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But it makes sense that they all want to walk around half naked??

If it was all similar quality to his contribution to Stormwatch, I can understand why (his work on 52 was poorly received).

Mind you he wasn't the only writer producing tripe on that comic....

Surely he can't have meant as an overall industry??

A lot more non DC comics are sold than DC stuff! So how can most people only want to read a handful of DC's characters??

I assumed by "we" he...

Wonderful artwork and a really interesting story line. I'd forgotten how good it was.

The Mark Waid thread reminded me about "Empire". That doesn't seem to get mentioned much by dyed in the wool...

But compare it to another Elseworld Superman retirement story.... Alan Moore's "Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"

In Alan 's story Superman retires because he breaks his own code, and...

I find it difficult to accept that its even a good Supeman story!

Effectively Superman just walks away for 10 years, and lets the world descend into chaos because one other guy does something...

I've long since realised that I don't know anyway to objectively value a writer.

But I do know that Alan Moore has written masses of stuff that I enjoyed much more than anything I've ever read by...

Of course, it doesn't make you a bad person.

But it certainly makes us poles apart as comic fans.

Superman was one of my favourite characters of my long distant youth. And I'm still interested...

But nobody has decided that comics are strictly for adults. Plenty of comics are still aimed primarily at kids, and are darn good.

Its just that DC and Marvel aim a lot of their comics at...

Some comics are still written with kids in mind. And... for those... I can easily understand why cartoon conventions should continue to applied.

But just because a story is told in pictures as...

Glad it was a joke.

But still interested in hearing your take on why all the "straightjacket conventions" applied in DC/ Marvel comics make for better stories.

Blimey. Why take it so personally?

All Carabas (and I) were doing was to state a preference for a different style of story telling.

Look at it this way. If writers have to continually work...

I wish DC had embraced legacy story telling right from the start.

That is I wish the original Superman had married, had kids, retired and died.... and that by now we were reading about his third...

The idea that Wonder Woman is "up there" with Batman and Superman is political correctness working overtime. I'm pretty sure that Flash and GL easily match Wonder Woman in comic book terms.

Indeed...

On my list of "DC writers never to read again".

Mind, you that's a fairly extensive list.

No I wouldn't want to see Travis in the new 52.

For me one of the main reasons original run worked was that it was (effectively) set in a completely separate world from main DCU.

I'd have concentrated on getting better writers in.

Main universe, I'd left as it was. No spectacular changes.... I'd have allowed writers to make gradual long term "organic" changes that would...

Supposed covers it pretty well. You were very wise to just read the one issue. I soldiered on into the teens, and came to conclusion I wouldn't trust team to open a bag of crisps, let alone act as...

I find re-reading comics much more fun than re-reading prose novels.

Re-reading prose I find I can remember most of it, don't often "get" things that I didn't get first time. Its something I...

You're right, of course.

But personally I now have the advantage of reading my comics well in arrears, so look to buy long runs of back issues by favourite writers featuring same minor character,...

I think its almost inevitable that some "negativity" gets into any geezer that reads many, many DC stories over a fair few years.

There comes a time (for most of us) where we feel we've seen it...

Isn't it obvious that as soon as price is right, its going to take off big time?

One big factor is overseas markets. There's a massive bank of fluent English speakers with no ready access to...

It all depends... of course.... on how top tier is defined.

If you define "top tier" in a way that ignores major differences between the characters at the very top (Superman, Batman, Spiderman,...

He's never made a solo run of 100 comics.

He doesn't shift that much merchandise.

He would be taken out in a fight by a shed load of characters, assuming unbiased writing.

He's not had a...

Blimey. Would you pay $100 for it? And $5000 and more??