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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 21, 2024 20:01:00 GMT -5
I voted Smallville. Along with Superboy stories.
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 22, 2024 5:08:02 GMT -5
Great votes and comments, everyone. It’d be great to read a comment from the person who voted for Suicide Slum, that’s a good choice.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 22, 2024 7:27:46 GMT -5
I am by no means a Superman fan. But I would love to see an extrapolation on this .... one of the most enjoyable Superman comics I have ever read. I would even be happy with a continuing maxi-series or limited series. It was just too much greatness in a one-shot to just let go.  |
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Post by rberman on Mar 22, 2024 8:05:13 GMT -5
I saw and liked the first season of the recent "Superman and Lois" TV show. It put them in Smallville, raising two teen sons, one of whom was a jock and the other autistic and super-powered. Mark Waid's Legion Threeboot (2006-7) depicted Kandor as unbottled in the 31st century but still living in very close quarters, under a red sun. They were xenophobic as well.  I'd be interested in a steampunk series about the adventures of Al Luthor, science hero. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Mar 22, 2024 8:06:39 GMT -5
I think the most fertile ground for imaginative, sustainable series would be derived from Jack Kirby's contributions in the Jimmy Olsen comic: The DNA Project, The Wild Area/The Habitat, Project Cadmus, The Evil Factory...
But from the more traditional Superman Family canon, Lexor, the planet where Luthor is a revered hero, might be a cool setting to explore.
My affections for weird, isolated environments would make me vote for The Phantom Zone. Gerber's miniseries didn't exactly do the kind of thing I'd like to see there, but the premise was intriguing.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 22, 2024 10:44:30 GMT -5
Great votes and comments, everyone. It’d be great to read a comment from the person who voted for Suicide Slum, that’s a good choice. That was me. Ideally a Suicide Slum comic would be a Jack Kirby production, letting him tell stories like "Street Code". |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2024 10:47:43 GMT -5
Another setting that comes to mind for me is the underwater world of Lori Lemaris. I'm not sure where it would go, but I always liked Lori a lot and I love underwater settings.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 22, 2024 14:24:12 GMT -5
I voted "other", as I'd like a Krypto series.
He and Cosmo could form the World's Finest Good Boys.
Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? Yesssss! You're a good boy!
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Post by chaykinstevens on Mar 22, 2024 15:07:59 GMT -5
Jack Edison was the stuntman who built the Batmobiles. He was introduced in The Untold Legend of Batman #3 and, as far as I know, was never seen or mentioned again. Cei-U! I summon the misfire! Ha also appeared in Blue Devil #21, in which he created the Devilmobile. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 22, 2024 15:14:36 GMT -5
I voted other. Initially it had been because I have zero interest in any Superman spin-offs. But then, as I thought about it, I wouldn't have a problem with Ostrander and Mandrake or Ostrander and Truman...or just Truman re-visiting The Kents.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 22, 2024 15:15:03 GMT -5
I am by no means a Superman fan. But I would love to see an extrapolation on this .... one of the most enjoyable Superman comics I have ever read. I would even be happy with a continuing maxi-series or limited series. It was just too much greatness in a one-shot to just let go. Michael Lark's art is so incredible in that book. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 22, 2024 17:11:56 GMT -5
I picked other. The Superman comic or spin-off I want to see is Superman '41-a comic based on the aesthetic and style of the Fleischer Superman shorts, preferably with art by someone like Michael Cho or Ty Templeton who could capture the look and feel of those cartoons. Lark would work well too. Keep the stoties short like 8-12 pages, and tell multiple stories per issues.
Failing that, a Daily Bugle book following Lois, Clark, Jimmy and the staff doing stories about investigative journalism (with like Lou Grant kind of feel) where the reporters and the stories are the draw and no capes or costumes appeared, it could show up a lot of different aspects of Metropolis covered in some of the other options (a story on the PD, or the FD, corruption in gov't or Lexcorp, etc. etc. but without Superman swooping into save the day.
-M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 22, 2024 21:06:04 GMT -5
Not sure this is quite what you had in mind, but I'd like a Priest-era Natasha Irons books.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 23, 2024 10:20:03 GMT -5
Has it been explained why a space-faring species like the Kryptonians didn't have colonies on other worlds, or ambassadors, or merchants, or explorers who would all have escaped the destruction of their world? Was it a case of extreme xenophobia? Were Kryptonians, like ancient Egyptians, loathe to stay away from the Nile at the end of their life for religious reasons?
I'm not versed on Kryptonian lore, so maybe they weren't really space-farers... they might have had limited interstellar travel capabilities, despite their scientific advances at home. Able to visit other systems, but not in so easy a fashion that it would be a common thing.
I'd need an Encyclopedia Kryptonica!
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 23, 2024 12:14:02 GMT -5
Has it been explained why a space-faring species like the Kryptonians didn't have colonies on other worlds, or ambassadors, or merchants, or explorers who would all have escaped the destruction of their world? Was it a case of extreme xenophobia? Were Kryptonians, like ancient Egyptians, loathe to stay away from the Nile at the end of their life for religious reasons? I'm not versed on Kryptonian lore, so maybe they weren't really space-farers... they might have had limited interstellar travel capabilities, despite their scientific advances at home. Able to visit other systems, but not in so easy a fashion that it would be a common thing. I'd need an Encyclopedia Kryptonica! It’s an intriguing question, and one a mini-series could explore. |
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