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Originally posted by King Krypton:
but as soon as Byrne/Jurgens gets challenged, you screech, bleat, whine, and wail about how "disrespectful" people are to their work, how you want those who dare to contradict Byrne/Jurgens to go down in flames
No I didn't.

I'm explaining to you how their intrepretation is the best one and why, but you dismiss it with insults.

I've explained to you that their version works because if correctly focuses on Clark Kent being the human and Superman being the illusion.

You reply with 'go fuck yourself' or 'you're a fucking victim' or 'you kiss Byrne's ass'.

I've explained to you many times why Waid's version doesn't work and my reasons to say that it doesn't work.

I've explained to you the reason why turning Superman into SUPERman doesn't work, but again you reply with insults.

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Originally posted by King Krypton:
(your egotistical little crack about wanting Birthright dead and buried, not to mention your dismissal of Trinity when I brought it up)
BR has to die because it serves no purpose whatsoever, none at all. It's a stupid comic book imitation of the Smallville continuity.

Imagine if the Dicrapio (sp?) Romeo + Juliet remade were to forever replace the original story just because it made more money... would you find any justification in that??

As for Trinity, it uses SA angles when dealing with Clark and Diana, even though Wagner promised that it wouldn't, that it was set in continuity, so it too must die since it's not what it was promised it would be.

Same with BR. Waid said that this project was going to explore Clark's early years with the last issue showing his first public apperance as Superman. He lied too, and in the process created this waste of time.

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Originally posted by King Krypton:
and how the only way to "save" Superman is to go back to doing things the same way they were during the Jurgens era.
Yes, the only way to fix the character is to actually put aside the bullshit that's come out in the last five years and go back to the interpretation that does the character justice, instead of the one that treats him like a two dimensional ahole married to a bitch.

If you had actually bothered to read the Jurgens and Byrne books you'd see that they actually developed the romance aspect of the very well, and their marring Lois and Clark was justified.

Loeb's angle, continued by those that came after him, downplayed that very important aspect of the character in favor of Silver Age-style storytelling, which has virtually killed the character.