Who else is ready for a Crisis free DCU?

[Dark Master]

Seriously, who else is ready for all this stuff to stop and get back to normal storylines? IC was good enough, 52 was great, Countdown made me question buying comics period and FC is just chaotic and one-dimensionally boring.

Now I am all for exciting and impacting storylines, but having too much of them back to back is just too much. It's like being on a roller-coaster ride, its fun and exciting at first and then you just get nauseous from there on.

Now I am not saying I want boring and uneventfull stories either, but not everything has to be a universal or multiversal threat that totally changes the characters and the DCU in general. I would prefer something on a smaller scale.

Now I know many think otherwise and I welcome all opinions, so feel free to post how you feel.....

[carabas]

I think you're being a bit premature.
Even if they stop doing Crisises that rewrite their universe, they're still going to do big summer crossovers for at least as long as Marvel will be doing them.

[Dark Master]

Big cross overs aren't the same as having Crisis after Crisis and Big summer crossovers don't always have to be of a universal or multiversal scale.

[Dorsai]

For me, it seems like the DCU is a house built on shifting sand. I have essentially left DC except for a couple of books and will wait until this particular cycle of change is complete. I don't mind the big events and crossovers. I actually like them when done well and some of my favorite DC books were events of a sort. However, I am not as excited about the current state of the DCU but have hope that after FC, there will be something to spark my interest. FC was my last best hope for the most part and I've just about resigned myself to sitting on the sideline until the dust has settled.

[Dark Master]

I like most of them too, my issue is just with them cramming so many of them at us in such a short time.

[jchichuv]

i thinks that dc has had alot of crisis, i thinks its time to do something different, big events but no more crisis, some thing new, some thing fresh, something nobody is expecting

[Kelson]

I was ready for a crisis-free DCU two years ago. If Final Crisis weren't being written by Grant Morrison, I'd have skipped it.

(Actually, once they announced that Barry Allen was going to figure into it, I'd probably have at least flipped through it in the store, but that would have just been research.)

[Paul McEnery]

I'm rather thinking that's the meaning in the title.

[Amar_001]

yes i am ready here .................

[Spiffy]

There will always be another "Crisis". They'll just use another name.

The urge to "tweak" things as time goes by is too irresistable. It will come again.

[TuPeT]

Let me tell something, a DCU free of crisis and a Marvel free of wars is something that maybe we will never see. Ever!

[Captain Smith]

The problem wasn't the Crisis but the loose plotting of the so-called crisis as I pointed out in another thread. It was more event/sales driven than plot driven, IMHO.

[Dark Master]

I'm just ready for things toi settle down in the DCU for a long while. I mean look at the distance between COIE and Zero Hour and IC.

[Project 22]

I tend to agree. It isn't the crises that are the problem, it is the fact that all they are trying to do is pull in readers. Identity Crisis was amazing because it wasn't as life shattering to the ENTIRE DCU, it was mostly about Ralph and Sue, mixed with how they affected those around them. Sometimes the small problems can be the most interesting.

RIP is losing my interest because they are trying to make it TOO huge. The power of both Superman's death, and Batman's back being broken was the fact that they were contained stories, yet they had impacts on all those around them in very subtle ways.

Do something big for A character and see how it could affect others. That's also why Ted's death was so major, even moreso than characters like Conner, who was probably liked more by more fans, overall.

[Shypsi-Prime]

I'm ready!:biggrin:

[carabas]

RIP is losing my interest because they are trying to make it TOO huge. The power of both Superman's death, and Batman's back being broken was the fact that they were contained stories, yet they had impacts on all those around them in very subtle ways.This does not make sense. Batman: RIP is six or so issues of Batman and a handfull of cash-ins that are not at all required reading.

Knightfall/Quest/End was dozens of issues of all sorts of books, most of them required reading.

[the4thpip]

"Panic in thr Sky" was a pretty good event, so maybe they can make a series out of it?
Panic underground, Panic in Gorilla City, Panic on Earth 2, Personality Panic, Final Panic.

[Libaax]

Im so ready.

If we went a year without another "Final Crisis" then maybe i could pick up other DCU comics. Try team books, move away from my Batman family+BB+Manhunter+Jonah Hex corner.

But i dont really care since as long there are suckers that keep buying them books in 100 000+ and force feeds the rest of us o we wont take even a month holiday from these universe events.....

[FrogMan]

Get ready for the Tragedy series, starting with the 16 issue maxi-series, Tragedy in a Whole Lotta Places.

With tie-in books contained in 6 issues of every book DC currently puts out. Plus 10 or 11 related 4 part mini series.

Oh and also a couple of tie-ins in Marvels books, just for laughs.

[Choppa]

IC, ID, 52, etc all make up a bigger story. Let it finish first.

[Super Buddies Forever]

I think part of the reason why I'm fatigued with this stuff is that Final Crisis feels like it should thematically take place before Infinite Crisis. Ignoring the names themselves and the use of Monitors, the multiverse, etc., the general story of FC could have worked quite well before Infinite Crisis, which was a bit more cosmic in scope. There were also more tie-ins with the original Crisis, making it feel like a full-fledged sequel/finale to the first, whereas Final Crisis has been "Crisis elements sledgehammered into Morrison's brain."

Imagine, if you will, that Final Crisis (obviously named something else) had been the event that OMAC, Villains United, and so forth led into. The heroes are too busy squabbling and dealing with the events of their own making to notice Darkseid taking over their world. Morrison spins the basic tale he's telling now, with evil winning, and THEN Kal-L and crew return to "save" the world, finally leading to New Earth and the new multiverse.

The two events feel mixed up. We've already had the "big bang" of the DiDio era, and Final Crisis, no matter how cerebral and interesting it may be, is a bit underwhelming as a result.

[TeamED209]

Im not anti final crisis as im holding judgement untill the i've read the whole series but yeah it seems like there's a big event every other month

i mean i think marvel still do more of these events which im sure is just for sales(HoM,civil war,WWH,secret invasion) and dc do seem to be doing similar stuff, also i can't even read my normal titles without some big thing happening batman, spiderman, nova, green lantern ect everything seems to be in big event mode these days...Altho i have enjoyed alot of the stories im also ready for a change of pace for a year or two..

[SilverDagger]

I can't help but think of this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M6TSHWT6L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

It was followed by six other Friday 13th movies and Fredy vs Jason!