So I’ve finished the first week of the new format (still working on character design, but it is more of what I wanted in the first place).  What do think?  Mini Meet is a pretty big arc and for those non-comic book geeks sorry about the Crisis reference I actually had a lot more I wanted to say (references to: Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder“, Heinlein’s “-All You Zombies–” etc.)  but ran out of room (planning, planning, planning).

Let me geek out for a moment and for those who want to understand the significance of DC’s Crisis read on- Please understand this is my take on it so it has nothing to do with reality:

In the mid 80’s DC Comics decided to do a massive change-  after almost 50 years it had really become confusing.  Readers were lost “Now what does Blue Kryptonite do again?” “Which Earth had the Superman from the 1930’s?”  Yes, there was Earth 1, Earth 2, Earth 3, etc… each with its own heroes.  So they had a 12 issue story by Marv Wolfman and George Perez called “Crisis on Infinite Earths” This basically was like hitting the reset button and allowed for every hero to start over and be redefined (ex: John Byrne did “Man of Steel” Frank Miller “Batman: Year One“) and all the various multiple universes where smooshed together into one, lots of heroes were killed off (Supergirl, the Flash, were some of the biggies- the Flash has taken 25 years to come back).   Now, of course, one the first off-shoots of this was Elseworlds- a mark put on comics that did not influence continuity and therefore keep things simple.  (“In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow.”)- I consider most a more artfully done version of Marvel’s “What If?” series.  Some of these were things like putting the Superman story in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or Batman in Victorian times going up against Jack the Ripper.  Some were really cool, others… we don’t need to talk about.

So the question becomes what has Cecil’s little “science project” done to the world we live in?

Meddling
Posted on July 3, 2009 by Bruce
So I've finished the first week of the new format (still working on character design, but it is more of what I wanted in the first place).  What do think?  Mini Meet is a pretty big arc and for those non-comic book geeks sorry about the Crisis reference I actually had a lot more I wanted to say (references to: Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder", Heinlein's "-All You Zombies-" etc.)  but ran out of room (planning, planning, planning). Let me geek out for a moment and for those who want to understand the significance of DC's Crisis read on- Please understand this is my take on it so it has nothing to do with reality: In the mid 80's DC Comics decided to do a massive change-  after almost 50 years it had really become confusing.  Readers were lost "Now what does Blue Kryptonite do again?" "Which Earth had the Superman from the 1930's?"  Yes, there was Earth 1, Earth 2, Earth 3, etc... each with its own heroes.  So they had a 12 issue story by Marv Wolfman and George Perez called "Crisis on Infinite Earths" This basically was like hitting the reset button and allowed for every hero to start over and be redefined (ex: John Byrne did "Man of Steel" Frank Miller "Batman: Year One") and all the various multiple universes where smooshed together into one, lots of heroes were killed off (Supergirl, the Flash, were some of the biggies- the Flash has taken 25 years to come back).   Now, of course, one the first off-shoots of this was Elseworlds- a mark put on comics that did not influence continuity and therefore keep things simple.  ("In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow.")- I consider most a more artfully done version of Marvel's "What If?" series.  Some of these were things like putting the Superman story in Fritz Lang's Metropolis or Batman in Victorian times going up against Jack the Ripper.  Some were really cool, others... we don't need to talk about. So the question becomes what has Cecil's little "science project" done to the world we live in?

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