tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post4570724327412121662..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: The Greatest Hero of Them All - Action Comics 591Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-26576733584161617892017-04-05T07:35:44.689-05:002017-04-05T07:35:44.689-05:00"Byrne and DC took the "World's Orig..."Byrne and DC took the "World's Original Superhero" and made him, essentially, an X-Man in a sea of mutants. His powers bloom at adolescence and he's off to be nothing but the newest cape in a long line of capes."<br /><br />You're absolutely right. So much for that "Superman must be unique" bad excuse to remove everything that Byrne and Wolfman hated from the mythos...<br /><br />I never bought that "Sole Survivor of Krypton" garbage/rationalization because Byrne's Superman was NOT Kryptonian. His DNA came from Krypton but he was born in Earth, felt American and Krypton was "anathema to him". So, how is he unique? He's just another super-hero. Being the sole survivor only matters if it's a tragedy, but Byrne's Superman considered himself to be lucky to lose his homeworld and couldn't care less for Krypton. Hence, that "title" is irrelevant.<br /><br />Unless there's someone -like a certain blonde cousin- around to remember him he had a blood family loved him and saved his life, and a whole world and its inhabitants are gone forever.<br /><br />Supergirl actually made Superman feel he really fit. But that's anathema to John "He mustn't care for his birth world because I don't care for my origin country" Byrne. It isn't a wonder he hates her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-33067624036655986292014-09-16T02:01:27.898-05:002014-09-16T02:01:27.898-05:00"Marvel envy". Did Wolfman prefer the M..."Marvel envy". Did Wolfman prefer the Marvel method to DC. Just curious. This is a new theory to me. Byrne drawing the Legion is fun to see.<br /><br />Eric CAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-4079011016532539992014-09-15T23:39:49.729-05:002014-09-15T23:39:49.729-05:00The aftermath, immediate and years later, of Crisi...The aftermath, immediate and years later, of <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> burst my last naive bubble. It really showed that the inmates were running the asylum, that the dumber monkeys had the keys to the zoo. When I was a kid, I was in awe of comic creators. As a teen, I thought it must be so cool to be in such an elite, fun job. A couple of years after <i>Crisis</i>, I had enough life and work experience to recognize a mob of low-watt hacks mostly getting in the way of the minority of genuine talent.<br /><br />Harsh, but it only seems more obvious as the years of hindsight pile up.<br /><br />The stated reason for <i>Crisis</i> that the multiverse confused the fans? I don't buy it. I support the theory that DC had all these fanboys-turned-pro and they felt all the decades of olde farte stuff were harshing their, cool, hip buzz. They totally had "Marvel envy".<br /><br />Anyway, I agree with Pat Henry. This story arc only served to spotlight how insipid the new "Man of Steel" was compared to the mythos being torched. Byrne and DC took the "World's Original Superhero" and made him, essentially, an X-Man in a sea of mutants. His powers bloom at adolescence and he's off to be nothing but the newest cape in a long line of capes.<br /><br />Sorry for the rant. Hit an old patch of scar tissue, this did.Murraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-28814354070357361902014-09-15T20:16:19.620-05:002014-09-15T20:16:19.620-05:00Count me in among those who find this Crisis multi...Count me in among those who find this Crisis multi-universe stuff too convoluted. While I enjoy a time-travel/multiple dimension story as much as the next guy, one has to be careful not to overdo these types of stories otherwise it becomes an exercise in confusion.<br /><br />I enjoyed reading this story; the plot and art are good (hey it's Byrne after all!) but at the end I kept saying to myself 'What was the point of all that?'.<br /><br /><br />- Mike 'one-dimensional' from Trinidad & Tobago. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-20585240891104085742014-09-15T17:05:47.311-05:002014-09-15T17:05:47.311-05:00The Roy Thomas effect.
Thomas, while a talented w...The Roy Thomas effect.<br /><br />Thomas, while a talented writer, always seemed to have a compulsion to show where everything fit in a comic universe. Sometimes this could work very well, the return of the 1950's Captain America was his initial idea and worked very well as a story arc. His attempts at explaining the difficulties of moving the Black Canary from one dimension to another were, in my opinion, far less successful.<br /><br />I always got the initial concept of the Multi-verse 'crisis', the elimination of conflicting histories. I just never got the necessity of it. To be rather cruel in my description of the situation, it always seemed that the continuity issue was something that was always far more important to the comic fanatic than to the comic fan.<br /><br />In the end, the worst thing about the shift in the status quo that was the justification of the 'Crisis' story, was that it was so temporary in nature. The lack of a strong editor-in-chief virtually insured that elements of Pre-Crisis DC wouldn't creep but rather stride back into storylines whenever writers chose to utilize them.<br /><br />pfgaviganpfgaviganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05446007678336988354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-29172842727762227712014-09-15T13:33:23.131-05:002014-09-15T13:33:23.131-05:00Is it just me or does the pocket universe make any...Is it just me or does the pocket universe make anybody else think of the dope smoking scene in Animal House? "A sliver of time so slender it could not be measured. Yet containing an entire universe." Kind of like an atom on Pinto's fingernail containing an entire universe prompting him to ask the prof "Could I buy some pot from you?"<br /><br />Yeah...as ol' Greenskin might have said (the child-like one), "Hulk understands none of this".<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-61516295857334482892014-09-15T11:19:26.602-05:002014-09-15T11:19:26.602-05:00Stories like these serve mainly to demonstrate the...Stories like these serve mainly to demonstrate the impoverishment of the Superman Mythos, post-Crisis. That Mythos wasn’t for everyone and, yes, probably needed some paring for a new generation of comic readers, but the “real” Superman in this story comes across as outclassed and boring. He admits as much. Mostly, I find the stories of this era lack charm.<br /><br />In retrospect, I have to wonder about the entire raison d’etre of Crisis. It certainly wasn’t a *fan* driven concept. Some of the rationale delivered at the time about reducing the complexity of the DC universe for fans and writers strikes me, years later, as weak. I only occasionally dipped into DC, but I never found its multiverse particularly bewildering. Sure, there were five or six different concepts for Atlantis that probably drove the writers nuts, but strip *those* down, deal with *those.* Don’t strip the polish from your finest trophies.<br /><br />The biggest problem with COIE is it did not make the subsequent stories or storytelling much better, so what was the point?Pat Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787799814630339641noreply@blogger.com