Hmm spidey's deal with the devil wasn't any of those guysjazzypomMarch 3 2010, 23:46:40 UTC
The closest Millar got to Spidey was in Civil War with Tony Stark (I think it was JMS who wrote Spidey then). Mark Waid has done Captain America and (big sigh) Dr Strange, Morrison, well... he's just Morrison. I don't know the other guy.
Strange, I only like Superman when he's paired with Batman, they spark off each other something fierce. So I'll read Superman/Batman but not each individual title.
Thank goodnesscursor_mundiMarch 4 2010, 00:44:26 UTC
I'm glad to hear that; I think this post would have turned into a thirty page Teal Deer with multiple rage-filled edits if they'd had any hand in that after the context of this proposal.
I really liked Superman when I got into comics--I'd started with Spider-Man and thought he was impossibly immature (I think I was 12 at the time, too!) and I couldn't get all the bits of the stories besides, the X-Men were impossible to break into...I'm told by Puck that that was a bad time for Marvel, anyway. Anyway, Superman in the early and mid-90s was really interesting to me: he was Clark, first and foremost, and really struggled and cared and worked hard at everything. And the comics had a lot of social relevance, particularly when they got into urban concerns, and I liked seeing Superman brought up short by the realization that he couldn't fix everything, that it had to be collective and grassroots. And that was when I went to Batman, because Bats was doing all that stuff: street-level hero plus JLA-level stuff, there was a strong emphasis
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I could hardly read through that proposal without wanting to scream at my monitor. I can see a lot of these ideas have come to use in Morrison´s All Star Superman, which, in spite of its almost unanimous public acclaim, left me very underwhelmed for a number of reasons, the "godhood" of Superman being at the very top of them. The whole tone of the proposal resembles that of the pseudo-intellectual Supergeeks on the DC message boards so closely I´d be highly amused it this weren´t the guy currently ruining my Batman books.
"Clark’s also the sob sister of the Daily Planet, if not of all Metropolis. Despite his attempts to keep a low profile, compassion radiates from him, and people pick up on that almost unconsciously. Friends and total strangers alike constantly confess their plights and problems to poor Clark. They don’t want advice. They just want someone to listen, and no one listens better than him. This aspect of his character naturally opens up the occasional avenue to the smaller human-interest story which can be investigated by Clark the reporter and by us the writers."
This sounds like a good idea, but then obviously like these emotionally stunted boy writers, I have so been there.
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Strange, I only like Superman when he's paired with Batman, they spark off each other something fierce. So I'll read Superman/Batman but not each individual title.
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I really liked Superman when I got into comics--I'd started with Spider-Man and thought he was impossibly immature (I think I was 12 at the time, too!) and I couldn't get all the bits of the stories besides, the X-Men were impossible to break into...I'm told by Puck that that was a bad time for Marvel, anyway. Anyway, Superman in the early and mid-90s was really interesting to me: he was Clark, first and foremost, and really struggled and cared and worked hard at everything. And the comics had a lot of social relevance, particularly when they got into urban concerns, and I liked seeing Superman brought up short by the realization that he couldn't fix everything, that it had to be collective and grassroots. And that was when I went to Batman, because Bats was doing all that stuff: street-level hero plus JLA-level stuff, there was a strong emphasis ( ... )
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I could hardly read through that proposal without wanting to scream at my monitor.
I can see a lot of these ideas have come to use in Morrison´s All Star Superman, which, in spite of its almost unanimous public acclaim, left me very underwhelmed for a number of reasons, the "godhood" of Superman being at the very top of them.
The whole tone of the proposal resembles that of the pseudo-intellectual Supergeeks on the DC message boards so closely I´d be highly amused it this weren´t the guy currently ruining my Batman books.
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On the other hand,
"Clark’s also the sob sister of the Daily Planet, if not of all Metropolis. Despite his attempts to keep a low profile, compassion radiates from him, and people pick up on that almost unconsciously. Friends and total strangers alike constantly confess their plights and problems to poor Clark. They don’t want advice. They just want someone to listen, and no one listens better than him. This aspect of his character naturally opens up the occasional avenue to the smaller human-interest story which can be investigated by Clark the reporter and by us the writers."
This sounds like a good idea, but then obviously like these emotionally stunted boy writers, I have so been there.
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Thank god for fan fiction, eh? I should probably do a recs post for Superman as well.
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