quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: Weird, I've been reading the books for over 11 years and I know that there are plenty of spaces to be filled.
You know what they are because you've been reading the books for 11 years. And if Superman has one "free" year, Alan Scott has a decade (just an example... Alan Scott has way more than a decade).
quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: And if I wanted to read X-Men I'd have to do research on what's happened.
If I wanted to play Football I'd have to learn the rules.
If I wanted to play Magic the Gathering I'd have to learn the rules.
If I want to know what's going on in episode 15 of 24 I have to know what happened in the previous 14...
What's your point? That Superman comics aren't simplistic enough for 2 year olds and simple minded people to understand?
Who says they have to be?
They don't have to be simplistic, they have to be accesible. For readers and for writers. Maybe you like researching a comic's history as if it was a sport or a role playing game, but that's you. You bring up 24: I agree with what you say, if I want to know what's going on in chapter 15 I have to know what happened in the previous chapters... But that's only fourteen chapters, not 17 years of weekly comics. Big difference. 24 is accesible, Superman isn't.
quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: You said it, I'm modern, he's not...
His interpretation of the character is neither 'fresh' or 'modern', points you made very clear are important for the character to work...
By that point of view, as soon as MoS gets old (I personally think it alredy has, and I bet most of my generation thinks the same) it has to be replaced? I think so too. It can't last forever.
quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: The comics started to suck a year before Eddie came along, that's what gave him the opening to take over, but they got WORSE after he came along, which gave Waid the opening for his outdated reboot.
