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.
"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.
"The Prez" was part of the infamous DC explosion, when they suddenly increased the number of titles they were shipping.
They tried this periodically, didn't they. I remember they tried to do some titles with villains as the main characters at one point. I had several issues of a JOKER comic (which didn't work because he was suddenly not a homicidal lunatic after several years of being that way), and I also remember they tried to do an anti-Justice League title where a bunch of the prominent villains teamed up using the JLA as an organizational model (dreamed up by Sinestro, IIRC).
I also remember they tried to do an anti-Justice League title where a bunch of the prominent villains teamed up using the JLA as an organizational model (dreamed up by Sinestro, IIRC).
The Secret Society of Super-Villains. Which was AWESOME.
The Secret Society of Super-Villains. Which was AWESOME.
Supervillain teams, as we've rediscovered over the last year or so, KICK BUTT. (Yes, I adored the heck out of VU.)
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.
Oh, very nice. I do agree that change is a major theme as well.
(I'm reading along at this point. Damn you.)
Hee. Nice. I'm finishing
The Kindly Ones
tonight. It may be a very long post.
