Icarus wrote:Is Civil War it's own comic?
Ultra Magnus wrote:Currently following:
The Ultimates 2, Transformers Beast Wars (but I think that's finished for now), Street Fighter II, Batman / Superman, Civil War, Skye Runner.
Icarus - yes, besides the crossover titles, there is a Civil War title out just for the latest shake-up.
Speaking of shake-ups...
Not that this is a new thing (years ago, we had DC's "Crisis on Infinite Earths"), but I've noticed that lately, the two biggest comic companies seem to like focusing on shake-ups and titles.
We had DC's "Identity Crisis". Then we had Marvel's "Avengers Disassembled". Then we had the follow-up of "The House of M". Then we had DC's "Infinite Crisis". Now we have Marvel's "Civil War".
From this came titles to do with numbers, such as Marvel's 198, and DC's 52. Both numbers, different reasons. DC generally seems to like concentrating on the grand-scheme big-picture cosmic stuff, while Marvel likes to zoom in on the tensions amongst its characters mainly on the planet Earth.
Different shake-ups happening, but shake-ups all the same.
Those who have been following the Captain Atom series will know that it's a precursor to WildStorm's own shake-up.
In all of this, I am tempted to draw my own universe of characters, and kill them all in the first issue, because I am convinced another shake-up would be the cool thing to do.
Not that shake-ups and cataclysmic events are necessarily a bad thing in the context of comics.
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Rogie wrote:I've recently returned to reading comics after a 10-year hiatus. I'm reading Ultimate X-Men, as well as the original Uncanny X-men series, via the Essentials. I may pick up some Spidey before it's over.
AnimeHeretic wrote:I remember thinking "Dark Knight Returns" was fascinating when it came out, but reading it again for the aniversary re-release, I found that the values I favored then were now appalling to me.
termyt wrote:Yes. Thank you. I realize that Miller's story is credited with the re-vitalization of Batman, but I really don't like the path he set the Dark Knight down. He went from using his great deductive skills to figure out the problem to using his fists to beat the answers out of crooks. He kind of just became a super-hero thug, IMHO.
That would stand true for me personally. However, I respect the first Crisis more as I really do believe it affected the DCU more. The end result of the recent Crisis didn't do much more than kill off/seriously change/injure (Superboy, Bumblebee and Vox, for example) characters while the original Crisis really did change everything.termyt wrote:Crisis on Infinite Earths remains a favorite of mine. Infinite Crisis had a similar feel, but kind of felt to me like DC was just trying to re-hash the story a bit. But most younger readers probably either never read Crisis or don't really understand how it changed the DCU. For them, Infinite Crisis would have a greater impact than it did for me.
Azier the Swordsman wrote:That would stand true for me personally. However, I respect the first Crisis more as I really do believe it affected the DCU more. The end result of the recent Crisis didn't do much more than kill off/seriously change/injure (Superboy, Bumblebee and Vox, for example) characters while the original Crisis really did change everything.
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