Well its not like Young Guardians were good guys either, they wanted to replace Hal after all. Which happened anyway, so maybe they were right?
Well its not like Young Guardians were good guys either, they wanted to replace Hal after all. Which happened anyway, so maybe they were right?
Last edited by Bored at 3:00AM; 12-03-2021 at 02:17 AM.
Not really sure how the Guardians going “nah ignore that request for aid from Superman” would be much better. If they’re turning a blind eye to suffering than what good are they? You’d also have the GLs looking like major assholes for not going “lmao screw that” and going to help Superman anyway.
Personally I’m digging the role interstellar politics is playing in all this.
For when my rants on the forums just aren’t enough: https://thevindicativevordan.tumblr.com/
Since both the Guardians and the GLCorps are out of commission for the moment thanks to the events in that series, it's all kind of a moot point, isn't it? I'm not saying I would have necessarily preferred the Guardians leaving Superman to rot on Warworld, I'm just saying that replacing the old morally compromised Guardians with the new morally compromised United Planets hasn't really changed anything. They just swapped one set of dodgy space bureaucrats out for another.
Again, I understand that it's much easier to tell sci-fi stories that resonate with our real world by simply making them exactly like us, but with different colored skin and lots of extra appendages and space stuff. I just wish they'd not gone right back to the exact same well again after just establishing the United Planets, I mean, we couldn't have shown them as a force for good in the universe for a few years before the inevitable and oh-so-predictable reveal that they're no different from nearly every other organization in adventure fiction?
I get it though. As far as plot mechanics go, this was a perfectly adequate way to explain why Superman's being stranded on Warworld with no help coming. I just wish they'd been a little more imaginative about it than the old chestnut of politicians are dirtbags. Which, don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with, but I get more than enough of that in the real world.
Wow, this issue was incredible. It truly feels like the Warworld Saga will be a memorable Superman epic.
Ps: I don't think any of the Authority members are truly dead, at least I hope not.
"Mongul MDCCXCII of Warwold," (as noted in the UP session). Very Medieval. So much so, I had a flashback to the Medieval Europe courses I took in undergrad, heh
“Look, you can’t put the Superman #77s with the #200s. They haven’t even discovered Red Kryptonite yet. And you can’t put the #98s with the #300s, Lori Lemaris hasn’t even been introduced.” — Sam
“Where the hell are you from? Krypton?” — Edgar Frog
For when my rants on the forums just aren’t enough: https://thevindicativevordan.tumblr.com/
For when my rants on the forums just aren’t enough: https://thevindicativevordan.tumblr.com/
Might just be Johnson giving room to expand on the history of the "Mongul" title lineage and picked the biggest number that came to mind first.
Similar to how "Caesar" started as a name that turned into a title with Roman Emperors and other nations like Kaiser for Germans/HRE and Tsar/Czar for Russians.
For when my rants on the forums just aren’t enough: https://thevindicativevordan.tumblr.com/
That's possible. PKJ seems to write with intent, but I'll also add that I think he's trying to show that they're old-- older than possibly than Earth civilization, and that it's a long dynasty Clark can't topple-- that it's endured this long makes it the longest chain of all, so to speak, so "He Who Holds All Chains" does so by virtue of also holding the longest.
Naturally, this will eventually be undone.
For when my rants on the forums just aren’t enough: https://thevindicativevordan.tumblr.com/