From talk about Alan Moore’s little project with the “Charlton characters,” to discussions about comic pricess going over $1. They were very interesting stuff.

But what I really wanted to say is that I was convinced you were setting up a Lucky Charms joke with that coloring description!

SPOILER That it was a dream ruined it for me, just as those Imaginary Stories were “no good” because they weren’t real.

If you say they are all imaginary stories, my response is Oh. Shut. Up. ;)

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As for Superman: The Earth Stealers, well, it wasn’t very good. Always nice to see Curt Swan artwork, but under Ordway’s inks and Wray’s colors, it looked more like an Ordway book than one done by Swan. And Ordway’s good and all, but if it says Curt Swan, you want it to look like Curt Swan.

I’ll grant you the length — one volume with a beginning, middle and end is always easier to push on people — but the spotty reprint history’s a thing of the past: Moore’s entire run is now in TPB, and there are even a couple volumes collecting Rick Veitch’s terrific run on the character.

Ford: I think that one’s arguable either way. On the one hand, its length and spotty reprint history makes it difficult to push on people; on the other, it’s still remembered, and there was a character movie. :)

T: I tend to think a little constraint, whether physical (format, price) or artistic (nine-panel grid, a good editor for feedback) can spur greater heights.

I think Swamp Thing has stood the test of time. Sure, it doesn’t get write-ups in Time magazine like Watchmen or Dark Knight, but what the fuck do those people know?

It was Superman: The Earth Stealers. Not bad, but not Earth-shattering, either.