Zeph’s got it.
Really, a lot of those Silver Age stories are chiefly concerned with Superman’s character–his hopes, fears, anxieties, relationships, and so on and so forth. Of course he doesn’t develop, since character development (i.e. character arcs/changes) is anathema to a series that’s supposed to go on indefinitely, but there’s most definitely characterization.
I liked this quote:
Part 7 -
Superman 681 was freaking awesome, and the ending was major WTF as well.
Yep you can sense something bad is going to happen with the 100000 kryptonians i realy think the all superman team is going to deliver with this event
and Robinson is realy obsessed with Krypto
I personally just don’t want those Kryptonians to die. Depowering them would be OK, but them die-ing would suck big time.
Part 8. I want this interview printed in an All Star Superman TPB gosh darn it! :lovin:
Part 9. Guessing there will be 12 parts in total at this point. 
I thought they said somewhere that it was going to be 10, total… or I could just be making shit up without realizing it.
Either way, hey, more interview.
Oh yeah, they did say 10 parts back in the first interview, right… Monday will be a great day.
As much as I agree with you on that one g00dy do you know the saying “People Nowadays LOVE to see Heroes fall… because it makes them feel better about themselves”?? this would easily invalidate that rebuttal you made to that quote
LOL Tell that to any Modern Comic Book Fan (DC and especially Marvel fans and they have 454644646 irrefutable ways to invalidate that… from marketing to the world always changes to simply "how can you not like character development to Supes sucks insert modern char should be on the top of the food chain)
but going back to Topic
I really don’t know what the Atlas Arc Provided (the arc that coincides with the Braniac arc in Action)
Did you read the New Krypton special?? cause its mentioned over there
anyway its the all thing about how Atlas was powered up by some magic and he managed to go head to head and even to defeat superman (probaly going to be some special unit against the kryptonians
It really depends on whether you’re looking at it from the optimistic or pessimistic angle. It is true that people like to see icons fall from their pedestals, but I think the petty satisfaction that rises from that pales in comparison to how they feel when a hero is reflecting their best potential.
Your average modern comic book fan (i.e. fans of ongoing superhero titles) either doesn’t expect character development or doesn’t know what it is. Development is bad for long-running titles because people expect to read about the character they like every time they open a new issue. If Peter Parker came to terms with his adolescent guilt and made peace about Uncle Ben’s death, he would be a very different character–and he would very likely stop being Spider-Man. The book would be over. Bad for the fans, who no longer get to read stories about their favorite character, and bad for Marvel, since Spidey is their biggest cash cow.
This is why the best ongoing comics typically freeze their character at a certain point and focus on the characterization, rather than the development. The stories are about how their set of characteristics influences the world around them, rather than how the world influences their characteristics.
what I meant is what it contributed to the overall story, since it was a generic supes beatdown in which it was Krypto who beat atlas.
G00dy your posts warrant discussion (compared IMO to all myopic self-referential continuity talk amongst comic book fans nowadays I’ll get back to it later I still have work)
Part 10! :party:
Big up to Rabidrage mentioning this in the Spider-Man thread. Lois and Clark existing in the Marvel Universe. A hella interesting read! :lovin:
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/kentclrk.htm
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/loisdc.htm
To: Dan DiDio
From: Goodm0urning
Re. Secret Origins AKA The “Definitive” Superman Origin
JUST FUCKING STOP ALREADY.
Thine,
GM
It would be good to read Morrison writing Superman again but I don’t know since it looks like this is part of the omega Final Crisis event. Well I’m reading Final Crisis so I hope this one will read like it’s self contained and I don’t have to know anything about a bajillion Kryptonians running around Metropolis, because I’d rather not…