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Post by arcalian on Oct 27, 2012 3:03:32 GMT -5
It's been a long time coming.
For obvious reasons, this issue occurs long before the new Batman Inc and Wonder Woman issues. Hal Jordan is still Green Lantern, for one thing. It will take the Titans a while to "catch up."
But stick around; I hope to get this title back on something like a regular basis (though Hurricane Sandy may slow things down).
Let us know what you think.
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Post by Fantômas on Oct 27, 2012 14:08:13 GMT -5
Will be reading this later tonight, but I can't let Joey's cover go without immediate praise.
This is what an event should look like. Myriad of colours, heroes springing into action and the villian (very old school Brainiac) sinister, looming larger than life. Excellent composition (Batman's position especially) doesn't hurt either.
I really like this cover, in short.
And arc, if you need help getting Metacrisis fleshed out and completed, I'm sure the active writers would be happy to lend a hand with tie-in issues and discussion of ideas. I certainly wouldn't mind writing some pre-Inc. Batman.
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Post by Fantômas on Nov 16, 2012 7:45:54 GMT -5
Finally got around to finishing this. So, some thoughts:
Narrative occasionally suffers from being a tad pedestrian. Every time the writing begins to feel immersive you break it with a sudden shift into a more detached, 'and then this happened' ("But the fight quickly came to him, as Green Lantern and Adam Strange erupted into the experimental chamber, Raven close behind.", for example).
It feels like we're being told more than we're being shown, I suppose.
Brainiac is given a lot of interesting flavour, but never seems overly like a genuine threat. From the beginning of this issue we're told that he underestimates the heroes (partially by outlining their potential escape methods aloud), and from there he just seems to make a series of 'miscalculations'.
There are a lot of good qualities, obviously, and I think you have a very exciting story with a broad scope of ideas, characters and actions. Possibly you need to slow down (after just under a year's delay between Metacrisis issues I know that sounds strange) and allow some scenes to play out more fully. Have a few larger focal points where the narrative gets immersive rather than spreading it out into a series of 'this happened, then this happened'.
As I said, there are a lot of good qualities, and this isn't meant to be a negative review. I did enjoy it, and I will be back for more.
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Post by arcalian on Nov 16, 2012 11:54:12 GMT -5
No offense taken. I do suffer from "narrator voice."
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