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Now that the Countdown is over, what did PULSE readers think? Did it live up to the expectations you had for the series? What were your favorite parts? What would you have liked to have seen done differently?
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I personally believe it to be the biggest disappointment from DC since Millenium. For the expense, the lack of payoff in the end and the ultimate confusion most readers I spoke to had left this overlong series a poor follow up to 52.
(I'm overlooking the hideous disappointment in Amazon's Attack as it looked pretty, if nothing else.)
I wanted to bring the entire series to Didio at the NYCC and drop it in his lap, but I didn't get the last two issues until after the show, which I thought wouldn't leave enough impact.
Meh. Even the old Action Comics Weekly packed more of a punch than this atrocity.
When is DC going to learn that you can't carry a title (much less a WEEKLY title) with second and third tier characters? They are second and third tier for a reason
Even my LCS owner was asking his customers "Why are you buying this CR@P?". If a guy is in the business of making money off these items, and HE is telling not to buy something, it must be that bad.
Even after the 52 and Countdown fiasco, I am cautiously looking forward to the weekly "Trinity" series.
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Poor way to bilk money out of customers. Storyline was too long. DC should have tried harder to come up with shorter storylines for that 2 years of blah!
Shame... it could have been something good too.
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I didn't buy it, nor 52, before it, nor even Millenium, except for the issues with characters I like. So what right do I have to say anything at all? Well, I *did* do issue sampling in my store, and in agreement with others here, I wasn't impressed.
Justin, at "13 Minutes" reviews, sums up my feelings about the whole über-kosmic-krisis syndrome:
"Just have interesting characters and tell compelling stories. A manufactured “event” does not a story make. . . . This book makes me tired, I can’t muster any energy. Let’s hope that this is indeed the final crisis, though DiDio already suggests otherwise. It disgusted me that DiDio’s end piece seemed so self-congratulatory. This book will “bridge one event and other series to other events, not one but many, and series, and more.” Uhhh, what? It’s clear to me that DC Editorial is largely more concerned about building events and establishing themselves as a spectacle factory than actually publishing compelling character driven stories. This is clearly a case where the business paradigm (ie: let’s make money!) has a disproportional advantage over the art paradigm (ie: let’s publish comics)."
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This series was such a colossal letdown. I stopped reading it at the halfway point. I wanted to stop reading it about six weeks prior, but figured I'd have a better chance of getting rid of it on eBay if I had the whole first half.
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Stopped reading it after a couple of months. 52 had direction and some pretty good talent attached to it. Countdown had a decent list of writers and artists attached but no cohesiveness.
It was really just pretty boring and didn't seem to be leading up to anything in particular.
I'm not saying Didio should be fire because that would be tacky and obnoxious and something I'd expect a 14 year old to say, but he seems to be heading in the same direction Bob Harras did when he started dictating stories to his already considerable talented writers.
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I stuck through 52 & Countdown...I wasn't thrilled with both. When "Final Crisis" is over I plan on dropping many books. It's just too expensive to collect books that are sub-par on writing and art. I plan on sticking with books like Green Lantern, Justice Society & Captain America. Quality not quantity...I played into the crossover storylines of both DC Comics & Marvel because I thought it would be fun and for the most part they were, but it's time to get back to basics.
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