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How dare anyone insult Jimmy Olsen and his crazy, groovy tales?...I love seeing the square Superman trying to fit into a world hairies with underground motorbikes as he travels on an acid trip like journey through strange and stranger places.
I don't dislike the Olsen stories, but they aren't my favourites in the collection (particularly now that I've read the first two omnibuses), although I'm going to have to sit down and reread both volumes in greater detail; I feel as though I missed a lot on the first run. Superman's presence does work in the way you describe, but he still feels a little disjointed in relation to everything and everyone else.
Though I do love very much the story of the micro-planet filled with B-Movie monsters like Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolfman. LOVE.
Mister Miracle is still clicking away as my favourite, on top of those ridiculous short-short back-ups introducing tons of New Gods (particularly Fastbak, who was my favourite back when I first encountered the Fourth World). Scott's constant death-defying just, you know, because it's a sunny afternoon so why not fire myself out of a cannon? Funky Flashman? Big Barda, fresh and undiluted.
I love the slow build-up of what exactly Mother Box is, how to refer to her, what she's capable of, what it means to be Mother Box! It happens over all the stories and is very, very, very slow. She escapes the clutches of Desaad (and that moment really struck home how much of Morrison's MM was strictly cribbed and remixed from Kirby's original stuff). |
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