Infinite Crisis! BEWARE may contain SPOILERS!!!

So the more I think about IC the more dissatisfied I am with it.

It's funny how this story started off with an almost metafiction vibe of the old school hero coming back to show the current heroes how they've become convoluted, compromised, and indistinguishable from villains as inspirational role models. A complaint doubling into comics that have used "grittier, more realistic" themes, gimmicks, and sensationalism to grab the attention of a fading audience.

And then that's exactly what this series becomes.

If a creative team devolves into graphic violence and stark language to make itself relevant to it's readers, what sort of precendent does that set? If this is DC's "new beginning" is there anywhere to go from here other than downhill? I fully expect a certain level of violence from certain types of media, like say from a Tarantino movie or a comic marked and geared toward a certain type of audience. But this is Superman and Batman and the biggest event of the year. Call me Old School, but is it really so outdated to prefer comics that attempted to capture the imagination instead of those that play into the lowest and most basic of human desires?

Again, not really a matter of personal sensitivity or dislike of graphic violence, there is plenty of that around in appropriate places for it's fans. But, does Black Adam really need to put his hand through another character's head, blood and brains and eyeballs flying out, to tell a good story? It's seems cheap and sensationalistic. I see it as a failure when an artform remolds it's characters into rapists and murderers in a glorified manner. Was the intended effect of Black Adam's action to horrify you with the brutality of a psychopath? Or to elicit a simple "kewl".

It's the general state of the industry I guess in the days post-NuMarvel. The Hulk doesn't just get mad anymore, he gets horny. Thanks Joe Q.