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I've had reservations about DeFalco writing DC characters before, but this has really been very bad.
They could have done the same origin, merge in parts of brin's old origin, and everyone would have been happy (and it would have made a better origin than BatWerine. :/
Is it wrong of me to say that I'm waiting impatiently for this series to be cancelled and the characters to be reabsorbed in LSH?
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From: Edinburgh, Scotland | Registered: Oct 2004
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I'll join in with the dislike. Full disclosure: I was never much a Timber Wolf fan to begin with. But making him into such a generic feral/angry/revenge character strips what little there was of interest in the character that I did have. I just didn't see the point of this update when the original had more going for it (or even the animated origin, which struck a better balance).
From: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | Registered: Sep 2004
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I find myself loving both the animated and 'classic' and Threeboot Timber Wolves, but not caring at all for 'Furball' or this new Wolverine-clone that Levitz has been using.
It's kind of head-spinny that there were already four different versions of this character running around, and Paul has felt the need to re-invent this particular wheel a fifth sprocking time.
And since this latest re-invention, IMO, isn't as good as at least three of the four previous incarnations, I'm left wondering what the heck the writers / editorial / whomever were smoking in the first place.
Change to make things *better,* is cool. Changing up his origin to bring in the Animated concept that Papa Londo was a 'let's turn people into bioweapons and sell them to terrorists!' sort of dude, could be funky. Changing it to focus on the nature of androids in the 31st century, as foreshadowing for a new android member of the LSV who has a grudge against Timber Wolf (a sort of arch-nemesis, as coldly mechanical as Brin is passionate and sometimes atavistic).
I'm not feeling that sort of thing here.
Character retooling should, IMO, *add* opportunities and expand options. A lot of this new DC stuff feels like it is making everyone smaller and less than they were before, taking stuff away, and not presenting anything even equal to what existed before, let alone *better* than what it's replacing.
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quote:Originally posted by Pariscub: I've had reservations about DeFalco writing DC characters before, but this has really been very bad.
They could have done the same origin, merge in parts of brin's old origin, and everyone would have been happy (and it would have made a better origin than BatWerine. :/
Is it wrong of me to say that I'm waiting impatiently for this series to be cancelled and the characters to be reabsorbed in LSH?
If you are wrong, than I'm wrong along with you, Pariscub.
I pretty much gave up in disgust when they retroactively trashed Gim and Yera's marriage. The idea that contrived, unexplained angst is somehow more interesting than just letting the characters stay together... [throws up hands] May it do their sales good, but I'm not bloody interested.
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From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
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Story was subpar, and only seemed to be an excuse to retroactively introduce SP Nate Adym as the head of Echo (and possibly the identity of Harvest?) . Kinda wonder if Tor will become Black Mace though...
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I thought the story was not all that bad. But would if had hurt so much to somewhere include Ayla in it instead of some no name SPs? That would have given us some sense of (no, not continuity) reverence to the old stories... picked up my Legion archive and read the original Lone Wolf story which, by todays standards, is very hard to read at all in my eyes, but well, some kind of nod to the old stories still woul have felt well.
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