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Tweak says, "I'm a figment of imagination"

queenursula (queenursula) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-08 08:36:00

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creator: mark waid, title: irredeemable

Irredeemable #2
Following up from the last post...

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	irenem 2009-05-08 10:27 am UTC (link)
	That is... distressing... but intriguing. I like the mildly-deconstructionist Superman-types--is this new? I haven't seen it before. Now I feel like I should post some scans from The Mighty. (Reply to this) (Thread)

starwolf_oakley
2009-05-08 10:39 am UTC (link)

It's a new character. It is deconstructionist, but Mark Waid says the concept is a superhero becoming a super-villain and why. (Presumably for better reasons than "Lazarus Pit crazy juice.")

Grant Morrison wrote an "afterwords" to the first issue. From that, iseems like the story will be "What if a superhero could hear all the crap people say about him on scans_daily?"

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	irenem 2009-05-08 10:42 am UTC (link)
	I have a feeling they would cry. In other news, I' starting a band called "Lazarus Pit Crazy Juice." We play electro-billy tweecore. (Reply to this) (Parent)

thokstar
2009-05-08 11:28 am UTC (link)

Grant Morrison wrote an "afterwords" to the first issue. From that, iseems like the story will be "What if a superhero could hear all the crap people say about him on scans_daily and had the maturity of a 12 year old?"

Fixed that for you. The real Superman would merely be disappointed with how fake Lois and friends acted, leave, and try to build a new life elsewhere. He wouldn't guilt trip them to death.

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	xdoop 2009-05-08 01:19 pm UTC (link)
	And the Silver Age Superman would teach them all a lesson by ruining their lives. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thokstar 2009-05-08 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	But in the end the status quo would return since the "Superman" would be "revealed" to be a broken robot who "kidnapped" "Clark Kent". Or an alien double. Or insert gimmick here that doesn't require the Superman stand-in to be a complete idiot. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-05-08 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	Not necessarily; sometimes the explanation was just that he was trying to teach them a lesson. Usually it was a psychological mindgame with Lois whenever she tried discovering his identity or did something else he didn't approve of. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-05-08 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	Very true. Even Gail Simone took aim at those, in one of her "You'll All Be Sorry!" columns. As a little boy, it confused me and creeped me out, A LOT, especially when Superman would grin and wink at the reader after he'd basically MIND-FUCKED Lois, as though we readers were supposed to be saying, "Yeah, you SHOW her, Supes! BACK TO THE KITCHEN, BITCH!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	box_in_the_box 2009-05-08 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	One of the many reasons why I disliked the Silver Age Superman so much that my antipathy toward him caused me to quit ALL comics as a kid, and (aside from TMNT) not return to comics until COLLEGE. Even as an 8-year-old boy, all I could think was, "Wow, this guy is an ASSHOLE." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aulayan 2009-05-08 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	Given the amount of adult men I meet who have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old... Superman-esque character having it? About a 70% chance. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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