Comments Off | Posted: April 30th, 2008 | Filed under:Uncategorized
I like Barry Allen just fine, but bringing him back after over two decades just as you’re offing J’onn J’onzz just highlights the idiocy that is “death” in superhero comics. Also, as a nerd, I have to say I’m not crazy about characters like Wally West and Kyle Rayner getting sidelined because somebody wanted more stories with the original guys. The appeal of a legacy character is that the mantle is passed on and this sort of nostalgia leaves that storytelling element dead.
Speaking of needless expansions of existing character concepts: Anti-Venom? Really, Marvel? Don’t get me wrong: I laughed, but still, that joke’s going to get old so, so fast.
Marvel got Entertainment Weekly to cover Mirror Universe Venom. DC got the New York Daily News, a paper that I forget exists for months at a time, to cover the return of a Silver Age icon who had his own TV series. That’s sort of amusing.
