Not like Margaret, who *did* change as the series progressed.

Thing about TV Frank (not to be confused with TV's Frank) is that when the guys pretended to be nice to him for whatever reason, he was just so pathetically grateful and happy. I always thought that would've been a good hook for character development but that wasn't Frank's place in the show.

I haven't read the novel in forever, but yeah, he's gone right quick! ...Reminds me that I have a pile of all those other M*A*S*H novels I bought ages ago that I still haven't read (M*A*S*H GOES TO MAINE, etc.).

Finished my rewatch of the M*A*S*H film last night and it still surprises me how little the character of Frank Burns appears in the film, given how large he looms in the TV series. Which is just part of the episodic structure of the movie, I know...Frank's story is done with in short order.

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I remember this, which may not be exactly what you're thinking of (and there was one for the crossovers, too): www.comics.org/issue/246366/

I imagine that the farther away we get from CRISIS and the more new comic fans that show up who weren't even born when it was coming out, the weirder the myths are going to get. "CRISIS? That's when Bane broke Batman's back, right?"

...and "fixing" the DCU would lead to hopefully selling even MORE comics! So yes, Wolfman's ideas merged with the concerns of commerce, but I still think trying to adjust the DCU to be more reader (and sales) friendly was the major point of the book.

Trivial but inspirational - there's a specific letter to NEW TEEN TITANS that set Wolfman off on this path to consolidating the DC Earths into one consistent continuity. So while "sell more of our stuff" is always the point of crossovers, fixing the DCU is an inextricable part of its DNA.

Yeah, it did stir up excitement around the company again, which can't be understated.

I don't think anyone really thought about the end result at the time, we were just all pulled in by "which Earth/which character was being killed off next?" and wondering what we'd be left with when it was all over.

At the time, it was really exciting...nothing like this had been done before, and it seemed like there were real consequences. It was a month-to-month real time epic event. ...The intention was to make DC more like Marvel, but the result was making DC more like DC without a lot of the fun stuff.

It would be an exercise in finding all the inconsistencies between what they thought the series would be and what it ended up being.

I always assumed that couple was based on the old "The Bickersons" radio show.

I've been saying for years DC wants to make CRISIS "never not was" and failing. Took only about a year after it was over before folks started trying to get some of that pre-Crisis stuff back in the books.

Still a killer cover on #1 by Bill Sienkiewicz, though.

[the picture of the guy sweating over which button to push, one button marked "MAKE LOTS OF MONEY FOR RETAILERS" and the other button marked "MAKE THINGS UNNECESSARILY DIFFICULT FOR RETAILERS"]

ha ha oh man these comics were terrible

Not *entirely* DC's fault - I think they were working on these even before the show came out - but still, not great.

Now, I haven't had a shot in my right eye for over two years, and aside from one small bleeding incident which resolved itself, it's been fine.

If my *left* eye is now, finally, that stable, I'll be very happy. But we'll see how it goes.