Also: Offsprings dilemma about wanting to be a grittier crimefighter isn`t a bad move actually, but personally I didn`t like it. But it`s not something I think makes the story worse, unlike the Strawwoman-Micheline.
You reminded me by making this list and apparently mentioning me in your comment or something. I`d forgotten about the comic.
Well, now that you accidentally reminded me of this series, I finally read the Offspring-issue.
The girlfriend-father-son drama Waid wrote was boring and irritating. Using Micheline as an inconsiderately acting straw-woman was trite. I don`t like the mean delivery of "Nobody likes fun comics and that sucks."-statement, especially when it`s used to heckle people who don`t like fun comics. Waid coulda made a reasonable argument, and this is what he gave the reader.
Also, I wanted this to be the silly transformations and adventures from Offspring, drawn by Quitely, but it wasn`t. The silly fun stuff was just a spice in an otherwise uninteresting plot. Yeah I didn`t like the superhero conflict either. Except for the bit about the antagonists just wanting to leave earth and not do anything bad. Except for destroying the Sphinx. I didn`t like that.
I do like that Offspring emulates his fathers humor and personality, since most of DCs superheroes sidekicks used to just be younger copies of the adults the fought aside with. I feel something interesting coulda been said about that. Maybe someone already has, in some indiecomic perhaps, and I just haven`t found it.
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