final crisis & tie-ins versus secret invasion - universe designate zero versus earth-616
the big two's big two crossover events are at a place now where i think i can begin to analyze and critique them, i think. both started at around the same time, spring of 2008. secret invasion, marvel's entry, shipped mostly on schedule, and has been "resolved," leading directly into a new branded status quo ("dark reign,") which is essentially a
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Don't stop.
I thought I was going to ralph all over when I put on the Superman Beyond 3D glasses that one time.
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- unearned or elsewhere-earned comic book deaths (the wasp and batman)
- editorial permission vs editorial obstruction
- physical defeat of "big bad" as ending
- premature declarations of victory, and the "mission accomplished" spin of the super-villain
- legacy characters/costume as identity
- "fantastic realism" versus "cool naturalism"
- morality and entertainment value of the event cycle
- 3D kitsch as 4D extradimensional vision
those glasses are pretty screwed. apparently, when you go see a 3D movie now, it's these weird polarized glasses, not coloured.. haven't tried them out yet but it seems wicked.
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The only thing I can comment on is the triumph of evil and JG Jones' artwork - I didn't like Wanted but thought I'd love it from the premise of a world of supervillains, but the art was great. I have to check if Final Crisis is on the three page list of comics David has for me.
The polarized glasses are the shit! IMAX uses LCD glasses that aren't colored either but those have produced spontaneous vomiting on two separate Tan family IMAX outings.
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j.g. jones was probably at his best on marvel boy, which was a grant morrison miniseries about a highly evolved kree (alien race) teenage warrior coming to our planet and fucking shit up. pretty amazing. grant morrison also wrote that one. oh, and j.g. jones' gorgeous covers of 52! sick stuff, dawg.
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