tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post204181650600396083..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: Go West: the ClassicalsScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-42403683079821679282023-03-29T14:49:32.503-05:002023-03-29T14:49:32.503-05:00Never heard of the Wyoming Kid, or any of his cont...Never heard of the Wyoming Kid, or any of his contemporaries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-88295384699938301862022-05-29T08:39:30.077-05:002022-05-29T08:39:30.077-05:00I'd like to add to your list of anthologies wi...I'd like to add to your list of anthologies with a 1950s '60s and science fiction space Opera theme. michaeljpastorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16947206255545619757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-78614308138374875372022-05-29T00:50:47.568-05:002022-05-29T00:50:47.568-05:00I'm a long-time fan of the anthologies. "...I'm a long-time fan of the anthologies. "World's Finest" ... ? Yes please. "Detective" #500 ... ? Read it over and over, with its roster of probably a dozen vaguely detective characters. "Marvel Comics Presents" ... ? Marvel knew how to do anthologies too. The anthologies were great because they left you wanting more; but even if you weren't much invested in that Red Tornado story in WF, a couple pages later there'd be something more to your liking.<br /><br />Allow me to offer an unlikely way to tie Western heroes to the greater DC Universe: Wally West. I opine that he would do much better if transplanted to the Southwest; give him an opportunity to be his own man, rather than a now-redundant stand-in for Barry Allen. The wide open spaces of the Southwest would suit him well, and what's more, it could provide a mechanism to re-introduce the stable of Western heroes that tend to not make the news the way that your Supermans and Aquamans do.<br /><br />There is a problem with my Wally West plan, namely, I have trouble coming up with a threat that can be defeated only by the combined talents of a god of speed and a singing cowboy. But of course, the best threats are not simply physical, so I leave it to someone smarter than me to sort this out. (Disclaimer: my idea might be congenitally flawed but I thought I'd put it out there in case it's not.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-55897477211203587202022-05-28T06:38:02.751-05:002022-05-28T06:38:02.751-05:00Scipio, LOVE the idea of a Western anthology. It&#...Scipio, LOVE the idea of a Western anthology. It's actually what I'd like to see DC do with ALL its characters. Drop the ten thousand and forty-nine Batman books; streamline to one Batman Family anthology, Superman Family, a Team anthology w/Teen Titans and Legion of Superheroes, a horror anthology, and so on. There have to be SOME people out there who like short stories that build up a cohesive world, right? A world that isn't based entirely on the super-powered, save the universe every arc model.<br /><br />I see lots of Johnstone, Cotton, and Braun Westerns at Wal-Mart. If you could slap a couple DC Western-themed anthologies up near them, it seems like they'd sell. Or am I being too optimistic?<br /><br />Would The Trigger Twins work as a type of Longmire series? Lawmen in adjacent counties confusing the heck out of drug runners and other nefarious bad guys? Or would Vigilante be more in the Longmire mode? <br /><br />REALLY looking forward to your thoughts in the next posts!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-66620751467857422422022-05-27T23:44:02.492-05:002022-05-27T23:44:02.492-05:00As he was introduced in 1968, Bat Lash is he is a ...As he was introduced in 1968, Bat Lash is he is a later, revisionist Western character, not a Classical one. Therefore my lack of love for him will be covered in my next post rather than this one.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-70153473240575320862022-05-27T18:35:41.401-05:002022-05-27T18:35:41.401-05:00No love for Bat Lash? I think the Old West has ro...No love for Bat Lash? I think the Old West has room for at least one anti-hero type.Steve Mitchellnoreply@blogger.com