"Does he wear a skintight ballet suit? No, not today, and I don't think anyone falls for it," Morrison says. "And if the skintight ballet suit has to come into it, I want to have a really good explanation.
"We've been given a lot of leeway to change Superman and answer some of those questions that grown-ups ask nowadays: Why does he look that way, and why does he wear those pants?"Yes, because the most unrealistic thing about a man who flies, bends steel in his bare hands, is faster than a speeding bullet and who came to earth as a baby in a rocketship from the planet Krypton is his clothing.
As mentioned a couple of days ago, comic book superhero creators are going to try everything in the world to jazz up interest in their product except, it seems, telling their readers stories of the heroes they want to read about. The major downside is that when stores and distributors and such close down because of the stunted vision of people like Morrison and DC co-publisher Jim Lee displayed in the story, it's the clerks and workers who'll be out of their jobs. People like Morrison and Lee will be able to find someone else just as dumb as the folks at DC who hired them, so they can keep underwriting that stunted vision and they can bury a few more icons.
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I saw that the Ret-con engine has a full head of steam over at DC. Marvel is just nickel-and-five-dollaring everyone to death with their superevents.
I'm pretty sure it'll fizzle out in about a year and we'll get a splashy un-ret-conning announcement that'll never get back the readers the ret-con drives off. I'm just gonna learn to draw and write my own stuff ;-)
They killed him once, and he didn't stay dead. This relaunch of the whole line is DC's New Coke moment.
I've seen that "New Coke" label several places -- hopefully it's a meme that gains enough traction to put an end to this thing more quickly.
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