Dave Farabee Said:

I’d just like to thank you for a bit of olde tyme slang nostalgia. Still a classic!

I’m bringing “no doy” back. Catch the wave.

Well, no doy.

I’d just like to thank you for a bit of olde tyme slang nostalgia. Still a classic!

Randy Lander wrote:

I actually didn’t have any particular problem with it… it seems to me that a more logical plan would have been to release World War III across four weeks, after 52 ended, to bridge to Countdown, but I think (as Dave Farabee guessed) that they wanted to provide a more definitive ending, rather than having folks feel like they *had* to pick up Countdown after 52 and feeling cheated out of their promised ending for the weekly series.

What’s kind of weird is that people were picking and choosing. I had any number of people pick up only part three, only part two, only part four, etc. I haven’t read them (just not much interest), but I wonder if they made any sense as one shots.

I think it’s more a matter of the WWIII series would’ve felt like old news by next week since the ending has already been revealed in 52, so DC pretty much had to put it all out in one week.

The WWIII series barely made sense together, so I doubt reading them as one-shots would make things much worse. Anyone who read the 52 issue would already have a general understanding of the flow of the fight. There’s only minimal plot flow through the individual WWIII issues, the biggest of which involves the Martian Manhunter realizing that he’s a Manhunter from Mars. Well, no doy.

Some of you are retailers, right? How do you like 4 parts in one day?

I actually didn’t have any particular problem with it… it seems to me that a more logical plan would have been to release World War III across four weeks, after 52 ended, to bridge to Countdown, but I think (as Dave Farabee guessed) that they wanted to provide a more definitive ending, rather than having folks feel like they *had* to pick up Countdown after 52 and feeling cheated out of their promised ending for the weekly series.

What’s kind of weird is that people were picking and choosing. I had any number of people pick up only part three, only part two, only part four, etc. I haven’t read them (just not much interest), but I wonder if they made any sense as one shots.

Some of you are retailers, right? How do you like 4 parts in one day?

“World War III” is a misleading title. The issues were basically a superhero fight that spilled over to multiple locations with very little political intrigue. A better title would have been “Black Adam vs. the World!” I still enjoyed the mini and it was nice to read a complete “Event” in one day!

Also, isn’t this technically World War IV if not more? I seem to recall a much better story in JLA a couple of years ago with the same name?

The Megatron toy was a gun dude. Way cooler than a purple cannon. Just saying.

Also, you look really silly popping a cap in someone’s ass with a purple cannon. On the other hand, with a robotic transforming Walther P38 pistol, you look totally badass.

Fun Megatron Fact:

He can … sub-dimensionally link [his] cannon to a black hole, generating even more powerful antimatter blasts (capable of destroying a small planetary body).

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I love the caption to this picture at wikipedia: Galvatron is buried in ice. I don’t think Megatron would allow that to happen.

Is the new issue of DMZ a good jumping on point? Or am I better off going with the trades? Read the first arc but for some reason didn’t continue buying it. Just re-read it though and would like to jump back on board.

I actually really recommend the trades, and volume 2 is better than volume 1… but if you’re wanting a sampler to see if it’s to your taste, this issue is definitely a good, accessible jumping on point.