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Paul Kimball
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It's a fictional universe either way. I would guess good writers could write
appealing stories in either setting, but I prefer the concept of the multiverse
myself, so no complaints whether it started 25 or 125 years ago.
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John Byrne
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Marvel of the 70s, perhaps.
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How so?
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Not so long ago I sat with increasing bogglement, listening to one of the Higher Ups at DC describe the plans for the next couple of years --- using Marvel titles as the "shorthand". "This will be our Kree-Skrull War, and this will be our Secret Wars, and this will be our "all-new, all-different"…" The only DC project referred to was the 20 year old CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS.
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Scott Richards
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If Marvel set things back to the way they were in the 70s I might actually be buying more than 2 Marvel books right now.
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Mark Spiridakis
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Michael Connell wrote:
| I've noticed on my DC site the younger readers seem to be complaining that DC is starting to cater to our generation "The old guys" with the return of the Multiverse, Hal Jordan back as GL and the new JLA. |
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But this is like saying keeping Clark Kent as Superman "caters" to the readers of the thirties and early forties.
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John Byrne
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But this is like saying keeping Clark Kent as Superman "caters" to the readers of the thirties and early forties.*** Quite the contrary. That's merely following continuity. But 20 years ago DC deliberately broke continuity, with CRISIS, MAN OF STEEL, George's WONDER WOMAN reboot, etc. To harken back to the pre-CRISIS days is to play to exactly what I find most wrong with DC these days -- their idea of "innovation" is to press REWIND. And that is most definitely catering to the "old" crowd.
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Zaki Hasan
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To harken back to the pre-CRISIS days is to play to
exactly what I find most wrong with DC these days -- their idea of
"innovation" is to press REWIND. And that is most definitely catering
to the "old" crowd.
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Agree with this 150%.
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Kurt Anderson
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I applaud DC for catering to me. Unfortunately about 80% of their books are still aimed at other readers. They need to fix that.
I hope that "going back to the 70's" includes bringing back all of those war, romance, and horror titles. And the oversized editions too.
Edited by Kurt Anderson on 22 May 2007 at 12:51pm
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Ed Love
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If only they were trying to re-wind. Everything out of DC the past few
years has struck me more looking at the past and then taking everything
that was complained about or viewed as wrong and amping that up. The
90's saw brief replacements of Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman as
heroes and longer replacement of Hal Jordan. So, now we kill off and
incapacitate even more heroes and replace them with kewler more PC
versions. Crisis on Infinite Earths? Countdown to Infinite Crisis which led
to mini's that didn't resolve anything that led to Infinite Crisis that had to
be tiedied up by 52 which no sooner ended than they started up
Countdown...
Multiple Earths was too confusing when each Earth's continuity had very
little duplication? Now we have multiple Earths with a JSA on the primary
universe that remembers 2 sets of lives as well as a JSA-Earth, 2 sets of
Marvel families with different histories, 2 groups of Freedom Fighters, 2
groups of heroes from Charlton, etc. They aren't supposed to be the same
as the ones from pre-Crisis, then why pretty much duplicate those
Earths? Why retread the old ground if all you're going to do is muddy
things even more?
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