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Originally posted by ManofTheAtom:
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'.
Oh, man. That's such a mess. Let's see...

1) There has been at least one Superman comic every month for 65 years. He has never stopped being published. If Superman had never been reinterpreted he'd still be the character Siegel and Shuster created and the story nowadays would be the same started in Action #1, stretched for 65 years. Now, I'm not saying that the original Superman wasn't cool. But he wouldn't have managed to stay alive all these years if he hadn't been constantly reinterpreted.

2) Characters in Soap Operas? Is there a Soap Opera that has been constanly shown for sixty years? Are Soap Operas that last long mostly about one character? Is any Soap Opera character an international Icon? Most importanly, are any Soap Operas MEANT to last forever? Superman is. Not literally 'forever', but you get the idea, I hope.

3) If at least one Tom Sawyer story was published each month, and it was expected to sell well to impulse a big franchise, he'd have to be constantly reinterpreted.

4) Wonder Woman has been reinterpreted several times. Same thing with Bat-Man. Just like with Superman, some reinterpretations are good, some aren't. The good ones make it worth it.

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Originally posted by ManofTheAtom:
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.
Ah, so it's my first option. I wish I could spend money like that.

Anyway, no, it's not perfect. Who said it was? The Modern Age isn't perfect either.

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Originally posted by ManofTheAtom:
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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...
The story had hilarious parts, but it wasn't entirely comedic. Just because the art is simple doesn't mean you're suppoused to laugh all the time.

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Originally posted by ManofTheAtom:
No problem.
I didn't see anything in Veicht's interview that made me think his new Question book is a Rorscharch ripoff. If you think so, whatever. I refuse to debate a book none of us has read, again.