quote:Originally posted by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk: Nope. Characters as old and as iconic as these can (and should) be reinterpreted. It's just a matter of when it happens. It makes no difference to me if all these interpretations are done at once. If they're good, they're good, period. You can't say "Oh, it's good, but it's not good because..."
So basically any character as old as Superman should be reinterpretated?
Characters in soaps who have died should be recasts with younger actors and brought back?
Should Tom Sawyer get a skateboard? Granted, he just became a Secret Service Agent in League, but that wasn't so much a reinterpretation as it was a continuation of the original work.
I don't remember who said it, but someone said that in one of Twain's books Tom became involved with the government or something and that's where Robinson got the idea of making him an agent.
Age and iconic status has nothing to do with characterization...
You don't see Wonder Woman getting her 'Birthright'.
quote:You seem to be an expert on the Silver Age. So, a) You have read lots and lots of Silver Age comics, even though you don't like them (something I know you're capable of doing) or b) You haven't read more than me and you're assuming you know everything about it (other thing you're perfectly capable of doing).
I'm currently reading the 'Even More Secret Origins' reprint. Before that was the Wonder Woman reprint and before that was the Superboy reprint.
Some had good ideas but really, really bad executions and others were just very shitty ideas with even worse execution.
The Silver Age, contrary to popular belief, was not perfect.
quote: That describes every Rob Lefield book I've read (both of them!). Mike Allred puts a lot of thought and a lot of heart into what he does, and it shows. No brains? What about that scene with Madman and Superman talking about God? What about the fact that part of Superman stayed in Madman (something that, as I've been told, shows in the next issues of Madman)? What about the ending? Instead of defeating Mxyzptlk by fighting him, they defeat him in a much more creative and hilarious way. You think it's simplistic because of the art. This fits in with what I've said before in other topics. You stay with the way it looks it is and not with what it really is.
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You make it sound as if how funny a story is justifies whether or not it was good.
Comic books, again, contrary to popular belief, aren't supposed to be just joke books or toilettainment...
