I think I might have made this observation before, but after reading Infinite Crisis, and Superboy talking about how gloomy and wrong the universe is, well, these writers and editors, they do know that they are, in fact, the ones writing the gloomy stories, yes? I mean, it's nifty for them to have a reboot or whatever, but they're still going to actually have to write the non-gloomy type stories?
I ask because I've been poking around a couple of the One Year later books, and so far, Clark Kent gets beat up by Luthor, KGBeast gets killed, and, well, this ain't exactly Elliot S! Maggin, Cary Bates and Paul Levitz at the height of the Bronze Age, here.
I'm not saying that they are bad stories. I actually liked the comics I read. I am saying that if they want something different, then they have to write something different. If they don't want something different, then, well, why bother with this whole exercise?
Posted by Mike Chary at April 16, 2006 10:24 PM