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iamrmanWhat has Abe been up to since he handed himself in? How about trying to foil a prison break out?
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thanekosIt's brought back the Joe Casey/Nathan Fox creation whose debut was a Dark Reign mini.
This is his first usage that's not scripted by Casey, and it's a deft one.
He's set up in issue #1, in a scope befitting his history - looking in on Marc Spector's life, and sneering.
( ' You make me sick, Moon Knight. Or Mr. Knight. Or Jake Lockley. Or Steven Grant. ' )
This is his first usage that's not scripted by Casey, and it's a deft one.
He's set up in issue #1, in a scope befitting his history - looking in on Marc Spector's life, and sneering.
( ' You make me sick, Moon Knight. Or Mr. Knight. Or Jake Lockley. Or Steven Grant. ' )
All-America Comix #1: The Z in Me
Jul. 29th, 2020 11:26 pmsuperboyprime
'I’m grateful when anything I’ve created (or co-created) goes on to have any kind of life of its own. The way that certain characters have connected with certain fans is a really special, beautiful thing. But I’m also grateful that I’m in a position to be able to travel down my own creative avenues when I feel like it...and that’s all we’re doing here. It’s not meant to diminish what anyone else happens to like. This is "comicbooks." There’s room for all of us.' - Joe Casey
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history79
"The character is, in fact, in the mold of a certain archetype of comic book hero, and we fully explore that within the book. But we do it in such a way that feeds into the story itself (as opposed to being simply meta-commentary on this type of hero)."
- Joe Casey
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laughing_tree
"If your ideas go into wilder, Mort Weisinger/psycho-dramatic areas, it gets more difficult for an average, overworked editor to recognize the subversion (if you can call his pacifism 'subversion'), even though it’s right there in front of their face. And, on top of that, no one really gave two shits about Superman comicbooks back in, what was it, 2003…? Ah, the good ol’ days…" -- Joe Casey
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laughing_tree
"The whole concept of fight scenes in superhero comics has become pretty fuckin’ impotent as a device to propel or advance a story. For me, it’s because the stakes involved are usually either dramatically nonexistent or so esoteric that they end up meaning nothing to the reader because they can’t relate to the overriding conflict involved (Iron Man fights Captain America. The Marvel Universe fights Skrulls. Avengers fight X-Men. The Flash fights an Elseworlds reality. The DC Universe fights its own continuity. Blah, blah, fuckin’-blah… another verse, same as the first)." -- Joe Casey
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laughing_tree
"There are certain editors you work with where you end up playing that game of, basically, writing over their heads… and for me, that was never more true than my last year on Superman." -- Joe Casey
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laughing_treeIn the comments for starwolf_oakley's SAVIOR 28 posts, I had an interesting conversation with some others about the feasibility of superhero stories where the lead is a pacifist, where they consistently win without having to use violence.
That put me in my mind of Joe Casey and Derec Aucoin's final year on ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN in the early oughties, in which Casey wrote Superman as a pacifist. In this whole run, Superman never throws so much as a single punch. I would say that it shows that, yes, it's perfectly feasible to do pacifist superhero stories.
That said, the first issue of the run isn't really a good illustration of that. It's... an odd one. But it's where I'll start for the sake of completeness.
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"I’ll always write a pacifist Superman. That’s just how I see him." -- Joe Casey
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starwolf_oakley's SAVIOR 28 posts, I had an interesting conversation with some others about the feasibility of superhero stories where the lead is a pacifist, where they consistently win without having to use violence.That put me in my mind of Joe Casey and Derec Aucoin's final year on ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN in the early oughties, in which Casey wrote Superman as a pacifist. In this whole run, Superman never throws so much as a single punch. I would say that it shows that, yes, it's perfectly feasible to do pacifist superhero stories.
That said, the first issue of the run isn't really a good illustration of that. It's... an odd one. But it's where I'll start for the sake of completeness.
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"I’ll always write a pacifist Superman. That’s just how I see him." -- Joe Casey
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