psychop_rex (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} psychop_rex) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} scans_daily, |
I think he definitely did - I've only read the first two volumes of Promethea, so I can't be sure how far the similarities go, but the bit where she's touring the Immateria and being introduced to the various levels of existence sounds strikingly similar to this.
And I don't think he would have used these ideas on Wonder Woman - the Glory proposal is all about restructuring the basic WW mythos so that you'd have something quite different, yet similar in basic theme. If he'd written Wonder Woman, I think he probably would have been very respectful to her already existing backstory - he clearly has a respect for the character - but thrown in some twists of his own that NOBODY ELSE could have thought of.
Man, I wish he hadn't left DC so early in his career. Look what he did with Swamp Thing - he took a grade-Z character, a holdover from '50's B-movies, and turned him into a grade-A. Imagine what would happened if he'd gotten his hands on a character who was already a grade-A. He wrote two single-issue stories with Superman ('Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow' not included in this context), and they were two of the best Supes stories I've ever read. He wrote one slim graphic novel with Batman, and we're still feeling the repercussions all these years later. Imagine what it would have been like if he'd had a nice long run on either of those books. Imagine. Just imagine. Just... imagine.
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Does anyone else have a blissed-out grin on their face right now, or is it just me?