Look how they are promoting it on ABC!
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-10-23 at 08:21:16 AM
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When I saw the topic header, I flashed on the possibility of writing an article on him. But he's too minor a supporting character to warrant that treatment. Anybody have another idea what I should post on the 31st? I've already done one on Oona Goosepimple, a supporting character I did deem major enough, at least on the day I wrote it.
I'm also thinking I should come up with something to post on Election Day, but I've already done Super President. I was thinking of writing up Luthor, and maybe that would be an appropriate one. Trouble is, there've been too many versions of him.
I can sort of reconcile the red-haired East European dictator he started out as with the bald American criminal scientist who escaped jail so often he never got out of his prison uniform, which is the first Luthor I knew. I can even work in the guy who wore superhero tights and made hiself a good guy on another planet. Even the fact that he was given a first name in the '60s isn't too bad.
But there's too sharp a break between him and the version who looks and acts just like The Kingpin. He's positively a different character. It's certainly two articles instead of one, titled "Luthor" and "Lex Luthor". I can't see myself doing it any other way. I mean, a convicted felon becoming president? Come on!
I've done villain articles before, but only the best of the best -- The Joker, Doctor Doom etc. (I'm thinking of doing The Phantom Blot.) They tended to emerge fully grown from their creators' skulls, but Luthor is a continuity freak's nightmare.
Anyway, we're off the subject of The Great Pumpkin. I'll take a look at that promo.
Quack, Don
I'm also thinking I should come up with something to post on Election Day, but I've already done Super President. I was thinking of writing up Luthor, and maybe that would be an appropriate one. Trouble is, there've been too many versions of him.
I can sort of reconcile the red-haired East European dictator he started out as with the bald American criminal scientist who escaped jail so often he never got out of his prison uniform, which is the first Luthor I knew. I can even work in the guy who wore superhero tights and made hiself a good guy on another planet. Even the fact that he was given a first name in the '60s isn't too bad.
But there's too sharp a break between him and the version who looks and acts just like The Kingpin. He's positively a different character. It's certainly two articles instead of one, titled "Luthor" and "Lex Luthor". I can't see myself doing it any other way. I mean, a convicted felon becoming president? Come on!
I've done villain articles before, but only the best of the best -- The Joker, Doctor Doom etc. (I'm thinking of doing The Phantom Blot.) They tended to emerge fully grown from their creators' skulls, but Luthor is a continuity freak's nightmare.
Anyway, we're off the subject of The Great Pumpkin. I'll take a look at that promo.
Quack, Don
