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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 24, 2020 22:23:07 GMT -5
Almost all of the replacements discussed in this thread happened after I stopped buying mainstream comics. Yeah, but if you read those issues now, It's like a brand new comic.  |
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Post by brutalis on Feb 6, 2020 8:00:58 GMT -5
Almost all of the replacements discussed in this thread happened after I stopped buying mainstream comics. . And this is partly why the publishers would do replacement heroes: in an attempt for creating some new variables within the known comic book which might attract some new readers or pull back in older readers who have stopped buying. Sometimes it works and other times not so much, but at least they tried. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2020 9:03:28 GMT -5
I never bought the Hal Jordan GL, but I bought the Kyle book every month.
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Feb 9, 2020 15:26:05 GMT -5
I liked the Cat (now Tigra) more than Hellcat. I associate Patsy more with her Archie-like Golden Age stuff.
EDIT: WAIT WRONG THREAD.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 10, 2020 7:49:24 GMT -5
I liked the Cat (now Tigra) more than Hellcat. I associate Patsy more with her Archie-like Golden Age stuff. EDIT: WAIT WRONG THREAD. Actually it would be the correct thread! Would love to hear more of why you think Greer's Cat is better than Hellcat, especially as Patsy has been around longer in the costume and really made it her own IMO. I much prefer Greer once she transformed into Tigra. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 10, 2020 9:35:54 GMT -5
I liked the Cat (now Tigra) more than Hellcat. I associate Patsy more with her Archie-like Golden Age stuff. EDIT: WAIT WRONG THREAD. Actually it would be the correct thread! Would love to hear more of why you think Greer's Cat is better than Hellcat, especially as Patsy has been around longer in the costume and really made it her own IMO. I much prefer Greer once she transformed into Tigra. Yeah, personally I much preferred the Patsy Hellcat. I thought she was a fun character, plus some of the earliest Avengers issues I acquired had her in them. I didn't know about her Archie-like stuff until many years later. I don't have much familiarity with Greer as the Cat - I've read maybe two comics with her as the Cat. I do know that I didn't like her as Tigra, though. |
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Feb 10, 2020 12:25:17 GMT -5
I liked the Cat (now Tigra) more than Hellcat. I associate Patsy more with her Archie-like Golden Age stuff. EDIT: WAIT WRONG THREAD. Actually it would be the correct thread! Would love to hear more of why you think Greer's Cat is better than Hellcat, especially as Patsy has been around longer in the costume and really made it her own IMO. I much prefer Greer once she transformed into Tigra. I’m pretty neutral with both Hellcat and Tigra. Sure, Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat! exists, but I stopped watching it after it tied-in with Civil/Secret War 2 (can’t remember which). Tigra is... boring for me, and I’m more familiar with the original Cat because of the Spider-Man crossovers in Marvel Team-Up and Spidey Super Stories. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Feb 10, 2020 12:49:52 GMT -5
Yeah, personally I much preferred the Patsy Hellcat. I thought she was a fun character, plus some of the earliest Avengers issues I acquired had her in them. I didn't know about her Archie-like stuff until many years later. I don't have much familiarity with Greer as the Cat - I've read maybe two comics with her as the Cat. I do know that I didn't like her as Tigra, though. I like Tigra more than Hellcat (maybe latent furry or something, hush now), but Hellcat more than the Cat (who was sort of generic). |
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Post by berkley on Feb 10, 2020 22:40:24 GMT -5
Almost all of the replacements discussed in this thread happened after I stopped buying mainstream comics. Of those that did pop up, I really dug Scott Lang as Ant-Man but didn't care for Rhodey as Iron Man and I hated Jason Todd as the new Robin (mostly because I hate Robin at the conceptual level regardless of who bears the name). When I briefly returned to buying new comics in the '90s, I was dismayed by all the substitutes. I prefer the original (i.e., Silver Age) versions of the Marvel and DC characters. Cei-U! I summon the bargain basement knock-offs! Yeah, I've tried to think of some examples of replacements that I've read but nothing comes to mind, regardless of whether I liked them or not. I read mostly Marvel - maybe they didn't do this as much as DC back then? I know there have been lots since I stopped reading - Thor, Captain America ... almost all of them, it seems. I keep thinking there must be some I've forgotten about that happened back in my time but still drawing a blank. But generally, I don't think much of the idea: if you find the original so boring, why not just chuck it altogether and come up with a character you find more interesting? Just replacing the alter ego but keeping the nickname, costume, etc seems like a half measure. Of course I understand the business reasons behind it, but I'm just talking from the creative POV. |
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