Looking back at DC (you know, if it was actually GOOD.)

It's not that I want to be an super crazy marvel zombie, it's just that DC makes it so damn easy. If you disagree, look how they're coming this close to ruining the one thing DC did right last year (52). The fact that they're merely using the countdown to go back to the CRISIS well a year later is ridiculous. (Maybe it wasn't a year ago, but it certainly feels like it just happened last week.)

DC pisses me off in an amazing amount of ways. From the fact that Swamp Thing can't interact with Superman or Batman, to the lack of a simple recap page for a new reader or guy that didn't catch the last issue. (there seems to be entire communites of DC people that think you're an idiot for not being knowledgable about 30 or more years of continuity, which I hate. If it's so important, it should feel important to the story naturally. The Montagues hate the Capulets, great, I shouldn't have to read a Mercutio tie-in to get this point across. LIGHTNING SAGA IS AWFUL, DEAL WITH IT.) I've got to read this, to build to this. so it builds to this, and BLAH BLAH BLAH. Marvel does this to, you say. Whatev. DC is the one going for supercontinuity and supercanon (except when someone PUNCHES TIME AND SPACE whenever we say it's OK). DC feels caught in minutiae becuase it's bricks that builds to SOMETHING, and this time it will MATTER. I like Marvel because I'm caught up in the minutiae and suddenly, it matters on a grand scale.

What it all comes down to is a brief run down of the New Earth that doesn't have a crap ton of bad stories and missed opportunites:

Identity Crisis: The death of Sue Dibny is stupid, and the following years have been stupid damage control. Furthermore, the stupid ghost detectives (Neil Gaiman already did this better) are place holders, like believing fans want a Hal Jordan Spectre. Lex Luthor's Armor, a good enough red herring, should have MEANT something later. Hell, I'd take Lex Luthor did it over Jean loring any day. The rape of Sue is more ridiculousness, the stalwart Superman wouldn't look the other way. I read somewhere that Alex Ross said that the only way he would ever do that if it happened to Lois, and I'm inclined to agree. Not to be to prudish, but rape shouldn't be a DC EVENT.

God, I was about to go off on a rant about the rest of the past couple of the years, but Identity Crisis has drained me. More to come, I guess.