09-30-2023, 11:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-30-2023, 11:58 AM by Eric Cartman.)
Yeah, it was pretty fucking ballsy to have your main dude just fuck off somewhere else in the post-crisis where there weren't that many other capes around to cover things in their absence.
They did a similar thing with "The Trinity" in Countdown, which didn't work as well in showing a world without the big heroes, but did give some of the B-listers their time to shine, especially the former members of the JLI like Booster Gold and Elongated Man, but that was probably Giffens influence after all the work he'd done making them actual characters in JLI.
As for Gotham, even with its canonically Most-Cursed-Place-On-Earth status, is there anywhere in DC more populated with capes?
They've got more than the fucking JLA space station does. Even outside the Bat-Family you've got a bunch of mystical types like Jason Blood, Ragman, Deadman, plus your unaffiliated vigilantes / anti-heroes like Anarky, Vigilante, Mad Dog, Hitman, Creeper, The Question, the Riddler for a while etc. Plus OG Green Lantern!
They did a similar thing with "The Trinity" in Countdown, which didn't work as well in showing a world without the big heroes, but did give some of the B-listers their time to shine, especially the former members of the JLI like Booster Gold and Elongated Man, but that was probably Giffens influence after all the work he'd done making them actual characters in JLI.
As for Gotham, even with its canonically Most-Cursed-Place-On-Earth status, is there anywhere in DC more populated with capes?
They've got more than the fucking JLA space station does. Even outside the Bat-Family you've got a bunch of mystical types like Jason Blood, Ragman, Deadman, plus your unaffiliated vigilantes / anti-heroes like Anarky, Vigilante, Mad Dog, Hitman, Creeper, The Question, the Riddler for a while etc. Plus OG Green Lantern!