Jeff, I guess that that's a matter of interpretation. IMO, I could take your statement, substitute "Civil War" for "Final Crisis", and it would be a valid assessment.
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Is DC Comics dying? Date : Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:37:03 -0500 From : Jeff Carter <mbsj...@gmail.com> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Did anyone read Final Crisis, this is the real reason DC is dying. They keep putting all their eggs in one writers basket (Morrison) who takes a dump throws it on the wall calls it art, and if anyone complains tells them that it's the editors fault. Jeff On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > Grant Morrison seems to think so. > > They haven't posted the article from Wizard that I read this afternoon on > the web site, so it falls to me to quote it. When asked about his work on > "Final Crisis" (the ending in particular, and what he hopes fans will take > away from the conclusion of the story), he says, "I hope they''ll take away > a sense of how much they love the DC universe. Because there are the two > camps... and Marvel is a colossus right now. To me, the DC Universe dying is > almost how it felt to be at DC. There was just a sense that Marvel was just > getting bigger and bigger and bigger." > > I don't agree with that at all. > > IMO, Marvel has al but sold out its readers, with cheap and gimmicky > plotlines that aren't likely to last more than two years before being > retconned right out of existence, leaving nothing short of a continuity > mess. DC, on the other hand, is bringing about "Final Crisis", almost to the > letter as it was destined to happen thirty-odd years ago. > > I put my brain to the task of remembering exactly what books I'd picked up > in the last six months, and they've been 95% DC, only Fantastic Four as a > Marvel representative. But that's just me. > > Thrash on this. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds