This is how Matthew Sturges wrote Woozy Winks and how Stephen Jorge Segovia drew Woozy Winks in 2007 miniseries Countdown To Mystery, available in trade as Eclipso: The Music of the Spheres:
I guess I read some of that miniseries - "Plastic Man goes back to crime and meets Eclipso" definitely rings a bell - but I had completely forgotten it existed until right now.
Just read the trade from my library a couple weeks back. Surprising how bad it was. I think This scene in particular illustrates a lot of what is wrong with DC these days. Is that supposed to add something to the character?
What (exactly) is wrong with a comic relief character simply being comic relief? I can understand the impulse to build out his back-story or evolve him past his one schtick, but why toss out the humor entirely?
Unlike a lot of comic sidekicks, Woozy wasn't a racist stereotype. There wasn't anything that really needed fixing.
Secret Six was good that year, too, now that I think about it-- Simone managed to spin even "The death of the New Gods" into gold. And the Suicide Squad mini was pretty great.
But other than that... whatta mess of a year-- leaving behind damage they still have to undo. (Captain Atom's genocidal history just got undone... with a strategically planted Daily Planet article!)
Huh. Well that isn't any fun at all.
ReplyDeleteI guess I read some of that miniseries - "Plastic Man goes back to crime and meets Eclipso" definitely rings a bell - but I had completely forgotten it existed until right now.
Just read the trade from my library a couple weeks back. Surprising how bad it was. I think This scene in particular illustrates a lot of what is wrong with DC these days. Is that supposed to add something to the character?
ReplyDeleteThis comic is made of fail.
ReplyDeleteWhat (exactly) is wrong with a comic relief character simply being comic relief? I can understand the impulse to build out his back-story or evolve him past his one schtick, but why toss out the humor entirely?
ReplyDeleteUnlike a lot of comic sidekicks, Woozy wasn't a racist stereotype. There wasn't anything that really needed fixing.
I...I have those issues...I have the trade...I've read that story...I don't recall any of that at all.
ReplyDeleteI was probably better off for not remembering. Thanks so much, Caleb.
Have to agree with the others -- I don't like that interpretation of Woozy AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteThat was the Year Of Countdown. Did DC publish anything that year that was *not* "made of fail"?
ReplyDelete@Jacob - One thing instantly leaps to mind.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.comics.org/series/20053/
The Doctor Thirteen story, not the Spectre one. That was awful.
ReplyDeleteAh-- yes, of course.
ReplyDeleteSecret Six was good that year, too, now that I think about it-- Simone managed to spin even "The death of the New Gods" into gold. And the Suicide Squad mini was pretty great.
But other than that... whatta mess of a year-- leaving behind damage they still have to undo. (Captain Atom's genocidal history just got undone... with a strategically planted Daily Planet article!)