quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: I said it got close. Batman and GL are the only franchises that get close to Superman... those two and the JL franchise, which has one constant, J'Onn J'Onzz.
Maybe you didn't understand what I said. I mean this: put every in-continuity Green Lantenr comic published since Emeral Dawn together. Consider what you get one big story. If you compare that big story to the one you get adding every in-continuity Superman comic since MoS, you'll find that Superman's is two or three times as big as GL's, and way more convulted. The only character that gets close to Superman is Bat-Man. I don't read Bat-Man so I couldn't tell you why it hasn't deranged as much as Superman. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Bat-Man's story has a lot of "free" space, I don't know.
quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: Like we already agreed, the last year of the Jurgens crew was a bad one. Notice how I say that the problems started FIVE years ago, when Jurgens was still there...
Right, because of the convulted backstory they themselves had created.
quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: MoS is not the problem, wanting to do the retro thing is the problem.
MoS is not limiting in any way, and even if it were then the same would apply to Year One, Emerald Dawn and Perez's WW relaunch, and those aren't being 'updated'.
No, MoS itself isn't the problem... it's MoS in addition to everything that's come after it. Maybe you think it's fun to research and read every damn comic so you the whole story is kept in mind when new stuff happens, but how do you think a new reader feels? How do you think a new writer feels? What if the writer's vision just doesn't coincide with what's been established before? What if there's no way of modifying his story to "make it fit" without deleting key elements of his creation? Should he just take his ideas, no matter how good they are, and shove them up his arse?
