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I mentioned before how Marvel Comics has been guilty of baiting their readers into continuously buying event-related books. Well, DC has been just as guilty of this in their recent past; A couple of years ago, DC comics took almost a year to set up the various story lines that would ultimately lead into their seven issue series: Infinite Crisis. Infinite Crisis was an attempt to re-establish the DC multiverse. It meant well but was quite dissapointing in its execution, especially considering all of the build up to it that there had been. It suffered from a lackluster script and uneven art. )ie. too many fill in artists on the book) After Infinite Crisis was completed, DC led straight into a company wide theme of having all of their regular titles jump ahead one full year in their continuity, while at the same time launching a year long weekly series, called 52, which was to supply the backstory of what had been going on during those missing 52 weeks in DC comics continuity. a pretty original and inventive idea which ended up going over very well with readers despite much early trepidation from fans.

Unfortunately, DC’s next effort - another weekly title called Countdown (which was intended to be the lead in to the current Final Crisis seven issue series), did not fare so well. Countdown was dogged by negative reviews and complaints by fans who were weekly shelling out their money that the series was poorly written, visually boring and generally a major waste of time.

It’s one thing to lose readers on a monthly book, but when you start losing readers by the week…

Yeah, the optics are just not good.

Anyway, Final Crisis has been well executed so far. However it too is guilty of having its own large entourage of one shot books, mini series, and presumably some tie ins to the regular titles at some point down the road.

On a side note, it is interesting that as of this writing, we are four issues into Final Crisis and there have been very few tie-ins with the regular monthly titles. In fact, I can’t even recall one at this time. That’s interesting.

My wallet says that it is a good thing…

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