The best thing about this, though, is that everyone comes in with a clean slate, both old and new readers. One of the problems I've had with some of the Countdown miniseries is accessibility - Day of Vengeance was ridiculously impenetrable.<BR/><BR/>At the very least it'll be interesting to see how well/badly DC executes this plan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1118143180343645142005-06-07T06:19:00.000-05:002005-06-07T06:19:00.000-05:00We hope that they will learn from past errors in M...We hope that they will learn from past errors in Marvel: Heroes Return Iron Man "Hi, I'm Tony Stark again, I'll explain how I returned some day...if sales are enough", or the mutant revolution of 2000? that was exactly the same than now, one yaer later, Phoenix changed powers, and some other cosmetic changes, that almost nobody bothered.<BR/><BR/>If this time they work well they have the possibility to make a major, coordinated change in the DCU in the direction they want (cooler, darker...), and if it works they will have the extra income of the future miniseries explaininig what happened in the lost year.<BR/><BR/>Confusing, but maybe promising. Risky.J Calduchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01982773391097397245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1118131142073468732005-06-07T02:59:00.000-05:002005-06-07T02:59:00.000-05:00Well, Zero Hour failed because it sucked and was i...Well, Zero Hour failed because it sucked and was ill thought out while Crisis failed because of $%^& John Byrne and DC not quite understanding that whole concept of dynastic centrepiece thing you've thought out and the reboots happening for years after without thought or reason.Martin Wissehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612094541576041276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1118102136920326032005-06-06T18:55:00.000-05:002005-06-06T18:55:00.000-05:00If I trusted more of the writers DC employed, I'd ...If I trusted more of the writers DC employed, I'd trust this idea more. As it is, the Committe To Write DC Comics hasn't written much of anything readable yet. Don't see how a year jump will change that.Mr. Ricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03221098688529569487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1118099678163411442005-06-06T18:14:00.000-05:002005-06-06T18:14:00.000-05:00"This will give them the chance to establish the n..."This will give them the chance to establish the new status quo and spend some time catching us up to it."<BR/><BR/>Or it will give them the opportunity to make wholesale changes without any thought as to how they came about, and only DiDio's vague promise that the interim information will ever be disseminated. <BR/><BR/><BR/>I agree that Crisis seriously dropped the ball by not being a true reboot. And I believe that editorial fiat at that time might have changed things. But all the use of Editorial Fiat since then, from banning the JSA to numerous Editorial Events to canonizing Geoff Johns - hasn't solved anything, I don't think that it is a guaranteed solution either.<BR/><BR/>Considering that IC and all of it's spawn depend on completely ignoring established characterization to work, I don't believe for a second that those involved have put any more thought into What Will Be than they do What Is. And 20 years from now, Marv Wolfman Jr. will be asked by DC to undo the mess left over from "not doing IC right when they had the chance".<BR/><BR/>The DCU was a bunch of books that happened to be published by the same company (more or less) that happen to work well together. Earth-2 and the rest of the multiverse was an organic result of sales and marketing as much as creative vision, spread over a decade or more. All universes built by Fiat have failed, most of them desrvedly so, and that will always be true.<BR/><BR/>No Editorial Plan survives the first encounter with the Reader.<BR/><BR/>davidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com