ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (11/26/85)
I'm was told Friday the 22nd that it should have been in two weeks ago. What gives? Any facts or juicy rumors? Did Wolfman want to kill Superman or something? - Ralph
ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi) (12/01/85)
> I'm was told Friday the 22nd that it should have been in two weeks ago. > What gives? Any facts or juicy rumors? Did Wolfman want to kill Superman > or something? > > - Ralph *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I got CRISIS ON INFINTE EARTHS #12 yesterday (11/29/85). Shipment was delayed a week. It ties everything up, but I won't say anything more. Mike Ciaraldi seismo!rochester!ciaraldi
tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) (12/02/85)
Mike, what do you mean it ties everything up? What happened to Wonder
Woman? Are they just giving themselves a way to rewrite her origin? What
about the two remaining duplicates, Green Lantern and the Flash? Not to
mention whatever GL's daughter is called; where does she fit in? How does
this fit together with Green Lantern 198, which seems to end in a way
incompatible with Crisis? Who is Power Girl now? And so on, and so on.
Seems to me there were a lot of loose ends left dangling.
Overall, the series was fun; but I really wish Wolfman had bothered to read
some time travel stories first to get some idea of how meta-temporal
phenomena might work. The glitches with the time travel and inter-time
contact really detracted in my eyes; this was straight out of Star Trek and
the Superman movie. To cite the worse example, what was this baloney with
people seeing the anti-Monitor zipping back through time? He would be
visible in all instants; there would be no perception of him coming and
going from the perspective of someone going forward in time.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot, CMU Center for Art and Technology
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> I'm was told Friday the 22nd that it should have been in two weeks ago. > What gives? Any facts or juicy rumors? Did Wolfman want to kill Superman > or something? > > - Ralph As you probably know by now, Wolfman did indeed "kill" Superman (The one from Earth-...oh gee, what did I mean?...of course there can't be more than one Earth, can there?...the one without a... HOME, that's it!) as well as Superboy and Luthor. But wait a minute. How can both SuperBOY *and* SuperMAN be killed at the same time? And I can't believe they'd kill off Luthor--what will Superman do for an adversary?...Superman? But how can he be around if he's been killed? I'm SOOOOOOO confused. I think I'll run out and buy Secret Wars instead. THAT I can understand. :-) :-) :-) :-) Seriously, does anyone want to take bets that "Flash" will be re-united with the Titans now that he wants to play superhero again? Especially since the group needs a good dose of guilt ("Think of all those that will perish if we don't keep helping them--that's what Uncle Barry would do.") to keep them from falling apart with apathy and self-centeredness. Come to think of it, the Raven subplot *IS* heating up.... "Yeah? Well, YOU'RE the inspiration for twin beds." Scott J. Berry ihnp4!hou2g!scott
ma3752af@unmc.UUCP (12/14/85)
> > As you probably know by now, Wolfman did indeed "kill" Superman > (The one from Earth-...oh gee, what did I mean?...of course there > can't be more than one Earth, can there?...the one without a... > HOME, that's it!) as well as Superboy and Luthor. But wait a minute. > How can both SuperBOY *and* SuperMAN be killed at the same time? > And I can't believe they'd kill off Luthor--what will Superman do > for an adversary?...Superman? But how can he be around if he's been > killed? I'm SOOOOOOO confused. I think I'll run out and buy Secret > Wars instead. THAT I can understand. :-) :-) :-) :-) > They certainly did not kill Superman - 2, Superboy, Lois Lane, or Alex Luthor - they are on a planet better than earth. The Superman/Superboy question is easy - they are not the same person - read DC Presents for the whole story. The Luthor which you are talking about was the Earth-2 version - since the Earth-2 Superman is in paradise he doesn't need an adversary. > Seriously, does anyone want to take bets that "Flash" will be re-united > with the Titans now that he wants to play superhero again? Especially > since the group needs a good dose of guilt ("Think of all those that > will perish if we don't keep helping them--that's what Uncle Barry would > do.") to keep them from falling apart with apathy and self-centeredness. > Come to think of it, the Raven subplot *IS* heating up.... > There is a rumor that a new Flash comic is in the works - with Wally West and Jay Garrick starring. I hope he doesn't rejoin the Titans - they have enough problems with Starfire, Mento, and Raven. Not to mention the unwillingness of Nightwing to be leader. "So this is it . . . we're going to die. . . " V.J. Murphy