Now that we're a month past the halfway point of Countdown, and therefore more than halfway through the lifespan of this incarnation of the DC Multiverse (as Final Crisis, from its name alone, will almost certainly scramble and reboot things once again), it's clear that DC has completely squandered the storytelling potential of this set-up ( Read more... )

We're now a few weeks into the new weekly series Countdown, and a number of my fears have already been realized. Much of the strength of 52, the previous weekly series, came from its largely self-contained nature. While it used a lot of the background of the DCU (and often the more obscure parts), it mostly told the reader what they needed to ( Read more... )

What was the DC multiverse? Why do people care if it comes back or not? Why did it go away in the first place? With the conclusion of 52 revealing the larger effects of last year's Infinite Crisis, these questions are fairly relevant. To answer them, lets take a look back about 20 years ago, to 1985's landmark maxi-series Crisis on Infinite ( Read more... )

I think when the dust settles, 52 will be the best thing by far to come out of the whole Infinite Crisis extended multi-event. I haven't always loved every minute of every storyline, but all of the storylines have interested me at least part of the time, and there's never been a week when nothing in the book was interesting at all. The artwork, ( Read more... )

In the little section on page 2 marked "National News Highlights":
Kittery, ME-- Even after spending 18 hours on Wikipedia, area resident Matt Alpert had to admit to himself that he was still nowhere near attaining a firm grasp on the DC Comics Multiverse.

I just about died laughing.