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- From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: superman
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.152158.9440@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:21:58 GMT
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- [Michael Schiffer talks about evocation of emotion on the deaths of Supergirl
- and Superboy, and on the earlier "death" of Superman]
-
- "One of my favourite mags is Love And Rockets, after which the band named
- themselves...it's written and drawn by two brothers, Jaime and Gilberto
- Hernandez. And it's extraordinarily well-done.
-
- "A few years back they did the 'Death of Speedy' storyline. Speedy was just a
- normal person, as most of the characters are in L&R these days. By that I
- mean, he didn't have superpowers or superhuman abilities of any kind. Although
- he did only have one eyebrow that went all the way across his forehead.
-
- "His death was led up to, as he was rejected by more and more of his friends,
- but how exactly it happened was never elucidated--the actual death was done in
- a very understated way.
-
- "Around this time, Doug Ramsey of the New Mutants(Marvel Comics)also died.
- Apparently(I wasn't reading a whole lot of Marvel right then), it was a very
- dramatically-done death, everyone weeping, a big funeral, etc. I know of this
- because one reader of L&R wrote in and said that he hated the pathos of the
- Marvel Comics version, and appreciated the death of Speed more than that of
- Doug Ramsey, because it was more realistic to him. And I still think that the
- Hernandez Brothers are unequalled in some aspects of storytelling in the 'comic
- book' medium.
-
- "It doesn't particularly affect me at all that Superman 'died'. Whoopee ding.
- I've never had faith in comic book character deaths since they brought back
- Jean Grey, who had one of the best deaths in comic history, and one or two
- false resurrections. Or maybe it happened even earlier. Although I must admit
- that one of the best 'resurrections' was in Alpha Flight, after Guardian died
- and then came back with an outlandish story of being saved by aliens from
- Jupiter and replaced with mechanical parts--and then he turned out to be an
- android built to take his place and betray them from within. An obvious spoof
- on all those stupid miraculous saviour stories.
-
- "Feel free to disagree with me, though. But the above probably contains the
- seeds of most of the reasons why I stopped, by and large, reading standard
- comics, and now stick to L&R, Sandman, and a few others. (Grimjack, when it
- gets back into publication...now he's died three times now, and we'll know he
- will come back, but more because he's doomed to live than because he can
- miraculously survive.)"
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Looking for "October's Baby")
- "Lucille was secretly thrilled when Norman sucked her toaster."
- ---B. Kliban
- Current Album--The Replacements:Don't Tell A Soul
- Current Read--Karen Wehrstein:Lion's Heart
-