莫里森在10.10订阅台更新文章里提到一件往事,就是他曾给《夺宝奇兵》漫画写过提案(当时应该还是黑马时期),但最终未通过,不过他把其中一个点子用到了《全明星超人》里——
《夺宝奇兵》的故事设定在1950年,开篇就是老亨利·琼斯的葬礼,印第安纳·琼斯发现了父亲毕生追寻生命之树与青春之泉,纳粹驾驶飞碟从空心地球现身,二战战败后他们一直躲藏在那里,还和地底蜥蜴人结盟,人类传说里的恶魔与地狱正是源自这个族群(这是点子最早的设定,后来我写进了《全明星超人》里),故事的最终对决里,一向惧怕蛇类的印第安纳·琼斯迎战蛇王,也就是这位蜥蜴首领,实际上那就是撒旦,在故事结尾,濒死的印第安纳吃下生命之树的果实,从此差不多获得永生!原文:Indiana Jones was set in 1950 and started with the funeral of Henry Jones Snr. and Indy’s discovery of his dad’s ultimate search for the Tree of Life and the Fountain of Youth. It had Nazis in flying saucers emerging from the Hollow Earth where they’d been in hiding since losing World War 2, after allying themselves with a subterranean lizard race that had given rise to our stories of demons and Hell (my first use of an idea that ended up in All-Star Superman), it ended with Indiana Jones, who fears snakes of course, facing the King of Snakes in the form of the reptilian leader – Satan basically - then ends with a dying Indy eating the fruit of the Tree of Life and presumably becoming immortal!
莫里森这里说的蜥蜴人又叫地底恐龙(Subterranosauri),世代居住在地心,是地球内部的古老爬行类高等文明,统治者是恐龙沙皇泰兰科(Tyrranko),人类远古关于地下、恶魔、巨兽的神话传说,根源就来自这一族的存在,在第3期里,有大量蜥蜴人跑到地表上面的大都会搞破坏,超人把带头闹事的克鲁尔(Krull)押送回地心和蜥蜴人君主谈判交涉了,这里用的就是这个设定
说到这我想多写几句,我突然明白为什么莫里森当初评价《超人》电影的时候说如果是他来写他不会把恐龙写死,而是重伤,再安排超人用超级按压救活恐龙了,回头看《全明星》这段分镜(P2-4),我大彻大悟——这里参孙刚见面就把克鲁尔扔进了太空,然后超人在他们打招呼的空隙飞上去把对方救回来了,后续救回的情节写得非常简短却很细节——仿佛一切都发生在瞬间,超人在拯救生命事无巨细这个点上莫里森确实是写到了极致每日一莫里森





