Sunday, August 15, 2004
What is This Continuity You Speak Of?
(WARNING: This post consists entirely of the moanings of a comic book fan. For those of who you don't give two cents about comic books, go get a nice cup of coffee.)
I'm beginning to view John Byrne less as a comic book writer and more as an invading band of Visigoths with typewriters and story ideas. You see, instead of actually expanding on the ideas of his forebearers and building new things, he tears everything down just so he can put what he wants where he wants it.
For example: He starts writing Superman: Man of Steel, and instantly decrees that Clark Kent was never Superboy. He revamps Doom Patrol, but says that the Doom Patrol never existed in the DC Universe, even though thirty years of comics exist saying otherwise.
And now? He's tackling Etrigan the Demon, but says he's planning on "returning the character to the Kirby standards." I swear, there must be a statue of this man somewhere in the desert with "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!" carved into the base.
I'm beginning to view John Byrne less as a comic book writer and more as an invading band of Visigoths with typewriters and story ideas. You see, instead of actually expanding on the ideas of his forebearers and building new things, he tears everything down just so he can put what he wants where he wants it.
For example: He starts writing Superman: Man of Steel, and instantly decrees that Clark Kent was never Superboy. He revamps Doom Patrol, but says that the Doom Patrol never existed in the DC Universe, even though thirty years of comics exist saying otherwise.
And now? He's tackling Etrigan the Demon, but says he's planning on "returning the character to the Kirby standards." I swear, there must be a statue of this man somewhere in the desert with "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!" carved into the base.
