Interrupting you people and your Serenity-havingness for a moment with a thought problem...I received an email today which asked "What would've happened if Superman really existed?" IF:
1) Superman were a real person
2) The comic book lore about him is ture
3) it's the early 1960's
My scenario is this, if American history were to as it is through 1962, and then Superman were to make his presence known in that same year, how would that, in your opinion, affect the cold war? Also, how would that affect the relationship between America and Asia, in regard to the resently ended Korean War? Do you think Kennedy would still be assassinated?
My initial answer was that at least we'd never have had the travesty of SuperDog and SuperCat, but on a more serious note, would superhero comics have evolved? Would Supes have become a tool of the USG, or assassinated by them?
"What would've happened if Superman really existed?"
It's one of the principal themes of the Watchmen.
would superhero comics have evolved?
Pirate comics!
The third WW comic was by underground comic artist Trina Robbins. (DC let her write a few issues of WW while they were working on her post-Crisis reboot). She specifically set out to write a golden-age WW story, and deliberately played up the bondage aspects of the character.
Trina has written extensively women in comics, BTW.
I think I'm going to request Zoe for #2 and Wash for #3. That is, if my comic book guy will let me.
I'm getting all variant covers. Because I'm a geek.
I'm getting all variant covers. Because I'm a geek.
Geek on! I was lucky enough to pick up all three covers, as well. Hell, I'm geeky enought that I even contemplated picking up all of the
Angel
covers, but the ugliness of the John Byrne cover dissuaded me. I've decided to just stick with the David Messina covers, since that was the only one I could get last issue.
I finally got a copy of issue 1 of Neverwhere.
Um. No.
That is not how Door is supposed to look. That is not how the Marquis de Carabas is supposed to look. That is not how the Great Beast of London is supposed to look. And the writing ... the sections that are directly lifted from Neverwhere the book are good, no surprise. Mike Carey tries really hard to live up to that, and fails. His dialog doesn't ring true for the characters. I fear how this series is going to represent Hunter.
I know that Neil Gaiman is "overseeing the project as consultant", according to the DC/Vertigo website, but that isn't enough to convince me to buy the other issues.
I felt the same way about it. Not buying the rest of it either.
