Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #177

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:07:14 +0000

Love the site – you do an awesome job ! What’s up with #178- why doesn’t it show up ? Has anyone let you know it’s missing ?

By: Nick Pitter

Nick Pitter — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:16:18 +0000

Why didn’t the Academy try to give away Bette Davis’ Oscar that year? It was her second, as well.

I wonder how much that “Dick Tracy” statue would go for on eBay today.

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By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:20:47 +0000

The character’s name is The Monitor, but I think everyone calls him The Anti-Monitor to distinguish him from the other character called The Monitor.

By: Aaron Strange

Aaron Strange — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:21:55 +0000

I’ve been reading Crisis (& blogging about it) for the first time — yeah, in TPB. One bit I find especially odd is that the villain is only called the Anti-Monitor on the cover of issue 6. In the story itself, he’s “the Monitor.” Any idea why that is?

By: Lothor

Lothor — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:31:51 +0000

Wolfman tells the whole Monitor story, pretty much as it appears here, in the introduction to the Crisis trade paperback, so Iâ€™m not sure where Jonathan got his info on that one.

Maybe he never got or read the TPB? I know I haven’t. I for one got it in single-issue format. Not everyone gets trades, especially if they’ve already got the story in floppies. Some of us like having single issues.

By: Kirth

Kirth — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:40:15 +0000

Just as long as someone DIES, Dan D will approve it.

At least at Marvel people only get tortured by the heroes.

Or was that the readers?

By: Ricardo Amaral

Ricardo Amaral — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:54:47 +0000

Nira-Q is very likely the next Supergirl, who is gonna be revamped in about 6 issues, along with a new Manhunter book, starting from #47 or so.

By: Eric Henry

Eric Henry — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:44:21 +0000

Is it just me or does that whole Jor-L and Nira-Q dynamic seem a tad reminiscent of Pat Ryan and the Dragon Lady from ‘Terry and the Pirates’?

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:52:59 +0000

WHOA!!!

And then Superman cries. And Bryan Singer has the plot to his next Superman movie.

By: jccalhoun

jccalhoun — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:49:28 +0000

Or it could be revealed that Jor-L not only sent his son to Earth but through time as well so that, from our perspective Krypton hasn’t exploded yet. So Superman thinks Krypton is dead and gone but, as it turns out, it won’t explode until the future — of course once Superman finds this out he goes to Krypton only to accidentally cause Krypton to explode! So Superman is part of a time loop!

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:20:46 +0000

Okay, so, Jor-L knew Krypton was going to explode and put his son in a rocket to escape a doomed planet…

or DID HE?!?

In a stunning retcon, the stress causing Krypton to explode was due to Jor-L’s TIME TRAVEL EXPERIMENTS!!!! Yes, he tried to bring Krypton to the future – LITERALLY!- and put his son in a rocket in case the experiment failed. Superman thought his world was dead, but KRYPTON YET LIVED… IN THE FUTURE!! Kal-El (“El” being an English corruption of “L”) discovers this with the Legion of Superheroes! (Krypton was hidden from detection thanks to SCIENCE!!!) There’s tearful reunion, and then, ironically, Krypton REALLY EXPLODES!!!!!!

Geoff, you can have that one for free.

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:49:13 +0000

Personally, I’d be all for Jor-L having been a space cop at some point, but I imagine that if they introduced that part of his history, it would inevitably lead to a new Superman villain: his half-brother, the son of Jor-L and Nira-Q. And nobody wants that.

By: Ortiz

Ortiz — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:13:32 +0000

“Eric Grant wrote:
Because heâ€™s the Superman of Zur-en-Arhh. Duh!”

That was funny. .

Good legends this week. Peace.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:43:08 +0000

With Spider-Girl getting canceled (again) I figured I’d ask this.
I heard that Tom DeFalco’s contract when he was EIC of Marvel requires him to _always_ have a monthly comic coming out from Marvel. And since he was happy writing Spider-Girl Marvel felt it was easier to just let that come out rather than finding another comic to put him on?
I guess if once Spider-Girl ends DeFalco ends up on another title we’ll know?

By: comixkid2099

comixkid2099 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:45:29 +0000

“Interesting coincidence with Jor-Lâ€¦ according to those Russell Keaton-drawn strips that recently surfaced, Superman was originally going to be from the future tooâ€¦ hmmâ€¦”

This was revealed to be Superman’s origin in Red Son, by Mark Millar. Maybe Millar had heard about the incident you refered to?

By: comixkid2099

comixkid2099 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:44:31 +0000

“Was it ever explained WHY the Monitor was selling information to villains and cackling maniacally about it? I mean, basically the majority of his pre-Crisis appearances are as a cackling supernasty version of the modern-day Calculator.”

In the Crisis maxi series there is one line explaining his motives. He tells the heroes he was trying to prepare them for the coming crisis by selling weapons and information to the villains, essentially making everything difficult for the heroes. Personally, i saw that explanation as silly.

By: Squashua

Squashua — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:12:53 +0000

Jor-L; I can see him slightly older in the year 3010, placing his son in a time machine to send him into the past where he will be safe and can guide humanity.

By: Jono11

Jono11 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:00:46 +0000

“Spencer Tracy didnâ€™t want to give Father Flannigan his Oscar?”–Leave him alone, he earned the damn thing. The whole reason for being a performer is to stroke your ego, so let him have his ego trophy. Leave the man alone.

Was it ever explained WHY the Monitor was selling information to villains and cackling maniacally about it? I mean, basically the majority of his pre-Crisis appearances are as a cackling supernasty version of the modern-day Calculator.