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On March 24th, 1984, five teenagers met at 7:00AM, on a Saturday morning, to serve detention.

In real life, whenever I happen to get into superhero movie discussions, I kinda get a kick out of dropping some comic book trivia that it was the 1950's communist russian Red Skull (technically Red Skull #3 since it's not convoluted enough), who was responsible for the deaths of Spider-Man's parents in the funny books.

It's amusing to watch, almost without fail, their eyes just glaze over by that statement. haha

The script involving a decidedly less sympathetic Doc Ock, whom is responsible for the deaths of Peter's parents, certainly has shades of Batman 1989.

I'm sure the comparison would've been made, but who's to really say how that would have gone over with the fans? Since deviating from the comic source doesn't seem to get the amount of critique with the MCU, as it does with DC.

Could just be a Superman/Batman thing though.

Rest In Peace, Mr. Hackman.

Horrible news. Guess I'll be watching Superman: The Movie, in honor of the man, tonight. Maybe Crimson Tide as well, if time permits.

R.I.P.

And now the game has been confirmed as being canceled.

Admittedly, this game was never really on my radar, and I had no idea it already accumulated over $100 million in developing costs.

Oh well. It's only money.

Huh ... I had no idea. That's pretty cool.

I remember back when "Infinite Crisis" was in full swing, with that banger of a splash page at the end of issue #1, that it would be pretty cool if the Pre-Crisis Superman would return as well. I recall that I had a short-lived theory (prior to Alexander Luthor Junior revealing himself to Lex as being the imposter), that the reason for Post-Crisis Lex experiencing headaches/memory loss, was that it was actually the Pre-Crisis Earth-1 Lex somehow reasserting himself over his Post-Crisis doppelganger.

Going off memory, there seemed to be a 50/50 debate on what was actually going on with Pre-Crisis Superman over on the DC Comics message board at the time. As there was a good portion who viewed Pre-Crisis Supes as being integrated into the Post-Crisis Superman (essentially making him the same being), while just as many viewed Pre-Crisis Supes as being just as distinct/separate as Earth-Two Superman is to Post-Crisis Superman.

Yes, it's a convoluted topic, and no, I didn't think Infinite Crisis really shed any light on the topic and left things rather vague. I'm still not sure if it's really been definitively answered. I seem to remember Doomsday Clock bringing up a Earth-1985, which presumably could be a retitled Pre-Crisis Earth-1, but I think all that was thrown away for Death's Metal or however many tortuous Crisis/reality altering events that subsequently followed since then. 

A Jim Steranko double page spread from Superman #400.



Not sure if anyone remembers the old DC Comics message board from back in the day, but I remember being curious about what was the general consensus on Pre-Crisis Superman's final adventure before the Post-Crisis era fully kicked in. From what I remember, the majority went with Superman #400, though noted that there was a (I think) DC Comics Presents issue (decidedly featuring the Pre-Crisis Superman) that came out right around the time of Byrne's Man of Steel, or right afterwards.

Technically, making it Pre-CrisiS Supes final adventure before the dawn of the Post-Crisis era, though Superman #400 being considered more of a grand exit.