Guess who's back?
I guess you can't keep a good Robot Fighter down for long. And one suspects Jim Shooter is extending a huge middle finger at DC right now.
This raises another question, though. A lot of the comic book companies these days are spending mucho dinero and investing much effort to resurrect past superheroic creations: Marvel gloms Marvelman and brings back public domain golden agers; the DC Borg Collective assimilates the Milestone, Red Circle and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agent universes; Dynamite resurrects 175,000 public domain Golden Agers; and now Dark Horse brings back the Gold Key portion of the Valiant line. Heck, I'm now have expecting someone to announce a Warriors of Plasm revival next week...
The question is, why the recent groundswell of reviving old, derelict properties? A attempt to make bucks based on rampant nostalgia for franchises many fans don't even remember? A tacit admission of a lack of creative imagination, a sub rosa confession that the companies really can't come up with any new properties of their own anymore? An attempt to make sure that when Hollywood studios come around with their fat option checks, they'll have something "new" to sell them?
I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing (although I predict dismal, flaming failure followed by a thorough under-the-carpet sweeping for DC's attempts to integrate 3 disparate continuities into their recently re-convoluted universe). I'm just curious about the trend, that's all.
Meanwhile, welcome back, Magnus. May you fight many robots, you magnificent bastard.
The question is, why the recent groundswell of reviving old, derelict properties? A attempt to make bucks based on rampant nostalgia for franchises many fans don't even remember? A tacit admission of a lack of creative imagination, a sub rosa confession that the companies really can't come up with any new properties of their own anymore? An attempt to make sure that when Hollywood studios come around with their fat option checks, they'll have something "new" to sell them?
I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing (although I predict dismal, flaming failure followed by a thorough under-the-carpet sweeping for DC's attempts to integrate 3 disparate continuities into their recently re-convoluted universe). I'm just curious about the trend, that's all.
Meanwhile, welcome back, Magnus. May you fight many robots, you magnificent bastard.