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John Mariani
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| Posted: 13 August 2026 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | 1
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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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John Byrne
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| Posted: 13 August 2026 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | 2
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Okay, you can stay.
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Tim O Neill
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| Posted: 13 August 2026 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | 3
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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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Josh Goldberg
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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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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 August 2026 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | 6
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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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Shawn Kincade
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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.
Edited by Shawn Kincade on 14 August 2026 at 8:39pm
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Tom French
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When I initially read "the scene" I didn't read anything it, but then I started seeing the objections to it. I wondered, "would the scene be safer with a kiss on the forehead? Perhaps, but would it have the same emotional impact? No."
It's just not "dirty."
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 15 August 2026 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | 9
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I think Lana’s dialogue addresses all the “problems”.
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John Byrne
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Just checked, and the page done entirely in Photoshop, no pencils, was in the final issue, Century 30, pg 10.
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Michael Penn
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Looking at the pages before and after, and darned if I can tell the difference.
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John Byrne
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Something frustrating about looking at these issues: coloring mistakes. Not many you, as readers, would necessarily notice, and, given the nature of the series, not really something for which I would blame the colorist. But where the heck were the EDITORS??
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