tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post917175051903695642..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: Building a Better Bizarro: The Man of Steel #5Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-74202157295651941842015-07-13T07:15:33.408-05:002015-07-13T07:15:33.408-05:00Here we have the "Batman V Superman:Dawn of J...Here we have the "Batman V Superman:Dawn of Justice" :) Judging by the trailer, they´ll have this story as the second act of the movie.Victor Nunezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14889382253742838960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-2250260296706670712012-09-19T14:30:23.271-05:002012-09-19T14:30:23.271-05:00Again. Loved this mini-series. Loved Byrne's v...Again. Loved this mini-series. Loved Byrne's version of Superman. Liked this issue as well. However, I will agree that it seemed more like an issue that should have appeared in the regular monthly ongoing, instead of being a chapter in the character redefining series.<br /><br />I like this new version of Bizarre-OH as well. The idea of a flawed clone of Superman becoming Bizarro was a cool idea that was carried over into the Animated Series, and was also used again in the DC Animated Movie "Superman: Doomsday."<br /><br />Plus, I really didn't care at all for the old character that was from the cube shaped Earth and wore the stupid sign around his neck and all that crap. Uhg. Campy comic-book schlock at it's worst.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16988016825582035390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-64449195970614377082012-09-18T21:53:37.775-05:002012-09-18T21:53:37.775-05:00Two things:
(1) at the time of the miniseries, By...Two things:<br /><br />(1) at the time of the miniseries, Byrne stated that the purpose of the Bizarro story was to show Superman's first encounter with a super powered foe; <br />(2) the blindness thing is a call back to the first Bizarro story - where something similar happened. Bizarro died - and when he blew up, he cured a blind person (though I don't think it was Lucy Lane).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-36419704572460935642012-09-18T16:25:40.040-05:002012-09-18T16:25:40.040-05:00I really enjoyed this mini - as I have said before...I really enjoyed this mini - as I have said before - but this this issue felt a bit like a filler as it didn't really move the re-vamp along.<br /><br />I'm pleased to see others felt the same way.<br /><br />I wouls ay that the only things we learn are that Luthor is spending $$$ on his desire to control Superman and that Lois has the hots for him. Nothing major there then!<br /><br />And I really couldn't get over the whole dust instantly curing blindness plot. <br /><br />Doug- I agree it is stella art by Byrne in this series but, for my money, it gets even better when Karl Kesel inks him starting in Superman #1.<br /><br />You also mention Byrne's art on the FF run. Well the last few issues were inked by Jerry Ordway and he made a world of difference. There were some beautifully illustrated issues there.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436307600954599534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-72715563088099914262012-09-18T15:08:47.800-05:002012-09-18T15:08:47.800-05:00I agree with Karen & Edo here, this doesn'...I agree with Karen & Edo here, this doesn't really "introduce" anything new. But I guess Byrne felt he needed a slugfest, Bizzarenstein (whatever it's called) was good for that. <br /><br />For me, that's one reason I never got interested in reading Superman comics. Most of his villains (Luthor, Prankster, Toyman come to mind) are just old guys who send robots or machines to attack Superman and/or Metropolis. That gets old fast.J.A. Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15800901321134394272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-75841347930497980732012-09-18T12:34:28.108-05:002012-09-18T12:34:28.108-05:00I frankly prefer the battlesuit Luthor. It was a r...I frankly prefer the battlesuit Luthor. It was a really cool George Perez design and I liked the idea of something that put Luthor on a par with Superman power-wise.<br /><br />The battlesuit Luthor only came about in 1983, just three years before this story. They didn't give it a chance! <br /><br />The Byrne version of Luthor always struck me as a little too close to Marvel's Kingpin.<br /><br />Amusing, too, when you think that the the Bruce Timm animated series started off with the Byrne version and ended up with pre-battlesuit version in Justice League...Inkstained Wretchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-19431004698514170012012-09-18T12:24:58.003-05:002012-09-18T12:24:58.003-05:00It was here the revamp and retcon began to become ...It was here the revamp and retcon began to become interesting to me. This story imbues the Bizzaro character with a great deal of the monstrous, Frankensteinian qualities from his earliest appearances in the Silver Age. Restores a kind of dignity to what was, at this point, a threadbare and tedious concept.<br /><br />The idea the monster, becoming aware of his monstrousness, was capable of self-sacrifice, even if it doesn't hold up under scrutiny, really adds dimension here.<br /><br />Luthor does give oblique name to the creature, BTW, in the panel where he complains of "this bizzare --OH!"Lemnocnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-18713926585864386612012-09-18T11:54:50.567-05:002012-09-18T11:54:50.567-05:00While I agree with Doug that this is a pretty good...While I agree with Doug that this is a pretty good story, I also see Karen's point about its place in the series as a whole. All of the other issues aspects some major aspect of the Superman story, or mythology, i.e., his origin and childhood in Smallville, his relationships with Lois, Luthor, Batman, etc., while this one really didn't do much of that. I think this would have been better as a done-in-one in Byrne's subsequent ongoing series.<br />I was also a bit puzzled about why the dust from Bizarro's body would cure blindness - not even a ghost of an attempt was made to explain this (was it done later in one of the ongoing Superman titles?).Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.com