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Post by GRWelsh on Jul 20, 2021 12:36:54 GMT -5
I've been watching this and it continually amazes me how much better DC is with their animated shows compared to live action. This show understands Superman so well and what makes him work... Just great. It is like it distills much of what is best from the comics to come up with a "best ever" version of Superman. The "World's Finest" team up episode with Batman and Superman was perfect and showed how they could have a sort of rivalry without being enemies, and stay true to their classic versions. As much as I love DARK KNIGHT RETURNS I hate the way that comic book has infected and perverted the Batman and Superman relationship ever since and made its way into the live action movies as a sort of official version. DKR was supposed to be a futuristic elseworlds thing, not canon! As an aside, I just got to the part in the animated series where they had funeral for the cop based on Jack Kirby. It was very appropriate since it was in a storyline making use of Darkseid, Orion and Apokolips which were Kirby's creations. It only gradually dawned on me that cop was supposed to be Kirby and when I looked it up it was a treat. Very well done.
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Post by geneweigel on Jul 20, 2021 15:22:31 GMT -5
The weirdness of the teen Sons of Batman and Superman in the 70s is probably my base memories of reading something confusing regarding the two. The Superman comics coming into the 80s were pretty good at keeping the feel of the older reprints that would reprint in those minibooks. Do you remember those? In regards to the cartoon it was the post-Crisis Luthor that Byrne set up as a business goon. He had just got a really cool suit that they based the Super Powers figure on and Byrne nixed it. Did they ever have that suit in the cartoon?
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Post by GRWelsh on Jul 20, 2021 16:13:05 GMT -5
One of the weirdest comic books I ever had was WORLD'S FINEST #233 (October 1975) which had the Super Sons, Clark Jr. and Bruce Jr., go up against a one-eyed alien named Sister Sibyl who was trying to turn all of the women of a small town into monsters while executing the men. The Super Sons were later dismissed as 'not real' and part of a computer simulation, so their stories were like elseworlds tales. Just bizarre. I do remember the Superman minibooks and loved them. I always remembered the storyline with the mermaid, Lori Lemaris. SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES does a kind of homage to Lex's battle suit in the first set of episodes as the Lexosuit except it wasn't piloted by Lex. Usually, Lex is portrayed as a behind the scenes sort who doesn't want to get his hands dirty, although they do occasionally show his supposed scientific genius such as when Brainiac forced Lex to re-assemble his body. But that Super Powers suit and variations like it have shown up in video games like DC UNIVERSE ONLINE and INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US.
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Post by geneweigel on Jul 20, 2021 16:27:05 GMT -5
They used to have those minibooks at rest stops and gas stations. I used to have the Lord of the Rings photo novel of the movie from one of those racks.
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Post by geneweigel on Aug 22, 2021 17:33:50 GMT -5
They used to have those minibooks at rest stops and gas stations. I used to have the Lord of the Rings photo novel of the movie from one of those racks. No joke, the LORD OF THE RINGS FOTONOVEL just popped off my shelf. This didn't even make sense since it was taken years ago. I searched my e-mail and I rebought it off ebay in 2016. Losing it! |
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Post by GRWelsh on Aug 23, 2021 11:16:31 GMT -5
I'm losing it too. I still search for things on eBay I had a long time ago that I forgot I re-purchased already. And then I suddenly remember "Hey, that's on my shelf!"
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