Originally published February 2, 2001, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1420
Once upon a time in comics, it was simple: No one really gave a dámņ about what other people were doing.
So when a new origin for a character cropped up, it needed no reason other than that a writer or editor (or both) had come up with what they thought was an interesting twist on the hero’s origin. Or perhaps it was nothing more complicated than that they had a ten-page space to fill that month and they were fresh out of ideas for new stories, so they decided to recycle the hero’s birth one more time.
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