^5 Byrne has a ton of sins to atone for but his take on Superman isn't one of them.
I hated the move planets, blow out the sun, etc. Silver Age Superman. DC has been slowly pushing Superman back in that direction and I hate it. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ha-ha! funny! I take it you like the run? > I grew up with the demigod superman, the one who could fly at FTL speeds, push the Earth out of orbit. Krypto, supercats, superhorses were all in my youthful days of comic reading. In time I came to tire of the over-the-top storylines, and found Superman too unapproachable. So when John Byrne redid the character in 1986, reducing his powers and streamlining the mythos, i was very happy. I really liked the Superman who needed to breathe, who could be stunned, even knocked unconscious, who had to struggle to lift a tanker, let alone push the Moon. I liked that the eleventy million types of Kryptonite were taken away, reduced to one ring worn by Luthor. > All Star Superman is bringing back a lot of the fantastical elements from the early days, and I just don't find it all that engaging. Plus, Johnathan Kent is dead there, and I hate that too. another thing Byrne did was give Clark both his parents, which i enjoyed immensely. > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "Justin Mohareb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is All Star Superman the one where he's absorbed so much solar energy that > > he's dying? I hate that run, quit buying it > > You're dead to me. > > Dead. > > JJ Mohareb > > -- > Read the Bitter Guide to the Bitter Guy. > http://thebitterguy.livejournal.com > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
