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Though if you want sufficiently dark Popeye, here's the end from an unedited short from the 40's. http://youtu.be/aMJrM80r50A?t=7m10s
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Cangelosi posted:That's some quality British comicwork there. Does it look like it came from the Beano or something? Basil Wolverton was American. Those panels are from a golden age Marvel comic.
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Batman #36 Batman Vs. Jokerized Superman.   Could have posted all the ridiculous methods Batman had to take out the rest of the League last issue, but the microscopic sun fist is truly amazing. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Even by Batman standards that's the stupidest goddamn thing.
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Nov 12, 2014 13:13
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Wouldn't the mass be too heavy for Batman to lift or something? Or was he flat-out using Ray Palmer tech to boost his strength so he could handle swinging around what amounted to star-matter-knuckles emitting harmful radiation?
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Wade Wilson posted:Wouldn't the mass be too heavy for Batman to lift or something? Or was he flat-out using Ray Palmer tech to boost his strength so he could handle swinging around what amounted to star-matter-knuckles emitting harmful radiation? They're microscopic, so they're very light. You push around microscopic universes all the time without even realizing it. 
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"Batman cool Superman lame PUNCH" - every hack writer until the end of time, apparently.
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Nov 12, 2014 13:49
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Lurdiak posted:"Batman cool Superman lame PUNCH" - every hack writer until the end of time, apparently. There's actually a kernel of something good at the heart of it, I think. You get "scientist" == "evil mad scientist" a lot, and then Superman goes and beats up Brainiac, and it's nice that some people sometimes like to cast the smart guy as the winner when it's brains versus brawn. (Of course, the smart guy is still winning by punching, which kind of defeats the purpose, but this wasn't an airtight thesis to begin with...)
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Nov 12, 2014 13:52
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prefect posted:They're microscopic, so they're very light. You push around microscopic universes all the time without even realizing it. Sorry, I keep thinking that if the mass doesn't change, compacting it into a very tiny/dense space isn't going to make it any lighter but comic book logic prevails I guess (Ray Palmer gets around it with tech that basically does all the heavy lifting for him, which was why I was wondering if Batman also borrowed Palmer's white dwarf star device or something).
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Batman #37 See Batman deal with the inevitable mouth cancer from chewing kryptonite gum!
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Wade Wilson posted:Sorry, I keep thinking that if the mass doesn't change, compacting it into a very tiny/dense space isn't going to make it any lighter but comic book logic prevails I guess (Ray Palmer gets around it with tech that basically does all the heavy lifting for him, which was why I was wondering if Batman also borrowed Palmer's white dwarf star device or something). I'm thinking of that thing college freshmen talk about when they get stoned; "what if there are millions of microscopic universes the size of atoms inside my fingernail?" Byers2142 posted:Batman #37 Kryptonite is radioactive, right? Batman has probably had more exposure than any other human on Earth. 
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prefect posted:Kryptonite is radioactive, right? Batman has probably had more exposure than any other human on Earth. Yep, it's radioactive, and except for maybe one other man, Batman has the most exposure.  Superman (Vol. 2) #19 (1988)
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prefect posted:I'm thinking of that thing college freshmen talk about when they get stoned; "what if there are millions of microscopic universes the size of atoms inside my fingernail?" There's a really good take on that idea in an early Weird Science or Weird Fantasy from the 50s. I'll try to find it and post when I get home; if I remember right, the splash page would qualify for this thread. Great art, really goofy premise.
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prefect posted:Kryptonite is radioactive, right? Batman has probably had more exposure than any other human on Earth. Wasn't it a thing at one point that Lex got cancer or something from the kryptonite he used to carry around?
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John Dyne posted:Wasn't it a thing at one point that Lex got cancer or something from the kryptonite he used to carry around? "Kryptonite poisoning". It's two posts above yours.
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I thought it was actual cancer from that weird battlesuit he used to pilot, which I think was a bit later than 1988. Oh well! v v
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Luthor eventually died from cancer and cloned himself into a red haired guy who had a really creepy relationship with Supergirl. DC Comics.
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Saoshyant posted:Luthor eventually died from cancer and cloned himself into a red haired guy who had a really creepy relationship with Supergirl. DC Comics. Yeah, the hand removal didn't stop the cancer from spreading, so he got to clone himself as Supergirl's Aussie boyfriend. I think that the "poisoning" was retconned to cancer later on.
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Byers2142 posted:Yep, it's radioactive, and except for maybe one other man, Batman has the most exposure. To be honest I think Lex Luthor's diabetes, as evidenced by his wild swings in body weight, is probably a bigger issue for his extremities.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:To be honest I think Lex Luthor's diabetes, as evidenced by his wild swings in body weight, is probably a bigger issue for his extremities.
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Zereth posted:He'll just find a way to blame Superman for that too. Unfortunately, this time he only has his own hubris to blame. 
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Saoshyant posted:Luthor eventually died from cancer and cloned himself into a red haired guy who had a really creepy relationship with Supergirl. DC Comics. Was this before or after he was the President of the United States of America?
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Byers2142 posted:Batman #37 It's okay, he has some Bat Rad-Away back home.
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Crowetron posted:Was this before or after he was the President of the United States of America? Oh, man, I remember that! I still have one of his campaign pins!
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Crowetron posted:Was this before or after he was the President of the United States of America? I want to say before. But also, at that time wasn't President Lex another clone or impostor and the real Lex was hanging out in a satellite and went under the code name Mockingbird for the whole Villains United thing? Or am I mixing up like 3-4 other story lines?
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Crowetron posted:Was this before or after he was the President of the United States of America? Well before. This was like late 80s/early 90s "Death of Superman" -Era stuff while President Lex was around 2000. CzarChasm posted:But also, at that time wasn't President Lex another clone or impostor and the real Lex was hanging out in a satellite and went under the code name Mockingbird for the whole Villains United thing? I don't even remember this nonsense. loving Jeph Loeb.
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CzarChasm posted:But also, at that time wasn't President Lex another clone or impostor and the real Lex was hanging out in a satellite and went under the code name Mockingbird for the whole Villains United thing?
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The way I remember it, bald Lex died in the late 80's, early 90's, and redhaired Lex came along right after. He stuck around through Doomsday, Reign of the Supermen, and the return, and lasted for a while before finally outing himself as a clone and going bald again.
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Keromaru5 posted:The way I remember it, bald Lex died in the late 80's, early 90's, and redhaired Lex came along right after. He stuck around through Doomsday, Reign of the Supermen, and the return, and lasted for a while before finally outing himself as a clone and going bald again. I just read that as he walks into a room, announces "I'm a clone", and suddenly his hair just falls out.
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CzarChasm posted:I just read that as he walks into a room, announces "I'm a clone"
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Waterhaul posted:Spider-Verse #1
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Morlun gets taken out by a drone strike, Obama is in the next panel looking smug as poo poo.
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We all know if he stayed, the Spider-verse event would have been resolved immediately by Iron Jonah. Also, Hobgoblin continues to be the best part of Axis. AXIS: Hobgoblin #2   SilverSupernova fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Byers2142 posted:Yeah, the hand removal didn't stop the cancer from spreading, so he got to clone himself as Supergirl's Aussie boyfriend. I think that the "poisoning" was retconned to cancer later on. He claimed to be Lex Luthor II, son of Lex Luthor, which is why he got control of Lex Corp. That Supergirl was actually Matrix, a... thing an alternate reality Lex had created to resemble that universe's Lana Lang but with Superman's biology. So match made in heaven, I guess.
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Except when Matrix merged with a regular girl who may or may not have been an angel. (I still do really like the issue from that PAD run where Silver Age Supergirl shows up and tries to push the Earth out of the way of an asteroid)
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SynthOrange posted:Wh... why not push the asteroid out of the way? She had a date with her horse and she didn't want to be late. GAWD it's like you don't even read comics!
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Gaz-L posted:Except when Matrix merged with a regular girl who may or may not have been an angel. I like PAD's stuff from the late 90s and early 00s and hate Jeph Loeb's bullshit, but one of the few smart things Loeb ever did was get rid of all the horseshit pretenders and just say "gently caress it here's Superman's cousin again can we move the gently caress on now?"
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