Quote: Prometheus said: Been checking out the DCMB's to see what the reaction is there. You wouldn't believe the amount of Johns-Apologists out there. It's ridiculous the lengths some people will go in trying to convince themselves that a turd is actually a diamond.
Here's some actual sincere, and sound logic I did find by one poster, though:
Quote: I agree that the ending of IC makes no sense, but you can see very clearly from where DC's editorial direction comes.
It is no secret that the real money in comics books comes not from publishing comic books in any form but rather the real money comes from the licensing of those properties to other media. Everything from lunchboxes to movies; the real money is in licensing. To that end DC editorial went about creating a fictional universe that is very similar to the fictional universes its characters inhabit in TV, and movies. For instance watch the latest Superman Returns trailer and you will find Lex Luthor foldling a crystal that looks remarkable like the crystal he currently carries with him in the monthly Action and Superman books. Moreover, at the close of IC #7 Lex looks an awful lot like Kevin Spacey. Early on DC aid that there was only going to be ONE Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman; and the reason is to make the the characters uniform throughout all of their various media incarnations.
This "new" fictional universe makes the transition from comics to other media more seemless. Every story and iteration of a character that's been published is a part of the fictional continuity now. The real purpose of Infinite Crisis was not to tell a good story. IC was not a good story from the perspective of skillful storytelling. It's loaded with deus ex machina moments, rapid, illogical pacing, inconsistent art, and glaring plot holes. The real purpose of Infinite Crisis was to reset the table so as to make all DC properties homogenous, easily portable between media, and recognizeable to the non-comic book, or casual comic book reader.
The real crisis is that comic book readership is not growing. While licensing of comic book charaters provides more revenue that publishing their adventures; it is because of the decades old history that these characters can commenad such staggering prices for licensing. That is in jeopardy when there is no growth in new readership. DC and Time-Warner management is hoping that homogeny among the version of characters in differing media will result in cross sales into other media. For example, someone plays a Superman game online then decides to read the comic book, or the Superman movie brings moviegoers into comic book shops.
