I didn't know it when I read it, but I have since been notified.

Re: "It's about family," I feel very much that "Brief Lives" is more about change than family. "You can stop being anything." Destruction is change, so he changes and stops being Destruction. This to be contrasted with Dream's resistance to change in himself, though he's already undergone some of it despite this. Delirium having such a large role points at this further. Together they are, in order, one who has changed and become something other, one who has neither changed (much) nor left the Endless, and one who has changed and stayed Endless. They almost describe a cycle in three persons.

(I'm reading along at this point. Damn you.)

I finally had the chance to read this week's comics after work today.

The very first comic book I can recall buying with my own allowance money was All-Star Comics #64 back in 1977, featuring Power Girl and the Golden Age Superman and Flash. So it's fitting that those same characters are also in Infinite Crisis #7, the last DC comic I will ever buy. DC has just pissed away 29 years of loyal readership and lost my business forever.

Not sure if you know this, but there was a short-lived comic called Prez back in the 70's that starred that character.

I had those comics!

DC has just pissed away 29 years of loyal readership and lost my business forever.

You can kill characters. You can fuck with continuity. But when you do both at the same time you piss people off.

Not sure if you know this, but there was a short-lived comic called Prez back in the 70's that starred that character. Short-lived as in 4 issues, I believe. [ yep: [link] ]

Holy crap! I have a (sadly beat up) issue of this that I can't remember how I acquired. It revolved around a US/USSR chess tournament (Bobby Fischer was big news at the time - probably the only time in US history that chess was a trendy topic). I knew it must have been short-lived, but I didn't realize how short-lived. In case it's not incredibly obvious, I haven't gotten around to WORLD'S END yet. Go Neil with the obscure character use, though.

The art on that is by Mike Allred, who did stellar work on the X-Statix comic.

Edited for clarity to say: I mean the art on the Prez section of World's End.

I think I had two issues of Prez back in the day (#'s 1 & 4), but I sold them off years ago.

Gone & Forgotten on Prez.

"The Prez" was part of the infamous DC explosion, when they suddenly increased the number of titles they were shipping.

As you can expect, this was followed several months later by the "DC Implosion", when 30 titles (some of which were only pending) were canned.

Those clips on the Gone & Forgotten page are extraordinary in their gripping depiction of privileged white-guy racism.