ATTN JMS: Superman

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From: in_valens_name at hotmail.com
Date: 22 Oct 2000 07:29:02 -0700
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In article <20001021190649.05959.00000930 at ng-bj1.aol.com>,
  jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:
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> I'd drop pretty much anything to do Supes, because the character has
> been an icon to me since I could read.  What I'd try to do is hew
> close to the kind of characterization you saw in Alan Moore's
> "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" which concluded the pre-
> Byrne Superman (and the post-Byrne Supes I don't even recognize
> anymore).
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> They mucked with the character because they said they couldn't do
> anything interesting with him.  Moore proved them wrong.

No surprise there.  Good storytelling is all that's needed to make a
character interesting, not reconning and angst operas.

Marvel's Joe Quesada is really causing a stir in the industry, it
seems, with the news of changes he's making almost every week,
including you on AS-M and Grant Morrison on X-Men.

It's a shame DC doesn't seem to be willing to accept top creators make
good comics, not editors and company policies.  Maybe that's why RS
(#17 in September's top 100 comics) and MN (#7) outsell the most DCs,
including the much better known Superman character (the highest is the
namesake title at #33, lowest S:Man of Steel #44).

I wonder if Marvel starts pulling in increased sales, DC'll have to
rethink?

scott tilson.
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 22 Oct 2000 23:09:33 -0700
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>Marvel's Joe Quesada is really causing a stir in the industry, it
>seems, with the news of changes he's making almost every week,
>including you on AS-M and Grant Morrison on X-Men.

I was really jazzed when I heard that Grant was going to be doing X-Men.  He's
a terrific writer, I've enjoyed his stuff for years.

>It's a shame DC doesn't seem to be willing to accept top creators make
>good comics, not editors and company policies.

There's very little about DC these days that makes sense.

 jms

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