Hour-Man Minute by Minute, Month by Month, Year by Year
Sept 1, 2022 12:12:53 GMT -5
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 1, 2022 12:12:53 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this thread, M.W. right up to the end. I have to say, if you're "not really confident" in your writing skills, I have to wonder who is. Immensely enjoyable and you kept me hooked even when the Man of the Hour did not.
There is something I want to interject which I suspect you'll find interesting. Big Bang Comics has been publishing "new" Golden/Silver/Bronze/Modern Age comics on and off for nearly 30 years right now with results which often would look like the real thing if the sources of their inspirations weren't so obvious. Too clever and earnest to be a rip-off, I regard what they do as an homage, though I would never pretend that their "Knight Watchman and Kid Galahad", "Utliman", "Blitz", and so forth aren't take off's on Batman, Superman, and The Flash.
As it relates to this thread...
So devoted to the idea that the Golden/Silver/Bronze Age comics they created in the 1990s should look like the real thing, Big Bang even created a detailed history of their company, their editors, writers, artists, and titles to enhance the sense that these characters existed if not in our world, then one very similar to it. To that end, their homage to Jim Steranko's two volume History of Comics set included some details on superheroes created especially for their equivalent two issues in Big Bang Comics #27.
One of whom is Vita-Man...
So an Hour-Man take-off, obviously. Given all of your speculations regarding why certain things changed about the strip, here's a sort of 'What If' in that it presents how Hour-Man could have turned out.
I like the idea of an Hour-Man who has a different Miraclo pill for every ability - one for speed, another for strength, another for stamina, and so forth - but due to dangers of the pills when more than two are taken at once, has to guess which enhanced abilities will serve him best before he even fully understands the intricacies of the case he's jumping into.
Though the above write-up served as Vita-Man's comic book debut, Big Bang did eventually get around to giving us a solo tale of his in World Class Comics #1.
There is something I want to interject which I suspect you'll find interesting. Big Bang Comics has been publishing "new" Golden/Silver/Bronze/Modern Age comics on and off for nearly 30 years right now with results which often would look like the real thing if the sources of their inspirations weren't so obvious. Too clever and earnest to be a rip-off, I regard what they do as an homage, though I would never pretend that their "Knight Watchman and Kid Galahad", "Utliman", "Blitz", and so forth aren't take off's on Batman, Superman, and The Flash.
As it relates to this thread...
So devoted to the idea that the Golden/Silver/Bronze Age comics they created in the 1990s should look like the real thing, Big Bang even created a detailed history of their company, their editors, writers, artists, and titles to enhance the sense that these characters existed if not in our world, then one very similar to it. To that end, their homage to Jim Steranko's two volume History of Comics set included some details on superheroes created especially for their equivalent two issues in Big Bang Comics #27.
One of whom is Vita-Man...
So an Hour-Man take-off, obviously. Given all of your speculations regarding why certain things changed about the strip, here's a sort of 'What If' in that it presents how Hour-Man could have turned out.
I like the idea of an Hour-Man who has a different Miraclo pill for every ability - one for speed, another for strength, another for stamina, and so forth - but due to dangers of the pills when more than two are taken at once, has to guess which enhanced abilities will serve him best before he even fully understands the intricacies of the case he's jumping into.
Though the above write-up served as Vita-Man's comic book debut, Big Bang did eventually get around to giving us a solo tale of his in World Class Comics #1.
