Infinite What?

[daveamongus]

All both of you out there who read DC Comics (I'm lookin at you, helaaspindakaas), can anyone explain WHAT THE FUCK happened with the Infinite Crisis garbage?

In my favorite titles, Green Arrow had just been stabbed twice through the chest and his family (not to mention city) blown to shit, and Batman had just watched The Joker blow up Jason Todd and himself

Comments

[shaws_ghoti]

I am so glad I'm not into comic books.

[daveamongus]

thanks ;)

[iuliamentis]

The last semester of school has put me woefully behind in my comics reading--I have *no clue* what you're talking about, and I suspect that that is a good thing *g*

[helaaspindakaas]

Read the damn pile of comics I keep putting in front of you! :)

[fettman]

I missed Free Comic Book Day. :(

I would have gotten one of those, but it probably would have not been a good idea anyway as I shouldn't get back into comics anyway. But, I loved DC and probably still would.

[helaaspindakaas]

From what I've been lead to believe:

Normal continuity---------(jump)-------->1 year later

and

(Stuff that happened during the missing year)

are coming out right now. Simultaneously. So, we get to see how everyone has changed as a result of the intervening year, while at the same time watching that year unfold.

...and yeah - I was assuming, after all of the "The Big Three are gone! Oh noes!" business, that they'd have been held/transported/blahblah somewhere for a year. Guess not.

Is it strange that I don't think of automakers when I hear "Big Three?"

My prediction for Big Blue: No powers for a year (which seems like a long time) --> baby for Lois and Clark. Just a guess, though, but it's been pretty strongly hinted at recently.

Did I miss anything?

[daveamongus]

Yeah, I'm still confused about the last pre-One Year Later comics for Bats and GA. Is Jason Todd alive or dead (again)? The Joker seemed to have committed suicide and killed Todd, but the end of IC shows Joker killing Alex Luthor... and that last GA strongly implies that Roy, Black Lightning and Mia had all bought it, but Speedy and Roy are supposed to be off in a monastery according to the OYL Teen Titans, Black Lightning and GA participated in the IC throwdown(s), and so on.

It's like they glossed over all this Uber-Drama with Superboy having hit a very selective reset button.

[helaaspindakaas]

Yeah, every time DC uses the word "Crisis," I look forward to having to mentally draw a new continuity tree...