Superman has been off-world in the CW shows, raising his newborn son, but I figure they have to bring him back for next year's Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. The real question is whether they will do some version of the death of Supergirl in that event, which was one of the biggest moments in that original comic series. Hmmm... there's also the death of The Flash in there... but maybe Green Arrow will be the big TV death since his show is going away.
Is that Hanna-Barbera Beyond's Galaxy Trio?
ReplyDeleteA bigger "Question" is...will Charlton Earth be one of those who get amalgamated with all the others at the end of the TV Crisis?
ReplyDeleteComputron? Interestingly, that's also the name of a combined-form Autobot. It might be fun to see those two duking it out for the name -- and for justice!
ReplyDeleteThe (real-world) reason given for Superman being off-world during this season of Supergirl is to leave Kara to deal with the world's situation without having Kal to fall back on (and BTW, as far as I've heard the kid isn't born yet; Clark and Lois went to Argo to keep Lois safe "when the baby starts kicking"). I've also caught wind of rumors that Berlanti is setting up a Superman and Son series with Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, along with the titular son, Jonathan.
Similarly, the general consensus that I've been seeing and hearing is that Oliver will sacrifice himself in Crisis on Infinite Earths this fall, that being the deal he made with the Monitor to spare Barry and Kara. The schedule as announced would allow for just one episode, or possibly two, after the crossover, and that could deal with the aftermath of Oliver's death, setting up this season's "flash forwards," etc.
So I hope there's something special for Star Wars Day tomorrow... like everyone's favorite Wookie meeting his Flerken namesake....
PS: That last suggestion of mine would be especially appropriate, with the recent passing of Peter Mayhew.
ReplyDeleteDigging deep into the HB vault, Ross. When the "Future Quest" books came out, the only HB characters I didn't recognize were the Galaxy Trio. Don't know if they were before my time, or somehow never made it into the re-runs / compilation shows, but I had never seen them before. And after reading about them in FQ, I guess I wasn't missing much.
ReplyDeleteWho else here remembers that the Golden Age/'Earth Two' version of Ollie did die back in the original 'Crisis'?
ReplyDeleteI remember I remember it well the crisis series is the biggest reason why I had stopped reading and buying DC comics now that they are bringing some of those characters back or have brought a lot of those characters back that they've killed off I'm slowly but surely going back to DC comics
DeleteSeeing as tomorrow is the day of the Kentucky Derby, I wonder if some REAL horse-lovers will bide their time watching horses act like themselves playing in a pasture, instead of watching the Kentucky Derby?
ReplyDelete@Jay Johnson : The Galaxy Trio was a secondary feature on the Birdman program in 1967.
ReplyDeleteGalaxy Trio? What's Morgan Egde up to now?
ReplyDelete@Jay Johnson: watch the "Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera." You'll see that they kicked butt, quite seriously, in the late Sixties.
ReplyDelete@Carycomic: I think you mean "Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure".
ReplyDeleteBob, Cary: so they were after my time, not before. By the late sixties I was doing the typical teenager "sleep until noon" on Saturdays!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Magnus the robot fighter could meet Hanna-Barbera Beyond's Jetsons, whose Rosie, though all robot, was born a human, like Magnus himself!
ReplyDelete@Anon1107: my CBS affiliate used "Funtastic Saturday" to describe the 1967-68 line-up. So, that's the euphemism I'll always associate with all three networks' worth of Saturday morning cartoons from that era. As for me? I didn't start sleeping in on Saturday mornings until ten years ago (when cartoons for that time of the weekend could no longer be doubted as having gone the way of the dinosaur).
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 1247: "A horse show is just a bunch of horses showing off their asses to a bunch of horses' asses who are there to show off their horses!" ---Johnny Carson.
ReplyDeleteRoss, do you remember if that Superman is from DC Comics Presents 61? I know Perez drew Supes a lot but I read that issue at least 100 times and feel like that image is in it.
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It's from World's Finest
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