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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 2816788" data-attributes="member: 505">I was cynical concerning the whole IC thing.  It just seemed like a marketing tool.  How many mini-series are connected to this thing?  Countdown, Rannn-Thanagr War, OMAC, Villains United, Vengeance, 52, and Battle For Bludhaven.  There are also a few others like Ion, but I don't know if/how they connect.  Did I miss any?I'll probably pick up the TPB of IC just out of curiosity even though it sounds as if it's done more bad than good (I've read a few reviews of the last issue and only one was positive).  I've been mostly confused.  In some cases, like Catwoman, there's some potential there since Selina just had a child and there's a new woman under the mask.  Then there's Green Arrow which is just...stupid.  I'm giving the series just one more issue before I drop it.  Nothing makes sense.  Okay, part of the city was destroyed and it's deemed too expensive to repair.  Fair enough.  But they built a giant wall around that part of the city and there are people still inside?!  Wha..?  How much did that cost?  It's taller than the surrounding buildings!  You mean it's cheaper to construct a 500 ft tall, many miles long "Great Wall of China" than repair the buildings?  And why are people trapped?  Something like this doesn't spring up overnight.  I doubt it could even be built in a year (especially in a city that suffered a huge disaster).  Hell, where I was living before, they were widening a stretch of highway.  Five years later, I moved and they were still working on it!On top of that, GA is now the mayor (as Oliver Queen, of course).  His press conference is just bizarre.  It sounds like it was written by a 12 year old trying to sound edgy.So, why am I giving it one more issue?  There's a line in which one of his Mayoral aides says that Ollie really doesn't want the wall down because, if he did, he would have asked Green Lantern or someone like that to tear it down in a day.  That's a good point.  I'm hoping that there's more to GA's motivation, but I'm afraid it's going to turn out that the heroes he asked refused or that GA feels that it's something he (or the city) need to do themselves.</blockquote>

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