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Post by tingramretro on Sept 24, 2019 4:10:04 GMT -5
Well I liked DC's sidekicks and knockoffs like Supergirl and Batwoman. It was something that made DC different than Marvel. Now it seems like Marvel has taken that concept from DC and gone to the extreme. For example it has gotten ridiculous with all the different Hulks. Despite my best efforts, Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk do nothing for me. They might do one day - the right writer might make me REALLY CARE about them - but for now, it seems redundant. Neither of those characters is still around. Why are people complaining about characters who are no longer even appearing anywhere? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2019 4:37:37 GMT -5
Not everyone is reading something current.
Red Hulk was in a UK Avengers title recently, one which reprints US stories. I have no idea when the story was originally published, but it was presented to me now.
A few years ago, I was seeing a lot of them because of these reprints. For all I know, the characters are dead.
This is a forum devoted to classic comics (for the most part) and one is perfectly entitled to discuss classic characters. The thread is about the de-uniquing of comic characters. I didn't specify an era. It's perfectly valid to discuss de-uniqued characters, whether they be pre-Crisis or post-Crisis. And it's not a complaint. It's a discussion on my part, one that has elicited great responses.
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 24, 2019 7:51:49 GMT -5
The variety of "de-uniqueing" that bothers me more is the kind I associate with the X-Men boom, where it seems like every character in every issue is a super-hero or a super-villain. Yeah, there may have been a few more Kryptonians running around than one would like, but the stories were populated with plenty of civilians as well. But it got to where readers were doing nothing but hanging out in virtual super-hero clubs--no secret identities or jobs, no interaction with the public. I get the appeal, and I enjoyed plenty of them, but when everybody has a super power, it gets old.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2019 8:37:42 GMT -5
The variety of "de-uniqueing" that bothers me more is the kind I associate with the X-Men boom, where it seems like every character in every issue is a super-hero or a super-villain. Yeah, there may have been a few more Kryptonians running around than one would like, but the stories were populated with plenty of civilians as well. But it got to where readers were doing nothing but hanging out in virtual super-hero clubs--no secret identities or jobs, no interaction with the public. I get the appeal, and I enjoyed plenty of them, but when everybody has a super power, it gets old. I kind of noticed that in some UK Spidey reprints recently. Everyone either had powers, provided back up to Spidey (gadget-wise, resource-wise) or was working for Parker Industries. |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 24, 2019 9:05:23 GMT -5
Sounds like should be a Flash Rogue: The De-Unique Flash. Runs really slowly and wears old beat up pair of tennis shoes with an elastic sweat head band with matching wrist sweat bands and leg warmers. A white tank top and white running shorts while listening to his Walkman.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 24, 2019 11:36:40 GMT -5
The variety of "de-uniqueing" that bothers me more is the kind I associate with the X-Men boom, where it seems like every character in every issue is a super-hero or a super-villain. Yeah, there may have been a few more Kryptonians running around than one would like, but the stories were populated with plenty of civilians as well. But it got to where readers were doing nothing but hanging out in virtual super-hero clubs--no secret identities or jobs, no interaction with the public. I get the appeal, and I enjoyed plenty of them, but when everybody has a super power, it gets old. Yeah, that bugged me too. Especially at Marvel, where Stan et al. would really concentrate on verisimilitude, and use supporting characters and even background characters to create a functional, immersive New York. You don't get that if nobody has a life outside of their superhero job and co-workers. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 24, 2019 11:41:38 GMT -5
The variety of "de-uniqueing" that bothers me more is the kind I associate with the X-Men boom, where it seems like every character in every issue is a super-hero or a super-villain. Yeah, there may have been a few more Kryptonians running around than one would like, but the stories were populated with plenty of civilians as well. But it got to where readers were doing nothing but hanging out in virtual super-hero clubs--no secret identities or jobs, no interaction with the public. I get the appeal, and I enjoyed plenty of them, but when everybody has a super power, it gets old.
That's always been endemic to the X-Men because they mainly hung around with each other. But I agree and also felt put off in the 80s and 90s by the boom because to me the X-Men always functioned best lurking around the corners of the MU, not being the focus of it.
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