Thursday, August 10, 2006

52

For the last a year and a half, i've been interested in collecting US Comics and taking deliberate side with DC whose known for it's colorful legend men-in-cape such as Superman, Batman, and so forth instead of Marvel whose hip-ness, represented by young and dynamic superheroes such as Spider-Man, and X-Men.

Why DC? well, you see, there was this event called Infinite Crisis which aftermath re-vamped a whole DC Universe, restarted it, killed some of them, altering some of their superheroes' power, and introducing new superheroes. In short, the DC history was rewritten. The Infinite Crisis spans 7 series (7 months) and interlinked with several DC specials that in one way or another, supported the event.

After the Infinite Crisis' conclusion, the whole shelf of DC products experiencing a time-jump called One Year Later. As it's title suggests, One Year Later describes the story One Year after the Infinite Crisis. Now, what happened between the Infinite Crisis and One Year Later? How does these heroes lost their ability? Why does this guy is still alive? Doesn't he get killed during the Crisis? and so forth.

To answer that question, DC came up with a solution that came with a weekly serie called 52. The serie should be delivered weekly and depicted the event for the current week, until it reaches week 52, where all the stories should continue logically correct with its appropriate One Year Later continuation.

The latest issue was #14, i just recieved it this Thursday. And so far, this serie has yet to fail me, for fourteen weeks, this serie has been delivered on time and features some lesser super-heroes (wasn't it nice?) such as Questions, Booster Gold, Steel and even Batwoman (i dont know where she does coming from, but red hair? Barbara Gordon?).

** Spoiler alert **

And still, Superman remains loses his power, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Robin were still nowhere to be seen.

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