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John Mariani
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Posted: 13 August 2026 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I find the Omnibus editions too pricy for my pocket.

But! I did buy the Generations omnibus because it is brilliant.
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Posted: 13 August 2026 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Okay, you can stay.
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Tim O Neill
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Tom F: "GENERATIONS is your gift to comic book lovers. In
some ways, it's your greatest work in its slyness and
depth, it's humor and homage -- it works on so many
levels."


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I second that emotion!

And Generations 3 is my favorite of the series - epic and
wonderful with a great ending.



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Posted: 14 August 2026 at 1:38am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

If you forced me to pick just one, the entire GENERATIONS saga (1, 2 & 3) is my favorite of JB's work.
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Jason K Fulton
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It would be up there on my JB list, absolutely. That he was able to play in the sandboxes without anyone else coming in and screwing things up, and that the works stand alone, is really nice.
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Posted: 14 August 2026 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Continuing to read G3, and I admit to a degree of trepidation as I got closer and closer to that scene.

You all know the one. Where I unleashed my darkest perversions to have the adult Superman make out with 14 year old Lana Lang. Disgusting.

Or it might have been, if that was what was in the book. But it’s not. The perversions lie in the minds of the readers who go looking for them. Readers who didn’t exist when DC allowed the actual version of the scene. A scene that many saw for what I intended, a moment out of a daydream, a fairy tale.

Two panels are usually lifted out of context. Two out of seven. Including Superman himself expressing misgivings.

But for the trolls on the internet, something feeding their own dark needs. So very, very sad.

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Posted: 14 August 2026 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

JB:  "A scene that many saw for what I intended, a moment out of a daydream, a fairy tale."

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That's how I took it when I first read it.  Heck, I even bought the page from JB at his last Ohio convention appearance.  And it never occurred to me to see a creepy reading of it until reading what Internet posters have said.  Sheesh.   


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