[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Are there any heroes or villians that do not have some sort of supernatural (for lack of a better term) back story? The only ones I al familiar with are Superman (from another planet), Spiderman (radioactive spider), and Batman (who has a load of money and anger). Captain America drinks some sort of elixir, correct? (I am surprised I did not see C.A. encourages steroid use headlines). Incredible Hulk was some sort of experiment side effect?[/quote]
A lot of he guys in he DC Universe have very little in the way of origin stories. Ted Kord/Blue Beetle pretty much just decided to take on the Blue Beetle role when the original BB died. Ted Knight/Starman developed tech that allowed him to fly and shoot ray beams. He decided to fight crime just because. The original Atom (Al Pratt) was a short guy that got beat up a lot. He started training with a pro boxer and became a short little ass kicker.
If he was in a bank when robbers came in he would kick their ass, go home, and change into his costume. Then he would track the robbers to their hideout, and kick their asses all over again. Wiki the Golden Age Justice Society members, most of those guys were average fellas that decided to take on crime fighting for little to no reasons at all.[/quote]
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Are there any heroes or villians that do not have some sort of supernatural (for lack of a better term) back story? The only ones I al familiar with are Superman (from another planet), Spiderman (radioactive spider), and Batman (who has a load of money and anger). Captain America drinks some sort of elixir, correct? (I am surprised I did not see C.A. encourages steroid use headlines). Incredible Hulk was some sort of experiment side effect?[/quote]
A lot of he guys in he DC Universe have very little in the way of origin stories. Ted Kord/Blue Beetle pretty much just decided to take on the Blue Beetle role when the original BB died. Ted Knight/Starman developed tech that allowed him to fly and shoot ray beams. He decided to fight crime just because. The original Atom (Al Pratt) was a short guy that got beat up a lot. He started training with a pro boxer and became a short little ass kicker.
If he was in a bank when robbers came in he would kick their ass, go home, and change into his costume. Then he would track the robbers to their hideout, and kick their asses all over again. Wiki the Golden Age Justice Society members, most of those guys were average fellas that decided to take on crime fighting for little to no reasons at all.[/quote]
There’s a great All Star Squadren annual that has the origin of Al Pratt(Atom), Ted Grant(Wildcat), and The Gaurdian(Jim Harper) they all had the same trainer he trained them so he could make money managing their careers ala Don King and they all became Mystery Men instead and he wound up becoming a super villian it was cool in an 80’s looking nostalgic at the 40’s feel to it
[quote]John Romaniello wrote:
Superman is intelligent.
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Superman has super intelligence. I know that in at least one story line (I think Red Son), Lex Luthor was angry about Big Blue beating Luthor in chess.[/quote]
Yeah Superman is way beyond intelligent. He’s a super-genius and I think that gets glossed over a lot because of all those pussies whining about how “unrelatable” he is. He’s built toys in his fortress that Batman hasn’t even imagined yet.
I’ve never seen bionic arms on the Batjet. Supes used to have a whole slew of super android doppelgangers powerful enough that one of them could take on the Teen Titans. One of the things I liked about All Star Superman was that Morrison showcased Supes’ intelligence along with his physical strength.[/quote]
All Star Superman has got to have been the best Superman story line ever. I started collecting Superman comics 40 years ago and have, like you, I think, been appalled at how often they have screwed up this character because of him being hard to relate to. Morrison did it right and it was a throw back to the Superman I loved to read.
Have you seen the movie of the story? Well worth it!
[quote]John Romaniello wrote:
Superman is intelligent.
[/quote]
Superman has super intelligence. I know that in at least one story line (I think Red Son), Lex Luthor was angry about Big Blue beating Luthor in chess.[/quote]
Yeah Superman is way beyond intelligent. He’s a super-genius and I think that gets glossed over a lot because of all those pussies whining about how “unrelatable” he is. He’s built toys in his fortress that Batman hasn’t even imagined yet.
I’ve never seen bionic arms on the Batjet. Supes used to have a whole slew of super android doppelgangers powerful enough that one of them could take on the Teen Titans. One of the things I liked about All Star Superman was that Morrison showcased Supes’ intelligence along with his physical strength.[/quote]
All Star Superman has got to have been the best Superman story line ever. I started collecting Superman comics 40 years ago and have, like you, I think, been appalled at how often they have screwed up this character because of him being hard to relate to. Morrison did it right and it was a throw back to the Superman I loved to read.
Have you seen the movie of the story? Well worth it![/quote]
Careful don’t let X hear you say that. I enjoyed the cartoon but I wish they had done the WHOLE story I liked the Superman 1000000 cameo and Bizarro with the “imperfect” Bizarro
I liked the All Star comics better than the movie. The movie either needed to be much much longer or they should have limited the number of stories they sampled for the film. As is it came off as a bit disjointed and rushed.
^^ I agree with both of you, comics were better of course, but I did enjoy the quality of it. Would have loved it if they had indeed made it a two hour move and done the whole story but no doubt there was not enough money to do that.
How are you guys liking the New 52 Superman? I have to say I enjoy how he is in Justice League
Action Comics has grabbed my attention as well.
