Comments on: Big Crossover #1 Review

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:34:31 +0000

Wow, what a stupid review.

Wow, what an insipid comment.

By: Billy Parker

Billy Parker — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:38:06 +0000

Wow, what a stupid review.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:53:59 +0000

$4 for fan-fic? Nope. Not for me.

I was warned a year-and-a-half ago that the 2008 crossover would be lame.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:22:06 +0000

I thought it was all right as Big Crossover #1s go. I think Grant Morrison's Big Crossover #1 will be cooler though.

By: Eric Grant

Eric Grant — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:13:50 +0000

RE: BSG connections.

You know, it would be pretty sweet if Cylon model 12 turned out to be a Cylon that disguised itself as a shapeshifting Skrull. We'll find out tonight at nine if this Big Crossover is actually way bigger than any of us could have imagined.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:02:02 +0000

The First Big Shock has a bit of potential - if the storyline basically has every non-hero character in the MU saying "oh, so that's why they've all been acting like idiots since Big Crossover Involving Disassembly" and accepting the new ones sight unseen, you can do quite a bit with that. Sort of a take on Return of Barry Allen, just bigger. Of course, the depressing ending (can't have a happy one in Marvel these days...) would be that the First Big Shock is a swerve and everything has happened the way it should have happened. (And given that I don't think f'n *Mephisto* would be unable to detect a Skrull, I think we're safe assuming that's the case. Wait, would that de-Skrull people? I'm so very confused....). Remember how there was the page in Infinite Crisis where Alex Luthor explains how he was behind everything that went down on a cosmic scale, which leads to Power Girl saying something along the lines of "...so you're the reason that Batman / Superman / Wonder Woman / the JLA have been acting so strangely?" And how he immediately shoots her down and assures her that the screwups were all their own doing? This is probably going to be just like that.

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:34:15 +0000

So say we all...

blah.

By: Sijo

Sijo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:29:14 +0000

More than Millennium, Secret Invasion is like the final issues of Rom the Spaceknight, where the Dire Wraiths (who are Skrull mutants) started attacking openly. Of course, the Wraiths never replaced anybody major, but they did attack SHIELD and even New York city.

Too bad Marvel can't use Rom anymore, I'll bet his Analyzer could reveal even the 'undetectable' Skrulls.

By: red-Ricky

red-Ricky — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:58:17 +0000

An annual baseball game where, at the end, one of the teams always tries to arrest the other?

That reminds of that time when The Good Ol' Boys played a softball game against The Blues Brothers and the Cops showed up. How they managed to crash-pile so many cars into a baseball diamond is beyond me!

By: Tomer S

Tomer S — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:02:18 +0000

He even loves you, Brian Cronin.

By: Lothor

Lothor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:16:09 +0000

I was all for Big Crossovers back during Big Crossover, but ever since Big Crossover, Big Crossovers put me off. At least until Big Crossover. But that's not for A Period Of Time now.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:08:12 +0000

Of course, it carries Big Event Fatigue (the buzzword of â€˜08) with it, but on its own merits its a good solid comic.

I like how both companies keep saying 'we're expecting event fatigue to hit in, but it hasn't happened yet'. They know they themselves are going to cause another death of crossovers, and presumably loss of readers, but they're going to keep milking it anyway? Comics, the new oil.

By: acespot

acespot — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:25:06 +0000

I too, kept thinking "Battlestar Galactica", and I don't even watch that show!
Deadpool does, though, so as soon as it's over, I'm there.

By: BBop

BBop — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:47:29 +0000

Can we possibly get a spoiler reveal here? I'm not going to lie, I am very curious about who the skrulls are BUT don't really want to spend my money on this and even then would rather wait for a completed story.

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Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:36:55 +0000

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By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:25:29 +0000

This review cracked me up, too.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:40:28 +0000

At the risk of going against the consensus, I liked it. Of course, it carries Big Event Fatigue (the buzzword of '08) with it, but on its own merits its a good solid comic.

Marvel's treating it like the events of this book will be the Second Coming of Christ. Obviously, they won't be.
Don't believe the hype, and you'll enjoy this fun book.

By: Random Stranger

Random Stranger — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:20:26 +0000

To avoid the arrest problem they could hold the softball game someplace where the arresting team has no legal authority. Like, say, the Savage Land.

Hey... wait a second...

By: Doug Atkinson

Doug Atkinson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:42:38 +0000

"And am I the only one who remembers that DC did almost the exact same thing with their big crossover Millenium 20 years ago?" I keep hearing this, and I'm not convinced that the similarities are more than superficial. If SI's story beats turn out to be "As part of a larger storyline, a member of the supporting cast in every single title that the writer can dispense with turns out to be a Skrull, is defeated in a single issue by the hero, and without much actual effect on the larger storyline," then I'll accept that it's the same thing.

By: Corey Dalton

Corey Dalton — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:02:17 +0000

I just realized that I mentioned long-lasting developments and Civil War in back-to-back sentences. Yes, I do see the irony.