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7/25/2025, 3:39:46 PM
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Also, all this segways nicely into something I've been thinking about NTT and my reread of this. Wolfman's update of the superhero vs the 00s updating.
NTT is fundamentally based on updating the superhero. Nearly all of its initial major foes are based around updating common archetypes, especially shit found in Kirby comics:
Trigon=Darkseid/Galactus
Brother Blood=Doctor Doom/Magneto
HIVE=AIM/HYDRA
The big thing in these updates is he looks at modern knowledge/sensabilities. Trigon comes hot off the Satanic Panic, at the time of its introduction it was common knowledge that intelligence organisations would use proxies to complete their end hence shit like Deathstroke and the Judas Contract. Likewise people like dictators and televangelists were manipulating their image through the use of mass media etc. Likewise, he created shit like the Omega Men when stuff like Star Wars was becoming a cultural phenomena.
It's an update guided by (at the time) modern sensibilities but also a love for the superhero genre.
It's such a fascinating contrast to dudes in the 00s where the whole thing was that there were a bunch of archetypes and stories that were totally outdated and needed to go.
Also, all this segways nicely into something I've been thinking about NTT and my reread of this. Wolfman's update of the superhero vs the 00s updating.
NTT is fundamentally based on updating the superhero. Nearly all of its initial major foes are based around updating common archetypes, especially shit found in Kirby comics:
Trigon=Darkseid/Galactus
Brother Blood=Doctor Doom/Magneto
HIVE=AIM/HYDRA
The big thing in these updates is he looks at modern knowledge/sensabilities. Trigon comes hot off the Satanic Panic, at the time of its introduction it was common knowledge that intelligence organisations would use proxies to complete their end hence shit like Deathstroke and the Judas Contract. Likewise people like dictators and televangelists were manipulating their image through the use of mass media etc. Likewise, he created shit like the Omega Men when stuff like Star Wars was becoming a cultural phenomena.
It's an update guided by (at the time) modern sensibilities but also a love for the superhero genre.
It's such a fascinating contrast to dudes in the 00s where the whole thing was that there were a bunch of archetypes and stories that were totally outdated and needed to go.
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