tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620698560611640068.post474032944550184251..comments2024-03-21T06:36:04.196-05:00Comments on The Idol-Head of Diabolu, a Martian Manhunter blog: JLA Classified #23 (Late July, 2006)Diabolu Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620698560611640068.post-29366177657707187462007-12-12T21:17:00.000-06:002007-12-12T21:17:00.000-06:00Well, I'd actually think that if you're going to l...Well, I'd actually think that if you're going to let things get to the point of having two Wildcats on a team, you're either--<BR/>a) overly fixated on making Wildcat a great legacy brand like Green Lantern or Flash.<BR/>b) easing the transition into a new, modern Wildcat with full approval before finally wacking the original for good.<BR/><BR/>I absolutely loved John Henry Irons from go, but his book stank on ice for three years solid. I tried to read it when it was first published, got around to choking down most of it years down the line, and still shudder at the memory. Thank God Priest's run for the book's last year and a half was excellent, as was his usage in Morrison's JLA. Redemption!<BR/><BR/>As for the Gypst panty shot... well, either Ed Benes or Luke Ross got some mileage during the JLTF days, but it still doesn't sit well with me. Derenick wasn't so much sexing up Gypsy as doing Esmerelda from Hunchback of Notre Dame in a style "Jab" would be proud of...Diabolu Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620698560611640068.post-86957812806977114222007-12-12T18:02:00.000-06:002007-12-12T18:02:00.000-06:00I see your point about Vibe being Guy Gardner. "....I see your point about Vibe being Guy Gardner. "... a gang can always use numbers?" Yeesh! I think thats more how the general comic "populace" imagines Vibe to be moreso than your re-readings of the seires have actually portrayed him. I'll admit, that's what I figured he was like before reading your posts on the topic (coupled with some of Scipio's posts over at The Absorbascon).<BR/><BR/>Vixen's puns, though? Unforgiveable.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>I doubt that DC -- the company which currently has two guys named Wildcat on the same team -- will balk much at having Citizen Steel kicking around <B>JSoA</B> and Steel in <B>New Frontier</B>. But I agree with you -- The Indestructible Man predates the Man of Steel by almost 20 years, but to be completely fair, John Henry Irons has had a much more substantial heroic journey so far. The weird thing is that I really like him, as well -- he was my clear favorite of the Supermen, and his solo title was pretty good for a mid-90s DC (better than the vast majority of Marvel and Image output at the time if nothing else). <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, as you predicted a while back, Citizen Steel has not had much to do since his spotlight issue -- we saw him with his surviving cousins, nieces, and nephews a few issues back, cooking pancakes at the firehouse, and he was told by Power Girl not to enter a burning building because his metal-alloy costume would get so hot it would burn the survivors. But now the Kingdom Come Superman is there, so obviously he is the focus. Still, I'm digging him. <BR/><BR/>The fact that Gypsy has a panty shot tells me that this is not the Gypsy I know. Just... *sigh*Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352646370918575626noreply@blogger.com