…(waits for the inevitable “OMG but it *IS* ASS haw haw!” jabs)

You can find a scan of the card here: http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.1098.Make_Mine_Marvel:_Marvel_Universe_Cards_Series_2|

(Sauron is number 71)

The scan’s a little fuzzy, but it does look like there are two topless females (and one female with a bikini top), and that one of the girls (on the right side of the card), is proudly displaying nipples.

Art Adams, you dog! How’d that get past?

And, “Tunnel in the Sky” is one of my favorite books – I’d much have rater seen it or “Have Spacesuit, will Travel” turned into a movie, than that horrid bastardization of “Starship Troopers”

The writers and producers of the Troopers movie franchise are clueless about the real setting of the book. All persons had all rights EXCEPT voting, and voting was gotten through ANY form of government service – not just the military – but being in the military just got you voting rights quicker, some branches quicker than others (there is dialogue actually referring to this in the book). The more likely you were to die (or more essential to humanity’s defense) in your service branch, the quicker the voting rights came. One might have to work a decade as a logistics clerk to become enfranchised, as opposed to 2-3 for a soldier. And, the hero of the book chose the most dangerous service of all, partially misguided in his choice by his high school view of the world, but rose to the occasion once in service.

Someone invoking the term “creative bankruptcy” is probably not going to decide Carlin’s work suddenly had all kinds of validity just because it sold pretty well. He’s just saying the stories were bad and uncreative, which isn’t an uncommon sentiment about the Triangle Number era of Supes.

The question is:

Did the DC Comics writers intend there to be a connection between New God character “Metron” and Master of the Universe character “Zodac, the Cosmic Enforcer”?

I understand you covered the MotU Movie / New Gods Movie connection but my question is different as follows:

The classic Zodac toy was a dude with red space armor and a laser pistol. Originally billed as an Evil warrior, the accompanying EARLY literature had him as more of a neutral keeper of balance, which was what followed ever since.

When he was presented in both the toy-included comic books (apparently all written by DC before Mattel took over) and the short-lived DC Comic series/insert (prior to Marvel’s Epic-line MotU series), if I recall correctly, Zodac flew around in a chair (much like Metron) and did cosmic “stuff”. The Zodac toy did not come with this chair, but if you look at the chair in the manner in which it was drawn, it is identical to the throne that comes with the original Castle Greyskull playset. There was no reason for him to use the chair, but when you go think about it, Zodac of the DC Comics issue(s) is pretty much intended to be Metron.

Is there a connection? Would it be possible to ask the writer(s) of the DC material for MotU?

Here are some reference links (see DC Comics section):
http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/comics/html/index.shtml
http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/books/html/other/power_of_pointdread.shtml

He sunk Superman to an all-time low level of creative bankruptcy and confusion.

If you ignore the success that was the period when he had four titles a month, continuing the stories from book to book, and the death of superman, which made DC some serious cash.

I would love to become an executive at DC just so I could fire him. He sunk Superman to an all-time low level of creative bankruptcy and confusion.

Funny enough: the three best Superman series to come out in the past 15 years have been by Waid, Millar or Morrison!

You don’t like recent Superman comics. Other people do, and the difference of opinion isn’t reducible to “you’re smart, everyone on the other side is stupid.”

Actually, he’s not saying anything about recent one’s, he’s saying he doesn’t like the one’s from a few years ago, but not that far back.
Which is why it’s odd that he’s expecting us all to fight back and get outraged.

There are apparently other issues, but I have no real idea about them.

You have not made any points. You have expressed an opinion and not provided any evidence or precedent to back it up.

Maybe Brian can clear this up but I also read something similar to that in “Writers on comic scriptwriting” (interesting read if you like this sort of stuff) as told by Mark Waid. All I remember him saying though was that early on in his career while writing Flash/Impact? he was told by the high ups at DC that neither himself nor Grant Morrision would ever be allowed to write Superman. I believe he said something about they weren’t the write type of writers for Superman and never mentioned a purposal. Which seemed to me to be the reason Waid left DC because writing Superman was a life long dream that he could never fulfill. So it’s kind of funny that both eventually ending up writing him in the end.