Posted by Doug on October 23, 2006, 12:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Superman vs Captain Marvel - the Facts." Also, I think they should keep Catain Marvel Superman's equal. Like Alex Ross's version in Kingdom Come. --Previous Message--
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I think the biggest reason why it sold so many at that time is because at the time, kids were the only ones buying comics. Now aldults are mainly buying them and they can care less about a kid who can be a superhero. They're not kids. So who cares. I think if they want to keep Captain Marvel campy and cheesy as we all love it is to turn it into another Saturday morning tv show. Not like the old 70's version but more like the Power Rangers. That will get kids to love him again. (I can feel everyone reading this cringing right now but that's how you get the kids to love him again.) If you wanted to market to adults drop the cheesiness and turn it into a Smallville Spinoff. Once you get mainstream recognition you reinvent him in the comic books. ToS isn't the way. If they are going to do that to him they should just have the great Alex Ross print a great death for the Marvel Family and we can all remember him for what he was before the bastardized dc version.
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: --Previous Message--
: Depends on what you mean by
: "cheese." Since I honor the
: original Fawcetts and ENB and Don Newton's
: efforts in the late 70's and early 80's,
: with a little tweaking here and there, then
: I guess it would seem "cheesy" to
: you.
:
: With Billy, I'd go back to his roots by
: making him a reporter for WHIZ-TV rather
: than a newscaster. He's a smart, savvy and
: ballsy kid. Cap himself would be Billy as an
: adult, as both Beck and Binder had stated
: many times.
:
: Freddy Freeman and his grandparents would be
: introduced early on, but Freddy wouldn't
: become Captain Marvel Junior for nearly a
: year and a half AFTER Cap gets his start.
:
: You'd also find out, early on, that Billy's
: twin sister, Mary, was kidnapped at the age
: of 6 months and that the Bromfields adopted
: her not knowing this. Mary Marvel wouldn't
: show up 'til a couple of months after
: Junior.
:
: Uncle Dudley would be included as Billy and
: Mary's real uncle, and Billy's legal
: guardian. He'd play "Uncle" Marvel
: mostly on his TV show.
:
: Mr. Tawny would be in it, but as a
: flesh-and-blood tiger evolved to a
: quasi-human state by a well-meaning old
: hermit. He'd be portrayed as an
: "everyman" because he isn't fully
: human.
:
: Hoppy would be a animatronic puppet created
: and built by Dudley. That's all.
:
: Sivana is evil incarnate. The worst of the
: worst. He'd think nothing of killing an
: underling for forgetting to stock up on his
: favorite cognac, or a certain trio of kids
: for getting in his way. He's a functionally
: insane uber-genius with an all-encompassing
: rage towards a world that shunned him. And
: his two younger childern, Georgia and Thad,
: Junior, are almost worse than he.
:
: Black Adam would die after his first battle
: with the Marvel Family, only to be revived
: by Sivana months later. He'd develop an
: almost obsessive "attraction" to
: Mary (who, by the standards of ancient
: Egypt, is an old maid).
:
: Other "cheesy" characters, such as
: Mr. Mind (whose "template" for
: humanity is Sivana), Ibac, Professor
: Edgewise, Dexter Knox, Cissie Summerly,
: Whitey Murphy ("Whitey" is only a
: nickname) and Joan Jameson would also make
: fairly frequent appearances.
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: --Previous Message--
: yup. would you still have the
: "cheese" in your
: version? to me it just wouldn't work, it'd
: be
: like making "i love lucy" today
: using that
: 50's fomula if so.
:not bad, sounds like a tweaked version of the
: 70's series. i'll get back to you on my
: version.
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