Okay so I'm pretty sure that there were a few DC headquarters that didn't get the memo... These are ZERO issues. They are meant to introduce or tell flash-backs or something to entice new readers and give veteran readers insights into the current runs of the series. Introduce a new villain that we're about to see in the current run. Show something that ties into what's currently going on with the character. Have a character remembering something important to the current story, while telling something from their past!'
Anything other than just using this as a current book in the run. And that's exactly what StormWatch did. I'm giving it a normal read, not understanding anything that's really going on, but thinking they'll do a flashback or something. Nope. The third or forth page I get this:
I'm okay with some spoilers; having Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and Star Saphire talking about something I haven't caught up with yet in another Green Lantern book is okay. I know that very soon, it'll be a reveal in that book... and it's usually not that major. Kyle says, "Yeah, Hal took off to do that one thing... Hope it's going well." Boom! no crazy earth-shattering spoiler. But man, when I read that above, it totally turned me off from continuing this book... maybe even the series. When three or four pages in, you get a "This character was killed in a book you haven't read yet!" note from the editor, it really leaves a sour taste in a new reader's mouth. Furthermore, this isn't a Superman book. This isn't Justice League. This is a NEW team book, consisting of some characters I don't even know. It's supposed to be about time-travel, or dimensional travel and such, and I was totally willing to give it a shot. An illuminati of alternate realities or time-watchers? Oh yeah! But then this... "It is you. Adam One!" You were killed in Stormwatch #5...
arg... wtf DC editor guy?
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