tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post5636933029927896768..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Heroes in Crisis hardcover/paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-63631827864952408072019-10-09T14:45:35.358-05:002019-10-09T14:45:35.358-05:00I think the greatest tragedy of Heroes in Crisis i...I think the greatest tragedy of Heroes in Crisis is that now with Solstice dead we'll never see a Solstice-Equinox team up.Aymeric McRaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14484209253540406909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-15056673097313851102019-10-06T10:03:31.228-05:002019-10-06T10:03:31.228-05:00Is this regular trade size or deluxe edition size?...Is this regular trade size or deluxe edition size?Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11525771241573883868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-86093503745504076292019-10-04T10:23:29.433-05:002019-10-04T10:23:29.433-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.David Sparhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12884115688661802576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-36326007965051160862019-10-03T18:49:51.034-05:002019-10-03T18:49:51.034-05:00"Everyone else at DC sure seems to be pretend..."Everyone else at DC sure seems to be pretending HiC didn't happen..."<br /><br />I think DC has beaten their land-speed record for exiling an over-hyped event series to the Memory Hole (the previous record-holder being "Haven: The Broken City").Leauxbeauxhttp://www.google.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-90010423287521013162019-09-30T11:30:56.014-05:002019-09-30T11:30:56.014-05:00The whole story was depressing to me.
So, Batman...The whole story was depressing to me. <br /><br />So, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman build an unlicensed mental health facility that compounds and makes Wally's mental health crisis worse. <br /><br />Wally, due to the failure of his "treatment", murders a dozen or so people. <br /><br />Wally frames Booster and Harley and resolves to kill himself. <br /><br />Wally is captured and put alone in a cell without any sign of real treatment for his mental health issues. <br /><br />Terrible. <br /><br />Also, they can jump around through time to get a clone, dead Wally but they can't stop the murder?<br />naterageoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127726625246396001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-41549231605778982562019-09-30T10:16:02.141-05:002019-09-30T10:16:02.141-05:00I am normally a big King fan, but this was just ba...I am normally a big King fan, but this was just bad. I'm not even a big Flash fan (Wally is my Flash, I suppose, but I never found myself missing him from Infinite Crisis to Rebirth*), so my issues aren't in the "how can they do this to Wally?" camp too much. Just, everything about this failed for me as a story. This is the only Crisis I will probably never double dip on (I get all the issues, then the best OHC/omni format for me, normally). <br /><br />I can see what King was trying, but all of the mechanical stuff regarding storytelling just failed for me. Why did Barbara, et al. happen to appear where the two Wallys met? What were they tracking? If Wally had already had the meeting with his future self and seen everyone talk him out of killing himself, why did he still send the video to Lois explaining what happened**? I can go on with more questions, but . . . well, ugh.<br /><br />My biggest issue is that the story doesn't seem to have any clear idea on if Sanctuary was good or not. The system clearly failed Wally in, frankly, unbelievable ways***, but they put it back together and other people seem to want/need it. So, was Wally particularly flawed compared to the rest of the people there? Did they fix some flaw in Sanctuary's programming? Did anyone learn anything from this?<br /><br />I think the answer to my last question is no, because none of this plot is being addressed anywhere except Flash Forward, where it kind of has to be addressed while Lobdell tries to absolve Wally and move him forward (no shots - I hope Lobdell is successful). Everyone else at DC sure seems to be pretending HiC didn't happen and I imagine that's probably best for everyone.<br /><br /><br />*While I'll grant the point that Wally and family didn't sell well, the way the Flash property was handled between Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis was comics malpractice<br /><br />*All time travel stories fall apart under close scrutiny to the mechanics, but this one falls apart if you think about it for longer than a page flip.<br /><br />***I'm betting Batman doesn't erase data by transmitting it to random places on the Internet Bob Schoonoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15371205595372517089noreply@blogger.com