Re: [BNW] Rising Stars (was What is BNW like? (longish))

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>--- Steve Crow <crow_steve@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As a counter-example, when DC revealed in...oh, 88'?
> >  90'? whenever
> > "Invasion" came out that there was a meta-human gene
> > that gave most folks
> > their superpowers, which contradicted hordes of
> > stories from the last 50+
> > years, DC sales have continued to hold.  So one last
> > example of a
> > _successful_ attempt at this idea.
>
>MOST is different than ALL
>

Umm, at least one of them was an alien police-type, wasn't he?  Or did he 
end up getting some powers in the White Event, too?

But even if true, a moot point without substantiation of the original 
contention that this kind of inconsistent "one origin" storyline led to the 
line's failure in the first place.  Could you cite _any_ source that claimed 
that NU's storyline approach was a contributing factor in its cancellation.

As opposed to (as I recall in my dim and foggy memory) the somewhat mediocre 
artwork, generally lousy writing (football heroes like Kickers Inc. turned 
into superheroes strike me as a hard concept to get over no matter _how_ 
they got their powers ;) , and the so-so characterization (I remember 
Psi-Force, thank you very much! - if I wanted to read Forever People, I 
would head over to DC and read Forever People).

The best source I can find concerning its cancellation (which doesn't 
comment on the factor you seem to have a problem with, although it doesn't 
cite much of anything else either) can be found at:

http://www.atomiccomics.com/ccmnu.htm

(also good for those wondering what the hell we're talking about)

There's a pretty humorous reference to it, and a lot of humor in general, 
at:

http://toywonder.simplenet.com/SlowDoctorDoom3.htm

But in any case, thanks for bringing back some fond (and not so fond) 
memories...  :)

>-Munch Wolf
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Steve Crow

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