Wait, I guess we'd better remind the readers: in the DC Universe, the comic books about DC super-heroes are non-fiction; they recount actual adventures, not "made up" stories, as Millar reminds us...
So, as Millar tries to debrief Wally West (remember him?) about his recent adventures, the subject of how non-fiction comic books dealt with the private lives and secret identities of the heroes comes up:
Oh, if only that's what the Identity Crisis maxiseries had turned out to be about...Mark Millar (and Ariel Olivetti) toss off a far better plot idea for Identity Crisis than Brad Meltzer could ever come up with in a hundred years Flash 80 Page Giant #1 (1998).
Brilliant, thanks for posting this. I've no memory of it, even though I will have bought the book. I've been mindwiped, it seems.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the old Julie Schwarz conceit that DC writers on our Earth, Prime, are picking up adventures of the actual heroes on Earth 1 or wherever, in dreams, fits with gods such as Animal Man's Grant Morrison. I must ask my writer ...
In the UK, 'Johnny' is slang for 'condom'. This is probably irrelevant.
Jeez, could Olivetti have gotten maybe a smidge closer to what Millar actually looks like? Oh well....at least they had him sitting in a pub.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the "Flash meets his own writers/editor" has a long tradition going back to Julie Schwartz himself in Flash #179 (1968).
Have a heart, Mark. Depicting two smug, obnoxious gingers in one panel would precipitate a Crisis on its own.
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