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First all: sod off (please) to anyone who doesn't want to see this at the top of the threads.
let it fall if you have nothing to say.
I am resurrecting it, cos I just reread Red ‘Sohn’ recently and really fuckin enjoyed it.
and Who am I?'s comments above are spot on. It really is a love letter to Moore....and perhaps Miller - Mark Millar's brain food throughout the eighties.
Who's comments re: last few pages being 'Man of Tomorrow' - yeah true - but crossed with ‘for the man who has everything’ - the visions of future earth in Red Son remind me a lot of the gibbons metropolis designs in the 80s moore classic.
It’s one off Millar’s strongest works, I reckon. And while I was suspicious of this initially - it really did seem lost in space and irrelevant to today’s post 911 word - i ended up loving it. or rather, liking it a lot.
Art was great. like a cross between gibbons and mignola. luthor was awesome - in a torquemada kind of way.
surprised by Ldones comments regarding the ending: for me, it made total sense.
i wonder though, would it have been an even stronger ending to have the craft with baby supes in it crash into America, rather than Russia? or would that have derailed the meaning and neatness of it all? (it would at least give the elseworlds tale a bit of credibility within the DC’s main continuity stream, not that I give a fuck about that kind of thing)
Secondly: the reread caused me to ponder ASS.
and Grant Morrison’s inspiration for ASS.
then I realised: both ‘man of tomorrow’ and ‘for the man who has everything’ by Moore get to the core of what supes is all about. and both have a timeless, eternal vibe to em.
wouldn’t be surprised if these stories, along with the other influences that morrison has already cited, are fuelling the ASS’ engine. |
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