Strange Adventures #3 - "Good guys and bad guys"

[laughing_tree]

It’s super-corny, but I’m madly in love with my wife and it informs and infects everything I write. I try to tell her, “Look honey, I wrote 85 issues of Batman as a love story, happy anniversary!” And she says, “No, you still have to take me out to dinner.” DC Comics has this romance in it in a way that Marvel doesn’t, it’s one of the few advantages we have over the competition. There’s a romantic ideal that we can lean into. But they’re totally different couples, because with Catwoman and Batman you have her being this villain, this untamed person. With Scott and Barda, you have a couple who’s been married forever and you’ll see that there’s a different dynamic between Adam and Alanna. She’s literally the princess of her world, she’s in charge of keeping it safe. And you have the princess married to the adventurer. It’s a darker relationship, I think. -- Tom King

Comments

[thanekos]

In #2, Mr. Terrific points out that " People don't like it when people like me question people like [Adam]. "

In #3, Alanna unhesitatingly weaponizes that.

[jlbarnett]

what story are they trying to tell with this?

[jmacq1]

Trying to make Adam Strange grim and gritty enough to more marketable, I guess?

[bruinsfan]

You can't be a hero without TRAUMA and the question of whom you've killed and why!

Adam Strange really is a pastiche of those pulp heroes of an earlier era like John Carter or Carson Napier, though. The way those characters climbed piles of bodies of the "savages" that were their enemies in the stories is something that just wouldn't play today.

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, it's doing a post-War on Terror, PTSD-fueled deconstruction of colonial adventure narratives, since those were always the inspiration for Adam Strange to begin with. Which, considering how out of fashion those stories are, makes sense if you're trying to pull of an Adam Strange story today.