![]() Here was a guy who, once he had powers, actually STUDIED superheroing and based himself on what he thought a superhero SHOULD be. ![]() ![]() However, what made Starman a bit different was that he was a good deal more meta-fictional about it all. And it should, because it's a great idea. That idea was used a lot before Starman and it has been used a lot since (Kyle Rayner is a good example). For years, comics have had the "new Spider-Man" - comics meant to evoke the early Ditko/Lee Spider-Man stories about a "normal" person suddenly given powers. The basic concept of the book is something fairly similar to what Dwayne McDuffie would later come up with for Static. While the character was being developed, DC decided it would make sense to tie him in with Invasion!, before Invasion! even BEGAN! And sure enough, Starman was probably more tied into Invasion! than any other title - even those written by Keith Giffen (architect of Invasion!)! ![]() I can't think of how to split the series up, so how about we just pretend that it would be an "Absolute" edition and we can just say "reprint the whole run!"Īn interesting aspect of Stern and Lyle's run on Starman is that they wrote and drew every issue of their 25 issue run - no fill-ins for either one of them. I had more than a few requests for Roger Stern and Tom Lyle's run on Starman. ![]()
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