RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books The end of New Krypton was pretty lame

New Krypton formed into a planet that orbits the other side of the sun.

Superwoman isn't so great.

Sam Lane and Lex Luthor are gay for each other and are having a three way with Doomsday's body.

Flamebird is likely from Keystone City.

Zod will rule New Krypton.

Who's Superwoman these days? I enjoyed the Legion arcs in Action but kind of forgot about Superman after that.

It's a mystery, but she's black haired, blue eyed, and wears the El family symbol (otherwise known as an S shield). I'd say it's too obvious to be true, but you never know these days.



How come?

John Byrne?

Excelsior!

Because, Mxy, of the random shot of the two of them in Keystone (part 10). That has to be a clue of some sort.

Oh, my bet on Superwoman is Lucy Lane.

Well, at least, I don't have to worry much about being disappointed as others have made clear how anti-climatic this storyline was. Honestly, I haven't been to high on it from the get-go. While I love some of the Silver Age, this just seemed like another SA wank fest that I could do without. Hopefully, there will be a big payoff in the end. Otherwise, Superman and the Daxamites will just end up as more faces in the crowd. And, in my opinion, you don't fuck with The Great Darkness Saga.

Yeah, that's the problem with the past couple arcs, no real payoff. The writing team seems to have a plan for everything so I'm in for the run.

I'm holding on for the run, albeit, barely. I've yet to add Supergirl to the pull, but I am looking to do so if I start to see all of this go somewhere. Until then, it stays as something I pick up if I find it to be integral to the story (like with New Krypton). I'm all for tightening the continuity like they did. But, it better lead to something elsewise I don't think I'll be on this run for much longer.

However, I do look forward to the new origin story. I can't wait to see how Johns does this without bastardizing Hank Henshaw as a character.

How can there be any "payoff" when the real one has to be "the Final Crisis"?

Whu? Is Henshaw gonna be in it?

G, I have more interest right now in the main titles. Or rather, anything not written by Grant Morrison. I've lost a lot of interest in Final Crisis, by now I just want to see how it ends. FC will serve as a "bookend" for all the events over the past five years, then I'm done.

Mxy and iggy, I think Johns will do a decent job streamlining Superman in Secret Origin. But the mini won't be without its continuity problems (Doomsday, Eradicator, Superman Red/Blue, etc.).

Personally, I've felt Morrison has been a hit-and-miss writer, with more misses than hits. A lot of his fans are the kind of douche bags that, if Morrison painted a mural of a three inch green line with a white background, would hail it as Michaelangelo's second coming and berate and chide anybody who says, "uh, I don't get it. It's a green line." His X-Men run was good until he fucked up the ending, but his All Star Superman was awesome. I liked his Animal Man, his JLA was fairly entertaining, but his Doom Patrol was a little too out there for me. WE3 was great, Sea Guy was meh. The Filth was shit, as was, of course, his Batman and so far Final Crisis. It's as if he got tired of actually planning his stories out and decided to just let them go as they happen.

why is there a picture of tommy tantillo in this thread?

I think it was said here before that Morrison seems to tell better stories when he's not fucking around with main continuity.