So Infinite Crisis is over...

[gray]

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it's probably gonna end up tying in to civil war in large ways, so i hear.

[Patryn]

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Unlikely. Civil War is, what?, 8 issues? Planet Hulk is planned to span 14 issues, and only first three have come out, against 2 for Civil War (I'm counting this month's issue as I'm pretty sure the third Hulk issue just came out). Odds are that Hulk's return is going to be the next big story, because he is ****** at the Earth heroes (Can you blame him? They shot him out into space and now he's a gladitorial slave!). My guess is that he comes back at the head of an alien armada hellbent on destruction.

I'm pretty sure Planet Hulk was conceived specifically in order to move him off the board for Civil War, since he's such a poster child for registration, plus it gives the Illumanati a great morally ambigious choice to make in the lead up.

As for the average review, I can kind of understand. Like I said, it's kind of cliche. I mean, becoming an alien gladiator has been done before. But it's so pulpy that I like it. I actually was wary about seeing Hulk transplanted to a sci-fi/fantasy world, but it kind of works.

[John Mora]

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This was as much of a general comic book topic as I could find.

Anyways, I'm reading the Alan Moore run of Supreme and I have to say that you should all check it out if you love Silver Age/Superman/comics in general. Alan Moore really has a talent of making the character seem archtypal, but interesting at the same time. The flashbacks in the series are also amazingly well-done, and the plot of the first twelve issues is pretty interesting. There's also a bunch of in-jokes and references for people that know a lot about Superman or comics history. For as ironic and deconstructing as Moore was in Watchmen, he's as reconstructing and sincere in this. Plus, it's the right amount of pretentious without becoming annoying.

And all this from a fuggin' Rob Liefeld character.

[gray]

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yeah, it's sad that i missed the alan moore stories when they came out, cause, you know, it just looked like more crappy supreme.

[Starba]

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*dies of jealousy*

I did bring the first six issues of 54, two crappy issues of Robin, and the first issue of Secret Six with me, but they lasted a whole 2, 3 days. Oh well, 3 more weeks.

I really need to read more Alan Moore. I bought a friend Promethea for his birthday but since he graduated I never got the chance to read it.

[Magus]

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Supreme looks good.

I'm halfway through Grant Morrison's The Invisibles and... it's pretty boring.

[John Mora]

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Of course, it's no... FLEX METALLO

[josh]

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I don't think a comic company should have to clean up their continuity more than once in a thirty year period...

[John Mora]

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Until all of DC comics is written by one person, and that person is not a crack fiend, that will not happen.

[gray]

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actually it's until all the fans will stop screaming and yelling about continuity errors. back in the day, THEY DIDN'T CARE THAT SUPERMAN FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR II BUT WAS ONLY 30 IN THE 70S. kids these days love the fantasy, but get upset by the lack of reality. GO FIGURE!

[John Mora]

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I thought that back in they day they DID care, which is why they made up Earth-2.

I will also say fans need to stop being crack fiends, too.