Captain Atom: Armageddon #9

[history79]

8 pages of 26

Comments

[q99]

Aaand the end. Basically I don't think this should've ended with Void doing that, it knocked Wildstorm into the reboot/disaster tailspin, but the stuff before it was pretty cool.

[zachbeacon]

While I disagree with folding stuff like the Authority into to core DCU, I do think Wildstorm got stale after a while. The last great Wildstorm series I remember was Welcome to Tranquility and that didn't even feel like a Wildstorm comic.

[q99]

IIrc Welcome to Tranquility was after this.

Shortly before this, we had stuff like Wildcats 3.0, the Majestic/Superman crossover, and that sort of thing.

Immediately after this was a 'back to basics' soft reboot (I think back to basics was the goal), except the Authority and Wildcats didn't even get off the ground due to problems with Morrison (Wildcats got one issue, Authority 2, and they weren't popular issues at that), Gail Simone did an alright Gen13 (it was darker than the original and restarted their history), and personally that's when I fell out of Wildstorm. The cool ideas I'd been into, the supertech being increasingly integrated and all that stuff fell by the wayside.

The reboot was intended to sales-boost it, but IMO made it more stale by dropping a fair amount of the progress and development.

[beyondthefringe]

And then, of course, this led into Revelations, Number of the Beast, and the whole post-apocalypse thing... so basically they rebooted a perfectly good universe only to completely fuck it all up into oblivion.

What sucks is that pre-Armageddon Wildstorm had some real gems and interesting stuff like Sleeper, Automatic Kafka, the Intimates, and of course WildCats 3.0.

[q99]

This series of events is a primary figure in why I'm anti-reboot, especially for whole lines. It's pretty much only worked the once (Crisis).

Making it simpler and more accessible made it boring. Making it boring made them blow stuff up. Blowing stuff up reduced the amount of interesting bits and was only suitable to a short-term story. it died.

[zylly]

All other things aside (I love this mini for showing how great a character Captain Atom is and hate it for squandering it on turning him into Monarch again), I think they should have kept the gold and red look. It's a lot cooler than the silver.

[bradygirl_12]

Hey, reboots have happened a million times before! So true.

Hey, I feel strange, like the universe is ending. Hmm, must be Tuesday.