Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Superman changes meet mass media Message-ID: <36000066@uiucdcs> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 19:07:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.36000066 Posted: Thu Nov 7 19:07:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 06:48:37 EST References: <473@mhuxr.UUCP> Lines: 29 Nf-ID: #R:mhuxr.UUCP:473:uiucdcs:36000066:000:1067 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Nov 7 18:07:00 1985 > A local radio station ran a brief item this morning > on the 'revitalization' of Superman. It sounded like > DC had held a press conference announcing the change, > which was picked up by the 'source' news network. > > Highlights: > Noel Neill voicing her regrets on tampering with an > American legend. > I doubt she knows what happened with the character over the last 30 years or what exactly Byrne is planning to do. I think the Byrne Superman will be much closer to the TV Superman than the 3-times-as-powerful-as-God version of the 60's through present is. > > Addendum (from the Wash. post) > ..."The new Superman is no big deal, said Dim Shooter, > editor in chief of Marvel, who wrote Superman himself > in the '60s. Editors were stricter then, Shooter > said, but now 'creative anarchy' reigns at DC Comics". "Creative anarchy"? Sounds like a compliment to me! Glad to see the Shooter acknowledges that DC, in contrast to Marvel, is creative. Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"