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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 10, 2024 19:09:21 GMT -5
I’m not sure what you being married has to do with a bad plot. As for ID crisis, it was a riveting story that showed real life consequences to the business the DC heroes are in. As a reader far less familiar with DC than with Marvel, I did find the story riveting and emotionally wrenching. The Dibnys came across as a wonderful couple, and I really felt Sue's loss. Since it's not an "imaginary story", however, I do understand how Identity Crisis would prove to be very hard to manage within the DC continuity. It's like a Pandora's box that should not have been opened, like an in-continuity story in which Batman punches a small-time thief and leaves him severely brain damaged, or in which Superman flies in to save a cat from a tree but frightens an old lady into a terminal heart attack. We don't want to overthink the consequences of fantasy shenanigans in the real world; it would kill the fun of seeing colourful characters punching each other while trading quips! Alan Moore said " aren't they all ? " |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 10, 2024 19:17:46 GMT -5
As a reader far less familiar with DC than with Marvel, I did find the story riveting and emotionally wrenching. The Dibnys came across as a wonderful couple, and I really felt Sue's loss. Since it's not an "imaginary story", however, I do understand how Identity Crisis would prove to be very hard to manage within the DC continuity. It's like a Pandora's box that should not have been opened, like an in-continuity story in which Batman punches a small-time thief and leaves him severely brain damaged, or in which Superman flies in to save a cat from a tree but frightens an old lady into a terminal heart attack. We don't want to overthink the consequences of fantasy shenanigans in the real world; it would kill the fun of seeing colourful characters punching each other while trading quips! Alan Moore said " aren't they all ? " I love that quote because it's both correct and clever, but in practical terms it's a bit like saying "we're all headed towards the heat death of the universe, so nothing matters anyway". We are all well placed to know that some people do care about how to fit certain comic-book stories with others, and that some of them are "more imaginary" than others!  Or, to paraphrase I don't know who, "of all the stories that never happened, some never happened the most!" |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 10, 2024 19:30:01 GMT -5
It's an interesting subject about what is canon and what is not. To me, Bucky died in the ending days of WW2. I don't care what the 50 year later reboot said.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 11, 2024 4:19:27 GMT -5
It's an interesting subject about what is canon and what is not. To me, Bucky died in the ending days of WW2. I don't care what the 50 year later reboot said. Conan was never an Avenger in my book. The character readers saw a few years ago came from some alternate universe. (It even works out logically, because Jason Aaron's rebooted Conan series did not agree with the previous Marvel Conan canon). Must have been set on Earth-27111907, by Crom! |
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