From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Walrus and April)
Subject: Re: I'm not buying Superman #75!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:50:02 GMT

In article <1ejlndINN5bn@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones) writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.150948.925@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim)) writes:
>
>>IMHO though, all they'd had to have done is call in the JSA; Flash
>>(much faster than Wally), Starman, and GL could certainly been of use.
>
>	I dunno if Jay is faster than Wally.  He can vibrate, but there's
>no evidence that Jay is faster.  Jay used to be able to keep up with 
>Barry, but so could Wally.  Joan Garrick mentioned that Jay felt faster
>when Barrry was around.  If Barry was responcible for Wally being so
>fast, then he probably projected the same effect on Jay.

In one of the issues of JSA (#2), Jay outran a light switch (meaning he ran
from the switch to the middle of the room before the light came on).  I'd 
say that's faster than Wally...I like the JSA idea too.  And, as long as we're
giving our own versions of how things should've gone, this is how I think they
would've handled it (HUMOR ATTEMPT WARNING):

[Jay is running rings around Doomsday]

Alan:  Need a hand?

Jay:  No, my tax return was faster than this bozo.  Batter up!

Alan:  [Forms a power ring baseball bat]  He steps up to the plate!

Jay:  [Moving away, as Doomsday tries to follow]  Here's the pitch!

Alan:  And the swing!

[The bat sends Doomsday hurtling into the stratosphere with a loud *KRACK*, 
never to be seen again.  Alan and Jay shade their eyes as they watch him sail
off into orbit]

Alan:  [with a grin] I'd say that's a home run, wouldn't you?

Jay:  Looked more like a grand slam to me.  Let's go help the youngsters clean
      up.

So I like the JSA, so sue me...:)  I was pleased that Jay and Alan appeared in
JSA for "the mourning after"  (what an atrocious play on words--yeeeuch).  It
helped add to the sense of continuity, instead of having them be 
banished to their own book (which is then promptly cancelled--I ask you, is
this any way to treat the founding fathers of superherodom?).  That and the
very last panel (with Lois losing it over Supe's dead body) were the only
redeeming features of the whole story for me.  Everything else seemed highly
contrived.  

>>I'm also waiting for whoever put Doomsday in the ground to come back
>>(surely whoever they are they would have put some kind of alarm to let
>>them know if he escaped.)
>
>	Yes, someone (Batman, probably) should find out where D-Day's from.

My first instinct upon hearing the descriptions was that DD was indeed a 
"Doomsday Device" left behind by Warworld, but the bunker he was in would 
seem to preclude that (the Warworlders didn't have time enough to leave him
there, I think).  I think he was genetically created as a living weapon
(a job he seems to excel at), possibly by Cadmus or the US military, or
maybe by the Dominion during Invasion.  I doubt they'll ever tell us who it
was, but it would make sense for Batman to be the one to find out...

On a side note, many people have mentioned the Moore "Whatever Happened to 
Superman" story, which I have heard a great deal about but never seen.  In
which issues, *exactly*, did it appear, so I know what I'm looking for?  And
how hard is it to find?  Any help would be appreciated...

The Walrus
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