How should Chris Kent die?

[Kitsune]

And spontaneously changes genders.

Red Kryptonite will do that.

 

[Whirlysplat]

any story told in like a silver age story TODAY is going to come across piss poor.

You say this, I remain unconvinced. I still often read old silver age stories from DC, Marvel and others and find in them much superior to many comics today.

 

[Aristotle]

I read Silver Age DC and find that about 75% of it holds up, often more as sci-fi than as superhero fiction, while the rest is abominable (King Batman The First? Really?). Rarely is it superior until it becomes Bronze Age, at which point it becomes perhaps the finest era of superhero comics anywhere at any company, perfectly balancing a shared universe with individualized storytelling and meaningful writing and art that is rock-solid without being flashy and invasive. The only Silver Age Marvel worth reading was X-Men, and even that is extremely patchy. Other than the Big Two, the Silver Age superhero stories I've had the displeasure of reading are hilariously ****ty.

 

[Aristotle]

I didn't read many DC comics from that time, to be honest. I was really digging the stuff from right around the launch of Morrison's JLA straight through to the beginning of Infinite Crisis, myself. After IC, I haven't been enjoying much. It's slowly getting better, though.

If there is any time, at any company, that rivals the DC Bronze Age, it's DC 1994-2006. Without a doubt.

That's why Hypertime would have been great, we could have had it all! I could have had the great darkness saga back. You could have kept the good stories you mention.

They didn't destroy hypertime. It's a concept of temporal science. It exists in the real world, and in the fictional world, whether Dan DiDio wants it to or not.

and lets face it, any story told in like a silver age story TODAY is going to come across piss poor.

Ah yes, I'm told All-Star Superman is simply abominable, with sales to match.

no you wouldnt. have you read All Star Supes yet? its freaking brilliant.

Yeah, but it's Silver Age, so you're duty-bound to hate it.

 

[Whirlysplat]

I read Silver Age DC and find that about 75% of it holds up, often more as sci-fi than as superhero fiction, while the rest is abominable (King Batman The First? Really?). Rarely is it superior until it becomes Bronze Age, at which point it becomes perhaps the finest era of superhero comics anywhere at any company, perfectly balancing a shared universe with individualized storytelling and meaningful writing and art that is rock-solid without being flashy and invasive. The only Silver Age Marvel worth reading was X-Men, and even that is extremely patchy. Other than the Big Two, the Silver Age superhero stories I've had the displeasure of reading are hilariously ****ty.

You should try Silver age gold key. I agree Bronze age stuff is generally the best. I think you sell Silver Age Marvel short, a lot of silver age FF was brilliant for instance.

 

[Whirlysplat]

If there is any time, at any company, that rivals the DC Bronze Age, it's DC 1994-2006. Without a doubt.

They didn't destroy hypertime. It's a concept of temporal science. It exists in the real world, and in the fictional world, whether Dan DiDio wants it to or not.

Didn't see this part of the post..... Any real world hypertime is not the same as DC hypertime which does not breach the fourth wall for real, I think you are confusing hypertime with the many worlds theory. As for 1994-2006 being the best, sorry, I don't see it.

 

[sethcohen]

If there is any time, at any company, that rivals the DC Bronze Age, it's DC 1994-2006. Without a doubt.

They didn't destroy hypertime. It's a concept of temporal science. It exists in the real world, and in the fictional world, whether Dan DiDio wants it to or not.

Ah yes, I'm told All-Star Superman is simply abominable, with sales to match.

Yeah, but it's Silver Age, so you're duty-bound to hate it.

ok apparently im being misunderstood here... im refering to the style of story telling... the over expositional gee golly style... read a story like that, written today and tell me you wouldnt cringe. you accept it in the silver age because its the way it was done then. thats why a GOOD silver age story holds up, because the reader is willing to look past the storytelling flaws at the actual story. i like a lot of the crazy ideas, but youre about right, theres stories that hold up and theres stories that dont... theres stories that you love for what they were but try and tell some of those stories today. they dont translate. im against the silver age injection because most writers dont know how to handle it. lets take busiek's latest superman arc which i brought up. the story idea itself wasnt terrible, it was told in the wrong way. if say grant morrison had come up with the same story and told it the way he writes for all star supes, it would have held up better. busiek told it straight forward and serious. morrison tells his stories in all star a bit tongue in cheek... its all in good fun and were in on it. morrisons way is a bit more fun and makes the over the top chaos easily acceptable... tell some of those stories using the story telling style busiek just employed in his latest arc and theyll fall flat.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

You should try Silver age gold key. I agree Bronze age stuff is generally the best. I think you sell Silver Age Marvel short, a lot of silver age FF was brilliant for instance.

Aristotle hates the Fantastic Four on the basis that Stan Lee was a hack.

 

[Whirlysplat]

Aristotle hates the Fantastic Four on the basis that Stan Lee was a hack.

.............hmmmm..................

 

[Super_Ludacris]

btw late 80's/early 90s DC had some decent stuff, what are y'all bugging about. Yeah there were a few gems in 94-06, but I saw them more in Batman Stories.

 

[Spike_x1]

The late 80's and early 90's are my favorite periods for Superman, actually. There was some fantastic character development for all of Clark and Superman's supporting cast (at the Daily Planet, at STAR Labs, etc), the villains developed and changed over the years, building grudges, accumulating logical new powers and reasons to hate Supermans (Metallo and the Parasite were both huge examples of these), whereas now their personal histories with their archenemy are tossed away, and the Superman rogues are just going through the motions of playing "King of the Mountain" in Metropolis.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

I liked the Legends of the Dark Knight run and Detective Comics from that era

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

i haven't read the arc, but i'm amazed we've a krypton kid that hasn't been shoved up to the Kansas farm

 

[Aristotle]

Didn't see this part of the post..... Any real world hypertime is not the same as DC hypertime which does not breach the fourth wall for real, I think you are confusing hypertime with the many worlds theory.

I was told that the theory of hypertime exists in the real world, and is of a similar nature to that in the DCU.

As for 1994-2006 being the best, sorry, I don't see it.

Morrison/Waid JLA. Aztek. Sandman. Hellblazer. Starman. Chronos. Hourman. Resurrection Man. The runup to Infinite Crisis. Cataclysm/No Man's Land. The heyday of Legends of the Dark Knight. Hush. Back when Gotham Knights was good. Shadow of the Bat. Some of the best Superman storytelling in years.

 

[Aristotle]

Aristotle hates the Fantastic Four on the basis that Stan Lee was a hack.

No, I think Stan Lee was a hack on the basis of hating the Fantastic Four.

You should try Silver age gold key. I agree Bronze age stuff is generally the best. I think you sell Silver Age Marvel short, a lot of silver age FF was brilliant for instance.

There's some Silver Age Gold Key I enjoy. I was disappointed to hear that Mystery Science Theater's partnership with Gold Key never came out. As for Silver Age Marvel, I really find it to be almost exclusively hackwork. Some decent Ditko writing and art, some phenomenal Kirby art, but by and large the writing was Lee dreck or Lee-esque dreck.