Okay, let's analyze these latest "Superman Prime" pages and see once again if the character isn't a critique on the so-called "fanboy mentality."
1. "I can't believe I found an Earth even lamer than the one I was stuck on." -- "Worst Earth Ever!"
2. "Cyborg shouldn't be a member of the Justice League." -- lingering institutionalized racism. Liked Black Panther when he wore the full mask and didn't have the African overtones.
3. "Or another fake Aquaman." -- though, to be fair, to really complete the "extreem fanboy" stereotype, he would have snuck a gay joke in there.
4. "This Wonder Woman's not that pretty. Not like my girlfriend Laurie." -- Dude is in denial. Uses insert from picture frame as photo of supposed girlfriend. Would have sex with WW in two seconds. Would have sex with WW's photo insert from picture frame in two seconds.
5. "The perfect universe is out there. Mine is out there. And if I had to rip apart the entire Multiverse..." -- Isn't this how we got in this "Countdown" mess in the first place?
Firstest?
ReplyDelete"This WW's not that pretty. Not like my girlfriend Laurie.... Well, she WILL be my girlfirend"
Don't even get me started on the whole stalker thing... *shakes head*
...Oh wait... I just started...
yay! Firstest!
ReplyDeleteI keep on waiting for him to start writing really bad poetry about how he's misunderstood, break out a Kryptonite razor, and start cutting himself while screaming "FOR YOUUUUUU!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteSuperemoboyman Prime listens to Nickelback?
ReplyDeleteI'm just saying.
Also: note similarity of character design to the suit Supes wore in Reign of the Supermen- co-incidence? Or a riff on fannishness circa 199X?
He is so very much the fanboy stand-in. But what's even better is that they've aged him, so he can represent the true source of all the ire: the Aging Fanboy.
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ReplyDeleteHrm... when I read the cyborg line I thought it was a remark bitching about how the Titans should always be stuck as permateenagers and never grow up and join the JLA rather than a racism bit.
ReplyDeleteBut I guess it could work both ways.
I love how they created those 52 Universes just so the ultimate (now aged!) angry fanboy could....go in and destroy them all.
ReplyDeletePlease Grant Morrison, hurry up and fix this shit.
Is anyone else saddened/enraged that they managed to keep this idiot kid around without the Superboy name but they felt the need to kill Conner?
ReplyDeleteI know I am...
That was awful. AWFUL. Who wrote that garbage?
ReplyDeleteAnd I know he can't be called Superboy Prime for legal reasnos, ubt shouldn't he still look like a boy?
Oddly enough, while I agree he was intended to be a fanboy parody, I think he works much better as a serviceable stand-in for Geoff Johns. He continually whines about how much better things used to be, and how dark and bleak they are now, yet he goes around killing people off in mass quantities.
ReplyDeleteWhy does Prime look like he's in his fifties? Wasn't he just a teenager one crisis ago?
ReplyDeleteI agree, Conner needs to come back. At least they still mention him (Wonder Girl, Teen Titans, etc). So he's not totally dead yet.
ReplyDelete"This WW's not that pretty. Not like my girlfriend Laurie.... Well, she WILL be my girlfirend"
ReplyDeleteGiven the tone of the comic, I read that to mean that WW would be his "girlfriend." After Superman Prime killed her and raped her corpse.
DC turned into a snuff-pornographer so gradually, I never noticed.
Emo man indeed. He and Penance/Speedball need to get together...
ReplyDeleteHEY! I just realized something: I really want The God-damn Batman to be Superman-Prime's World's Dickiest!
ReplyDeleteAlso I really like Superman-Prime for all the reasons people hate him. Go audience critique!
ReplyDeleteI take umbridge at Countdown being called a mess. Seems pretty straight forward to me...but then, I forgot how cool it is to dislike Countdown.
ReplyDeleteNever had much luck being one of the cool kids.
"I take umbridge at Countdown being called a mess. Seems pretty straight forward to me...but then, I forgot how cool it is to dislike Countdown.
ReplyDeleteNever had much luck being one of the cool kids."
Well, some people probably take umbridge at the implication that if you think Countdown stinks, its because you're trying hard to be cool and not purely because you think its full of bad art, horrendous dialogue, every fanfic piece of continuity porn you can think of, an unstoppable, never ending tide of spinoffs and tie-ins that never have a conclusion and much more besides.