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Got the trade as a gift recently, and thought I should write here some of the differences I've (remembering) noticed.
- As Jimmy is about to fall in #4, he says "never refuse to kiss the queen of the gypsies!" instead of (IIRC) "never mess with".
- The "S" that Sups brand on Quintum's table now has a bit of smoke coming out from it, to prevent confusion I gather.
- Lex's "I've always liked you, Kent. You're humble, modest, uncoordinated: human."
- Lana's hair is red instead of brown (is it red originally?).
- The line "I always say it's the work you put in that you get back" is now coming from Clark instead of Pa Kent (that's not so much a small detail, since it's minutiae in the dynamics of the father and son moment -- and well, God's in the little things, no?).
- And the last page in #6 is now Krypto saying a 847 words monologue about life and death and the instability of the cosmos and the future while quoting passages of the "Proteus" chapter from Ulysses (no, I kid! He doesn't really quote anything. The dog can't read!).
I'm sure there are others I didn't noticed or others that were mostly corrective tiny ones (like Bizarro's "S" on the chessboard in #2, the colors of Lois' legs in the arm-wrestling scene etc).
And I'm also sure this is extremely anal and obsessively geeky about details, but... well, you know. I'm the ass that thinks that the fact that Jimmy throws Superman on a toy store or oranges on the floor are extremely symbolic and intentionally pertinent from the narrative speaking to us (for instance, the fall, bruised fruits, apples of the sun, Lois' references to vitamin C to Clark so he'd take better care of himself and his self-steem in the film, The Godfather's [and now, almost pop culture's] symbol of coming death etc).
I'm hoping a future trade of the entire thing put together will have some extras (scripts? ^_^) and comments from the creators (I hated The Ultimates, but those "dvd commentaries" thingy in the TP were a very nice touch). But it's an overall really nice treatment, the blown-up images, the little frames, and some good placement (thematicly, but probably accidental or just my usual reading too much into things) of those images. |
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