Rachel Maddow's Pull List

[skywaterblue]

OH RACHEL. <3 <3 <3

I question 'Identity Crisis', but well, sometimes we just got to bite it and read the shitty multiverse events because we want to be up to date. Also, I love that she's creeped out about the subtext in Fables.

Comments

[sarken.livejournal.com]

No! Rachel! Brad Meltzer? Really? I mean -- really?

Maybe his graphic novels are better than his traditional novels -- I guess they kind of have to be -- but, dear and holy fuck, Rachel, Meltzer has the distinct honor of writing one of only two books that I flung across the room because of the sheer Godawfulness. The Zero Game was actually so bad I threw it across the room in my high school government class. And, damn, did it feel good.

You're breakin' my heart, Rachel, is what I'm sayin'.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Aw man, you know how comics work right? There's like a shared continuity in each of the companies comics -- so Batman and Supes are friends and Wonder Woman is their galpal and they're on a team and stuff?

Okay, so every once and while the editors decide that continuity is becoming WAY TOO COMPLICATED. Or they need to CHANGE THE UNIVERSE. Or they just need to sell books. Or it's been a while since there was a big event book.

In order to know what the new rebooted continuity is, if you're a fan, you have to buy the miniseries that reboots the continuity. (By tradition, all the DC events are CRISIS something, going back to the first, CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS.)

I'm going to guess and say that Rachel probably didn't think Infinite Crisis was very good because most people thought it sucked crap in a bag. But if you want to follow the big arc of the DC universe, you have to read these stories. Indeed, Infinite Crisis is shitty misogynistic dreckery -- google the phrase "The Rape Pages Are In!" for more.