Ok, fine. I've been a good little trooper. I have waited through multiple crisis events, 52-Card Pickups, and Blackest Days, and I have been as patient as one dude can be. Enough is enough. With the revolving door on coffins, crypts, and whatnot, I can only say this in the most gentle terms possible....
BRING FRIGGIN TED KORD BACK. RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW!!!!!
I don't want any time loops, cannibal clones, ring-bearing zombies or other nonsense. I want the real-deal. I want to see (IMHO) the funniest, neatest, most-down-to-earth everyman non-powered hero that was ever written. I want my bloody "Bwa-hahahaha!"
I'm serious. I'm gonna act up serious cranky if someone doesn't stop mucking around and make it happen. Someone is going to get a visit from the "slap-fairy" if this is not resolved most riky-tik.
There. Got that off my chest.
*quickly and quietly administers Grendal's meds*
ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker
ooh, I'll have some of what he's having, please!
Doesn't it sort of beautifully attest to his "everyman superhero" image that he hasn't come back to life?
Don't worry, DC is slowly making the rounds of horribly killing legacy characters, particularly non-white ones, and returning to the Silver Age status quo. Give them a little while, I'm sure they'll get around to Blue Beetle.
Quote from: Panther_Gunn on June 28, 2010, 11:12:50 PM
ooh, I'll have some of what he's having, please!
*quickly and quietly administers Panther_Gunn's meds, for he is such a good boy for asking so politely*
ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker
Grendal I feel exactly the same way. Ted Kord is the reason I started reading DC in the first place, though frankly he only truly shines when Giffen and DeMatteis are writing him(with Maguire's pencils of course). The only small comfort I can take is that at least with him dead no other writers can screw him up (too much). I'll leave it at that, Lord knows I could go on about this for days on end.
I loved the JLA Classified series.
If DeMatteis, Giffen and Maguire wanted to do a six-parter JLA story featuring their favourite characters, they could. No messing around resurrecting them and relegating newer (non-white) versions to obscurity, no pretending there's a coherent storyline to the entire fictional universe, just "Hey, here's a story with Blue Beetle, Elongated Man and the others goofing around."
I'd echo two points here - Blue Beetle is only really himself when those guys write him, and DC needs another white boy returning from the grave like a hole in the head these days.
I loved the eulogy Gale Simone gave him in Birds of Prey, with Black canary saying that the only time Justice League meetings were fun was when he attended.
Hey gents,
Nice to see that there are at least a few TK fans out there as well. I have most of the issues from the Len Wein series, where I thought he was treated rather well. There were elements of humor, but he stood on his own there, and not as half of "Blue and Gold"...which was enjoyable in its own right.
Back in the late 80s, I had a professor (and later academic adviser) who went to (and still uses) the same comic book store I did (and still do). For the latter half of my academic career, and even now, 20 years later, he still calls me "Ted". Halloween of 1988, I showed up for a test in his class in a Blue Beetle costume.
Good times.
Generation Lost is an interesting read right now (and the only current DC comic i'm reading) - it's not quite "bwa-hahaha" but still funy in it's own way, and how they've incorporated Jaime is interesting... something was bouncing ted's JLI distress signal off jaime's armor somehow... just might lead somewhere
wouyld be interesting if ted kord became the steve rogers of the marvel u.
but funnier.