Post by inferno on Aug 26, 2009 3:12:18 GMT -5
???Alright...this is gonna take a lot to type...
So, recently I've really been trying to become much more heavily involved with getiing into comic books. I've been seriously considering purchasing subscriptions to my favorite characters. However, apparently in the DC Universe there have been some huge/extremely confusing changes that as an attempting first time subscriber is really turning me off the idea. Let me try to break it down...
Number 1: The Death of Batman: Supposedly Bruce Wayne is currently dead...or in pre-historic times...in ay case I wanted to figure out why and how this incident occurred before becoming a subscriber. This led me to the scenerio where he died, Final Crisis. Which brings me to my next problem...
Number 2: The Crisis on Infinite Earths Fiasco!!!!!: As many comic fans know, even casual fans like myself, DC once had a story arch called Crisis on Infinite Earths. Apparently, this was published to "clean up" DC's horrible continuity back in the mid-80's. I read through the wikipedia page of it, trying to get an understanding of this big event in comics history. I thought I had a loose grasp of things before I read the "sequals" to this arch, published many years later. You see the sequals are fairly current and as I read through the summaries of these I realized I was using 100% of my brain capacity to even attempt to comprehend anything I was reading. Anyway, the last sequal called Final Crisis had the death of Batman in it. To understand what's currently happening in the Batman comic book universe I have to somehow retain a lot of the information within the Crisis on Infinite Earths/Final Crisis story arch. Which just can't be done without purchasing all of these books and reading them multiple times. (FYI, this somehow also is a precursor to the new Green Lantern storyline: The Blackest Night which was interesting me until now.) Segway into problem...
Number 3: The Endless Pit: How can anyone get into comics (At least DC anyway) without reading these books that have something explained in a previous book, that have something explained in a previous book and so on and so on and so on...
Is there anyone out there on the PTS forums or someone on the forums who knows someone who is a big comic book fan who can suggest essential readings towards me? If not essential readings, then at lest some sort of summary books that are currently out? Or even a website that is designed to aid people with similar problems??
Cause if not, I'm about to say screw this crap and head back to the broken down WWE Universe where it's safe and stupid.
If you've made it this far thank you for reading. ;D
I'll end this post with an appropriate riddle.
Q: When the world's against you, where's the safest place to hide?
A: In sanity.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
So, recently I've really been trying to become much more heavily involved with getiing into comic books. I've been seriously considering purchasing subscriptions to my favorite characters. However, apparently in the DC Universe there have been some huge/extremely confusing changes that as an attempting first time subscriber is really turning me off the idea. Let me try to break it down...
Number 1: The Death of Batman: Supposedly Bruce Wayne is currently dead...or in pre-historic times...in ay case I wanted to figure out why and how this incident occurred before becoming a subscriber. This led me to the scenerio where he died, Final Crisis. Which brings me to my next problem...
Number 2: The Crisis on Infinite Earths Fiasco!!!!!: As many comic fans know, even casual fans like myself, DC once had a story arch called Crisis on Infinite Earths. Apparently, this was published to "clean up" DC's horrible continuity back in the mid-80's. I read through the wikipedia page of it, trying to get an understanding of this big event in comics history. I thought I had a loose grasp of things before I read the "sequals" to this arch, published many years later. You see the sequals are fairly current and as I read through the summaries of these I realized I was using 100% of my brain capacity to even attempt to comprehend anything I was reading. Anyway, the last sequal called Final Crisis had the death of Batman in it. To understand what's currently happening in the Batman comic book universe I have to somehow retain a lot of the information within the Crisis on Infinite Earths/Final Crisis story arch. Which just can't be done without purchasing all of these books and reading them multiple times. (FYI, this somehow also is a precursor to the new Green Lantern storyline: The Blackest Night which was interesting me until now.) Segway into problem...
Number 3: The Endless Pit: How can anyone get into comics (At least DC anyway) without reading these books that have something explained in a previous book, that have something explained in a previous book and so on and so on and so on...
Is there anyone out there on the PTS forums or someone on the forums who knows someone who is a big comic book fan who can suggest essential readings towards me? If not essential readings, then at lest some sort of summary books that are currently out? Or even a website that is designed to aid people with similar problems??Cause if not, I'm about to say screw this crap and head back to the broken down WWE Universe where it's safe and stupid.
If you've made it this far thank you for reading. ;D
I'll end this post with an appropriate riddle.
Q: When the world's against you, where's the safest place to hide?
A: In sanity.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
