ALL STAR SUPERMAN CBR SERIES

First American - Created by Alan Moore and Jim Baikie.

Cobweb - Created by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie.

Many of these characters were often inspired by pulp magazine and comic book archetypes, such as the boy genius and the masked detective. Tomorrow Stories started in August 1999 as a collection of short stories featuring the same characters (give or take one or two) every issue.

ALL STAR SUPERMAN CBR SERIES

This part of the series (the part where effectively Tommy was in 'monaghan-verse') worked even better for me than first part of series set in DCU.Tomorrow Stories was a comicbook series created by the highly successful Alan Moore, for his America's Best Comics (ABC) line, published by Wildstorm (now a subsidiary of DC Comics). But then outrageous luck can get people through situations even on our own mundane Earth (look at true life war exploits).and the series ended 'realistically', with the luck running out after several adventures. Yes.even then he needed outrageous luck to survive more than a couple of adventures. Then as series progressed.and Garth moved onto more serious issues.the DC heavy hitters disappeared and Tommy went up against foes and situations more suited to his own power-set. In the first where Tommy M featured a few few other DC heroes.Garth Ennis (blessings upon him) made relatively little attempt to write a serious story, it was all about using cartoon conventions to have fun. Hitman was just about 2 series rather than one. Tommy Monaghan featured in great stories, despite the low-ish power set for a variety of reasons. That writer is making an attempt to portray what might realistically happen ONCE the assumption had been made that action is taking place on an earth where humans have super powers.) I'm assuming here.of course.that some attempt is being made to stick to the implied assumption in 'serious' super hero stories. If Black Adam hits Batman.and the respective power sets are taken seriously, then Batman dies. But they work far better (in most circumstances) set in their own self contained worlds.Д«ut put them in a shared universe in stories.where we are told some villains can bench press planets, move at near light speeds with reactions to match.then only way you can show the low powered guys duking it out against heavy hitters is by a steady stream of poor writing. 15 years later, I would have given up a non-vital organ and my left big toe to make it happen.Д«atman has this in common with Captain America, James Bond, and every other non-powered hero ever, including not in a small degree, Tommy Monaghan.I know you and the Beast are pulling my leg, but. It's all down to personal taste, and sometimes those tastes change.ДЇor instance, had the SUPERMAN 2000 pitch actually happened in the year 2000, I think I would have blown a fuse and gone ape.er.stuff over Waid and Morrison re-imposing the 'silly and stupid silver age' (which is how I saw anything pre MAN OF STEEL #1 in 1986) on the character. You can certainly appreciate certain aspects of Superheroes without liking the silly and absurd elements of it or being selective about what tropes are tolerable to your personal sensibilities or not. For instance you would have never caught me extolling the virtues of Pre-Crisis DCU and I was convinced that the 1986 relaunch 'saved' Superman. I can relate to the Beast as 15 years or so ago I was mostly in the same frame of mind. Hence his reply to a thread asking about people who hate All-Star. He's talked about this before he doesn't hate superheroes/Superman, just the parts he considers silly and stupid.

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