Exhibition at Tampa university makes a big blooper
1 Comments Published by Avi Green on Monday, July 24, 2023 at 7:36 AM.
Fox13 announced there's a comic exhibition at the Tampa university:
I'd love it if people's appreciation of the art form were revived for real, but a story like the Death of Superman is not the way to do it. And Emerald Twilight definitely wouldn't be a good way either. A really great way would've been Superman and Lois Lane's 1996 marriage, along with other notable marriages from decades past, like Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Girl's in the late 1960s, and also Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson's in 1987. That they put an emphasis and citation on a tale involving something more sad like death, the subsequent resurrection of Superman notwithstanding, speaks volumes what's wrong with the whole focus and approach of this part of the exhibition at the Florida-based university.
The comic book as an art form inspired this exhibit, and thanks to some private collectors and generous donations of materials, the exhibit "Zooming Superheroes" was put together.So do I, but it's not so simple, and besides, if they really wanted to convince, then why did they cite the following, overrated storyline?
"I hope that this reignites people's love of the physical comic book," shared gallery director Jocelyn Boigehzahn, "Looking to the physical, I want people to get back to that."
"You actually get to look at the physical pieces," said Boigenzahn, "We want you to be able literally to walk up to 'Death of Superman' from 1993, open the case and actually look at the story."But who knows if anybody will acknowledge how overrated it was, and what artistic damage resulted from it, like the storyline where the Toyman murdered Cat Grant's son Adam, and how it served as a lead-in to the considerably worse Emerald Twilight event in 1994, which saw Silver Age Green Lantern Hal Jordan forced into the role of a murderer of GL Corps members, all for the sake of replacing him with Kyle Rayner, who wasn't given any more of a personality than Hal, and worse, Kyle even had his 1st girlfriend Alexandra deWitt stuffed in a fridge by Major Force? Will this be given any objective viewpoint at the exhibition either? Probably not.
I'd love it if people's appreciation of the art form were revived for real, but a story like the Death of Superman is not the way to do it. And Emerald Twilight definitely wouldn't be a good way either. A really great way would've been Superman and Lois Lane's 1996 marriage, along with other notable marriages from decades past, like Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Girl's in the late 1960s, and also Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson's in 1987. That they put an emphasis and citation on a tale involving something more sad like death, the subsequent resurrection of Superman notwithstanding, speaks volumes what's wrong with the whole focus and approach of this part of the exhibition at the Florida-based university.
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