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Ed Grabianowski
06/10/09

In reply to Final Crisis Is Frustrating, Flawed And Arguably Worth It All
Is it weird that I just kept on reading my usual DC series (GL, GL Corps, WW, JLA) and honestly had no idea that Final Crisis was going on? I guess it's partly because the issues sold out quickly, so they weren't lying around when I wandered into the local comic shop and they weren't on my pull list. And partly because I just could not force myself to feel excited about Yet Another Massive Comic Event.

(but man oh man am I fired up for Blackest Night!)
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StratfordX
06/10/09

In reply to Final Crisis Is Frustrating, Flawed And Arguably Worth It All
The pacing of Final Crisis reminded me a lot of The Wire, and since I'm one of those people when it comes to The Wire, I'm rather fond of it, but it is obtuse as fuck and nowhere near as mind blowing as Seven Soldiers. This is another case of reprinting the material in a different order than was published; I'm most pleased to have the single issues of all of 7S so I can read it in mini-series order, which helps things out tremendously in making sense of it all.

A note on the collection and pricing: I'm no fan of this pandering to the big boys' publishing industry with putting out the pricy hardcover edition first, but at least there's some value here: Forty dollars worth of comics at cover price plus extras for 29.99 isn't bad, as these collections have become.
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Plague
06/10/09

@StratfordX:

I guess I'm one of the few that thought SS just fizzled out as the story came to a close- and DAMN was Klarion an annoying character.
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