Anyone remember the flap that accompanied DC's pulping of its Elseworlds 80-Page Giant before it was even published? Because of an allegedly too-violent story about Superman's babysitter? You know, the only story from that collection that actually saw print, albeit in the Bizarro Comics hardback a few years later?
Well, a few thousand copies did escape pulping, the controversy is officially ten years old now, and whatever objections DC may have had to its publication are long since irrelevant in a DCU where horrific, nihilistic violence is the norm. What better time, then, to trot out a great feature by Mark Waid and Ty Templeton that would have shown some never-were-but-should-have-been imaginary stories from a Silver Age that never was? I've seen the whole Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, folks, and this is probably the best thing from it, so enjoy!
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Man you are like everything I want to be in a blog...I'd be honored if you checked out my nascent fumblings~
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A classic set. Also up there, at least for me: the return of the Super-Sons!
This is the awesomest of all things that were ever declared to be awesome. "Clayfish," ha ha ha ha hah!
Soooo ... the Joker as metaphorical "Bat-Schlong"?
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The Super Sons story ("Superman, Jr. Is No More") from that Elseworlds 80-page Giant has also been published, in "Superman/Batman: Saga of the Super Sons". See here: http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=393945
Clever stuff!
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