REVIEW: End of Month Reviews #52 - April 2008 [spoilers]

[Lalo Martins]

Also spracht Saxon Brenton (Wed, 07 May 2008 05:15:48 +0000):
> Nevertheless, I'm
> sitting here worrying that the combination of an ensemble cast, plus the
> late appearance of the Net.Trenchcoat Brigade, may make this look like
> the equivalent of an Event comic from one of the mainstream publishers.

My understanding is that one (minor) goal Arthur and I have been shooting 
for is to poke fun at mainstream Event comics.  (Arthur with BC and BM, 
me with 58.5 and my suggestions and contributions to BC/BM.)  And one of 
the reasons I enjoyed BC#0 is that it was the apex of this minor goal; it 
was IMO so well done that now we don't need to do it so much anymore, I 
feel that "the fun has been poked" :-P  And yet, it has done that without 
losing its effectiveness as part of the story.

Maybe some people aren't that much into satire.  Well; in a month that 
has seen the abyssal badness of Death of New Gods (or "DONG" as I like to 
call it) and the "end" of Countdown, plus the gratuitous trailer string 
of DCU0, I feel I have to somehow express my anguish as a comic fan.  Two 
ways I can do that are: point out the ridicule in it, and write better 
stuff.  It's a hard choice, so I pick both.  I may fail at the "better 
stuff" part, but... hmm, wait a minute, better than DONG and Countdown?  
No, I don't think I can possibly fail at that.

Jim-Starlin-is-a-Skrull-ly-yours,
                                               Lalo Martins
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