This is Batman, we’re talking about. I’m not being a fanboy, but we all know that Superman at it’s best would always go to brute force. Batman always has a contingency plan. And even if we go that Superman could just kill Batman at Superspeed with SUper strength or whatever… Batman always has some ace in his sleeve. In continuity, Batman can already sneak up on Superman(I’m talking about the first arc in JLA grant morrison run).
Batman always prepares for everything… And Batman always fights dirty. There are no rules regarding a dirty fight.
Yeah, in the intermediate between “Infinite” and “Final” Crisis, I wouldn’t get too hung up on what is and isn’t canon, because it could all easily change next summer.
I think the official word right now is that Supes currently has no origin. Except, of course, the basic shit that stays consistent among the different versions.
If they have any sense at all, they’ll pull their heads out of their asses and just hire Grant Morrison to expand the first four panels of ASS #1 into the new origin story.
I’m gonna get it outta the way right now. I was not impressed with Superman For All Seasons. Yes, I said it. The book didn’t do a thing for me and I’m a huge fan of Loeb/Sale collaberations. OK, I admit that I liked how the story was more about Clark than his blue & red alter ego, and I don’t mind a slow paced style story but for some reason, I just didn’t really take to this book at all.
Are the current regulae Superman titles, Action Comics and Superman worth reading? Sounds like everyone is just sticking to All-Star Superman.
Superman: Birthright was an awesome story, I thought. A fantastic retelling of Supes origin. No big deal if it isn’t cannon anymore.
Speak of Supes origin, why oh why, must DC constantly eff with it every few years? The origin Segiel & Shuster came up with was just fine. There’s a reason Spider-Man’s story hasn’t been screwed with. The reason? Lee & Ditko explained all we needed to Spidey’s origin was explained perfectly in just 11 pages. Heck, Morrison sumped up Supes origin perfectly in All-Star Superman #1 in just 8 words and 4 pannels. Guess that isn’t good enough for DC. I think they get off screwing with Supe’s origin and doing multi-world stories.
Oh and if you’re any kind of Superman fan, yiou WILL own all 3 vols. of Superman: TAS. This isn’t even something that’s up for debate. I mean, if you don’t own them, you’re an awful human being that no one will ever love. No, scratch that, you aren’t even a memeber of the human race. It was thanks to this series that I saw some of the best Superman in animation ever. Dan Turpin get killed by Darkseid’s Omega Beams, Superman flying into rage, brilliant, amazingly beautiful stuff. Thanks to STAS, Darkseid became one of my fav Superman villains.
Yeah, The Animated Series is definitely rock solid. Season three was especially great. Too bad it came to an end… of course, they turned around and did Justice League after that.
DC keeps fucking with Superman’s continuity because they have this intense neurosis about whether or not Superman is still relevant. If they’d concentrate less on keeping him relevant and more on just writing some fucking decent stories, like Grant Morrison is, there wouldn’t be a problem. Supes is a classic. He’ll be relevant if you just stick to what makes him great.
Three days. Every time I count off another day, I feel like I’m tempting the fates to delay this fucking book again, but according to the DC official site the book is still on schedule for the 14th.
Yeah Flash Thompson served in Viet Nam but it’s never mentioned again due to it being something that would make him ancient, so now he just served overseas somewhere. That’s a crash course in comic book characters who were soldiers right there…
Well big up to all the veterans in real life anyway. It’s pretty neat when you read comics that date back to the 60s that if you read the letters page you’ll see lots of them were written by people in the armed forces. :tup:
Not only that, but Wolverine teamed up with Richard and Mary Parker back in either WWII or sometime during the early Cold War, back when Spider-Man’s parents were hardcore agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
