Rambly definition and hello!miri_awayAugust 13 2008, 10:27:51 UTC
I love it!
OYL--sorry it took so long to get back to you--stands for One Year Later.
It's a major event device the DC Comic company is currently using to facilitate a smooth transition from one era to another. There's a mentality that goes like: "We are now going to skip the post-battle-crisis-trauma stories and reintroduce all of our books/titles as presented a year after." Said battle-crisis-traumatizing thing was another storyline called Infinite Crisis and it drew all the titles/characters in on the same plot line, which was this uber bad thing that was going to kill everyone on every dimension, until the conclusion kind of left it as a cliff-hanger on what to do next. A lot of people died in it and a lot of characters were left in limbo.
Under this time gap, every comic presented in the main DC Universe (Batman, Wonderwoman, Superman, Justice League, Teen Titans, etc.) all kind of...mutated--no, matured into something natural off panel. We see them as they have adjusted; not as they did the adjusting. The One Year away from us is what we, through the OYL plot tango, will get to see.
It felt like meeting someone you haven't seen in a while to find that they have lost a leg, killed a few people, and got a hair cut: you want to know what happened, right? But you can't, because there are assassins after your butt just for recognizing them.
OYL is good for story-telling because it gives the writers time to revamp old characters (which is the main reason I think they decided to blow the whole thing up in the Crisis) but a lot of people I know don't like what's going on. They have mutilated some character's development beyond recognition--thus, Cassandra Cain, who was awesome before is in this really bad place right now because the company doesn't know what to do with her. Everything is darker now, which I think a lot of customers might like, but for me it's mostly just being in the dark.
Another good thing it gives is a cool way to tell the story of what happened between. There are frequent allusions and flash backs and stuff, but mostly it's like...this void. You want to know what happened to Robin to make him go emo, or what made Wonder Woman go into hiding, but the story as its being told is awfully inconsistant and crude sometimes. Also, it got complicated and harder to read because you had to buy several different books about different characters to get the whole thing. And then they tried to explain it in a series called 52 but that was just...woah, too much, too many, too complicated.
Basically, OYL is DC's way of working out its bugs. Redifining characters.
Cassandra has been written into some stupid plots since then and done things and been explained and...she won't be the same. I just hope the get it together is all.
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OYL--sorry it took so long to get back to you--stands for One Year Later.
It's a major event device the DC Comic company is currently using to facilitate a smooth transition from one era to another. There's a mentality that goes like: "We are now going to skip the post-battle-crisis-trauma stories and reintroduce all of our books/titles as presented a year after." Said battle-crisis-traumatizing thing was another storyline called Infinite Crisis and it drew all the titles/characters in on the same plot line, which was this uber bad thing that was going to kill everyone on every dimension, until the conclusion kind of left it as a cliff-hanger on what to do next. A lot of people died in it and a lot of characters were left in limbo.
Under this time gap, every comic presented in the main DC Universe (Batman, Wonderwoman, Superman, Justice League, Teen Titans, etc.) all kind of...mutated--no, matured into something natural off panel. We see them as they have adjusted; not as they did the adjusting. The One Year away from us is what we, through the OYL plot tango, will get to see.
It felt like meeting someone you haven't seen in a while to find that they have lost a leg, killed a few people, and got a hair cut: you want to know what happened, right? But you can't, because there are assassins after your butt just for recognizing them.
OYL is good for story-telling because it gives the writers time to revamp old characters (which is the main reason I think they decided to blow the whole thing up in the Crisis) but a lot of people I know don't like what's going on. They have mutilated some character's development beyond recognition--thus, Cassandra Cain, who was awesome before is in this really bad place right now because the company doesn't know what to do with her. Everything is darker now, which I think a lot of customers might like, but for me it's mostly just being in the dark.
Another good thing it gives is a cool way to tell the story of what happened between. There are frequent allusions and flash backs and stuff, but mostly it's like...this void. You want to know what happened to Robin to make him go emo, or what made Wonder Woman go into hiding, but the story as its being told is awfully inconsistant and crude sometimes. Also, it got complicated and harder to read because you had to buy several different books about different characters to get the whole thing. And then they tried to explain it in a series called 52 but that was just...woah, too much, too many, too complicated.
Basically, OYL is DC's way of working out its bugs. Redifining characters.
Cassandra has been written into some stupid plots since then and done things and been explained and...she won't be the same. I just hope the get it together is all.
Phew!
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...huh. What the hell, Marvel/DC?!
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