I don’t normally do two blog entries in one day, but I gotta share this one:
I’ve been informed by my editor on SUPERGIRL, Lysa Hawkins (who is also my editor on “The Fallen Angel”) that “Many Happy Returns”…SUPERGIRL #75-80…has performed so well that it’s going to be collected as a trade paperback when the run ends. So the first eight issues and the last six are collected. Interesting bookends.
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It’s always interesting to me how fans seek out precedents for things. It’s almost as if the crafting of stories is a huge “Where’s Waldo” to them as they try to determine where they’ve seen things in order to catch the writer out at something. I said in an earlier posting that fans don’t understand the concept of ideas, and that put some folks’ noses out of joint, but it remains true. One fan recently dismissed “Alias” claiming he doesn’t watch it because he watched it back when it was called “La Femme Nikita,” apparently thinking that since both series involve espionage and females, they were identical. Which, of course, is like dismissing “La Femme Nikita” as a knock-off of “The Avengers” or “Modesty Blaise.”
Currently fans are perceiving parallels in “Supergirl” to “Kingdom Come.” Truth time: With all deference to Mark Waid, a wonderful writer, I barely remember anything of the plot of KC. If anything, I was riffing “Terminator” (the methodical annihilation of females with the same name in order to eliminate a threat they pose in the future) and “A Tale of Two Cities” (with a lookalike substituting herself for another, doomed lookalike), with a dash of “Buffy” thrown in (evil master villain imprisoned and hoping cute blonde provides means of escape) for the long-time fans who apparently thought every issue was lifted from Joss Whedon.
Then again, I suppose it’s only fair. When “Kingdom Come” came out, as I recall fans claimed that certain sequences in KC were direct rip-offs of “The Last Avengers Story,” written by yours truly. So it comes full circle.
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