Comments on Rokk's Comic Book Revolution: Comic Book Review: Superman #681: New Krypton

@Kevin: I agree. Usually big events handles by mo...

2008-11-04T10:35:46.751-05:00

@Kevin: I agree. Usually big events handles by more than one writer tend to have problems. Luckily, that has not been the case so for with New Krypton.

You are very wise to go ahead and wait to read New Krypton in trade format. I think it will be a much better read in that format compared to reading it in the monthly format.

@Anonymous: I hate to say this, but you know that ...

2008-11-04T10:33:14.599-05:00

@Anonymous: I hate to say this, but you know that Doomsday is going to be the literary device that Johns uses to cull the DCU of all of these Kryptonians. C'mon! It's Geoff Johns! It isn't a big event story unless there are tons of bloody deaths.

..re: heffison:Wow...REALLY confusing. I can't eve...

2008-11-03T11:58:00.000-05:00

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re: heffison:

Wow...REALLY confusing. I can't even reprocess all the books in that context.

So, ALL this, just to get the New Gods back? When the New Gods are used essentially as hommage props to Kirby in the DCU?

Now I REALLY don't see the point of hiring Morrison to tell this "story". I guess i have a reason to keep reading. (How depressing.)

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Thanks for the heads up on that, I hadn't read Dido's comment about FC.

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In response to Kirth's concern, DC has said that v...

2008-11-02T21:54:00.000-05:00

In response to Kirth's concern, DC has said that virtually everything we see in non-"Final Crisis" books takes place before FC, and after the last FC book is released, the other books will start to reflect whatever changes FC brings about.

Warning: DiDio has told Newsarama that most books will include an origin story for the title character, so we'll have the basics. This concerns me greatly. My initial concern is that Superman's history will change so much that there never was a Conner Kent, and maybe no Lois/Clark marriage. But the fact is that Blackest Night is coming after FC, so the DCU can't change too much without spoiling that story.

Or can it...?

..The first poster, I think is correct,and I won't...

2008-11-02T11:41:00.000-05:00

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The first poster, I think is correct,and I won't go into my usual rant about child-friendly comics.

But I don't look forward to the next issue. We know that Doomsday was constructed as the ultimate anti-Superman weapon.

I really fear that Doomsday IS going to kill the Kryptonians and destroy Kandor, if not some other B-list heroes along the way.

But here are a series of less obvious questions:

Isn't Final Crisis happening in the ENTIRE DCU? (I thought FC was "changing everything".)

Why is it that Superman 681 exists in a vacuumm? Where are the effects of the Anti-Life equation?

WTF is Dido doing? Apparently if the words "Final Crisis" aren't in the title of your book, then NONE of Morrison's "plan" (ha.) is having any affect on those parts of the Earth.

Where is KC Superman? He isn't interested in Kandor? From what I see in JSA they are all having a world tour, but I don't see the effects of the Anti-Life equation in those books either.

Perhaps FC is happening on "Earth-2" and it's 1984 all over again.

In conclusion, this overal lack of coherantcy in a supposedly singular DCU is an annoyance. The set-up for limitless Kryptonian bloodshed IS EXPECTED but not welcome.

And why the lack of interest in Barry Allen's return?

It's a mess on a mess on non-sense. I understand continuity, but I'm not a continuity hound. BUT if Final Crisis is SO important why isn't it happening in ALL the books at the SAME time? Why can't the Anti-Life equation affect the Kandorians? And Doomsday? Braniac has been hooked into an Earth computer...aren't all the computers on Earth infected with the Anti-Life equation? Ergo, Braniac is infected?

It just seems SO POORLY thought through. How many editors work at DC? How long did Dido work with soap operas with interlocking storylines?

I actually didn't mind this Braniac/Superman plot until I thought about it in relation to the Final Crisis issues that have come out. Just LOOK at the Earth depicted in FC: Submit. Where IS Superman on that Earth?

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I am glad to hear that Robbinson was able to write...

2008-10-31T22:30:00.000-04:00

I am glad to hear that Robbinson was able to write a good issue of New Krypton since stories that span two or more titles with more than one writer handling the writing chores end up being a mess when read back to back.

Personally I am waiting for this story to come out in TPB just because I can't afford to pick up Action Comics, Superman, and Supergirl. And I think that when the sales of each issue of New Krypton come out the sales might actually be low since most comic readers are like me and can't afford to pick up more titles without dropping one of their current titles.

So, Doomsday's appearance would give Kal-El the op...

2008-10-31T18:40:00.000-04:00

So, Doomsday's appearance would give Kal-El the opportunity to tell his new friends how he got killed and came back to life. Maybe all Kryptonians do that, or maybe he is their new Messiah.

I don't expect things to take that turn, but it would be fun.

I am wondering how DC is going to get rid of all t...

2008-10-31T17:07:00.000-04:00

I am wondering how DC is going to get rid of all these Kryptonians in the end. I hope not by having Doomsday killing them one by one.