Taking a break from the pulp for some old school superheroing. We begin with The Golden Age!
James Robinson never wrote anything worth a damn unless it has at least one Starman in it.
>>144175465Leave it to Chance.>no I don't like itThere, I've spared us your inane retort.
>>144175465Cry For Justice had a Starman in it and was also purse hit. Granted, it was the lamest Starman.
>>144175458Anons on here really seem to dislike The Golden Age, but I like it. Maybe I'm just a sucker for Paul Smith, or maybe it's because I'm not enough of a JSAfag to appreciate what this story does wrong
>>144175648it's kind of the dark knight returns of the JSA, it brings a lot back to the table but on some level it kind of paints certain characters and concepts in a way maybe old school fans won't like.
I literally just read this two weeks ago. It's pretty good and I hope everyone enjoys it.
I tried to read this many years back, but for some reason I dropped it. I may try again. If I do, it's also going to be my third and final attempt at finishing Robinson's Starman.
>>144175538Who's the manlet?
Tomorrow we continue with Zero Hour.
>>144177572>>144177593Okay. First time reading this. Jaw dropped.
In light of this story time, I highly recommend JSA: The Liberty Files. I hope someday that can be storytimed.
>>144179297The New Frontier mogs this book
>>144180775It's not illegal to read both
>>144175465Cry more
>>144179297>>144180775Funny thing is that James Robinson did intend a sequel to The Golden Age, it would've been titled The Silver Age and they planned to have Howard Chaykin draw it.It never happened probably for a lot of reasons, but I think by the time New Frontier was released Robinson felt he couldn't live up to that, and that was the end of the sequel plan
>>144179095Good try, Ted
>>144175458I wonder how James Robinson feels about Earth-2 turning Alan Scott gay?
>>144181639Anon, he was the one that made him gay.
>>144181714Robinson made an alternate universe version of the character gay. Was that his real interpretation of the character or was the change just for the sake of adding uniqueness to Earth 2?
>>144178205this feels completely unnecessary and kinda ruins it for me
>>144178205Probably one of the few times the Golden Age Blue Beetle gets used at DC
>>144178449Al Pratt, the first Atom
>>144181767It was Robinson's interpretation because he felt bad that Obsidian was erased (who was 1 of the 4 gay dudes DC had at the time) due to Alan being too young to have kids.Are you the same guy who coped severely about Johns new JSA, thinking Johns would NEVERRRR write Alan as gay despite giving him a beard and thinking Johns' soviet bear Red Lantern wouldn't be Alan's past boyfriend?
Bump
Between this and earth 2 what is Robinson's deal with the Golden Age Mr. Terrific?
>>144176629I can't finish this. It's so dower and depressing.
>>144183602He's a massive dork whose superpower was being smart. Kinda hard to do much with that.
>>144175458golden age?
>>144181254>by the time New Frontier was releasedWasn't that like a decade or more after The Golden Age?
>>144183765a bloo bloo bloo
>>144175465We know that
>>144185041It was! But for a long time no one was sure when Robinson would get around to doing The Silver Age.
>>144175465His Starman sucks.
>>144180551Same, I loved how much of a threat they made UH feel like and made me a permanent fan of him. I feel like if DC used him more often and made him really go nuts with constant brainswapping and viewing physical bodies as disposable tools he could be such paranoia fuel.I also had basically zero prior awareness of Manhunter but he such an intimidating, relentless force of nature here, I'd love to get more into his stories but it sounds like they really dropped the ball with him.
>>144175916Hey I've seen this one before
>>144185629Exactly, it's too blue.
>>144186716If your interested in stories involving UH you should read John Byrne's Superman & Batman: Generations Series. No spoilers but it might be what you're looking for.Second this. This story takes Manhunter from a literally who to a top 10 DC character. His entrance on Capitol Hill was so intimidating. You knew he came to finish the job and he was gonna enjoy it.
>>144186559It was pretty good.
This is one of those things where I think a lot of people forget that it was an Elseworlds.
>>144187282>If your interested in stories involving UH you should read John Byrne's Superman & Batman: Generations Series.Specifically, just the first miniseries.
>>144187338>actually the 40s were le bad!I know its an Elseworlds, but I still don't like seeing this cliche applied to these characters. There's also the issue of it acting like McCarthyism was bad when, seeing where the world is now, it didn't go far enough.
>>144187338Some stuff got used by Robinson into mainline continuity, like Ted Knight's backstoryBut yes for the most part DC went their own way with things in ways that make it obvious The Golden Age couldn't have happened. In Pre-FP, Dan the Dyna-Mite was still alive in the modern day and part of Old Justice. In current continuity he was an old man who eventually regained his youth when looking for the missing sidekicks
>>144187328Nah.
>>144175458Cool cover>>144175458
>>144181767He has no one to blame but himself. That kind of nonsense is why Jimmy keeps getting turned black.
reading
More when?
after reading this yesterday it's still on my mind for all the wrong reasonsi think it spreads itself too thin across multiple characters, stuff with green lantern/manhunter was the best and the payoff was good for them, but everyone else just felt like they led up to "oh, okay then" for their conclusionsalso goddamn they can blab to overexplain shit in this they could have just shown, which is pretty common with comics but stillthe other super guy being literally hitler was dumb as fuck, idc how cheesy old comics could be that's way too on the nosethere's some great paneling and writing sprinkled here and there but it never gels together as nicely as it should. the concept is basically just the incredibles but less interestingi can't say i regret reading it and i see some of the appeal, but it really could have been ironed out a bit more into something greatregardless, thanks for the dump op
>>144179217Kind of wonder if Robinson was intending to imply a setup similar to the Archie Goodwin/Walt Simonson Manhunter, only the disappearance happens in 1951 instead of 1946
hmm
>>144192356never
>>144175458Star man!
>>144175458Starmans
>>144192356I accidentally fell asleep when I got home.
>>144175465Ikr
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>>144175458Golden age of comics
