Post by BIGKEV on Dec 17, 2006 9:42:48 GMT -5
Over on his message board, John Byrne (in the midst of one of his most recent nonsensical and mean-spirited rants), revealed that during his classic run on Captain America, he and Roger Stern had thought about bringing back Bucky:
When Roger Stern and I were doing CAPTAIN AMERICA we flirted -- too strong a word already! -- with the notion of doing a story in which Cap visits a VA hospital, and in one corner of a ward full of damaged survivors of WW2 comes across a legless, armless vegetable who, upon seeing Cap, stirs from his forty year coma and is revealed to be Bucky. We were thinking poignant, painful, pathos, lots of P words. And we realized, instantly, than in two and a half seconds someone else would have transplanted his brain, cloned him, or some other nonsense.
Sounds cool, but personally what Brubaker has done in his recent run on Captain America with Bucky/The Winter Soldier is much much better. If you have not read it yet, do yourself a favour and check it out.
Okay, this is a bit of a spoiler, but worth it I think.
This week's "X-Factor" has an official outing of one of the lead characters, Rictor, as a bisexual man. Handled, shall we say, much better than a certain Northstar. Get your copies before the shops sell out.
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But it wouldn't be Christmas that destroyed the DC Universe, rather Chanukah. Benjamin Birdie of Boom! Studios points out that in the latest issue of "Firestorm," one of the small plot points is that Dr. Martin Stein hasn't been in touch with Jason (Firestorm) for a few days "because of Chanukah." Another character is quick to inform Jason that Chanukah runs from "16 December - 23 December." Which is this year's dates for the festival of lights.
Which would be great if "Firestorm" wasn't running on the "One Year Later" schedule. Which would mean the dates would be different.
Of course, this only applies if the DCU is working off the same calendar as we do, which "52" seems to indicate, but has not been officially stated. Maybe Superboy's punch knocked Chanukah out of whack in the DCU, along with all those retroactive changes to the "Infinite Crisis" hardcover?
And is it me, or has Superboy's punch become "the fluke" from Alan Moore's proposed "Twlight Of The Superheroes?"
Oh, and from page 3 of "Justice Society Of America" #1... is that "Wacker" who is going out of business with a 52% off sale?
When Roger Stern and I were doing CAPTAIN AMERICA we flirted -- too strong a word already! -- with the notion of doing a story in which Cap visits a VA hospital, and in one corner of a ward full of damaged survivors of WW2 comes across a legless, armless vegetable who, upon seeing Cap, stirs from his forty year coma and is revealed to be Bucky. We were thinking poignant, painful, pathos, lots of P words. And we realized, instantly, than in two and a half seconds someone else would have transplanted his brain, cloned him, or some other nonsense.
Sounds cool, but personally what Brubaker has done in his recent run on Captain America with Bucky/The Winter Soldier is much much better. If you have not read it yet, do yourself a favour and check it out.
Okay, this is a bit of a spoiler, but worth it I think.
This week's "X-Factor" has an official outing of one of the lead characters, Rictor, as a bisexual man. Handled, shall we say, much better than a certain Northstar. Get your copies before the shops sell out.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
But it wouldn't be Christmas that destroyed the DC Universe, rather Chanukah. Benjamin Birdie of Boom! Studios points out that in the latest issue of "Firestorm," one of the small plot points is that Dr. Martin Stein hasn't been in touch with Jason (Firestorm) for a few days "because of Chanukah." Another character is quick to inform Jason that Chanukah runs from "16 December - 23 December." Which is this year's dates for the festival of lights.
Which would be great if "Firestorm" wasn't running on the "One Year Later" schedule. Which would mean the dates would be different.
Of course, this only applies if the DCU is working off the same calendar as we do, which "52" seems to indicate, but has not been officially stated. Maybe Superboy's punch knocked Chanukah out of whack in the DCU, along with all those retroactive changes to the "Infinite Crisis" hardcover?
And is it me, or has Superboy's punch become "the fluke" from Alan Moore's proposed "Twlight Of The Superheroes?"
Oh, and from page 3 of "Justice Society Of America" #1... is that "Wacker" who is going out of business with a 52% off sale?