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04/26/2003: I'm a completist at heart...
...but some things really strain that. The X-Files season nine for example, there I compromised by watching just the eps that had Mulder or the Lone Gunmen in them. Really DCU-wide crossovers are another example, if for different reasons. Like the Joker: Last Laugh event with "jokerized" villains overrunning all regular DC titles. There are (not counting the aftermath stories), according to this fan site dedicated to the event, 32 parts in this crossover: the six issue mini-series plus its "Secret Files" special, and the issues Action Comics #784, Adventures of Superman #597, Azrael #83, Batgirl #21, Batman #596, Birds of Prey #36, Detective Comics #763, The Flash #179, Gotham Knights #22, Green Lantern #143, Harley Quinn #13, Impulse #79, JLA #59, JSA #29, Nightwing #62, Orion #19, Robin #95, The Spectre #10, Superboy #93, Supergirl #63, Superman #175, Superman: The Man of Steel #119, The Titans #34, Wonder Woman #175, and Young Justice #38.
I don't know, I mean, I like crossovers because they connect different parts of the universe to each other, but all titles at the same time? Thankfully they don't seem to be that closely connected, so I'll see whether I can follow the events if I just get the mini-series itself and all bleedover into Batman titles. I mean, I'm interested in it because Nightwing nearly kills Joker, when he thinks that Tim was killed. And that incident continues to haunt Dick in the aftermath, so it's important character continuity, but I don't really need to know how the JLA stops the jokerized Polaris from shifting Earth's magnetic field. At least I hope so. I hope I can follow it better than the Zero Hour event, where I recently tried a similar strategy for choosing which issues to get (i.e. just getting the mini-series and a few of the others) and didn't really understand what was going on. But that might be because these time anomaly retcon storylines are headache inducing and hard to follow in any case.
