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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1238776" data-attributes="member: 505">LOL!  Small world.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I moved here a few years ago when my parents got sick and I needed to be closer.  It's a nice town (if you don't count the occasional snowstorms in May).Oh.  My.  God.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> I think you are misunderstanding something here.  Crisis in essense rebooted the DC universe.  That's the reason Byrne revamped Superman.  All the heroes got a rewrite (major or minor) in the months that followed...well, except Hawkman, which led to mucho confusion when they reinvented him in the 90s, screwing up the continuity of many titles where the old Hawkman appeared.  This partly led to Zero Hour.Like I said in my first post, it had to do with all the alternated Earths (with a bunch of redundant heroes) out there, not to mention a lot of overpowering and storytelling baggage, particularly Superman.  Pre-Crisis, Supes could push planets, fly through time, hear a pin drop in another galaxy, and blow out a star.  Plus you had Kryptonite in every shade of the rainbow.  Also, there was a problem that Byrne pointed out so well when he started the revamping:  It seemed like the only people who died when Krypton exploded was Superman's parents and a few of their close neighbors.   He wasn't kidding.  You had dozens of Phantom Zone villains, Supergirl, Superboy, Krypto the Superdog, Comet the Superhorse, Streaky the Supercat, and a SuperChimp whose name I can't recall.  I think there was even a Supermouse.  Plus you had the entire bottled city of Kandor.  Mignola is still doing Hellboy.  I'm not sure what Adams has been doing, but I miss Monkeyman & O'Brien.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Weel, I hope the good series aren't mentioned.  This thread is for terrible ideas.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> As others have pointed out, comic characters do age.  Spidey was in high school in the 60s and now is in his mid-20s.  Frankly, as others have pointed out, the way a 4 issue arc may represent only two days in comic time, not 4 months, any attempt to work out a scale would be a headache.  Also, I honestly don't want to read about a 55 year old Spider-Man.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I'm a fan of the Rex Stout Nero Wolfe mystery novels.  Stout started them in the 30s or 40s and continued until his death in, I believe the late 70s or early 80s.  During that time Wolfe's legman, Archie Goodwin, didn't age a day.  e could still run and fight and charm a young lady (which would be hard to do as a 68 yr old).  So, you see, novel series do the same thing.I think you're in the minority on this one.What now on the what what?Dude, don't dis punk rock Storm!  That's the way she looked when I first started collecting X-Men.  I loved her!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I once saw an altered pic of Halle Berry as punk rock Storm.  It was great!  LOLThat didn't bother me as much as Cyclops' dad being revealed to be a space pirate.  That's just wrong, man.Oh, and for you Teen Tony anti-fans, I found a story on the net about why that came about.  I haven't been able to find anything to verrify it, but supposedly writer Len Kaminsky insisted on Tony becoming evil and being replaced because he couldn't in good conscience write a comic with a capitalist as a hero.  If that's true, that is one of the stupidest things I've heard.  Apparently, it escaped his notice that he is being paid by a corporation to write mindless entertainment for people with disposable incomes.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> I shudder to think of what he'd do to poor Batman if he wrote it.  He'd probably have Bruce arrested for molesting Robin or something.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>

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