quote:Originally posted by King Krypton: [QB]Well, congratulations. You're getting exactly what you want. Never mind that Byrne never had to compete with reprints of the older Superman stories. Never mind that his work was allowed a chance to breathe on its own. Waid's throat's being slit by this, and that's all that matters to you. Death to anything that dares to deviate from the Great God Byrne, right? Well, I hope you're happy. DC just killed Birthright with this decision, and made it crystal clear that nobody will ever be allowed to have any creative freedom on Superman ever again. It's Byrne and Jurgens' show only, to hell with anyone else who wants to bring anything to Superman..
You're making it sound as if continuity determines whether the story is good or not.
Birthright, which I hate, should be able to stand its own regardless of material from another continuity being printed at the same time.
There's still hope for you yet. J.M. DeMatties was going to do a Superman graphic novel exploring Jor-El abducting people from Earth. That was going to be in continuity, now it's an Elseworlds.
Maybe DC changed it because of Birthright...
The point is that Waid could have done what he promised from the start, a story that explores Superman's time before his first apperance in Metropolis, instead he decided to do an out of continuity story that couldn't stand on its own.
