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Superman Vs War Of The Worlds
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Author:  eveofthewar [ Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:24 pm ]
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Just added 4 high quality images of "Superman Vs War Of The Worlds" to the comic section on the main site (bottom left of the comics page).<br /><br />Hope you like :D

Author:  The Improved Trog [ Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:55 pm ]
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Nice eveofthewar, and the comic seems interesting... But somehow boring.<br /><br />I mean, the only thing that can hurt him is Kryptonite, and the martians gotta be plain stupid if they gonna fight humans when they got the superman problem... :rolleyes:

Author:  Loz [ Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:54 pm ]
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Superman only comes into being when the Martians invade, he takes a few out, but Luthor ends up working for them and he captures Superman with Kryptonite. Blah blah... it aint great but the art is quite good, set in the 50's though.

Author:  The Improved Trog [ Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:55 pm ]
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Thanks Loz.<br /><br />I would have loved them spending just as large amount on the story as the art... But they dont.

Author:  Loz [ Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:39 pm ]
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all concept and no meat.

Author:  Xuxa the White [ Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:08 pm ]
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A Superman at the height of his powers...late 60's to early 80's (immune to Kryptonites of all kinds and anything else) could have single-handedly defeated the Martians. Perhaps in that world J'onn J'onz would have been the evil Martian leading his horde to attack Earth!

Author:  Loz [ Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:17 am ]
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Yeah this Superman can't even fly, just mighty leaps. They had to power him down for the story to work. The Kingdom Come Superman would be quite unstoppable.

Author:  Red Planet [ Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:56 pm ]
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Actually, this story is set in 1938, nearly around the same time as Welles infamous radio broadcast.
The Superman depicted in the story is entirely accurate to his very first apperances in Action Comics (the cover of Action Comics no:1 is copied in the scene where Superman throws a car at a tripod leg) when Shuster and Sigel first created Superman he couldn't fly, had no heat or X-Ray vision and was less invulnerable than he is today. He also worked for the Daily Star, not the Planet and his boss was George Taylor, not Perry White.
So as things go, from the Superman side of things, its a pretty loving tribute to the characters early years.
I agree that the WOTW elements are not up to much but I think they went a lilttle too much in the drirection of Amazing Tales style pulp tribute.
I have to admit its one of my faves but then I'm a sucker for DC's Elseworlds line.
They've also done a Justice League Island of Dr Moreau with very mixed results.
Fan's of Victoriana would probably prefer JLA Days of Wonder.
Sorry to go on, a pet subject as you may of guessed!

Author:  Loz [ Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:02 pm ]
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Sorry I knew it was set in the 30's pre second world war. Don't know why I wrote 50's oh well. And your right about early Superman's abillities.
He can't fly in the Fliesher cartoons either.
I too love Elseworlds. Although sometimes the concept outweighs the content. The Vampire trilogy ones were the best. And the one where Kal El lands in the Waynes grounds rather than the Kents farm and so grows up to be Bruce Wayne and eventually Batman was really good too.

Author:  Red Planet [ Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:33 pm ]
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Yeah, I know what you mean about the imbalance on the Elseworlds line. I've been collecting them for about three years now and thanks to e-bay have almost all of them.
The Wayne/Kent swap one (Speeding Bullets) is one of my faves I must admit.
I dislike the way that they seem to 'right' themselves in the end, about 75% of them end up with the characters becoming as they were in the 'normal' continuity.
Batman: Detective 27 is a stand out one, they actualy have the guts to make a decent, thumping, period set adventure and have Bruce Wayne never become Batman at all.

Author:  Loz [ Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:38 pm ]
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All the annuals in the mid 90's, Can't rember which year without going into the shed, were Elseworlds. i got most of them but not quite all. The Superman one was basically - What if all of the Kryptonians had fled Krypton instead of just Kal El. They all arrive on Earth and take over. Batman and robin are freedom fighters. Its a fantastic one. Try and get it if you haven't already.

Author:  Red Planet [ Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:58 pm ]
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Yep, I have that one, the name escapes me but that was one of the better ones, a great idea too!
I liked the Feral Man of Steel from the same year in which Ka El crashes in the Indian jungle and is raised by wolves, that was pretty neat.
Have you seen any of the Tangent or Stan Lee's DC Universe lines?

Author:  Loz [ Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:35 pm ]
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I know of them through Wizard magazine but I didn't get them.
Have you read The Ultimates?

Author:  Red Planet [ Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:35 pm ]
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Yes! Just read the first two volumes and utterly loved them!
Was bidding on the first four volumes of Ultimate X-Men on ebay today funnily enough but was piiped to the post by a quid at the last second.
Not read any of the other Ulimate titles, Bryan Hitchs art work takes some beating and some of the other titles seem a little too cartoony for me.

How about Marvel 1602?

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