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Originally posted by King Krypton:
Further, you've claimed elsewhere that the Byrne/Jurgens Superman is the "ONE true Superman" and "the GOOD version of Superman," and how you think it should never be changed. The way you carry on, you make it crystal clear that you think Byrne/Jurgens should be held as holy writ.
No, I don't care if their name is Byrne and Jurgens or Mickey Mouse, I'm talking about angles and ideas.

What 'Mickey' and 'Donald' did was create the Ultimate version of the character before the term was 'cool'.

They took what had made the character work in the previous incarnations and brought them up to the forefront, putting aside the silliness of the 60's and the experimental storytelling of the Golden Age.

What 'Mickey' and 'Donald' did was create a Superman that respects the character's origin fully, not just parts of it.

I see a movie like Superman 3 and see Clark talking to Lana while watching Clark's high school photo and there's NO way I buy the idea that the guy on the picture is a nerd or grew up to become one. Same holds true for the young Clark Kent from the Smallville sequence in the first movie and the one from the TV show.

There's no way in hell that this character can grow up to become the Woody Allenesque Clark Kent from the Silver Age, not without being hit on the head by a horse. There's no way that anyone that went to school with that character would buy the idea that he'd turn into that.

So what Mickey and Donald did was go with the idea that Clark Kent grew up to be Clark Kent, a real person that happens to have super powers which he decides to use in full view of the public in the guise of Superman.

In YOUR version of the character it's the other way around, with Clark being the mask and Superman being the real one. So, in your version, the 'mask' only goes to work at the newspaper to see if anyone needs his help, while the 'real person' goes to the Fortres of Solitude to mourn his dead race.

I don't like that angle, I don't like that interpretation, so you choose to insult me for it...

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Originally posted by King Krypton:
Don't you DARE try to pawn the blame off on me. You brought this on yourself. Now deal with it.
This is your fault, you're the one that decided to make it personal, you're the one that started with the profanity and the cursing, taking advantage of the lack of a censor here. I NEVER insulted you to begin with, that was all your doing, not mine.