Comics about comics - Gen. Discussion

Posted by RazzaTazz (8278 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I remember once in grade 6 we had to make 3 minute presentations to the class. One of the girls in my class took the 3-minute presentation preparation handout that the teacher gave us and decided to use that as her research and do her presentation on how to do a presentation. It seemed like a kind of weird idea at the time. As I grew older I saw this same concept used over and over again, rock songs about rock, rappers rapping about rap, writers writing about writing and so on. One of the most blatant examples for me is how movies about made about the show business industry. Except with a few exceptions I have no idea why people watch movies about people that make movies. This trend also applies to comics though decidedly not as much, but there are a few examples where this has significantly changed the timeline of comics. For instance when the silver age Flash first met the golden age Flash he recognized him only as someone he had read about in a comic as a child. This led to the infinite earths concepts and eventually to the first Crisis. Another example would be Kyle Rayner, a comic book artist. I can understand in his case how a Green Lantern would require a lot of creativity, but for me it would have been interesting to use a different career requiring a lot of creativity other than the career that one of the people creating the comic book already had. Its as though the writer was sitting their racking his brain trying to think of the coolest lookingt character and then looked up at his artist and was inspired. Suffice to say Kyle Rayner and Crisis on Infinite Earths have both had a fairly large impact on the DC universe, but both of their origins deal in part with comics.

So what do you think, too easy of an inspiration? Or cool background?

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#1 Posted by CasimirAngel (148 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I think it would be cool if Kyle Rayner worked on Superboy Prime stuff and we see Prime's reaction on his Earth.

That'd be funny.

#2 Posted by thehummingbird (3370 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I am not a big fan of easy inspiration I feel as though it is to slack and in the end can cause a lack of deeper meaning behind the ideas presented as the time was not put it into it to make a deeper meaning.

#3 Posted by Primmaster64 (21136 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Did you know that i Marvel DC exist as a comic book inprint and Bats and Supes are fictional characters in the marvel universe?

#4 Posted by InnerVenom123 (27734 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Blogs about blogs. I should write a blog about that. ;p

#5 Posted by RedheadedAtrocitus (6069 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Wasn't this addressed to a point in Blackest Night when Sup-boy-Prime was fighting Black Lantern Alexander Luthor and came to threaten the DC offices? I remember laughing so darn hard at that whole section..not because it was silly but because it was utter brilliance.

#6 Posted by bag_o_x_men (681 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

How about a step farther? The Fantastic Four have a comic of themselves in the Marvel universe. There's a whole issue about a publicist working on their image who spends time with them, then makes suggestions to the comic company about how to write them as a family and not as superheroes.
Or to take it to an extreme... . The Sentry was introduced, and no one knew who he was outside of comics. He had mindwiped the planet so everyone forgot him, except subconsciously he wanted to be remembered, and he did so through the mind of a comic writer. Then, after his appearance and all the fun stuff is out of the way, and people remember him, they spent time actually showing issues of "Golden Age Sentry" comics, and people in comics reading issues of comics, on panel, to piece together history.

#7 Posted by SC (9996 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

This guy ended up saving the Omniverse sorta... does that count as effecting the timeline?

Foreshadowing of Marvel's plan to kill 4 characters a quarter?

A comic about comics, with tweeting about twitter. Is that even legal?

Damn Skippy! What the hell kind of name is Fraction?

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