quote: Maybe most readers weren't interested in the story itself. I know I wasn't. And not because it wasn't sticking to Byrne's origin 100%. I didn't like it because it wasn't a progression. If you're going to retell Superman's origins, make it fresh and new, which is what Byrne did. Birthright didn't move ahead. It went backwards. I didn't find anything new or compelling about it. It was just there to bring the Silver Ageiness back to the origin and retread some of Byrne's material. Give me something else and not the same shit over and over again.
Isn't it amazing how EVERYONE likes to go in "brand new directions"...
...by giving us the SAME OLD story????[/QB]
The fact is that if DC is going to retell the origin story, which fans have seen countless times, then something different and new has to be done with it. Just rehashing the old is no good. It's boring and keeps the character stagnant.
quote:Originally posted by datalore: Krypton exploded. Kal-El came here. Grew up. Became Superman.
SIMPLE.
Not that simple. Clark/Superman was shaped and molded by the events that happened after his ship crashed more than he ever was by the fact that he's from a dead planet and has super powers. It's the man that makes Superman intersting. That's why there are so many Elseworld books dealing with Kal-El's ship landing in different places and at different times.
