Superman & Batman: Generazioni di John Byrne

[Bucky Barnes]

Superman/Batman: Generazioni
DC Omnibus

Autori: John Byrne
18.3X27.7, C+ sovracover., 680 pp., col.|69€
Contiene: Superman & Batman: Generations (1999) #1/4, Superman & Batman: Generations II (2001) #1/4, Superman & Batman: Generations III (2003) #1/12
DC PANINI COMICS

• Per la prima volta in un unico volume le tre miniserie con Superman e Batman scritte e disegnate da John Byrne!
• Un'epopea millenaria, con continui colpi di scena e scene emozionanti!
• Con una storia ambientata in tempo reale a partire dal primo incontro tra il Cavaliere Oscuro e l'Uomo d'Acciaio nel 1939.
• Esplorate l'eredità delle famiglie Kent e Wayne nel corso dei secoli!

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Testi: John Byrne
Disegni: John Byrne
Edizione originale: Superman & Batman: Generations (Trade paperback)
Edizione italiana: Superman & Batman: Generazioni - due TP PLAY PRESS

Generations

Generations follows Superman and Batman from the beginning of their careers to the far future. Each issue contains two stories each; each story takes places ten years after the previous one.

    * 1939: The Vigilantes — Superman and Batman meet for the first time, at the Metropolis World's Fair, where they overcome their initial suspicions of each other to team up and defeat the Ultra-Humanite.

    * 1949: Family Matters — Clark Kent is married to Lois Lane, and Bruce Wayne's ward Dick Grayson is leaving for college. Lex Luthor and the Joker kidnap the pregnant Mrs. Kent. Batman and Superman are able to defeat the villains and rescue Lois, but in the process the Kents' unborn son is exposed to gold kryptonite, meaning the child will never develop superpowers. The Kents decide to keep the knowledge of his heritage a secret from the boy. Meanwhile, Bruce's wife is revealed to be expecting as well.

    * 1959: Strange Days — Aliens in need of a champion ask Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk to test each other's respective heroes; fortunately, Batman and Superman trick the two imps into turning on each other and convince the aliens to take them instead. [1] Batman and Superman also face the problems of age and family. Bruce is on the verge of retirement and Dick Grayson is set to take over as Batman; meanwhile Bruce Wayne Jr. ("BJ") trains to become the new Robin. The Kents discover their daughter Kara is developing superpowers. In the closing panels, an aged Lex Luthor reveals to young Joel Kent the truth about his heritage.

    * 1969: Changing Times — Kara Kent now helps her father as Supergirl, while Lois Kent is diagnosed with cancer, and Joel Kent is reported missing in action in Vietnam. Dick Grayson, the new Batman, confronts the Joker Jr., who is actually the aged Joker himself. The Joker kills Grayson, but Bruce Wayne Jr. (the new Robin) switches uniforms with the fallen crimefighter so that the Batman legacy can continue.

    * 1979: Twilight of the Gods — Batman and Supergirl (or Superwoman as her father thinks of her) have become a heroic team and, as Bruce Wayne Jr. and Kara Kent, plan to marry. Lois is still alive, thanks to her physician Dr. Holurt. Bruce and Kara's ceremony is disrupted by a super-powered Joel Kent, who attacks and violently kills Kara. Dr. Holurt reveals himself to be a disguised Lex Luthor; he shows the world that Clark Kent is Superman, then kills Lois. Joel's powers are the result of a serum created by Luthor but, as Luthor knows, the serum is unstable and Joel dies a few minutes later. Superman learns that Joel had fathered a son with a young Vietnamese woman, and asks BJ to raise the boy as his own. Meanwhile, a seventy year old Bruce Wayne, on the trail of Ra's al Ghul, is captured by agents of the criminal mastermind.

    * 1989: Crime and Punishment — Bruce Wayne Jr., the third Batman, flies to the Fortress of Solitude to arrest Superman for murder. Superman had been hunting Luthor for the past ten years and finally caught up with him (but not before Luthor engineered the deaths of Jimmy Olsen, Lucy Lane, and Perry White, Jr.). Luthor exposed Superman to gold Kryptonite, and revealed that he is really the Ultra-Humanite. In 1939 he transplanted his brain into the body of his assistant Lex Luthor (then known as "Ell") after his rocket crashed while fleeing the 1939 World's Fair. The Ultra-Humanite planned to move his brain into Superman's body. Superman accidentally killed Ultra-Humanite while trying to escape. When that happened, the villain's machines broadcast images of Superman apparently murdering "Luthor" in cold blood over worldwide television to frame him. In the present, Superman lets Bruce Wayne Jr. take him into custody so that can plead guilty to murder before the World Court. Even though the judges point out the facts that he acted in self-defence and never meant to kill his enemy, Superman is not sure whether or not he might have been subconsciously influenced by his hatred of Luthor and requests to be sent into the Phantom Zone.

    * 1999: Beginnings and Endings — Batman III is brought to Ra's al Ghul, who is actually Bruce Wayne, Sr. In 1979 Wayne had faced Ra's al Ghul in a Lazarus Pit; Wayne survived and discovered that the Pit had rejuvenated him and given him incredibly long life. In the years since, Wayne turned al Ghul's criminal empire into a force for good. Wayne asks Bruce Jr. to take over the operation while he returns as Batman. Batman frees Superman from the Phantom Zone, and they investigate the Ultra-Humanite's death. Batman deduces that the Ultra-Humanite had perfected the super-serum he used on Joel Kent, and was planning to use it after transplanting his brain into Superman's body, as the serum only works on Kryptonians. The serum restores Superman's powers, and he shares it with his grandson Clark Wayne, aka Knightwing. Feeling he is no longer needed now that there are so many other heroes, Superman leaves Earth in the capable hands of Batman and his grandson in order to protect the cosmos.

    * 2919: 1929 — Batman meets Superman in his Fortress of Solitude, now an asteroid in a distant galaxy. Due to Superman's Kryptonian heritage and Batman's Lazarus Pit treatment, the two have aged at a very slow rate. As they reminisce, Superman recalls that they had actually met in 1929 when they were teenagers. Clark and Lois Lane were winners of a journalism contest held by Bruce Wayne, owner of the Gotham Gazette. While in Gotham City, Superboy joins forces with Bruce (wearing a prototype "Robin" costume) to defeat a gang of criminals. In the present, they realize that the galaxy has turned into a paradise under their protection and care. They decide to leave the galaxy as they left Earth and protect the entire universe. They are then joined by Lana Lang who, thanks to magical powers, has also gained a long life and married Superman.

[Bucky Barnes]

Elseword molto piacevole che meriterebbe di essere comprato solo per i disegni di John Byrne.
Sintetizza ottimamente il rapporto di amicizia tra i due pesi massimi della DC e da libero sfogo al concetto di Legacy.
Unica pecca IMHO è il finale un po' troppo banale, comunque lo consiglio a tutti

[Genis-Vell]

L'intera trilogia di Generazioni è per me uno dei tre migliori lavori del John Byrne solista. Omaggio meraviglioso all'intero cosmo DC, l'avesse fatto un nome oggi blasonato sarebbe considerato un capolavoro.

Da leggere e rileggere, preferibilmente in ordine cronologico.

[Green Lantern]

uhm, letta la trama devo dire che mi intriga assai.

[King Mob]

Idem, intriga anche me. Ma ristampe in vista ? 

[Genis-Vell]

Dovrebbero farlo in volume unico. Ma è ancora allo studio.

[King Mob]

Lo prenderei, direi proprio di sì. 

[Genis-Vell]

E faresti bene. Verrebbe un volume enorme, ma sarebbe proprio bello avere tutta la trilogia così, possibilmente pubblicata in ordine cronologico.

[Lar Gand]

Molto belli questi volumi

[Slask]

cavoli, mi intrippa parecchio la trama..

[American_Gaijin89]

Lo devo leggere, però preferirei un volumone unico a dire il vero  

[Murnau]

La Planeta aveva detto di voler fare un volumone con tutte le mini.

[Azrael]

Questi sono degli albi di una storia immaginaria pubblicata finora in italia solo dalla Play press
questi sono stati pubblicati nel 1999 in 2 TP e tratta i seguenti anni 1939 - 1949 - 1959 - 1969 nel primo TP mentre nel secondo 1979 - 1989 - 1999 - 2009 e racconta le fasi principali dei due supereroi in quei anni... L'ho letta credetemi un infinità di volte e merita molto quindi gli do un 9

Le Copertine che Sono Nel Primo Post sono favolose

[Azrael]

E queste sono le copertine di "Superman & Batman : Generazioni 2 (Play Press)

Questo è il sequel pubblicati nel 2002... e dico sequel perchè racconta spezzoni di anni diversi che si collegano assolutamente a "generazioni 1" nel primo TP 1942 - 1953 - 1964 - 1975 mentre nel secondo 1986 - 1997 - 2008 - 2019...
A differenza della prima generazione qua ogni tanto ci sono anche altri supereroi che ogni tanto entrano nella vita di superman e batman... a questo sequel do un 7.5





Sono stati pubblicati in italia solo questi .... in america avevano fatto anche Generazioni 3 mai pubblicato in italia... ma da quel che si dice non è in grado di competere con i primi due...

E Come dice Hush la planeta tanto tempo fa diceva che voleva raccogliere tutte e 3 Mini in unico volume ma finora non se n'e fatto nulla

[Slask]

La Planeta aveva detto di voler fare un volumone con tutte le mini.

figo.