What Were They Thinking? Worst Comic Ideas.

[stevelabny]

pulled this off a fan site since I couldn't remember...
fan site: http://www.titanstower.com/source/whoswho/dtroyfam.html

Wonder Woman #121 [1997]: While driving along the New England Coast, Terry, Robert and Jennifer Long try to drive through a raging storm. Unable to see, their car plunges off a cliff, killing all three of them. Death of Terry, Robert and Jennifer Long.

So, if this is accurate, you can blame Byrne for this too. Probably because he knows that husbands and kids ruin the continuity bubble.

Of course speaking of continuity again, this is also a good place to mention that although after Crisis, Wonder Woman was re-introduced as a NEW character who didnt know anyone in the DCU... Donna Troy aka Wonder Girl WASN'T. Which led to years of nonsense that I can't even try to explain because I didn't read all the stories.

The actual continuity of the Marvel and DC universes would be so much easier to comprehend...if they had just kept continuity in the first place. And this "too late to start now" excuse is pointless, since they dont claim to be ending the universes at any point and it will just get WORSE. Sigh.

 

[Taren Seeker]

OK, thanks for the background info (although why I should say thanks for bad news like that is beyond me ), but what about this part?

To utterly change a character's entire life and direction in a single phonecall (And after the thing with Terry, I doubt Kyle will ever take a phonecall at his Mom's house again

Just wondering how they handled the actual breakup and what that comment about Terry and Kyle's mom's house meant. I read a few issues when their relationship was developing (and I think I have their first kiss, a Christmas issue) and I thought it was REALLY well done, balancing Kyle's natural enthusiasm, desire, and sense of loss over Alex. PFAH on Byrne. Go back to Next Men.

 

[Silver Moon]

Well, let's see here...I'm going to guess that this image was from 1949.

Very, very close guess. The key to answer is the copy of Sun Girl, which according to Overstreet was only a three-issue run in 1948. Incidently, I had never heard of this character, although the back-up stories in the book featured Miss America and Blonde Phantom, both of whom later turned up in the modern Marvel Universe.


And as to Donna Troy. I've been reading Teen Titans to my kids. We started with the 1960's series and are now up to the early issues in the Wolfman/Perez run. The potential problem here is that both of my daughters like Wonder Girl as their favorite character. I guess I'm safe for awhile, but am not sure how they will react once we get into the more recent D.C. universe. I could probably gloss off the Byrne stuff, but the recent Wincik "Titans-Young Justice Graduation Day" was just plain awful. Not the way to treat an iconic character. Heck, my kids even like the Lilith (Omen) character!