Well, shit.

[shankie]

My various trains of thought just got snapped off clean.

Cover for 52, Week 15, with all spoilers and all.

I went into 52 loving it. Being excited about the format, being one rarely used in comics, being all about the coolness I saw happening. Clark being without his powers, just Clark Kent as a player in the DCU, what would happen to the Bat legacy while the Bats were all away, the promise of otherwise minor characters taking starring roles and being movers and shakers.


I think this is the last straw, though.

After what happened with Ralph last week, I was more than a little let down. Before that, I'd been overlooking things like Steel being an ass and destroying Natasha's armour, Bart being in the story for all of five seconds and looking like a mopey Wally clone... cool things were happening. The Question was really shining with Montoya, I genuinely was curious about a few things going on actually.

But. What. The. Fuck.

If you're trying to make up for Infinite Crisis, you're failing in grand fashion DC. And now I won't be picking up 52 with genuine curiosity about what's happening next. I'll be picking it up with morbid fascination at the spectacular trainwreck going on.

Even if that cover isn't what it appears to be, I'm still not happy with Ted's death, and fucking up Booster in the aftermath was like taking everything both characters represented for decades and raping it with a pineapple.

I seriously am way too upset about this right now. It's unhealthy. But seriously, what are they going to do next? Kill Wally's family and turn him into a supervillain? Have it canon that Mr. Terrific is a rapist? Reveal that Tim has a long-lost brother they just made up; and he's a serial killer? I really wouldn't put it past them at this point, and that's sad.

At least Cassandra isn't going to be stupid and evil and dead anymore. That's something.

P.S. I genuinely understand the difficulty of trying to add plot-twists to a universe like DC. I think that they're good enough to handle it well; just look at what they did with Jason Todd. I think they're better than this, and that's why I'm annoyed at Booster and Beetle being their sacrificial lambs.

P.P.S. I just sprayed wine all over my face. XD

Comments

[kirke-novak.livejournal.com]

I have tear in my eyes again but this time, they are tears of frustartion. i barely met them, I didn't know who Booster Gold or Blue Beetle is until like, what, 2 months ago? And they do THAT to me? :(
I am believing FIRMLY believing that Supernova is Michael, that Ted's death and the The Ralph Thing We Do not Talk About was a mental equivalent of a lubless assrape by Hulk. Booster Gold is no more but Michael Carter is... just... changed, for (as some would say) better.

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

I really hope things turn out better than they look like they're going to. That's all I can really say. :/

[scarab-dynasty.livejournal.com]

And now I won't be picking up 52 with genuine curiosity about what's happening next. I'll be picking it up with morbid fascination at the spectacular trainwreck going on.


The point to them is that you're still picking up v_v they hooked us for a few weeks with actual GOOD plots, then think they can get away with crap for the rest of the year.

I read about ted and Booster and... got this really sad annoyed pang that I recognized from Superboy's time, and Slobos. Not again, please, not again, I don't want another dead person. I can't do this again.

But looks like I'll have to now, darn it.


At least Cassandra isn't going to be stupid and evil and dead anymore. That's something

Back up... what am I missing there?

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

She's slated to join the Titans East (http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/001245083.cfm) in the very near future. :)

[scarab-dynasty.livejournal.com]

Really? Not just during 52 :) Wow.

Then what the hell is the crazy girl up to?

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Heh. Although it might be. I don't actually buy it anymore... although I did for like 6 weeks. ::sigh:: I leaf through it and catch the important snippets. I did actually buy the one with Ralph for posterity. That, and I didn't have time to browse, and I'd been waiting to see what that cult bit was about.

See? They're really damn good at this hooking-in bit and I hate it!

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

You do realise that the Titans East are a group of villains put together by Deathstroke? The other members of Titans East are to be Inertia (apparently an evil version of Impulse), Choirboy (Kid Devil's arch enemy), Duella Dent the Joker's Daughter, and Risk. Also, possibly Match, Lil' Barda, and Sun Girl (whoever she is).

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Yes. I also know that both Duella and Inertia were most recently seen as being good. Risk, too, I believe. So I don't think they're going to necessarily end up evil.

[damos.livejournal.com]

I have heard a rumor running about that Supernova is Booster. That the Booster running around now is some alternate universe Booster and .... and... well, they might do it.

It might also explain how Booster is the key to 52... if he is on the wrong earth. Maybe? Sigh.

Well, at least DCDirect is going to release a Boostle set of Kubric like toys... Bring the Cute (http://www.dccomics.com/dcdirect/?dcd=5656&lst=new&cat=ACTION+FIGURES)

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

I heard that, too. But it wasn't until you just said it that I thought about it and I believed it could actually be the case.

That would be kinda awesome. XD