Kinda where I'm at, although a bit more optimistic.
This does feel a bit like the whole John Byrne thing again. The parallels are hard to ignore. Hot shot Marvel creator crossing companies to oversee the relaunch of Supes, first in a 6 issue miniseries called Man of Steel, then a relaunch of Superman and Action Comics. The differences here are that this doesn't appear to be a drastic reboot to the continuity this time, and unlike Byrne, who was still on a winning streak when he crossed over, Bendis has been a mixed bag of late. This is more like if Spider-Man Chapter One era Byrne had come over rather than Fantastic Four Byrne.
That being said, this could be the kick in the ass Bendis needs to get his groove back.
We shail see.
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An interesting thing Bendis mentions when discussing his AC1K story and Man of Steel is a "new status quo." He also says later in the article that he will be following the previous runs on AC and Superman and that this isn't a reboot of the character. The only thing I can see is that whatever's going to happen in AC1K will involve undoing more of Manhattan's tampering. For all we know, that's how the iconic suit comes back (despite those hideous and unnecessary bracelets) and perhaps this also means the Kents return or live longer so as to meet their grandson, participate in the Death and Return of Superman, and witness Lois and Clark's wedding.
Spurious versions, fundamentally wrongheaded premises, can, and often do, prevail from time to time, but eventually the character, Superman himself, Tulpa Superman, will–somehow, somehow–resist and reverse that meddling, reconstituting himself in the world as he means to be. ~Alvin Schwartz (paraphrased by Tom deHaven)
Yeah, pretty much.
SO is so terrible there should be warnings on the cover. But when you get past all the crap, what you have left is a check list with all the major moments in Clark's young life, including a few pre-Crisis gems that never should have been done away with in the first place. So to that end, it works because it leaves so much open space for other writers to build on. Like the best fertilizer, SO is made out of complete s**t but beautiful things can grow from it.
But is this really the right time? Doomsday Clock might end up changing things (at least the death of the Kents, grrrr) when it finishes. Conner Kent is still purposefully left out of the origin Death-Return sequence, despite future-Tim remembering him. We JUST finished that terrible Oz BS with Jor-El. And of course, we have that Superman Year One on the way from Millar or whoever.
The current origin could stand to be fleshed out some, absolutely. But is it going to be a story that is rendered moot by Johns and his Manhattan story before the ink is even dry? And why run this when Year One is on the way? We really do not need two origins in the same year. Not to mention all the focus that's been on the origin lately, between Reborn and Oz.
F**k, I wish DC would get over their origin obsession and just tell quality stories. We dont need a new villain suddenly and mysteriously tied to Krypton. We don't need to find out that there's some horrible dark secret in Clark's past that'll suddenly come back to bite him out of the blue. We just need good stories.
EDIT: And we can't actually rule out the idea of this being a reboot of some kind either. Remember how DC said the New52 wasn't a reboot? Then they said Rebirth wasn't a reboot? In both cases they lied. Sure, Rebirth isn't a reboot in the same way we're used to, but Superman's history was completely changed. So was Wonder Woman's. Whether they needed new origins or not is a matter of personal taste, but the fact remains that DC swore to us up and down that they weren't rebooting, and then did.
I wouldnt put it past them to go for the hat trick. And if Bendis isn't completely re-telling the origin, what the hell is he going to fill six issues with?
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When it comes to comics,one person's "fan-service" is another persons personal cannon. So by definition it's ALL fan service. Aren't we ALL fans?
SUPERMAN is the greatest fictional character ever created.
When hes firing on all cylinders, and not relying on lazy long winded pages of "snappy dialogue", he can produce some great work. But his strength is street level books, so I'm definitely hesitant here
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I'd trust you on that, I don't read the book so I'm not in the know.
Possible that this MOS mini IS the post-Doomsday Clock origin. And we just won't know it right away because of that story's ridiculous delays.Yeah, pretty much.
SO is so terrible there should be warnings on the cover. But when you get past all the crap, what you have left is a check list with all the major moments in Clark's young life, including a few pre-Crisis gems that never should have been done away with in the first place. So to that end, it works because it leaves so much open space for other writers to build on. Like the best fertilizer, SO is made out of complete s**t but beautiful things can grow from it.
But is this really the right time? Doomsday Clock might end up changing things (at least the death of the Kents, grrrr) when it finishes. Conner Kent is still purposefully left out of the origin Death-Return sequence, despite future-Tim remembering him. We JUST finished that terrible Oz BS with Jor-El. And of course, we have that Superman Year One on the way from Millar or whoever.
The current origin could stand to be fleshed out some, absolutely. But is it going to be a story that is rendered moot by Johns and his Manhattan story before the ink is even dry? And why run this when Year One is on the way? We really do not need two origins in the same year. Not to mention all the focus that's been on the origin lately, between Reborn and Oz.
F**k, I wish DC would get over their origin obsession and just tell quality stories. We dont need a new villain suddenly and mysteriously tied to Krypton. We don't need to find out that there's some horrible dark secret in Clark's past that'll suddenly come back to bite him out of the blue. We just need good stories.
And yeah, I'm not really feeling the new Krypton villain. Reminds me a lot of Snyder's Wraith.
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I'm hoping that if indeed MOS 2.0 is a partial origin retelling, that it only crystalizes the beats of the Post Reborn issues of ACTION and doesn't retell it over again drastically. I'm kinda just hoping it's just a nice primer for new readers filling in the essentials without erasing or retconning anything. If Bendis can do that, then I'm on board.
When it comes to comics,one person's "fan-service" is another persons personal cannon. So by definition it's ALL fan service. Aren't we ALL fans?
SUPERMAN is the greatest fictional character ever created.
I really, really hope you're right.
If that's what it is, great. We could use a little more clarity in the post-Reborn origin. But I have my doubts. DC has developed a habit of taking Superman and building him up until he's actually functioning, and then they tear it apart for a while with utter garbage. Then they repeat the process.
Its been a couple years of relative quality and world building. Granted, they've butchered stuff along the way and Reborn itself wasn't that long ago.....but I worry that DC feels its time to ruin Superman again.
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~ Black Panther.
Wow. How freaking stupid. I was loving Superman, with Tomasi's writing. Why give him basically control of everything Superman? Why not just Action? I'm ticked.
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