Thank you for reminding me of that. :P

Ya got me there. I read Hush in trade and thought it was just a little thin but not as awful as it was made out to be.

How many would I have to read monthly to catch continuity errors?
What continuity issues am I missing?

I wouldn’t buy crap just because the continuity was spot on. That makes no sense to me. Story is key

It’s like coke vs pepsi or mc donalds vs burger king.. DC vs Marvel. Fanboy wars. In the end you read what you like and you eat/drink what you like.

And as my post 5 spots above your’s prooves I got the whole monitor getting cast out thing, but it adds background story to something that really didn’t need it.

But you enjoy it and that’s great! Heck, someone had to. I loved Batman: Hush, were no one else seemed to. How does the saying goes? When it comes to tastes and colors there are no rules… or something like that.

This was turely my point in bringing up our education level and that my sons are reading and enjoying the series and tie-ins.

You are correct that we are all entitled to our opinions. That is why we post, so we can express our opinion. This series has generated a wide range of opinions and if one finds a statement that they don’t agree with then some may be compelled to counter it by stating theirs as I did with mine here.

My statement of incredulity over people missing the stuff in FC#1 dealing with Nix, was me expressing my frustration and not ment to insult those that missed it. If you or anyone else takes it as an insult that is your opinion of my presentation and you are entitled to it but again that was not my intention.

I suggest to everyone who has invested money and time in this event to re-read issues 1-6 before #7 comes out. Heck if you have the tie-in’s I would read submit, resist, SB1 and SB2 before #7 comes out too. This series demands multiple reads, which to me (my opinion) isn’t a bad thing. I feel that I am getting my monies worth with every re-read I find something new or just a clarification of something that happened and might not have understood the first time.

Again no personal shot to anyone just an expression of an opinion.

This was a great book.

How did anyone miss back in Final Crisis proper why Nix was framed and removed as a Monitor? Did he not see Omaga talking to someone informing them that he had and that things were in motion?

This issue answered the plot threads opened in the 1st issue and some that are going on in FC. It also helps set up issue #7 of FC. Nice work I thought. The ART was great! I love Mahnke’s ART!

I don’t have a B.A. in English and Psychology (just one in Finance and international business relations) and have been able to follow FC and FC: SB just fine. In fact my 15 and 17 year old sons are following it without a hitch and loving it. They are new to comic books; they started collecting this past spring when we discovered an LCS in our area (Joe’s comics in Geneseo, NY). If they didn’t know a character they consult the DC Universe encyclopedia or Wikipedia. Neither was interested in Secret Invasion both looked at in but found that it lacked what interests them.

For the fist 3 issues of FC we spiraled down emotionally and hit rock bottom with #4 like we were supposed to. Issue #5 saw the first real lights of hope and #6 saw the climactic battle and dramatic wounding (or semi-death, look up Omega Sanction on Wiki if you don’t know what I am talking about) of a legendary Hero. This is a real crisis on the level of COIE, which got me into really collecting comics. This and FC have been very entertaining reads!

DING! You win a cookie. I have a B.A. in English and Psychology (I’m not trying to brag, but rather say that I’m “his audience”), and if I wanted to use it, I would pick up some heavily ponderous tome with few illustrations and fantastic amounts of symbolism and symbology and symbiosis and all sorts of words starting with “sym-”. BUT I WANT FUN WHEN I READ MY COMICS!!!! Some things CAN be smart and fun, but it is a tricky balance. G-Mo seems to lean too heavily on all his “eccentric background knowledge”, and expects us to go “ooooh! ain’t he one o’ dem smert fellas!”. Sorry G-Mo. I put down my dollars for “entertainment”. I already have a massive student loan that I devoted to “education”.

P.S.: Countdown Arena hurt my very soul, that’s how bad I thought it was.

And regardless of what GM fans and apologists say about the series, I agree with you in that it should be fun, not some college thesis that requires a complete encyclopedia knowledge of philosophy and the DCU. Maybe GM wants to change the way comics are written the way Moore and Miller did, but I think a good number of people go to comics because it’s smart AND fun. Maybe those apologists get off on feeling smarter than everyone else but who wants to go into James Joyce territory when dealing with an alien from Krypton and the world going to heck with a few words and mathematical symbols? Oh yes, and VAMPIRES!!!

I liked arena if only for the Bruce Wayne Green Lantern.

Now I’ve been getting Final Crisis and the other day my box had part 1 of this 3D extravaganza. I had no idea about it but my friend behind the counter pointed out ‘look it’s great the Dr Manhattan expy is a drug addict’. Well it also had Uberman so why not I thought. I take my comics home, I don’t read them much until I have sat down comfortably, and went through them. The 3D stuff was different I’ll admit, my nephew told me to take off the funny glasses as I’m the only family member beside him who doesn’t wear any, but once I’d read it I thought ‘what a piece of crap’. I was wondering if it was worth bothering with the second issue. Thanks for the review, I won’t.