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nothing important has happened in comics. ever.

go back to the basics.
keep with the continuity.



/very tired of all these alternates...

"December (2007)- History is altered after ill-considered pact between satanic demon and naive superhero and wife (Amazing Spider-Man #545)."

I got a kick out of this. Well put.

Doctor Funkenstein: Nothing happened with Batman in the last decade?

/hasn't followed the story since Knightfall way back in the 1990s.

I think the focus of this article is about the big time events that shook the realities of the universes. Something that would make the front page of all papers. Batman keeps things fairly low key. But ya looking at it this way, it has been rough decade for the world.

As far as Batman of the last 10 years, The English Major covered the major stuff. One thing to note though is that Batman has gone beyond the ridiculous to the peek of perfection. The standard comment about him not having powers is no longer true. His power is prep-time. In a tight jam that shouldn't be survivable? Bruce Wayne apparently spent a year in in the mountains of Tibet learning how to survive that. Aliens with insane future tech? Wayne Tech has been engineering a solution for the problem. I'd be annoyed if it wasn't so bad ass.

It would be nice to filter these by company -- it's amusing to see what happened just in New York, just in the Marvel universe. For our New Yorkers, 9/11 was a traumatic, permanently-scarring catastrophe. For the New Yorkers of the Marvel U, it was Tuesday.

FTFA: 2004
February - San Diego plunges into Atlantic Ocean, renamed "Sub Diego" after some inhabitants survive as mer-people (Aquaman #15).

Wait, what?

Read the article, basically if you live on Earth and don't have any god like superpowers, you are screwed.

No Annihilation mention? How about War of Kings and the opening of a gigantic hole in space-time that apparently leads to a universe of Lovecraftian horrors?

Meh, list fails.

KingMarmot: FTFA: 2004
February - San Diego plunges into Atlantic Ocean, renamed "Sub Diego" after some inhabitants survive as mer-people (Aquaman #15).

Wait, what?

Damn, that's a hell of a plunge.

Wow. I never realized how stupid most comics were. Really reaching for stories now.

That's a whole lotta "godlike being"s.

Doesn't anybody rob banks, anymore?

I love comics, but haven't followed them in quite some time. It is pretty funny to revisit a title after, say, 10 years and try to piece together the bat shiat insane storylines.

This thread needs more Deadpool

The English Major: Doctor Funkenstein: Nothing happened with Batman in the last decade?

/hasn't followed the story since Knightfall way back in the 1990s.

Superboy-Prime got pissed, punched a wall, and Jason Todd returned.

Also, Darkseid "killed" Batman who is now living in the past like Jethro Tull and will return next year as a viking.

Also, Batwoman and Renee "The Question" Montoya are a couple.

Well, when you put it like THAT, it makes it sound retarded.
/Also, being a bit retarded makes it sound retarded.
//Retarded.

No death of Captain America?
Barely a mention of Civil War?
No Skrull invasion?
No Batman R.I.P.?
No Final Crisis?
What is going on here?

waldinator:
No Final Crisis?

You say that like it's a bad thing...

But alas:

July - Humanity loses free will as result of arrival of godlike entity on Earth (Final Crisis #3).

January - Reality is restarted, resulting in a new Earth with altered history (Final Crisis #7).

waldinator: No Skrull invasion?

Alien body-snatching conspiracy turns into full-blown invasion of Earth by shape-changing aliens (Secret Invasion #1).

Wow. By the description of the article you'd the last ten years looks pretty lame. Namely, it was a repeat of about 4 things:
1) A bunch of normal people get superpowers/go crazy/die do to an odd occurrence
2) Asgard moves to another city, somehow this is a bit "event"
3) Aliens invade the Earth, use it as a prison, or use it as a parking station for other Earths.
4) Somebody punches a hole in the universe, continuity resets when things get too stupid.

The list really cuts the decade short. There have been some great stories out of the past few years which got me reading comics again. This article totally fails to capture any of the spark of creativity or excitement.

Doctor Funkenstein: Nothing happened with Batman in the last decade?

/hasn't followed the story since Knightfall way back in the 1990s.

It seems as if the "article" tries to stick to events happening with existing places on earth, rather than the fictional ones.

If not, then he missed a few trivial things such as "Early 2000: Army-enforced quarantine of Gotham City finally lifted, land mines removed, army engineers whistling and looking awkwardly the other way when questioned by relatives of people blown to bits." and maybe "City-wide gang war leaves Gotham city without electricity, police feeling a little incompetent and in need of clean underwear."

Cataclysm/No man's land begins in 1999, but definitely ends after Christmas 2000.

War Games takes place in 2004, methinks.

chapman: The list really cuts the decade short. There have been some great stories out of the past few years which got me reading comics again. This article totally fails to capture any of the spark of creativity or excitement.

Or the global necropolypse of "The Walking Dead". Since TFA is wanking at least four different continuities, that might be appropriate.

Askani: Doctor Funkenstein: Nothing happened with Batman in the last decade?

/hasn't followed the story since Knightfall way back in the 1990s.

I think the focus of this article is about the big time events that shook the realities of the universes. Something that would make the front page of all papers. Batman keeps things fairly low key. But ya looking at it this way, it has been rough decade for the world.

As far as Batman of the last 10 years, The English Major covered the major stuff. One thing to note though is that Batman has gone beyond the ridiculous to the peek of perfection. The standard comment about him not having powers is no longer true. His power is prep-time. In a tight jam that shouldn't be survivable? Bruce Wayne apparently spent a year in in the mountains of Tibet learning how to survive that. Aliens with insane future tech? Wayne Tech has been engineering a solution for the problem. I'd be annoyed if it wasn't so bad ass.

And yet Batman is still remarkably vulnerable to a karate chop to the back of the neck or knock-out gas. If his opponents weren't a bunch of psychotic pansies who can't finish the job, he'd have been killed years ago.

OK I guess I should have read and not scanned the article before posting. Still no death of Cap and that is a bunch of baloney.

Pitching a world-changing event in comic books must be a fairly simple process, based on this list.

"Hey boss, I've got an idea where aliens bestow humanity with the power of..."

"I love it, let's do it"

Hey, what the hell?

texdent: waldinator: No death of Captain America?
Barely a mention of Civil War?
No Skrull invasion?
No Batman R.I.P.?
No Final Crisis?
What is going on here?

You're right, Cap's death isn't mentioned, nor is Batman's. That is a fail.

That's just two random guys dying. This list focuses more on the big events.

I did notice that it missed 'New planet artificially formed in solar system. Placed in same orbit as Earth on opposite side of the sun."

The Martian Manhandler: I did notice that it missed 'New planet artificially formed in solar system. Placed in same orbit as Earth on opposite side of the sun."

That is exactly how physics works.

You're kind of a dumbass twatwaffle for biatching about the physics in a comic book story.

Gunny Highway: Hey, what the hell?

Thank you very much. Bone ending was the most important event in comics this decade.

Doctor Funkenstein: Nothing happened with Batman in the last decade?

/hasn't followed the story since Knightfall way back in the 1990s.

He discovered football