I don't think coming up with female versions of male characters (at the same company) is necessarily copying or unoriginal. Just trying a different direction.
Now, Midnighter of The Authority - he's a Batman clone who just embraces all the wink-wink-nudge-nudge homoerotic subtext of the 1950's-60's Bat family comics (the editors were really naive then, weren't they?) Him and Apollo, it's just playing out the whole "Yes, Kirk & Spock are gay!" fanatsy. 🙄
Originally posted by roughrider
I don't think coming up with female versions of male characters (at the same company) is necessarily copying or unoriginal. Just trying a different direction.Now, Midnighter of The Authority - he's a Batman clone who just embraces all the wink-wink-nudge-nudge homoerotic subtext of the 1950's-60's Bat family comics (the editors were really naive then, weren't they?) Him and Apollo, it's just playing out the whole "Yes, Kirk & Spock are gay!" fanatsy. 🙄
See, here's the problem with that statement: MNer and Apollo were created deliberately as a dark parody of Superman and Batman. Heck, the entire Authority was created as a loose, more mercenary, clone of the JLA. There's a difference between intended copying and laziness.
And of course, they've all since become layered characters in their own right. The MN/Apollo relationship takes a back seat these days though.
Originally posted by Digi
See, here's the problem with that statement: MNer and Apollo were created deliberately as a dark parody of Superman and Batman. Heck, the entire Authority was created as a loose, more mercenary, clone of the JLA. There's a difference between intended copying and laziness.And of course, they've all since become layered characters in their own right. The MN/Apollo relationship takes a back seat these days though.
Agreed.
Which is why it's important to establish from the outset of this thread that being unoriginal is not necessarily a bad thing 🙂