Adventures Of Superman #596

[divad]

What a party pooper - who pissed in your Cheerios?

[Aweandlorder]

Im not upset when theres discussion related to a book and its impacts in our society.

 

Then please enlighten us on the vast importance of a tiny part of a piece of fiction being almost, kind of, a little bit similar to reality.

 

Even comic collectors don't really care about AoS596 and never have!

 

We all know that this book came out a day after the 9/11 attacks according to the overwhelming majority of reports found online.

To question that would be understandable.

To argue that would be juvenile and counterproductive as it is truly irrelevant to this topic's subject.

 

Only the coincidental timing of an image with two damaged towers makes this issue even remotely notable. So it is very relevant.

 

I'm not arguing against the timing, and some areas having the release delayed is actually irrelevant.

 

In fact, this books eerie resemblance to the events that happened the day before published would seem even scarier had this book been published a week or month before

 

Eerie resemblance? First, Metropolis is a partial analog of NYC, but it is not NYC. Second, I don't remember the part of the story where the Lexcorp Towers (which are not the WTC) collapsed. Third, the towers weren't even hit by anything, let alone airplanes. Fourth, the actual damage occurred in the storyline that ran during the previous three (or so) months. Fifth, I remember Y2K being fairly uneventful in our world, without a future intelligence reshaping NYC and weaponizing the WTC towers.

 

Besides, property damage on a 9/11 scale (or greater) is a fairly regular occurrence in the DCU (and in the Marvel Universe). The same storyline that resulted in that image from AoS596 also saw large-scale destruction in Kansas, with Topeka being the epicenter.

 

I have no idea what youve just said dude. Seriously

 

Sorry

 

I tried

[Aweandlorder]

And thank you for analyzing my post so meticulously.

 

Im truly honored

 

 

[the authority]

The irony was the smoke rolling out of the twin towers in the book and in our own lives. I can't speak for anyone else but I cared. I'd been reading comics maybe 21 or 22 years or so when this book came out. It was the first where collateral or even direct damage (including Kingdom Come ) really stood out to me. Civil War was the second time that comes to mind. The visual of it all was much more powerful than saying 3000+ people were murdered.

 

The date is less important to me than the time period. They drew the picture well before the WTC was attacked. It also stood out to me because it did happen to Metropolis, not Gotham. Metropolis was more how I viewed NYC prior to the attacks while Gotham would better reflect NYC today. Issue #596 is a bookmark of the before and after in comics since 9/11.

[valiantman]

The irony was the smoke rolling out of the twin towers in the book and in our own lives. I can't speak for anyone else but I cared. I'd been reading comics maybe 21 or 22 years or so when this book came out. It was the first where collateral or even direct damage (including Kingdom Come ) really stood out to me. Civil War was the second time that comes to mind. The visual of it all was much more powerful than saying 3000+ people were murdered.

 

The date is less important to me than the time period. They drew the picture well before the WTC was attacked. It also stood out to me because it did happen to Metropolis, not Gotham. Metropolis was more how I viewed NYC prior to the attacks while Gotham would better reflect NYC today. Issue #596 is a bookmark of the before and after in comics since 9/11.

Amazing Spider-man volume 2 #36 (2001) is that book that divides the before and after for me... but the image of smoke near the top of both towers in AoS #596 is very evocative. Many other comics are popular now for significantly less meaningful reasons (random-mashup-gwens, for example).

[the authority]

That ASM #36 is probably THE 9/11 book for most of us. It felt important then and still does today. Its been almost 15 years since those came out. It sure doesn't feel like it.

[Aweandlorder]

The irony was the smoke rolling out of the twin towers in the book and in our own lives. I can't speak for anyone else but I cared. I'd been reading comics maybe 21 or 22 years or so when this book came out. It was the first where collateral or even direct damage (including Kingdom Come ) really stood out to me. Civil War was the second time that comes to mind. The visual of it all was much more powerful than saying 3000+ people were murdered.

 

The date is less important to me than the time period. They drew the picture well before the WTC was attacked. It also stood out to me because it did happen to Metropolis, not Gotham. Metropolis was more how I viewed NYC prior to the attacks while Gotham would better reflect NYC today. Issue #596 is a bookmark of the before and after in comics since 9/11.

 

Well said my friend. Well said

 

 

Never forget

 

[divad]

The irony was the smoke rolling out of the twin towers in the book and in our own lives. I can't speak for anyone else but I cared. I'd been reading comics maybe 21 or 22 years or so when this book came out. It was the first where collateral or even direct damage (including Kingdom Come ) really stood out to me. Civil War was the second time that comes to mind. The visual of it all was much more powerful than saying 3000+ people were murdered.

 

The date is less important to me than the time period. They drew the picture well before the WTC was attacked. It also stood out to me because it did happen to Metropolis, not Gotham. Metropolis was more how I viewed NYC prior to the attacks while Gotham would better reflect NYC today. Issue #596 is a bookmark of the before and after in comics since 9/11.

 

Whenever I get back to The City, I take the subway to Brooklyn and walk back over the BBridge to to enjoy the NY skyline (and the bridge, of course). I remember the first occasion after 9/11 - Man, was I pissed off!

[the authority]

The irony was the smoke rolling out of the twin towers in the book and in our own lives. I can't speak for anyone else but I cared. I'd been reading comics maybe 21 or 22 years or so when this book came out. It was the first where collateral or even direct damage (including Kingdom Come ) really stood out to me. Civil War was the second time that comes to mind. The visual of it all was much more powerful than saying 3000+ people were murdered.

 

The date is less important to me than the time period. They drew the picture well before the WTC was attacked. It also stood out to me because it did happen to Metropolis, not Gotham. Metropolis was more how I viewed NYC prior to the attacks while Gotham would better reflect NYC today. Issue #596 is a bookmark of the before and after in comics since 9/11.

 

Whenever I get back to The City, I take the subway to Brooklyn and walk back over the BBridge to to enjoy the NY skyline (and the bridge, of course). I remember the first occasion after 9/11 - Man, was I pissed off!

 

[PBK78]

The irony was the smoke rolling out of the twin towers in the book and in our own lives. I can't speak for anyone else but I cared. I'd been reading comics maybe 21 or 22 years or so when this book came out. It was the first where collateral or even direct damage (including Kingdom Come ) really stood out to me. Civil War was the second time that comes to mind. The visual of it all was much more powerful than saying 3000+ people were murdered.

 

The date is less important to me than the time period. They drew the picture well before the WTC was attacked. It also stood out to me because it did happen to Metropolis, not Gotham. Metropolis was more how I viewed NYC prior to the attacks while Gotham would better reflect NYC today. Issue #596 is a bookmark of the before and after in comics since 9/11.

 

Whenever I get back to The City, I take the subway to Brooklyn and walk back over the BBridge to to enjoy the NY skyline (and the bridge, of course). I remember the first occasion after 9/11 - Man, was I pissed off!

 

3 days after the attack going over the brooklyn bridge, not a dry eye in the train car.

[Aweandlorder]

I lost 2 dear friends in those horrible attacks.. One of which was a collector.. A father to 2 wonderful kids...

Both were hard working Americans. Good guys

 

 

[Aweandlorder]

The irony was the smoke rolling out of the twin towers in the book and in our own lives. I can't speak for anyone else but I cared. I'd been reading comics maybe 21 or 22 years or so when this book came out. It was the first where collateral or even direct damage (including Kingdom Come ) really stood out to me. Civil War was the second time that comes to mind. The visual of it all was much more powerful than saying 3000+ people were murdered.

 

The date is less important to me than the time period. They drew the picture well before the WTC was attacked. It also stood out to me because it did happen to Metropolis, not Gotham. Metropolis was more how I viewed NYC prior to the attacks while Gotham would better reflect NYC today. Issue #596 is a bookmark of the before and after in comics since 9/11.

 

Whenever I get back to The City, I take the subway to Brooklyn and walk back over the BBridge to to enjoy the NY skyline (and the bridge, of course). I remember the first occasion after 9/11 - Man, was I pissed off!

 

3 days after the attack going over the brooklyn bridge, not a dry eye in the train car.

 

I remember driving on the BQE/278 across the E river from ground zero... WEEKS after the attacks.. There was STILL debris flying in the air..