Fanatix
May 13th 2005, 03:34 AM
I was going through my comic book collection today out of bordem and because I knew I wouldn't have time when summer school started. I was mainly looking to pull out anything from the last 2 years that could have something to do with infinity crisis, but I ended up looking at the covers and arcs of most of the books I've gotten in the last 5 or 6 years. And I wondered what everybody else thought of these same books that were, at least to me, a pretty big part of my pre-sixteen years.
Throughout the bats history, especially in the 90's it seemed like every couple of years they'd be a gigantic, months and even year long storyline that would end up encompassing the entire dc universe. Some of these have been good, and some of them have been bad. The one that I first read all the way through (I only read half of the nightfall arc) was the no mans land epic. I wasn't really on the internet at the time, and because war games got sooo much criticism, most of it desevered, very little not. I was wondering what the popular opinion on no mans land is.
I enjoyed it at the beginning, I was really only beginning to explore the dc universe at this point and it seemed perfect for me to just get to know, to understand the dark night one on one. There wasn't anybody but bats and a couple of rouge heroes and vigilantes who stayed for the first arc or two before everybody was brought back. I thought bats dealing with the destroyed city and his lack of impact and technology was great. But by the end of the arc it had seemed to fall on its own weight, there were too many unexplored dead ends in the story that would seem to get glossed over. And while the art in the first arc was top notch(to draw ppl in i guess), by the end there were some issues that looked like they'd been drawn by a 15 year old, outlined in sharpie, and then painted using MS paint. I also liked that it seemed to be pretty accuarate in timing, no mans land lasted a year in the comics and it did in the real world too. Oracle was also excellently used and showed what shes made of, almost becomming the narrator of the story by feeling a sense of duty to record what she had seen while not being able to do much of anything else. The ending was kinda crappy, but it did lead into bats: fugitive which I thought also started off great before becomming to much of an epic for its own good.
What did you all think of one of the biggest story arcs in batman in the last 10 years?
Throughout the bats history, especially in the 90's it seemed like every couple of years they'd be a gigantic, months and even year long storyline that would end up encompassing the entire dc universe. Some of these have been good, and some of them have been bad. The one that I first read all the way through (I only read half of the nightfall arc) was the no mans land epic. I wasn't really on the internet at the time, and because war games got sooo much criticism, most of it desevered, very little not. I was wondering what the popular opinion on no mans land is.
I enjoyed it at the beginning, I was really only beginning to explore the dc universe at this point and it seemed perfect for me to just get to know, to understand the dark night one on one. There wasn't anybody but bats and a couple of rouge heroes and vigilantes who stayed for the first arc or two before everybody was brought back. I thought bats dealing with the destroyed city and his lack of impact and technology was great. But by the end of the arc it had seemed to fall on its own weight, there were too many unexplored dead ends in the story that would seem to get glossed over. And while the art in the first arc was top notch(to draw ppl in i guess), by the end there were some issues that looked like they'd been drawn by a 15 year old, outlined in sharpie, and then painted using MS paint. I also liked that it seemed to be pretty accuarate in timing, no mans land lasted a year in the comics and it did in the real world too. Oracle was also excellently used and showed what shes made of, almost becomming the narrator of the story by feeling a sense of duty to record what she had seen while not being able to do much of anything else. The ending was kinda crappy, but it did lead into bats: fugitive which I thought also started off great before becomming to much of an epic for its own good.
What did you all think of one of the biggest story arcs in batman in the last 10 years?