I don’t think I ever say Superboy Prime represents all fans, but rather represents a particular sort of fan (or, if you prefer, a particular stereotype of a particular sort of fan). And the sort of comments I found in response to CRISIS on a variety of message board (I was only able to include DC’s) made an interesting comparison.

Change is good sometimes, and sometimes it’s bad. Right now it’s too early to say if the changes brought about by Infinite Crisis will improve the comics or not.

DC’s problem is that whenever they want to shake up their line and draw attention to different genres they have to kill tons of characters. Maybe if they offered real growth instead of continuity gliches they wouldn’t have this problem every twenty years.

Anybody else catch the middle finger they sent to Marvel in issue six with “Civil War” gag?

But right now I’m watching Loonatics Unleashed on Kids WB, where Rev Runner is a talking Road Runner and he’s pals with Tech E. Coyote. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonatics_Unleashed#Characters

I mean they live in Acmetropolis!?! Chuck Jones, I miss you. Talk about tossing continuity out the window.

In all seriousness, my six-year old son enjoys it, but I really need to get classic Looney Tunes on DVD for him to understand how diluted a product he currently is watching.

In that same vein, I need to snag some Showcase reprints and leave the current DCU to its own devices.

I wanted it to be a meta meditation on fandom. I wanted it to bring about a clearly new universe. I wanted something NEW, I don’t mind change, I was ready for it, BEGGING for it.

But…never have I been so dissapointed in an event. I was told this was a real change and changed nothing at all. One Year Later, it’s the same old earth with a handful of new characters who will die on the vine because the fanboys want ONLY what they grew up with.

And I wasn’t represented in the meta commentary: I’m the guy whose railing against fandom and begging for more READERS.

Fans suck, readers rule. I read comics, I’m not a ‘fan’ of them(or of anything fans inevitably expect things a reader, listener or a consumer doesn’t).

I just want good stories, and the current DCU offers nothing but hindrances to good stories.

I’m saying it: Continuity is a hindrance to good stories. We all know it, it’s simple logic, having to work your story into 10 20 30 years of mediocrity is not the recipe for good stories.

And DC comics have a long history of mediocrity. The past fifteen years of Superman has been crap. Past decade of Batman, crap.

Alex= Meltzer

Superman= Johns

Max Lord= Warren Ellis

I wince at criticism that purports in some way that the critic has picked up “subtext” (or whatever) that the mainstream has overlooked or ignored. It’s akin to being the critic to praise David Lynch’s Twin Peaks all the way to the end, when most people look back now and say “Wow poor bastard lost his way somewhere in the tale didn’t he?”

I daresay no one could fathom the “subtext” because the actual printed text was bogged down with continuity that made the story inaccessible to anyone operating without a Jess Nevins-like level of knowledge.

But Luthor’s “being able to spell” doesn’t make him any less of a jerk…

When he spoke, “You’re ruining me”, he was breaking the fourth wall and talking to Geoff Johns. Saying, ‘I’m supposed to be a hero, what are you doing to me?’, in a way.