tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post115103271282607856..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: Always thinking of others ... eventually.Scipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1151091174419271942006-06-23T14:32:00.000-05:002006-06-23T14:32:00.000-05:00What I find interesting (in a vaguely off-topic so...What I find interesting (in a vaguely off-topic sorta way) is that when Earth explodes, the continents retain their basic shapes while big chunks of seawater seem to be what's flying off into the void.<BR/><BR/>So it wouldn't be "Earthite" so much as "Oceanite".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1151089600925057562006-06-23T14:06:00.000-05:002006-06-23T14:06:00.000-05:00And, truth be told, it's a damn good story!Angst, ...And, truth be told, it's a damn good story!<BR/><BR/>Angst, death, destruction and Green "Earthite" in a mere 10 pages.<BR/><BR/>It'd be a three year arc, "Planet Superman" perhaps, in a modern writer's hands.Marc Burkhardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06949686463975572297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1151087375707812792006-06-23T13:29:00.000-05:002006-06-23T13:29:00.000-05:00The story is also now available in the recently re...The story is also now available in the recently release "Showcase Presents: Superman".Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1151086557862791772006-06-23T13:15:00.000-05:002006-06-23T13:15:00.000-05:00That is weird!I sometimes think that back then the...That is weird!<BR/><BR/>I sometimes think that back then the cover dialogue was written almost exclusively by someone out to sabotage the product. Or who at least hated the characters.<BR/><BR/>(If so, the decline of the word-balloon on covers had more than just aesthetic advantages!)<BR/><BR/>Remarkably enough, the whole story actually belongs to the Silver Age canon! Well, sort of. And, granted some assumptions and conventions typical for 1961, makes a certain amount of sense.<BR/><BR/>It is available in all its nine pages of increasingly bizarre, and seemingly arbitrary, narrative at "Superman Through the Ages," http://superman.ws/tales3/orphans/?page=0 (and following).<BR/><BR/>Jerry Siegel really crammed in a lot!<BR/><BR/>I suspect Edmond Hamilton would have insisted on the full book in which to explore such a theme. And any modern writer would have demanded a mini-series in which to explore all the ramifications.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1151072081489197712006-06-23T09:14:00.000-05:002006-06-23T09:14:00.000-05:00Well, Krypto's not really an orphan, is he? (Count...Well, Krypto's not really an orphan, is he? (Counting Superman as his master, I mean.) He's just homeless.<BR/><BR/>And come to think of it, his and Kara's orphan status hasn't changed, either. So really, he's choked up because he lost his phat antarctic crib.Rob S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07331286524477806963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1151067022094253782006-06-23T07:50:00.000-05:002006-06-23T07:50:00.000-05:00>awpawp>awp<, just...>awp<.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1151035756763599022006-06-22T23:09:00.000-05:002006-06-22T23:09:00.000-05:00Still, he's sensitive to his dog's feelings. Gotta...Still, he's sensitive to his dog's feelings. Gotta love him for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com