Saturday, August 22, 2009

I Can't Believe I'm Suggesting This

Did anyone else notice there wasn't a solicit for Power Girl for November? I wonder what that's about. Giving the creative team a little extra time, or are they planning to ship two issues in December? They can't be canceling the book already; the July sales figures indicated it's still well above the point where Marvel and DC usually ax books. 

Of course, that didn't stop me from having some momentary concern that they were ending it, and in that moment of panic, trying to figure how they could goose sales, and with the state of the DCU right now, the easiest way to do that would be a Blackest Night tie-in. For better or worse, there's even one that would make perfect sense. 

Earth-2 Superman is already up and running around again. He's Power Girl's cousin, and after her less than wonderful trip to Earth-2 courtesy of Gog, he would be about the only connection she has to that old life. A big part of these dead rising seems to be about gut-punching the heroes by confronting them with dead people who were important to them, so it would make sense. 

Question: Will Zombie Earth-2 Superman, who was a very cranky old man when alive in Infinite Crisis, spend time complaining about how people on this Earth just don't taste as good as they did back on his Earth, and how the fashions of this world ruin the presentation of his meals, consarn it? Goldarn it, in his day, people knew how to gussy up so as to make dining an enjoyable experience! I'm not sure whether crotchety old person zombies would make Blackest Night better or worse. I imagine it would undercut the tone, but it might also be truly a horrifying experience. Yea, the assaulted heroes would beg for death, just to be spared hearing anything else about the superiority of zoot suits and Studebakers. I leave that to those in the audience reading it.

4 comments:

SallyP said...

Gadzooks, I didn't even notice! I love Power Girl! Gah!

You make Black Ring Superman sound like Grandpa Simpson, which I find very apt.

And hilarious.

CalvinPitt said...

sallyp: Well, that was the impression I had of him from Infinite Crisis, always griping about how those heroes have mucked everything up, and he would have done better and so on.

Simon (formerly Johnny Sorrow) said...

I think Palmiotti showed up on the boards to clarify that it's not a cancellation, just a month off to give Amanda Conner time to do some work on a new project.

CalvinPitt said...

johnny sorrow: That's what i was hoping was the reason. Thanks for the info!