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prefect posted:Holy cow I'm getting the strongest deja vu. I must have read that comic in a doctor's waiting room as a kid; it's too familiar.   As soon as I saw that thing he was looking through I had an instant flashback. You must be old enough to remember the DC "Dollar Comics" too. Maybe this is the right place to ask. Last time I posted about this no one could figure it out. In the 1960s or early 1970s there was a one-shot Superman villain who had a machine that could drain Superman's powers and transfer them to himself. It was a chair of some sort and he could choose how powerful to set the drain. I think the chair had a nasty looking helmet with crystalline lenses for the eyes. Eventually he wigs out and turns it to the max, but the influx of Superman's full powers almost destroyed him. I think he had some sort of Roman motif, like calling himself Caesar. I can remember him testing his powers by crushing coal into diamonds. Been trying to figure this one out for ages. The last time I saw the comic was probably in the 1970s.
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Mister Roboto posted:The collective power of America, which includes Jesus and Apple Pie. Glenn Beck? 
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WickedHate posted:Who nationally guards the National Guards? I live in a city with a large National Guard camp. The answer to this is "private security," AKA: mall cops.
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Dick Trauma posted:Maybe this is the right place to ask. Last time I posted about this no one could figure it out. In the 1960s or early 1970s there was a one-shot Superman villain who had a machine that could drain Superman's powers and transfer them to himself. It was a chair of some sort and he could choose how powerful to set the drain. I think the chair had a nasty looking helmet with crystalline lenses for the eyes. Eventually he wigs out and turns it to the max, but the influx of Superman's full powers almost destroyed him.   
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So meanwhile in the Badass thread, they were talking about X-Factor 87, as it's the issue that has Quicksilver giving his monologue about how painful life is for him because everything is irritating. I found that I had that issue, and was flipping through it, and showing it to my roommate. She asked about the advertisements from back then, and... Advertisements were just different back then. 
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Ghostlight posted:I just loving love detectiving this poo poo because it's always somewhere. You are a superstar! The helmet must've been another issue but I'm not disappointed.
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I think your memory is fine. I didn't include this image (as it's not as funny as the others), which suggests some kind of helmet/lenses setup being the mode of stealing his powers as Superman is so completely guileless you don't really need any plan beyond "here, put this poo poo on".
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IUG posted:So meanwhile in the Badass thread, they were talking about X-Factor 87, as it's the issue that has Quicksilver giving his monologue about how painful life is for him because everything is irritating. I found that I had that issue, and was flipping through it, and showing it to my roommate. She asked about the advertisements from back then, and... Rulk's first adventures didn't get past the CCA, huh? 
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Ghostlight posted:I think your memory is fine. I didn't include this image (as it's not as funny as the others), which suggests some kind of helmet/lenses setup being the mode of stealing his powers as Superman is so completely guileless you don't really need any plan beyond "here, put this poo poo on". Technically you've solved two mysteries for me then! I remember now that when he uses his x-ray vision the helmet zaps him somehow and then they can strap him into the chair. For a crappy story it sure stayed with me all these years. As a reward I give you a cover from one of my favorite comics back then, G.I. Combat. It wasn't enough that the crew of a Sherman tank is watched over by the ghost of a Confederate general, they also needed to be parachuted into a volcano accompanied by a Nazi spy disguised as a hot nurse, and attacked by a goddamn dinosaur. 
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Dick Trauma posted:As a reward I give you a cover from one of my favorite comics back then, G.I. Combat. It wasn't enough that the crew of a Sherman tank is watched over by the ghost of a Confederate general, they also needed to be parachuted into a volcano accompanied by a Nazi spy disguised as a hot nurse, and attacked by a goddamn dinosaur. Did the Confederate general complain all the time about his brand of tank being named after a Union Army war criminal?
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Cangelosi posted:Did the Confederate general complain all the time about his brand of tank being named after a Union Army war criminal? Different stories. The Haunted Tank was an M3 Stuart, possessed by J.E.B. Stuart. There was a Vertigo mini-series a few years ago where Stuart possessed an M1 Abrams commanded by a black sergeant during Operation Iraqi Freedom with all the awkwardness you would expect.
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The M3 was their first haunted tank. They moved on to an M4 afterward, ghost and all.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:From JL8 (Formerly Little League) This is loving adorable. All wee Bruce needs to do to get a confession is just smile at the criminal. I'd hope this got a callback in DC with the Justice League when they had that crossover with the cartoon mini versions (and lego Red Tornado!) but I kinda doubt that's gonna happen in the nu52 
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I'd hope this got a callback in DC with the Justice League when they had that crossover with the cartoon mini versions (and lego Red Tornado!) but I kinda doubt that's gonna happen in the nu52 This is a fan comic, and a fairly recent one. DC is tolerating it for now, but they'd never acknowledge it except very obtusely, for legal reasons.
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JL8 has so many great  bits; J'onn's suit, Karen and Diana being BFFs, Barry being a total spaz, and of course Lil' Booster.
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Evil Mastermind posted:JL8 has so many great I love that Ted's already at the horizon by the time Booster turns around.
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Evil Mastermind posted:JL8 has so many great Welp, I'm sold. Is this available on Comixology?
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Keru posted:I love that Ted's already at the horizon by the time Booster turns around. Well, there's probably some concern about li'l Max Lord.
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Sockser posted:Welp, I'm sold. Is this available on Comixology?
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Lil J'onn is the best
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Sockser posted:Welp, I'm sold. Is this available on Comixology? I just said it's a fan comic. <  >
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Sockser posted:Welp, I'm sold. Is this available on Comixology? http://limbero.org/jl8/1
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Cangelosi posted:Perhaps the greatest picture taken out of context EVER. Man, they somehow made Watership Down more hardcore.
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Opopanax posted:Lil J'onn is the best And the followup:  Oh christ, this comic:    Sidenote: I always thought Batman looked really *happy* in that cover art.  The full scene: https://www.superherostuff.com/blog/superherostuff/memorable-superhero-moments-wonder-womans-boot-on-batmans-head/ BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Feb 26, 2014 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:And the followup: The real followup: 
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AnonSpore posted:The real followup: I like the resolution more. 
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There's also a really touching one in the midst of the goofiness where Bruce and Clark walk home and Bruce has to walk on alone while Clark gleefully greets his loving adopted parents. He goes home to his giant, empty mansion and sits alone watching television... until Alfred shows up with treats and sits down and watches the show with him 
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Personally I thought the riff on Injustice was great and very appropriate.
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AnonSpore posted:Personally I thought the riff on Injustice was great and very appropriate. What riff? I must have missed it.
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AnonSpore posted:Personally I thought the riff on Injustice was great and very appropriate. It was actually a riff on the new 52 tho.
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Lurdiak posted:It was actually a riff on the new 52 tho. Yeah, that I got.
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Throwdown posted:What riff? I must have missed it. Batman gets upset that a newspaper refers to them as kids, so he, Clark and Hal design new outfits that make them "mature". Barry gets all excited and decides to join in by drawing lines all over his costume in marker, and J'onn asks Diana if a new suit is a sign of maturity on Earth, and she says,"No, boys here are just stupid."
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Lurdiak posted:It was actually a riff on the new 52 tho. It was? I thought Flash and Supes' weird segmented armor-y costumes were an Injustice thing.
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AnonSpore posted:It was? I thought Flash and Supes' weird segmented armor-y costumes were an Injustice thing. I'm so sorry you had to find out like this  
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I love how his cape originates directly from beneath his clavicles.
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AnonSpore posted:It was? I thought Flash and Supes' weird segmented armor-y costumes were an Injustice thing. Nope. And as for the "Batman tries to be hardcore" aspect of that story, while the Injustice game's story is pretty terrible, the point of it and the comic is kind of supposed to be that grimmer and grittier heroes are something no one should want. Whereas the new 52, especially the Justice League book, has turned many of the heroes and villains into angry, edgy parodies of what they used to be.
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Someone read Kingdom Come and thought "Holy poo poo, Magog is awesome! Superman should be more like him!".
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WickedHate posted:Someone read Kingdom Come and thought "Holy poo poo, Magog is awesome! Superman should be more like him!". So it's not surprising he ended up looking exactly like Cable with a helmet.  Could have used a few more leg pouches.
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Holy gently caress. I'm not normally one to comment, but that is so 90's it shits moon shoes. What could have possibly been going through their heads?!
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