I am posting this a day early, to tie in with "Postcard Friendship Friday".
The image below is not a postcard, and never was. It is from the cover of the comic book "Justice League International", issue #56, published November 1991. Some of you may know the Martian Manhunter from the TV show "Smallville", where in his introduction in the series, he was portrayed as a bit of alien slob, leaving half-eaten Oreo cookies everywhere he went. I came across a copy of this comic earlier in the summer, and figured that it was an appropriate and contemplative somber tribute. Especially coming from a comic-book series which was known for its humorous tone. The Martian Manhunter contemplates the World Trade Center twin towers a decade before their destruction, and the lives lost here and elsewhere, and the world changed.
Suomi Summer
6 hours ago
22 comments:
Good post & remberance.
Somehow these postcards make me shiver a little.
It's still hard for me to imagine anything that catastrophic happening.
It is, isn't it?
I always thought a very moving image might be a shot of a superhero, say Batman, watching the towers burning from the same angle the Manhunter is posed at, fists clenched, head down.
It makes me wish I could draw.
Very nice tie in with 9/11.
Nice post and tie in with 9/11 and PFF.
I am glad you shared the second picture. Very fitting. Great sadness for everyone.
Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for showing these today. A nice tribute and reminder. The comic drawing is perfect.
Beautiful tribute. Like many people, I still remember exactly where I was, 8 years ago. On a parking space near a beautiful mansion in England. Another visitor was listening to the car radio and told me the amazing news. My first reaction was a sick joke: "Call James Bond". Later I felt ashamed about it. It was an amazing tragedy. That night something weird happened: we found a freecard in a pub of an painting of an airplane flying into a skyscraper. Strange days.
I have a couple of cards from years ago showing the Twin Towers. I posted them on this day last year. I should have saved one for this year. Like Bob, I remember exactly where I was - at work, talking on the phone, when my colleague showed me the news pictures arriving on her computer screen....
Hi!
Beautiful Card! Very nice tribute for the occasion. I watched the second tower fall on television and cried the whole time. Thanks for sharing this! Have a great day!
Sherrie
Great "postcards". My daughter went to Ground Zero and took photos last Spring. Even in pics, it's sobering.
very nice post, and the comic book twist is very provocative.
There are even more interesting treatments of the events of 9/11 in the comics.
As a resident of New York, the story of 9/11 unfolds as Spiderman watches in horror, finding himself as powerless as the rest of us.
Great post. Definately makes me sad though. I remember that day well.
Beautiful remembrance.
Beautiful and sad.
Excellent post for 9/11! Happy PFF from a died-in-the-wool New Yorker! :)
Touching story to 'go-with' the images.
Oreo cookies have the effect of alcohol on him which explains the slob aspect of his character.
Check this out. It is from my dear friend, Michael Netzer.
http://michaelnetzer.com/rEvolution/content/view/300/113/
Good job. Especially the comic cover. Didn't the Spiderman movie have to change a poster that had Spidey webslinging his way between the Towers? I seem to recall something like that.
I'll be sharing this comic book image with my Grade 5 students. Thank you.
Evelyn in Montreal
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