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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2020 14:39:55 GMT -5
Ron Marz wrote Kyle so well that in a short time I liked him. I would have totally accepted him IF Hal didn't have to go crazy and become a villain. Hal's death at the end of Final Night would have been acceptable. As far as the rest of the GL Corps? Have them cut off from Earth for some reason for an extended period of time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2020 15:03:56 GMT -5
I think I started reading the Marz Kyle Green Lantern with something like #70, so I got to like Kyle before I ever read Emerald Twilight and really most Hal comics.
And it held true for The Wally Flash and Connor Hawke Green Arrow.
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Post by berkley on Jul 20, 2020 15:17:45 GMT -5
 Was this good or even necessary? Eh, it was different (and yes, still have majority of this run)  Marvel should have countered by making Deathlok a western gun-slinger! |
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 21, 2020 2:04:17 GMT -5
Most fans want the illusion of change not actual change. Myself, I want organic change. If it feels forced/rushed/unnatural, I'm gonna have a very hard time warming up to it. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 21, 2020 9:15:08 GMT -5
I don't know if this is a bold new direction or not, but Micronauts was just a good ol' straight up action/sci-fi-superhero comic with the Micronauts trying to overthrow the evil Baron Zemo, who had taken over the Microverse. It was basically just the Micronauts vs. Baron Zemo and his cronies. However, the Micronauts eventually triumphed (natch) and the series ended, and was re-launched with a new #1. The new series was much less action-oriented, and more cerebral and, perhaps, thought provoking. It was rather different than the first series, though with the same main characters, and I rather enjoyed it for what it was. Baron Karza. Zemo is a Captain America/Avengers villain.
Cei-U! I summon the name tags!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 9:20:14 GMT -5
A bold, new direction (which I feel unsure about today) is the debut of Serpentor in the G.I. JOE universe, taking them from a semi-realistic military universe to something that embraced more fantastical elements. But that’s another topic I plan to do one day (covering such questions).
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 21, 2020 9:48:40 GMT -5
When John Byrne started a Namor Submariner book, he changed him into a tycoon that owned a corporation and " cured" his personality by claiming that all his anger was a reaction to the high oxygen content of being above ground. It wasn't a bad run, actually.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 9:50:46 GMT -5
I do like Byrne’s Namor run. I thought it was interesting to see Namor take his battle above ground via the corporate world.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 10:30:25 GMT -5
Byrne's Namor series was one the best takes on Namor that I wish had continued to be the modern version of Namor.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 10:35:18 GMT -5
I don’t know if it can be counted as a bold, new direction, but I like how Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (five seasons) had Hercules leave Ancient Greece - and start meeting the likes of Norse and Irish gods. He went to Ireland. The show did reinvent itself, which is always good.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 21, 2020 11:09:52 GMT -5
From personal experience with the Batgirl equivalent, you can try telling a 5 year old to pick the more comics accurate version, but it seldom works. I used to color almost everything purple in coloring books... my favorite crayon. Purple horses and cats and houses... I think I was told it was very very wrong too but I didn't care then.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 21, 2020 11:15:47 GMT -5
I have only the last issue of Hex... the letters page was full of angry letters, but not for the basic premise of Jonah hex in the future, they just didn't like Keith Giffen's Munoz/Toth minimalist art on it.
The Wonder Woman by Byrne where Hippolyta is now WW and Diana is in Olympus was bold and I like it, but I guess it was meant to be temporary. The new Mister Terrific is... terrific, but I never really dug the original guy because of the costume (although he was well written in the Strazewski Justice Society comics).
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 21, 2020 14:21:03 GMT -5
I don't know if this is a bold new direction or not, but Micronauts was just a good ol' straight up action/sci-fi-superhero comic with the Micronauts trying to overthrow the evil Baron Zemo, who had taken over the Microverse. It was basically just the Micronauts vs. Baron Zemo and his cronies. However, the Micronauts eventually triumphed (natch) and the series ended, and was re-launched with a new #1. The new series was much less action-oriented, and more cerebral and, perhaps, thought provoking. It was rather different than the first series, though with the same main characters, and I rather enjoyed it for what it was. Baron Karza. Zemo is a Captain America/Avengers villain.
Cei-U! I summon the name tags!
Oh man, how embarrassing! And Micronauts is one of my all-time favorite comics!  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 21, 2020 14:23:27 GMT -5
From personal experience with the Batgirl equivalent, you can try telling a 5 year old to pick the more comics accurate version, but it seldom works. I used to color almost everything purple in coloring books... my favorite crayon. Purple horses and cats and houses... I think I was told it was very very wrong too but I didn't care then. So you must love the Yvonne Craig Batgirl outfit! Actually, it's one of my all-time faves.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 21, 2020 14:26:24 GMT -5
I like what was in it.  |
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