COUNTDOWN (A Special DC Event)

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Because I don't believe there's an official COUNTDOWN thread for this female dog yet.

Anyway, I am actually stoked for this, moreso than 52, as there's (supposedly) one guy directing things, w/ 4 dudes marching to his drums (even if 2 of the guys are Palmiotti & Grey - ungh). Dini's experience doing such coordinatino on the TV shows (animated & otherwise) have me hoping that this year-long thing will be less wrought with moments like "DEAR GOD SHUT UP STEEL" or "YAY MORE UNNECESSARY VIOLENCE" or "WTF IS RALPH DOING?"

― David R., Friday, 20 April 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Note to Webster's folks: add COORDINATINO to yr book thing ASAP.

― David R., Friday, 20 April 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am really unstoked for it :(

Not just because of the meat and potatoes scripters though they won't help - OK you won't get any plot snarl-ups but you won't get any Oolong Island scenes either.

Mostly cos the characters they've picked are such zeebs. Jimmy Olsen? Mary Marvel? Ray Palmer? Ouch.

― Groke, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'll read it on the stands for a while, then if it looks like Dini is really hitting I'll buy.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Tom: what's the difference between the Countdown roster & folks like Booster Gold & Black Adam & Sadface Ralph Dibny?

― David R., Friday, 20 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Booster, Animal Man, Ralph (sort of) - 80s lamers who I read growing up.

Ray, Jimmy, Mary M - 40s-60s lamers who put me off DC growing up.

― Groke, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I SENTENCE YOU TO READ SHOWCASE PRESENTS: SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL.1

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I have love for Jimmy, of course, he was awesome in the Carlin Superman years. And in the Silver Age. So his bits will be OK I guess.

― Groke, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

ALSO interesting, is that the first two issues will be available in their ENTIRETY (though not all at once) on Myspace of all places. I guess facebook = marvel?

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Iunno, the graphs of Eclipso's elegant, womanly fingers suggestively caressing Mary M sold me on that storyline. The sexual frustration that runs rampant throughout the DC offices is likely going to have her sporting PVC and fondling Starfire by the end of the year.

Dini gets DC characters with more depth and consistency than anyone this side of, uh, Johns and Morrison, so I'm definitely in for the first few months.

― j. bricks, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

bricks - have you see the Michael Turner (or Ed Benes) Countdown cover w/ Evil Mary Marvel sporting a pleated mini & megabreastestes?

I'm not sure Johns "gets" DC characters so much as he knows their history & continiuty, & then whips that knowledge out Go-Go-Gadget-Hammer style to cover up his tendecy to anyone that isn't Stargirl or Jakeem (in my experience) into little more than plot conduits.

― David R., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading Countdown for two reasons: I'm hooked on the weekly format, and I have an inexplicable fondness for Jimmy Olsen and Mary Marvel.

― Mr. Perpetua, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also: I have a very explicable fondness for Darkseid.

― Mr. Perpetua, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Two words: Paul Mother Fucking Dini!

― Oilyrags, Friday, 27 April 2007 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

That's six.

― David R., Friday, 27 April 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

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