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Science fiction blog io9 has an article explaining the Jack Kirby created characters from DC’s Fourth World line of books. The characters have been popping up in DC books as of late and reportedly they are the core characters in this summer’s big event Final Crisis.
I wouldn’t actually know since I am not reading it.
In fact, I’m not reading any DC Universe comics right now. They are just too hard to understand. It seems the reader is required to have an extensive knowledge of the history of the DC Universe and that’s something I just don’t have. I wouldn’t know a Mother Box from a bread box. When reading Amazons Attack!, I had no idea who the gray haired, heavy set woman revealed on the last page was. In fact, I thought it was Beatrice Arthur. I had to go online and do some reading to find out it was a character from the New Gods line called Granny Goodness.
Granny Who?
I have a strong suspicion that I’m not alone on this. All three of the New Gods books in the 70’s were canceled because of low sales. This means not an awful lot of people were reading them. How then are readers today supposed to know everything there is to know about the characters from New Gods?
I just don’t get it.
Schooly
/ July 7, 2008This is the kind of fanboy-bullshit that makes people hate comics. This attitude that if you don’t know every piece of minutia about a character or series then you don’t deserve to understand what’s going on is bullshit. Also, DC totally sucks.
Rick
/ July 7, 2008Yeah, I don’t know how they expect anyone to keep up with it. It’s not as though they are basing the story on a popular line of comics from the 1970’s. The line was so unpopular that all three books were canceled. I think part of it is that some of the writers want to show off how much of the obscure DC trivia they know.
Andy
/ July 7, 2008I learned all I needed to know from the Batman/Superman/Justice League cartoons. Sometimes I wish DC would use those cartoons as the basis for all of their characters.
DJ Sloofus
/ July 9, 2008As a huge Kirby devotee, I’ve read most of the original New Gods comics (from all the various titles) a handful of times each. Even I can’t figure out what the fuck is going on in Final Crisis. I’ve also noted that, as each shipment of funnybooks comes in at the end of the month, my DC pile is smaller and smaller. I think that Final Crisis was the only DC title I ordered last month. Scratch that; make it the only title I ordered that actually shipped. Is All-Star Superman a deca-monthly now?