That's It?

Countdown ended this week. The lives of Mary Marvel, Jimmy Olsen, Holly Robinson (wasn't she married to Rodney Peete?), Harley Quinn, Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner, some bug lady, some disco space pirates...am I missing anyone? Oh yeah, Jason Todd and pretty much all of Jack Kirby's fourth world. Anyway, yeah, their story's over. And in one year you wanna know what's changed in the DC Universe?

Nothing...except the unreasoned destruction of Kirby's 4th world...to make way for the 5th world? I seem to recall that they did this with the new age of magic...this is what's allowed Billy Batson to replace the wizard Shazam.

Darkseid's dead...Darkseid...wanna know how he dies? Orion rips out his heart. They've fought for decades and Orion magically figured that out now?! And why is one of the best villains of all time dead?! Part of the allure of Darkseid is that he's hanging out, but he's always evil. He's smart evil. He's patient evil. He's not the Joker, killin' folks every three seconds. Or Luthor, compulsed to the point ridiculousness. He's frickin' Darkseid, which means you can bench him for story lines, pull him out, have him kick some ass, and move on. And he never dies.

So what have we learned from Countdown? Nothing. There are still 52 universes. Ray Palmer is still the bomb. And I'm like $156 poorer for having read a series which had no storyline bearing on anything.

Thanks DD for all that! Really looking forward to Trinity!

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PS Yeah, anyone read a Marvel comic lately? Someone wanna explain to me how despite the Skrulls who are like all the X-men can be easily killed by having large metal objects run through them? Or how for some of the 'human' skrulls they're easily killed by bullets? Back to the drawing board boys...