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I’d Have Apollo an Official Analogue of Superman
Remember when they had that Countdown: Arena mini-series where different variations of each character from different Earths of the Multiverse fought each other? In that series, Apollo (of the Authority) was a variation of…the Ray??!?!?
I’d make Apollo what he should be – an official analogue of Superman.
7 Comments
Jason
March 16, 2009 at 12:10 am
I was pretty shocked by this as well, although isn’t his use as a Superman in Final Crisis kind of acknowledgment of this being true?
I have fond memories of Arena. It wasn’t exactly golden story telling, but me and my room mate read our copies together at the same time every week and had a riot either laughing at the absurdity or just enjoying the fights.
Dan
March 16, 2009 at 1:54 am
Enh, I understood it. Apollo was always more reliant on solar energy than Superman, so the relation made sense. Plus, officially, Majestic is the Wildstorm Superman analogue.
DanLarkin
March 16, 2009 at 6:32 am
The Ray? That’s pretty stupid. Sometimes I get the feeling that some of the people at DC don’t actually read their own comics. I wonder if the gay thing bothered them?
chad
March 16, 2009 at 6:41 am
as much as Apollo should be another worlds version of superman DC would never okay the change.
Lynxara
March 16, 2009 at 7:04 am
I’d say in this regard Final Crisis putting Apollo in the army of interdimensional Supermen counts a lot more than anything that happened in Countdown.
In fact, I’d like to propose that nothing that happened in Countdown counts, because it’s possibly the single worst and most ill-advised book that DC put out that year. (If you kept up with DC’s horrible output that year: yes, that’s saying a lot.)
Squashua
March 16, 2009 at 7:17 am
You know what I’d do? I’d have the powers-that-be re acknowledge the bowm-chikka-wow-wow between The Ray and Black Canary, and have that be a plot point with Green Arrow.
Scavenger
March 16, 2009 at 8:20 am
Plus, officially, Majestic is the Wildstorm Superman analogue.
Word. He got written by Alan Moore!