dc countdown and tie ins

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:58 pm

whats everyone think of countdown so far ?

im enjoying it, theres just a lot of books in it

tarheelmarine · Post by **tarheelmarine** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:19 pm

I am looking forward to it, but I am going to wait for the trades, just as I did with 52.

stone384 · Post by **stone384** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:16 am

My God! so....many....books.....

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superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:31 pm

i guess eveyone agrees that there is just too much at 1 time coming out, just the main countdown books are around 10 a month ugg
its a good story just a lot of money and time at 1 pop

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:43 pm

DC lost me after 52 turned into countdown . . .

If the story gets good press from fans or if someone here really recommends it . . . I will hunt down the trades later and read it on the cheap . . .

tarheelmarine · Post by **tarheelmarine** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:11 pm

siren3-4 wrote:DC lost me after 52 turned into countdown . . .

If the story gets good press from fans or if someone here really recommends it . . . I will hunt down the trades later and read it on the cheap . . .

I picked up the 2 trades and they are worth it. If you read IDC and IC then you should pick up 52.

schi0249 · Post by **schi0249** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:14 pm

52 was a great storyline. However, Countdown has been mostly crap. I hope whatever comes after Countdown is better.

stone384 · Post by **stone384** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:17 pm

Final Crisis is the mini that spins out of Countdown.

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stone384 · Post by **stone384** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:18 pm

oh and there will be another weekly series also. rumor is that Mark Bagley will be the artist. Either way I will pass. No more weeklies for me.

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tarheelmarine · Post by **tarheelmarine** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:58 pm

stone384 wrote:oh and there will be another weekly series also. rumor is that Mark Bagley will be the artist. Either way I will pass. No more weeklies for me.

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wow, that would be excessive.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:18 pm

ultimate batman anyone ???

weeklys are just too much for anyone to drop thats like 12 bucks some months i have no problem with 52 but countdown and then somthing else after final crisis

it would have to be amazing for me to buy it

although i am impressed that 52 and countdown have been on time so far thats pretty impressive

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:58 am

tarheelmarine wrote:
stone384 wrote:oh and there will be another weekly series also. rumor is that Mark Bagley will be the artist. Either way I will pass. No more weeklies for me.

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wow, that would be excessive.

Shouldn't having more than four tie in series a month already count as another weekly?

stone384 · Post by **stone384** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:14 pm

yeah no kidding. Two+ weekly series at the same time. Ouch!

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superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:56 pm

and it will get worse as crisis gets closer

rictor · Post by **rictor** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:43 pm

I thought there were way too many a couple months ago because the main book didn't have that much going on. Now that the main book has really picked up, I can see why they need the minis to tell all of the stories that they want to cover.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:21 pm

So let me ask:

I swore off DCU stuff after Infinite Crisis (though obviously Jim Shooter writing trumps that) so I didn't get 52. But even I was tempted to get 52 for this reason: you've got a huge, epic, comic universe spanning story with a gillion heroes in it but it's all in one series. No check lists of tie-ins or guessing what's reataed to it; you just pick up an issue every week and you get the story. Of course that changed a bit at the end but for the majority of the year that was it (it also helped that 52 took place in a "hole" continuity, the "lost" year, so it could do crazy *SQUEE* without having to worry about fallout in other titles).

Anyway, obviously that's not the case with Countdown and I've got zero temptation this time around with the gillions of tie-ins. So do you think? Does this takes away from what made the 52 format special or not?

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:54 pm

i think it does a little

52 was truely unique as it was free to do as it pleased but, countdown has has some stuff i never expected in dc comics it is a good reas 75 percent of the time but, the rest seems like filler and waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many tie ins

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:46 am

Does anyone see anything "big" happening in the Infinite Crisis series and the minis that led up to it, value-wise?

I really need to relieve myself of that set, and dump it off sometime without taking to much of a loss.

And hopefully, without needing to wipe.

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:56 am

What about stuff like the "Sacrifice" side-story?

-slym

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:47 am

i think both will get a bump when countdown hits issue 1 or 2 just for anyone that did not buy it the first time and wanted to know what happened sacrafice will depend on blue beatle wonder woman and if max returns

Flinx · Post by **Flinx** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:49 pm

Way too many issues & tie-ins.

But because I'm a big elseworlds/what if alternate history fan it has sucked me in to buy them.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:51 pm

ive loved the search for ray palmer 1 shots

tarheelmarine · Post by **tarheelmarine** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:58 pm

Did anyone read WWIII from DC? I am thinking of picking this up with the last two 52 trades.

I am looking forward to picking up the Adam Strange tie ins to countdown.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:03 pm

ww 3 was ok but it seemed rushed and a little cluttered

still a ok-good read

stone384 · Post by **stone384** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:44 pm

WWIII seemed to get universal thumbs down from folks. I disagree. I liked it, but it did have issues. There were a few things that were out of place characterwise. Some things were shoe horned in to fit. I will say that WWIII may not fit well in the context of 52. It was designed to explain what happened in the One Year Later gap that all DC books took at the end of Infinite Crisis. 52 was supposed to explain how/why all the changes had happened, but the story drifted away from that. So WWIII was conceived to bridge the gap between Infinite Crisis and One Year Later. Still a good read, but not necessary.

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