So have you seen this cartoon "Krypto: The Super Dog"? I went shopping today and that little ad on the back of the cart was for the show. Ugh.
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So have you seen this cartoon "Krypto: The Super Dog"? I went shopping today and that little ad on the back of the cart was for the show. Ugh.
It's awful. Krypto is a silver age thing, along with Beppo the Super Monkey, and Ace the Bat Hound (Who wore a little Bat-Mask and had thought baloons, and you thought Robin was dumb). Luckily everything but Krypto (For some unknown reason) was dumped. I think there was even a silver age CAT from Krypton!
A lot of stuff that came from the silver age is retarded, 'cept for Spiderman and some of his villains. Some of those are cool. And the X-Men. Look to Mervel comics for the cool Silver age. DC screwed the pooch (Krypto?) during the silver age. Marvel IS the Silver age.
Nowadays Krypto just guards the Fortress of Solitude. Though i think he should be dumped all together. I think Kal-El should be IT. There should be nothing else from Krypton but Braniac and Zod, there shouldn't even be a Supergirl (Even though she's grown on me).
One problem i have with comics is the tendency to rip off the Male characters to create female characters just like them. Supergirl, Batgirl, Spiderwoman, She-Hulk...
If you want to draw female readers, go the Wonder Woman route and *make a unique female Superheroine.* Don't Rip off your male characters to do so. Superman and Wonder Woman stand eye to eye, do Superman and Supergirl? No. They don't.
Also stop making seventeen different covers for the collectors to buy every one (with laminated trading card), since collecting to make money is a thing of the past... But i don't want to get into *everything* wrong with the comics industry.
That would be Streaky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madcap
I think that Supergirl had a super horse named Comet, but my memory may be faulty.
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I think you might be right. Though out of all of them, Ace the Bat-Hound with his little doggie Bat-Mask and his thought balloons was probably the most retarded. At least Krypto never got thought balloons!Quote:
Originally Posted by afxturnip
see and here i thought it was something new. it's apparently a saturday morning cartoon on cartoon network now. i'd never heard of him and i thought it was some inane new thing like the loonatics or something. (i was an x-men kid, with a splash of spiderman and savage sword of conan.)
Hint: Conan is from the 1930's pulp era. He's not really a comic book hero. He didn't see comics until the 70's and he first saw print in 1933 (or somewhere around there), Conan was mentioned by J.R.R. Tolkien (Author of Lord of the Rings) as something he "quite liked." You ain't SEEN Conan, till you read him from Howard.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrChristopher
Krypto is the bane of damn near all fans of Superman. He's from the late sixties, around the time the old *Pow* *Zap* *Bam* Batman show was on the air. It's one reason why the character of Superman is looked low. But we love him because he's not low. We love him because he's so fucking high we can only reach for him. Even Batman wishes he could be him. Wishes he could see the world like him. But he can't. He has to see the dark side, while Kal-el always sees the good.
You have to admit that the world would be better if we all could all see it like Kal-El sees it.
Ya can't deny one thing. The character of Superman has been a major force for good in the real world. He means something. Even if people make fun of him for wearing his undies on the outside (Though one wonders why they don't ask about Batman doing the same thing).