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Dec 22 09 11:40 AM
Although Byrne is one of my all-time favorite artists, I never liked his re-invention of Krypton and Lex Luthor...still don't. My favorite thing about the Byrne era was his choice to use ACTION as a Superman team-up book, which I thought made for some great reading.
Bottom line is it's pretty hard to defend DC's superhero output of the late 50's early 60's, especially the Superman/Batman stuff. Seriously, everytime Supes needed a new power to defeat an enemy, it pretty much magically appeared. If he needed to produce armpit farts at a specific frequency to render the foe unconcious, no problem! Mr. Mixitplik and Batmite? Please. Granted, the first 12-18 months of the "Marvel Age" produced some forgettable stories, they continued to improve as they went along. My biggest problem with Supes was that he was so nearly omnipotent, he should have been able to incapacitate any foe wthout breaking a sweat while simultaneously playing 50 games of chess. So they invented Kryptonite to make it even remotely possible for someone to beat him; suddenly, every two-bit hood in Metropolis had hunks of Kryptonite to torment him with. And when green K became old, up popped red, gold and even multi-colored!
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