Marvel's sliding continuity
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Numbers of heroes or sales? I'm pretty sure most of the most notable GA heroes were created before the war/the US entered the war, and had origin stories not connected to fighting the Axis powers. Most of them were created to cash in on Superman's popularity. |
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As long as he isn't a sugar daddy... |
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But the majority of the GA heroes (and the JSA in particular) didn't have written origins that were deeply connected to the War. It would be easy to set their origins 25-30 years in the past (which would actually put them in the Reagan era, not the 70's.) Alan Scott could still be a train engineer who gets his ring after a train accident. Kent Nelson could still be an archeologist's son transformed into Dr. Fate by Nabu. Jay Garrick can still inhale heavy water fumes. Those facts don't need changing. Phanthom Lady and Starman never had origin stories until a)Sandra Knight was given one in Freedom Fighters, and b)Roy Thomas gave Ted Knight one in All-Star Squadron. Neither as I recall were war-related. And outside of maybe Starman, I don't see that many problems with any of the character's look you mention not being able to work 30 years ago. This is the 80's we're talking about here, y'know (at least for now). Fashion took an acid trip that decade, remember? ![]() |
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It was an accident! |
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You really are being obtuse here. Uh, try again, Sandra had it in the first story as did Starman. Again both are set in that era, one that I have pointed out repeatedly has more to do with other than the war. They are not that workable for that era and as it is, why bother when there are a ton of characters from that era that would work far better then the anachronism you trying to make. You basically are trying to get a 52 Earth 2 with just the names and a little bit of the cosmetics. |
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He was smoking too. Had a bottle of booze... |
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Smallvilling the JSA is not a good idea. | ||
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I was pretty sure Starman was never provided with an actual origin story in the GA, and didn't have one until Roy Thomas gave him one in All- Star Squadron.
First, you haven't given any evidence of an origin story so deeply ingrained in the 30's or 40's that it couldn't be updated to fit into a more slidable continuity. (The JSA's origin notwithstanding). I doubt that there's are a lot origin stories that couldn't be updated to where the essentials of the original story remain intact without the connections to a fixed historical era or event. I haven't read Earth 2, so I'm not going to get into an argument there. I do know that what I'm suggesting is not as radical as some of the things Robinson has apparently done there. |
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Why not? A JSA that worked in the shadows as opposed to in the public eye would be a logical if you wanted a DCU where there weren't out-in-the-open before Superman. |
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Not e the qualifier used - PROPER. Go look up Starman's first story, the origin is there. All Roy Thomas did was expand and embellish on the origins such as linking the two as cousins. You are still not responding to the question I asked a while back now. You continue to focus only on the origins and yet ignore all the factors involved in those characters and the factors that went into the origins. Herald would be proud and so would many a politician. You keep trying to dodge the fact that the characters are tied to the era that they are made. It's intrinsic in the make up of all. You want them moved so they can be mentors? Use characters that are of the era you want to use, instead of creating an anachronistic bunch as Smallville did. |
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It wasn't logical as to work from the shadows while wearing bright colours... no it does not work. The JSA works only if they began in the actual era that they did. Unlike Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman.... all of whom were retweeked for the era they were in with re told and altered origins, motives, etc. ... the JSA did not have this so they really do not work. Legacies would work as they build on the original, yet what you want is basically pulling a 52 Earth 2 - using the names, sort of the concepts and a little bit of the cosmetics of the characters. Yet this was done in the late 50s and early 60s when Barry Allen, Hal Jordan, Ray Palmer all came along. There's no point. Under the logic you keep trying to push, The Lone Ranger, Scarlet Pimpernel,Robin Hood and Zorro would all work today and any period. They don't. You keep tweeking the character for today or the era you want them in, it becomes forced not to mention so altered, that there really is no point. Just make a new character or else... legacy from the classic. |
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Exactly which part of Starman's origin prominently depends on events of the 40's? That's the point you're avoiding.
And you're missing the point. This isn't about transporting the JSA into another era. It's placing them in a sliding timeline that constantly begins at a point twenty years or so from the Modern DCU's present. It actually restores the equilibrium that existed when the JSA first began appearing in the Silver Age, when the JSA began their careers about 25 years before Barry Allen and Hal Jordan appeared. |
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Maybe "shadows" wasn't the right word, but fighting crime outside of the limelight, being trye "Mystery-Men" where they were more urban legend is what I'm talking about. That's the only thing that would need tweaking if DC didn't want them to be the first out-in-public superheroes. The essentials of Superman and Batman's origins haven't changed, though. Supes is still the survivor of a planet that exploded. Batman still witnessed his parents getting murdered. Diana's may have been the most altered of the three, but unless I missed it, she still came to Man's World after saving Steve Trevor's life. |
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