Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

[Bored at 3:00AM]

This is a surprisingly good documentary with a great collection of comics experts going through DC's history, warts and all. I am only 20 minutes in, but it's been great so far.

Once I saw who one of the talking heads was, I realised why I hadn't heard of this documentary before now. I can't imagine DC wants to draw any attention to this guy, even though he's clearly an expert on the history he's going over.

[Lightning Rider]

Nice, I'll have to check this out.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

Nice, I'll have to check this out.

It's mostly a corporate puff piece that completely omits screwing over Seigel & Shuster or suing Fawcett into bankrupcy, but there's enough interesting tidbits in there during the talking heads segments from Waid, Levitz, Adams, O'Neil, Wein, Wolfman, McDuffie, Gaiman, Berger, Miller, and Moore that I hadn't heard before.

And, of course, he who shall not be named.

[batnbreakfast]

How can comicbooks be a white male power fantasy when they were created by immigrants and social misfits? Kinda funny that superheroes kinda "died" after world war II but survived through Television

[lemonpeace]

How can comicbooks be a white male power fantasy when they were created by immigrants and social misfits? Kinda funny that superheroes kinda "died" after world war II but survived through Television

maybe because the immigrants and misfits in question were still white men...

[Johnny]

And those white men created 99% of the popular characters of color that we have today. In perspective maybe they did something for someone other than just themselves.

[batnbreakfast]

maybe because the immigrants and misfits in question were still white men...

Wish it were otherwise but its not. When it comes to superheroes what gets me excited are the characters I read as a kid (big on nostalgia) and I think the only black character from back then I remember is Falcon because he was Cap's partner. I can only hope a lot of black kids out there have a black or white hero or heroine to fall in love with (as a reader) and manage to keep the fire burning when they're all grown up

[Vakanai]

Once I saw who one of the talking heads was, I realised why I hadn't heard of this documentary before now. I can't imagine DC wants to draw any attention to this guy, even though he's clearly an expert on the history he's going over.

And, of course, he who shall not be named.

Who are you guys talking about?

[Bored at 3:00AM]

Who are you guys talking about?

Gérard Jones