{"id":9652,"date":"2006-05-18T07:03:45","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/05\/18\/cliffs-comics-notes.html"},"modified":"2006-05-18T07:03:45","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T14:03:45","slug":"cliffs_comics_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/cliffs_comics_n.html","title":{"rendered":"Cliff’s Comics Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, rather, summary of two publisher’s Big Events at Progressive Ruin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’ll give Marvel’s Civil War <\/em>series this: it’s a lot easier to explain to the uninitiated than Infinite Crisis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“What’s Civil War <\/em>about?”<\/p>\n

“There’s a superhero-related disaster that kills a lot of people, which causes the government to step in and attempt to regulate the heroes, which then divides said heroes into two camps…for regulation and against.”<\/p>\n

“What’s Infinite Crisis <\/em>about?”<\/p>\n

“Well, when DC’s multiverse was collapsed down to a single universe as a result of Crisis on Infinite Earths<\/em>, the Superman of Earth-2 and his wife, Lois Lane, the Superboy from Earth-Prime, the son of Lex Luthor from Earth-3 survived, but return to the modern DC universe to….”<\/p>\n

“Whoa, hold on, I think my nose is bleeding.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Too early into Civil War to have much of an opinion (aside from, “great idea, but way too many places for them to cop out”). But I enjoyed Infinite Crisis <\/em>(in a CoIE <\/em>sort of way), and have a moderate interest in the collection of that series when it comes out, just for the record. <\/p>\n

The “One Year Later” reboot of most of DC’s series, though, has been a mixed bag — too major a disruption, too much of a chance for bad storytelling to unrealistically tweak characters around into new situations that would have been more obviously rigged if it had been done over the course of a real year. I am enjoying 52<\/em>, though, a weekly “what went on during the year” book focusing (so far) on lesser lights like Ralph Dibny and Booster Gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or, rather, summary of two publisher’s Big Events at Progressive Ruin: I’ll give Marvel’s Civil War series this: it’s a lot easier to explain to the uninitiated than Infinite Crisis….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8508,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/infinite_crisis.html","url_meta":{"origin":9652,"position":0},"title":"Infinite Crisis and a trumped-up conflict","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Oct-05 8:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Infinite Crisis (IC from hereon) is this year's big cross-over event in the DC Universe, and meant to be as DCU-shaking as the original Crisis on Infinite Earths (with heavy...","rel":"","context":"In "Comics & Comic Books"","block_context":{"text":"Comics & Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/infinite%20crisis.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9321,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/bt06_and_so_it.html","url_meta":{"origin":9652,"position":1},"title":"BT06 – And so it begins","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jul-06 6:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, here I set, well-rested.\u00a0 Kinda.\u00a0 We got out of Doyce's place for the Galactic game a bit late, but that was a bit less distruptive to our sleep patterns...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45477,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/25\/is-the-old-52-dc-universe-coming-back.html","url_meta":{"origin":9652,"position":2},"title":"Is the Old 52 DC Universe coming back?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 25-Sep-14 8:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"Alas, no. 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