Meanwhile Mon-El continues to feature in the Action Comics story in the Phantom Zone. There was one bit that was meant to be profound/shocking/something but I found uncomfortable ...
Mon-El has taken over this flying ship in the Zone that used to be run by Xa-Du the Phantom King. Mon is explaining how he and his allies took over the ship. When Superman asks what happened to the original crew and that he assumed Mon marooned them somewhere, there is a pause as Mon turns away and then says "I had to make some choices for the safety of my crew. You wouldn't understand. You're Superman. I'm not."
The implication is that Mon killed them. This is an uncomfortable fit with what we know of him in the Legion and what we know of his past. Still it's vague enough that a future writer could change it to something else.
Meanwhile Mon-El continues to feature in the Action Comics story in the Phantom Zone. There was one bit that was meant to be profound/shocking/something but I found uncomfortable ...
Mon-El has taken over this flying ship in the Zone that used to be run by Xa-Du the Phantom King. Mon is explaining how he and his allies took over the ship. When Superman asks what happened to the original crew and that he assumed Mon marooned them somewhere, there is a pause as Mon turns away and then says "I had to make some choices for the safety of my crew. You wouldn't understand. You're Superman. I'm not."
The implication is that Mon killed them. This is an uncomfortable fit with what we know of him in the Legion and what we know of his past. Still it's vague enough that a future writer could change it to something else.
...how would they kill them IN THE PHANTOM ZONE? The whole, defining point is that nothing dies there. Whether they like it or not.
My views are my own and do not reflect those of everyone else... and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm just confused by this whole thing. So, the PZ is now basically just another place where you can fly spaceships through it and interact physically with other things? I much prefer the old school idea of it as this weird ethereal state of existence in-between dimensions where you couldn't really interact with anyone else either there or in our dimension. Making it just some sort of other-dimensional Australia where you exile people there but they live relatively normal lives (and may be immortal?) seems to take all the oomph out of it.
Eh. I can't give Williamson the benefit of the doubt. His writing career at DC is best described as establishing things he never follows up on once the arc is over.
Like his run on Green Arrow was about reuniting the Arrow Family, and he basically spent his initial run and then the extended run getting to that point. But now that it's over and there's a new writer on the book? The focus is all on Ollie again while everyone else is wherever. Like he gave us one issue of Roy and Lian Harper reunited, pulled them apart for the rest of the arc, and then in the second they barely had any time together. That annual issue itself was a total tease because you'd think from the cover it would be about the Arrows, when it's just Ollie chasing after some random arson-themed villain throughout his different eras.
He's more frustrating than Johns because Johns will pepper his stories with references to characters and events we never get to see. Williamson will show them but then he doesn't DO anything with them, and I can't tell if that's because of him or because of the editors.
EDE, the cuts in that trailer were so quick that I must have missed whatever was Legion related. Please spoil it.
As for my overall impression: even being a James Gunn skeptic (how's that for tact?) I admit it actually doesn't look half-bad! I'm especially impressed with Lois Lane and with the Morrison lookalike Luthor.
Aha. I see now. Of course. And I agree, the Krypto bit was very nice.
I'm cynical toward superhero movies as well, but I was disarmed by the bright color pallete and by the looks of the cast -- I still can't stop chuckling about how Luthor is such an obvious spoof of Morrison's public persona; even without dialogue, it totally came through!
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