tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post5920168675076921221..comments2024-03-28T07:08:58.221-04:00Comments on Todd Seavey: Nixon Destroys JSA, JFK (per ad in NYT)Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-61602956029899019962007-08-01T10:33:00.000-04:002007-08-01T10:33:00.000-04:00Actually, given the whole continuity-revision mine...Actually, given the whole continuity-revision minefield, I should perhaps have made it more clear that I simply meant “they really depicted it that way” (and there’s no reason yet to think it’s been undone, since it was depicted in the late-70s JSA series, not just _America vs. the Justice Society_, and was not thus dependent on an appearance by the original Batman). As far as we know, the JSA still broke up (for a long time) in 1951 under HUAC pressure, so most likely Nixon still gets at least part of the blame — as he does for driving some free-marketeers out of the Republican Party and into the then-new Libertarian Party, but that’s a topic for another entry, such as this one: <a href="../../../08/01/mr-fusion-ron-paul/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/01/mr-fusion-ron-paul/</a> <br><br>On a related note, I notice that not even Wikipedia (at the time of this comment) mentions that the original Batman — and for all the convoluted things that DC Comics has done to its fictional history, the “Earth-2″ Batman was undeniably the original — died at the hands of villains named Bill Jensen and the Soul Thief. Have we forgotten the classics in this society?Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-11882182917913937602007-08-01T09:50:00.000-04:002007-08-01T09:50:00.000-04:00Is it canon? Wasn’t that from America vs. the JSA...Is it canon? Wasn’t that from America vs. the JSA, which was pre-COIE and prominently involved Batman-2? <br><br>(Even apart from the whole “nothing published before last June is canon” problem, of course.)Jacob T. Levyhttp://jacobtlevy.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-9713140971540403392007-07-31T13:18:00.000-04:002007-07-31T13:18:00.000-04:00It may be a sign of the writers’ non-linear thinki...It may be a sign of the writers’ non-linear thinking that their text is not easily accessible online, nor their company’s website functioning, but the second comment at this URL resembles some text from today’s ad: <br><br><a href="http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid31507.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid31507.aspx</a><br><br>And since they spent a fair amount of time denouncing _Washington Post_ editors for stringing them along and failing to return some of their mailed-in research (that part I can easily believe — bigtime media folk are selfish users), MediaBistro notes the whole thing here, reprinting a couple paragraphs from the ad: <br><br><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/a_beautiful_mind_takes_on_ben_bradlee_64164.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/a_beautiful_mind_takes_on_ben_bradlee_64164.asp</a>Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-28700083651895892942007-07-31T12:49:00.000-04:002007-07-31T12:49:00.000-04:00Is there a link to the ad?Is there a link to the ad?Peg Fikesnoreply@blogger.com