your very own super hero character with which you will make millions

[davemerrill]

I realize that what's happening here is that most of these cartoonists are people who love superhero comics and want to break into Marvel or DC and draw their own favorite characters, and since they can't do that they are going to come up with their own versions and draw THEM. And that's OK. It's when you start killing trees to print the things and start shoving them into an already overburdened distribution system and start selling them for two bucks each to gullible readers, that's when it spills out into the world and becomes a disease that threatens the very foundations of our society. A disease for which only MISTER KITTY has the cure!!!



What's that, ALPHA WAVE? Does that name sound familiar? It does to me!



Sure, I admit it, I did my own fake super heroes. WHEN I WAS ELEVEN.

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[cmndr-x.livejournal.com]

Though when I think of superhero universe also-rans, my thoughts turn to the 90s, when it seemed dozens of new "universes" were being created after the successes of Image and Valiant, but shortly before the 90s comic boom went bust. And bessides all of your Comics' Greatest Worlds and Topps Kirbyverses and Defiant Comicses and so on and so forth, you had all of these goofy, amateurish titles popping up through out the history of the DM - I recall seeing an ad from some super-amatuerish-looking superhero book...somewhere, back in the day, which as a not-Batman prepared to punch in some guy's already bloody-nosed face whilse a badly proportioned women in a revealing top looked on vacantly, the text assured people that this title was "hot!" and a sure success because it was "violent!"