| Posted: 10 November 2014 at 11:12am | IP Logged | 5
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I always liked Krypto(especially as written by Bob Rozakis) and Supergirl, but those 'World of Krypton' backups bored me to tears. They were the kind of generic backup stories that might easily have run in DC's old science-fiction anthologies-the kind of stuff kids would skim after the Hawkman, Adam Strange, or Atomic Knights lead feature, but throw in the 'Superman's home planet' window dressing(headbands, hyphenated names, and dialogue along the lines of 'Craters of Wegthor! It's a Metal-Eater with Jungle Fever!'), and the result was...mediocre, actually.
As for Kandor, I liked its appearances sometimes, if it was actively featured in the story, and not just 'furniture' in the Fotress, or the ever-popular last page of the story cop-out ('Until I can think of a solution, I'll send this comatose super-powered vampire werewolf to Kandor, since he won't have powers there.') I think Cary Bates overdid the Kryptonian mythos at times, especially giving Kandorians(and other alien races) such bland personalities...sort of like the 'civilians' idea that all 'Star Trek' aliens besides Klingons wore weird outfits and spoke in 'stilted' English. As for Jor-El and Lara, I'm reminded of an old Fred Hembeck line about Jor having 'a successful career blowing up with Krypton 2 or 3 times a year' in flashbacks. That was all the 'fix' of those two I needed. The best characterization of Jor-El was when Hembeck had him doing a bad Marlon Brando impression, in the old 'Daily Planet' cartoons in the late '70s.
Edited by Brian O'Neill on 10 November 2014 at 11:15am
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