tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post3257840204179329479..comments2024-03-15T07:12:40.918-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Legion: Secret Origin trade paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-6961512242078670042013-06-13T15:08:38.885-05:002013-06-13T15:08:38.885-05:00Yes. This is why I'm not getting my hopes up a...Yes. This is why I'm not getting my hopes up about Man of Steel. It's good that there's a new Superman movie, but I'm not sure I want to sit through another "modern retelling" of Superman's origins, after Smallville, Earth One, the New 52, etc. Enough with the origins -- I want to see the characters *do* something.<br /><br />(Legion: Secret Origin's problem, in addition to everything you said, is that just nothing happens in the story. Legion meets a bad guy? Defeated. The story has little suspense, but then also the politics aren't that detailed either.)collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-46118454856459311952013-06-13T15:02:54.547-05:002013-06-13T15:02:54.547-05:00This sounds like it falls into two traps. One is t...This sounds like it falls into two traps. One is the endless need for reboots and origin retellings, which I demand a moratorium on. This goes for both Marvel and DC; the newly-announced "Thor: Season One" is just a redo of "Ages of Thunder". If you can do a new story set in the early days, that's great; for instance, Peter David's "Avengers: Season One" actually does something with the Avengers' first days instead of just retell the origin. The same goes for "Green Lantern: Secret Origin" and my favorite retelling, "JLA Year One". <br /><br />The other trap is the paradox of comic book reboots. If you change too much, you lose what made the original work. If you change too little, then why reboot it in the first place? That was the question I used to judge the New 52 titles and I found that they simultaneously changed too much and too little to really make it work. Why completely revamp Superman but leave Batman's almost entire history in place?doug.glassmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18018711097234509826noreply@blogger.com