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Newsarama saysMORRISON & QUITELY ON SUPERMAN IN 2005?
To which I reply "oh please lord yes." After the completely failed 2004 Superman relaunch they certainly need a 2005 edition. And lordy my, this would be a good start. The only downside: Lois will be incredibly ugly.
Also, uhh, please do that thing where Supes makes a deal with the Dev- err, Mr. Mxyzptlk and ends up unmarried from Lois. Thanks.
To which I reply "oh please lord yes." After the completely failed 2004 Superman relaunch they certainly need a 2005 edition. And lordy my, this would be a good start. The only downside: Lois will be incredibly ugly.
Also, uhh, please do that thing where Supes makes a deal with the Dev- err, Mr. Mxyzptlk and ends up unmarried from Lois. Thanks.
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Has is it *really* failed? They got just what they wanted from Jim Lee -- one year of strong sales for Superman. And I believe that both Adventures and Action chart about 3-5 places higher than they did before.
The failure was in Marvel-izing Superman so that all three books are set in a sort of extra-continuity that makes them impossible to reconcile to the happenings in the JLA, JSA, IC, Titans, and any other team/event book.
I'd say the failure was in the books not being very good. "Superman" sells well, but Jim Lee could be drawing Captain Carrot and it would hit the top 10. Azzarrello's storyline is, by pretty much all accounts, near incomprehensible. I gave up after the first two issues. Austen is Austen, though his Supes is better than his X-Men. And I haven't read Rucka's stuff, but I imagine that, much like everything he writes, it isn't really pleasing the hardcore superhero fans.
As Morrison himself says, there's really no excuse for Superman not being #1 by a mile every month.
I wonder if people buy Superman/Batman because it's Superman, Batman, or both?
Although I consider S/B to be a largely crap book, it is -- and don't kill me -- a fun book. I can see my 13-year-old self really digging it. After all, it tells the type of super-plotted Superman stories that our Dads read in the 50s/60s. I'm talking about Krypto. Batman-team ups. Rainbow kryptonite. Supergirl. The Phantom Zone. Time traveling. Lex Luthor. Cartoony artwork. Basic moral dichtomies (Superman=Light; Batman=Dark).
It's really a very "Super" book, even though Batman's presence is probably what's driving sales. So, yeah. I wonder if there is something to be said for the fact that Loeb's (crappy) Silver Age-style stories are the only Superman stories that really sell. I mean, S/B's been flying off shelves for a year-and-a-half now. Is it Rucka, Azzerello, and Austen that are approaching Superman all wrong? Maybe I'm about ready to make peace with Loeb?
Naaaahhhhhh.
I would argue that Loeb is telling the right kind of stories but telling them all wrong. Morrison is pretty much a genius at taking silver age nonsense and keeping the madcap zaniness while also making it a bit smarter and modern. His JLA is completely nutso, but it's also really good. His X-Men features Professor X's evil twin sister for god's sake. But he does it so well.
Agreed. I have complete faith in Morrison being able to write the sort of neo-Silver Age stories that Loeb only wishes he coupld pull off.
I agree about Loeb. Right idea, bad execution. I mean, "Hush" was the number 1 book forever and ever, and man o man is it bad. But it pulls in the boys who want big men hittin' each other.
Rucka's Superman is extremely pleasant, but hardly sets the world on fire. He seems mostly concerned with Mr. Mxyzptlk, of all people. So it's mostly fun. But yeah, what the hell is going on in Azzarello's run? I can't tell you.
Anyway, I hope this is true. Between this and Seven Soldiers, 2005 seems rich with Morrison goodness.
-Jeff
A year ago there were also rumblings about Morrison wanting to do a Captain Marvel Jr. comic. That would have just been incredibly trippy.
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