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artist: Scott McDaniel, Jack Herbert, Vicente Cifuentes, Jorge Jiminez, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Jan Duursema, Drew Geraci
Given my relative interest in Earth 2 itself, in its original tenure under James Robinson or the later Tom Taylor run, I hadn't even thought to check in with the weekly World's End until I saw Darkseid on the cover.
DC made a tactical decision to run three weekly series simultaneously. Futures End has obviously had the highest profile, given the recent month of September being completely dedicated to it, while Batman Eternal has that ever-precious Scott Snyder connection. Comparatively, it's like DC wanted this one to be overlooked.
Anything I've heard about it from comics bloggers has been wholly dismissive. So is that a deserved reputation? Certainly the creators working on it are far less celebrated. This is an affair being worked on almost exclusively by emerging talent. In other words, by people you've never heard of. I One of the many artists involved, Eddy Barrows, recently worked on Nightwing. And the breakdown artist is Scott McDaniel, one of several below-the-radar assignments he's received since the failure of his Static Shock. The closest work that comes resembles McDaniel's style involves Mister Miracle and Darkseid. In completely unrelated news, Scott McDaniel would make an excellent New Gods artist.
The story work is all action all the time. Maybe that's what comes of randomly inserting myself ten weeks into the series, I don't know. Most of the faces are familiar. The strongest material in fact features Mister Miracle and Darkseid, as the seldom-acknowledged son unwittingly unleashes the father back into active status by the end of the issue. Early in the Robinson Earth 2, there was a strong emphasis on character arcs, but somewhere at the beginning of Taylor's the focus shifted away from Justice Society-inspired heroes trying to pick up their own pieces and toward, well, World's End.
Earth 2 was always a direct answer to the early days of Justice League. Where that series couldn't have a weekly series like this, this one was, uh, Taylor-made for it. All three weeklies are fifty-two-issue event books, but perhaps this one most of all. It's more direct than, say Countdown to Final Crisis. It's not a forgettable joke, the way its reception seems to imply. Both Justice League and Earth 2 have always been titles you could recommend to readers reluctant to jump into the complete superhero pool. This, then, would be an excellent way to break the crisis tradition to them.
DC made a tactical decision to run three weekly series simultaneously. Futures End has obviously had the highest profile, given the recent month of September being completely dedicated to it, while Batman Eternal has that ever-precious Scott Snyder connection. Comparatively, it's like DC wanted this one to be overlooked.
Anything I've heard about it from comics bloggers has been wholly dismissive. So is that a deserved reputation? Certainly the creators working on it are far less celebrated. This is an affair being worked on almost exclusively by emerging talent. In other words, by people you've never heard of. I One of the many artists involved, Eddy Barrows, recently worked on Nightwing. And the breakdown artist is Scott McDaniel, one of several below-the-radar assignments he's received since the failure of his Static Shock. The closest work that comes resembles McDaniel's style involves Mister Miracle and Darkseid. In completely unrelated news, Scott McDaniel would make an excellent New Gods artist.
The story work is all action all the time. Maybe that's what comes of randomly inserting myself ten weeks into the series, I don't know. Most of the faces are familiar. The strongest material in fact features Mister Miracle and Darkseid, as the seldom-acknowledged son unwittingly unleashes the father back into active status by the end of the issue. Early in the Robinson Earth 2, there was a strong emphasis on character arcs, but somewhere at the beginning of Taylor's the focus shifted away from Justice Society-inspired heroes trying to pick up their own pieces and toward, well, World's End.
Earth 2 was always a direct answer to the early days of Justice League. Where that series couldn't have a weekly series like this, this one was, uh, Taylor-made for it. All three weeklies are fifty-two-issue event books, but perhaps this one most of all. It's more direct than, say Countdown to Final Crisis. It's not a forgettable joke, the way its reception seems to imply. Both Justice League and Earth 2 have always been titles you could recommend to readers reluctant to jump into the complete superhero pool. This, then, would be an excellent way to break the crisis tradition to them.
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