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Re: "The Death of Superman".

Wow.

This is why I love the Showcase series. Can't wait for this one. But also, the first Flash volume should be released this month.

Okay, so after taking some time off from reading SHOWCASES, I picked up THE WAR THAT TIME FORGOT and THE FLASH today. Looking forward to getting into them this weekend!

What's even cooler than WW2 era soldiers stuck on a Pacific Island inhabited by dinosaurs?

A WW2 era soldier stuck on a Pacific Island inhabited by dinosaurs with a robot!

It's really amazing how appealing TWTTF is, considering every story has basically the same plot: soldiers crash on mysterious island inhabited by dinosaurs and have to fight their way off.

Okay, so after reading something like half of TWTTF Friday and Saturday Night, I decided I had my fill of dinosaurs, and decided to start reading the Flash.

It begins pretty awesome, with a spectacular Golden Age Flash story! Then... I don't know. The first few Barry Allen stories were okay, but somehow they didn't do all that much for me.

But Grodd, Grodd is awesome!

Some Flash thoughts:

1. Really enjoying stories where the Flash finds a hidden civilization and such; not enjoying rogue-of-the-week stories nearly as much.

2. Barry seems to have a freakish number of best or at least really good friends who make one appearance and then are never heard from again.

3. The Barry always showing up late thing get tiring after awhile, but his interaction with Iris is very 50s sitcomish (er... I mean that as a good thing ).

4. Wally rocks. He does lots of groovy stuff like prevent crooked construction companies from building new schools with inferior materials and saving kids from joining gangs and such!

5. Everything else pales before the grooviness of Grodd, however.

Okay, so there's this freaky story where it turns out that the people of Earth are actually descended from aliens from a planet called Olimpus, and their leader Zus send this guy Posiden, master of water, down to reclaim their "lost colony". Fortunately, they are defeated by Flash and by learning about American History!

The awesomeness of Grodd is proved once more, when he super-fatasses the Flash.

Apparently, not only do aliens, people from the future, and creepy little people in bottled cities entertain themselves by watching our daily activities, but now schoolkids in other dimensions actually have classes in which they "study" Earth culture by spying on us with "photo-synths".

Okay, so I finished up the Flash volume.

Most of the Rogues still don't do a lot for me, except Captain Cold and, of course, Grodd. I have to say that I enjoyed the volume quite a bit overall. Not the greatest of the Showcases, but a solid read. And it's of course important for the whole ushering in the Silver Age stuff.

That Barry was so fickle. He only liked to hang around "dangerous" friends like Hal Jordan and Al Desmond.

Apparently, dinosaurs must *really* like the taste of American soldiers. Just put one on Dinosaur Island, and huge herds of dinosaurs will come rushing at them, ignoring all other possible prey. I mean... if I were a dinosaur, rather than rushing after that little tiny human, I might stop and devour the big carcass that was just killed by a grenade or something. Or, you know, maybe I'd take a bite of that li'l dinosaur running along next to me.

Eryk, have you read the Wonder Woman Showcase yet?

Its even more wacky and insane than the Shazam! showcase!

Wacky and insane? must...read...it....(walking like a drone to my CBS)

I haven't picked up a Showcase (or a comic at all, for that matter) since July!

More wacky and insane than Shazam!?

That may have to be my next purchase!

I've read some Silver Age Wonder Woman and Metal Men stories and I can say without hesitation that they might be the wackiest DC comics series of them all!

Get 'em Eryk!

The Wonder Girl stories are my favorite. I've got several of the actual issues, so I enjoyed filling the gaps.

I can't wait for the next volume even though I have tons more of those comics.

I wish DC would do a Wonder Girl (with Wonder Tot mixed in) Archives. I enjoy them almost as much as I do the early Legion.

This has the potential to make me a Wonder Woman fan for the first time ever!

I'm not sure if the Robin Hood/Wonder Woman issue is part of the archive (its in the mid-late 50's) but its the perfect mix of wacky/Silver Age/kewlness. That's the first Wonder Woman story I read where I thought "wow, I don't know what the hell is going on, but I like it!"

I was just checking out all the Showcases that have been released the past couple of months!

I think I'm going for Wonder Woman and Batgirl for my next purchase!

Give us a review of the Batgirl one, ok? I am not sure if I wanna buy that one of not.

Well, I actually just bought WW this weekend, and it is indeed fantastic! It's kind of inspiring how kewl it is actually!

The groovy thing about it is that it really has a lot of the feel of classic myths/folk tales, but with obvious aspects of mid-twentieth century concerns thrown in. So, the "land of the giants" becomes "the planet/dimension of the giants", and the classic sea monster attacking ships becomes dinosaurs from space attacking atomic submarines and stuff!

And the Wonder Girl stories are especially awesome!

I was gonna get BATGIRL next, but all this WW talk has me reconsidering...

I'm sure BATGIRL is awesome, but I can't imagine it has anything as groovy as Wonder Girl being repeatedly thwarted in her attempts to blow out the candles on her Birthday cake!

HEY! The early Detective story where Babs gets a run in her tights and is too busy putting on lipstick to fight crime ROCKS!