The Letters Page
As we've mentioned before, there's way too much mail for us to answer in the shows, so we'll be answering some of it right here on the blog. As always, thanks for sending in your questions, and please keep shooting them over to tips@pulpsecret.com, call them in to 888-841-7549, or post a video response on YouTube!
John asks:
Hey Guys, I wanted to congratulate you on an awesome show! I was wondering how you guys felt towards the "Death of the New Gods" series from DC? Do you argree with Starlin on his opinion that the New Gods deserve a mercy killing as he's described his series in recent interviews, or do you feel that DC is sacrificing a source for endless stories for the sake of one big event?Okay, this is very clearly going to show my age (not the "I'm old" show my age, but the "I'm young" show my age), but I never read any of the New Gods stories, and could care less. Kirby is undeniably amazing, and I would like to go back and read his stories about the New Gods at some point, but as of right now, I feel zero emotional involvement in the New Gods. Do I agree with Jim Starlin that they deserve a mercy killing? Yeah, maybe, but I also think they could just as well stay int he background... My problem is building an event around characters that don't mean a whole lot to the current comic book reading population. I think the essential problem is, you're building an event around them not being around anymore. If it was a reintroduction, as Grant Morrison did in his Mister Miracle series, then awesome. But bringing them to the forefront them to eliminate them doesn't create a whole lot of emotional impact. However, for those of you who do love them, no worries... The New Gods are dying, but when the Fourth World is gone, we're going to see the rise of the Fifth World. Seriously.
Anthony from Brazil states:
Hello, my name is Anthony. I'm not writing you a question but I am going to say this: I do not read comic books because I live in Brazil and comic books in Portuguese aren't the same. Anyways, I watch The Stack every week and A Comicbook Orange, you guys are awesome and I just want to say thank you. When I move back to the U.S.A. First thing I'm doing is getting all the Marvel I can get, and Starman, and Mouse Guard, and Box Office Poison. I've always loved comic books but never got the chance to really get into them. Thank you, truly. The shows are awesome and keep up the excellent work.Thanks for writing in Anthony, and all of the titles you mentioned are awesome starting places. We'll see you stateside...
Dan from England queries:
Just writing to say that I don't even read comics, but i can never wait for the next edition of The Stack! You guys are hilarious! Actually, that should read i never USED to read comics, but somehow i found myself in a comic store buying an edition of Green Lantern. And now i have to go and buy the rest to see what happens. So thanks for that. I thought I had used up my geek quota on liking classical music, but apparently not. So here's a question: who do you think would win in a fight between Booster Gold and Beethoven? And another question: I like grand and epic stories, what comic series or story arc would you recommend to satisfy my lust for tales of legendary status?Man, I want to say Beethoven, but that guy's stone deaf. Now, if you had said Mozart, it might have tipped the other way, cause Mozart can lay down. But you didn't, so I'm going with Booster Gold. As for your second question, if you're liking Green Lantern, then you'll probably enjoy some other DC stories... Kingdom Come is the first title that comes to mind. New Frontier is also pretty epic in a very different way. If you want something quirky and different, I'd check out Grant Morrison's four volume collection of Seven Soldiers of Victory. It's pretty epic and legendary in it's own way, and brilliantly written.
Jonathan muses:
I just read Infinite Crisis, and noticed many errors in the book. In the trade, on page 50, if you look at the first panel, you see a newspaper with the headlines "Crisis!" with pictures of Anti-Monitor. Plus, how do you find a corpse of person who does not have one? The Anti-Monitor died in the first crisis, and he did not leave a body. So how did Alexander Luthor and Superboy Prime find a body? Plus, Lady Quark returns to life without any explantion?A lot of people were annoyed with a LOT of Infinite Crisis... In terms of the Anti-Monitor body thing, it was never fully explained, but I believe it was "retrieved from the Anti-matter universe" or something like that. Lady Quark is a quirk of the constant rebooting continuities in the DC Universe. If you want to read a LOT about Infinite Crisis, I recommend clicking over here or here. Both are excellent resources on the series. I've been re-reading Geoff Johns run on The Flash recently, which got me thinking about Infinite Crisis a bit as well. I think there are some excellent moments in the series, but it never really delivered on its promise, which is unfortunate. Even Johns himself lamented this a bit recently, saying, "As much as I wish the art was uniform, there’s still a lot I love about that series. Hell, Prime is one of my favorite characters ever now." Although I'm not going to heap the blame squarely on the art, I do think it's enjoyable; it just didn't quite live up to its fantastic build-up.letters, page, The
If you've never read the New Gods series (its only like 11 issues) you've really missed something special. But I also wont be upset about them destroying that 'world'. No one has ever come close to writing them properly since Kirby. I'd just as soon see it destroyed as see more hacks ruining it.