fly on the wall
03-21-2006, 04:49 PM
Buried mentioned this a couple of threads down but it had not escaped my notice. Geoff Johns turned Kal-L, Alex Luthor and Superboy Prime into Parallax. In other words he turned to versions of Superman, including the original version into cackling deluded baddies.
Way to go, Mr Johns.
But don't blame him. Blame me too. And also Buried to a lesser extent.
Lets go back about seven years.
Buried had a thread about "How would you bring back the Earth-two Superman from his paradise dimension". It was a writing contest and somehow I won it. Cei-U (a poster who is an artist) thought it was so good he wanted to draw it if I wanted to write it. I said yes. Buried Alien wanted in as well, so the three of us were going to bring back Kal-L.
This was all very public as was the growth of the plot.
Somewhere Geoff Johns was watching and taking notes. "Bring back Kal-L...Hmmm."
It came out that saving an ailing Lois Lane was part of the story.
Somewhere Geoff Johns was watching and taking notes. "Superman strives to save an endangered Lois Lane....Hmmmm".
Cut to several years later...
Johns is writing Flash and everyone loves him except for me. I started a thread attacking Johns for the mass slaughter of civilians that occurred in each issue. Flash is supposed to be a hero, I insisted, heroes are supposed to keep the mass slaughter down.
My main target was the villain Cicada who could sense a powerful Flash aura on anyone Flash had touched. Cidada harvested that residual Flash energy by slaughtering the people. So anyone Flash touched, dated, saved was a target. There were so many dead victims that they had to open up auditoriums to stack them.
To me this was ridiculous, and it made a laughingstock out of any claim to heroism by Wally West. It turned him into a public menace.
The thread blew up and spawned other threads, especially since Geoff Johns was posting like crazy all over the thread. He wanted to spread the word that from now on everything had to be ultraviolent.
Then he surprised us with his take on Grodd the Gorilla. A new Grodd obsessed with eating humans and always gurgling up a bloody froth, for some strange reason.
What I'm trying to say is that Infinite Crisis is Geoff John's revenge on me for taunting him about his 'Flash-proof Guillotines' and his bloody-mouthed Grodds. Kal-L walking around nostalgic about the good old Earth where evil was controlled, not let to run wild. John's is using the IC to rub it in our noses we that wanted a lower body count in comic books. Kal-L is a villain here, really, just another well-meaning Parallax.
And Zero Hour sucked too. Johns is ripping off things that suck.
Oh my God what did I say?
Johns is ripping me off, too. That means I suck too!
Way to go, Mr Johns.
But don't blame him. Blame me too. And also Buried to a lesser extent.
Lets go back about seven years.
Buried had a thread about "How would you bring back the Earth-two Superman from his paradise dimension". It was a writing contest and somehow I won it. Cei-U (a poster who is an artist) thought it was so good he wanted to draw it if I wanted to write it. I said yes. Buried Alien wanted in as well, so the three of us were going to bring back Kal-L.
This was all very public as was the growth of the plot.
Somewhere Geoff Johns was watching and taking notes. "Bring back Kal-L...Hmmm."
It came out that saving an ailing Lois Lane was part of the story.
Somewhere Geoff Johns was watching and taking notes. "Superman strives to save an endangered Lois Lane....Hmmmm".
Cut to several years later...
Johns is writing Flash and everyone loves him except for me. I started a thread attacking Johns for the mass slaughter of civilians that occurred in each issue. Flash is supposed to be a hero, I insisted, heroes are supposed to keep the mass slaughter down.
My main target was the villain Cicada who could sense a powerful Flash aura on anyone Flash had touched. Cidada harvested that residual Flash energy by slaughtering the people. So anyone Flash touched, dated, saved was a target. There were so many dead victims that they had to open up auditoriums to stack them.
To me this was ridiculous, and it made a laughingstock out of any claim to heroism by Wally West. It turned him into a public menace.
The thread blew up and spawned other threads, especially since Geoff Johns was posting like crazy all over the thread. He wanted to spread the word that from now on everything had to be ultraviolent.
Then he surprised us with his take on Grodd the Gorilla. A new Grodd obsessed with eating humans and always gurgling up a bloody froth, for some strange reason.
What I'm trying to say is that Infinite Crisis is Geoff John's revenge on me for taunting him about his 'Flash-proof Guillotines' and his bloody-mouthed Grodds. Kal-L walking around nostalgic about the good old Earth where evil was controlled, not let to run wild. John's is using the IC to rub it in our noses we that wanted a lower body count in comic books. Kal-L is a villain here, really, just another well-meaning Parallax.
And Zero Hour sucked too. Johns is ripping off things that suck.
Oh my God what did I say?
Johns is ripping me off, too. That means I suck too!