Why is Watchmen regarded as such a great piece of work? I'm not criticizing it, as I've never read it, just curious.
Is Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers in continuity with the rest of DC, or is it like All-Star Superman, off in it's own little world?
What was the reason for leaving Earth-2 Lois and Superman, Superboy, and Alex Luthor alive in a pocket dimension? Was there some reason why they had to survive the Crisis outside of the universe?
That being said, I believe one of them is going to die in each of the remaining issues of Infinite Crisis. We lost Superboy in #4, I think Lois will die on the 2nd page of #5, because it turns out that getting back to Earth-2 doesn't help when you're like 900 years old. This leads to Old-Superman going after current Superman in a grief-stricken rage, before realizing he's been used by Luthor. He'll die in #6 against Alex, before Alex gets taken out in #7, by Donna Troy and Jade. Naturally they will perish in the process. The grief of losing two more girlfriends causes Kyle Rayner to lose it and don the mask to become Ion, the Avenging Green Lantern!
And why the hell would Peter Parker let Tony Stark design his new costume? Why not Reed Richards? Tony Stark builds armor for people who lack powers. Reed Richards builds uniforms for people with powers, so the uniforms work with the powers, such as being able to stretch, or resist high temperatures, etc.
Or Peter could just, you know, keep the same costume he has now.
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From the interviews, it looks like Seven Soldiers *is* in regular continuity, but post Infinite Crisis. It's apparently supposed to be concurrent with 52. That's what the most recent Crisis Counseling on newsarama said at least...
Idiots like Watchmen because it's "dark". The rest of us appreciate the many clever and wonderful things Moore and Gibbons do with the structure of comics during the series, and the subtle way they do it. Only very few people actually like the bit with the pirates.
Seven Soldiers is in continuity, yes. Latest news from DC puts it as running post-Crisis2 and concurrent with 52. This may change.
Old Superman and Old Lois survived out of respect for the characters, I'd guess. Alex Luthor survived in order to make their survival plausible, story-wise, and Superboy-Prime survived because Marv Wolfman met a young fella called Geoff who said that when he grew up, he wanted to write a story in which Superboy-Prime cried like a big sissy and punched the heads off of random Teen Titans.
Superboy-Prime will somehow survive the Flash Attack from InC #4, because people have seen previews of action figures based on an image of him we haven't seen in the comics yet.
And good point about Spidey's costume.
The Tony Stark Spidey costume is kinda short on repulsors or missile launchers, isn't it? I mean, that's his style, is it not?
I suppose Spider-Fans are lucky the uniform doesn't have a gatling gun mounted on the head.
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