Comments on: Comics & Comics: Paper Cuts http://asitecalledfred.com/2008/05/01/comics-comics-paper-cuts/ Thu, 01 May 2008 19:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jim http://asitecalledfred.com/2008/05/01/comics-comics-paper-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-4502 Thu, 01 May 2008 19:07:47 +0000 http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/05/01/comics-comics-paper-cuts/#comment-4502 Matt, I agree about Countdown; I dropped it after a month. But on a technical point, to say “Jimmy Olsen has gone pretty much unused for the last fifty or so years” is simply not true. First of all, he starred in his own Pre-Crisis title for decades. And in the Post-Crisis period, he’s been prominently featured in various Superman storylines time and again. Even when he wasn’t central to the plot of a Superman title, you’d usually still see him in the Daily Planet as part of the supporting cast. Because that’s what he is: supporting cast. It’s not that he’s been unused as a superhero character; he’s not really supposed to be a superhero. Maybe that was the problem with his storyline in Countdown (among other problems).

]]> By: Jesse http://asitecalledfred.com/2008/05/01/comics-comics-paper-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-4489 Thu, 01 May 2008 07:35:39 +0000 http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/05/01/comics-comics-paper-cuts/#comment-4489 Countdown was horrible. I stopped buying somewhere around #45. Read the last 5 in the store. I kept thinking, well maybe something will happen and I will want to own this issue in the years to come.

Nope. Like you said, the characters that took center stage were not characters I could root for.

Oh, well there is Free Comic Book Day and the Iron Man movie this weekend. That should cleanse the palette.

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