lol, I know what you mean. Kind of doing that this year with this summer's blockbuster events - Secret Invasion and "Final" Crisis. Every couple of months, I cruise by Wiki and get a summary of what I've missed. ;)
Should mention that as part of this whole New Krypton thing they killed off Jonathan Kent (again). The defeated Brainiac got off a parting shot while Clark was distracted half a world away by the sudden (rather noisy) emergence of Kandor just outside the Fortress.
We got a brief funeral scene in the next issue, and then he's been busy with all the New Krypton stuff. But the solicitation for an issue due to be released two months from now tells me that they'll finally be dealing with that whole "mourning" thing. Yay.
But yeah, good call. There was some nice stuff for a while there. And All Star Superman was fun (even if the art was rather ugly). But DC just seems to be going down the drain. Final Crisis is about the bad guys triumphing and wiping out most life on Earth (and enslaving what's left). Batman just got (temporarily, I assume) killed off. And Jonathan Kent. They just seem to be destroying whatever they feel like.
Including any sense of continuity or permanence. Conner Kent (the "Superboy" created by government cloning) died in the last Crisis, but there's an indication that they just brought him back. (Or maybe it's a clone...)
Over at the DP, they brought back Cat Grant (now with implants and a midlife crisis) to be the comic relief (of sorts). And Lana Lang got herself fired as Lexcorp CEO by using Lexcorp resources to help Superman (there's a special termination clause for that)... and now turned up at the DP as a columnist. Having "adopted" Supergirl as a niece in her new secret identity.
I think that about covers the news. Aren't you glad you (sort of but not really) asked?
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Date: 2008-12-06 06:18 am (UTC)Should mention that as part of this whole New Krypton thing they killed off Jonathan Kent (again). The defeated Brainiac got off a parting shot while Clark was distracted half a world away by the sudden (rather noisy) emergence of Kandor just outside the Fortress.
We got a brief funeral scene in the next issue, and then he's been busy with all the New Krypton stuff. But the solicitation for an issue due to be released two months from now tells me that they'll finally be dealing with that whole "mourning" thing. Yay.
But yeah, good call. There was some nice stuff for a while there. And All Star Superman was fun (even if the art was rather ugly). But DC just seems to be going down the drain. Final Crisis is about the bad guys triumphing and wiping out most life on Earth (and enslaving what's left). Batman just got (temporarily, I assume) killed off. And Jonathan Kent. They just seem to be destroying whatever they feel like.
Including any sense of continuity or permanence. Conner Kent (the "Superboy" created by government cloning) died in the last Crisis, but there's an indication that they just brought him back. (Or maybe it's a clone...)
Over at the DP, they brought back Cat Grant (now with implants and a midlife crisis) to be the comic relief (of sorts). And Lana Lang got herself fired as Lexcorp CEO by using Lexcorp resources to help Superman (there's a special termination clause for that)... and now turned up at the DP as a columnist. Having "adopted" Supergirl as a niece in her new secret identity.
I think that about covers the news. Aren't you glad you (sort of but not really) asked?