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bessantj posted:What is the Ex Machina one? I forgot about the Flash forces. There was a Still force in DC where if the fastest man alive could hold himself still he could conquer it.
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Skwirl posted:There was a Still force in DC where if the fastest man alive could hold himself still he could conquer it. Don't know that but, I'm pretty sure my slothfulness has helped me conquer that one.
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CzarChasm posted:Yup
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I'm pretty sure the Red was Morrison riffing on Moore for Animal Man.
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Nessus posted:Did Geoff Johns do this one too? Didn't Moore and co. only come up with the Green and the Red? Nope mark miller during his swamp thing run along with others that followed him. Most of the parliaments were around before the new 52. bobkatt013 fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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bessantj posted:Have Poison Ivy and Swamp Thing ever interacted? She ever try and control him? In the DCAU comics they retconned some of Ivy's later appearances in the cartoons (when she was green) as that having just been a plant clone of her, while the real one was off hanging out with Swamp Thing learning about the Green (and it's very strongly implied they were doing it).
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bessantj posted:Thanks. Like the different-colored types of Kryptonite?
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bessantj posted:Thanks. 
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Robin's being very rude calling Batman's fabulous pink costume "red".
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bessantj posted:Have Poison Ivy and Swamp Thing ever interacted? She ever try and control him? Alex Holland and Ivy studies together in Black Orchid.
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Endless Mike posted:Robin's being very rude calling Batman's fabulous pink costume "red". And anyone wearing a costume like that should shut the gently caress up about everyone else's clothes.
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Nessus posted:Did Geoff Johns do this one too? Didn't Moore and co. only come up with the Green and the Red? IIRC it was John Ostrander who came up with the idea of Firestorm becoming a fire elemental to go along with Swamp Thing's plant elemental status.
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Alhazred posted:And anyone wearing a costume like that should shut the gently caress up about everyone else's clothes. I mean, Batman dressed him. This one all comes down to Bruce no matter how you slice it.
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The Robin costume being a repurposed Flying Graysons outfit makes total sense as Dick honoring his parents, but also Haley's Circus toured all over the country performing in front of, presumably, millions of people, where his parents died wearing those outfits in a really gruesome and public way, and now there's a kid his exact age tooling around in a jet-black rocket car with a lunatic that dresses up as a bat, dressed exactly the same, not long after Dick was legally adopted by the only guy in Gotham who could potentially afford a jet-black rocket car. It's like Bruce wanted people to know.
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prefect posted:Like the different-colored types of Kryptonite? I suppose that could be one. How many different types of Kryptonite are there and what are the effects? I know green hurts Superman and red turns him evil.
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bessantj posted:I suppose that could be one. How many different types of Kryptonite are there and what are the effects? I know green hurts Superman and red turns him evil. Blue heals him. Gold takes away their powers. Black splits Kryptonians into good and evil halves. Pink makes him hit on Jimmy Olsen.
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I thought black killed him and red temporarily mutated him
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Cubone posted:I thought black killed him and red temporarily mutated him As of Jeph Loeb's Supergirl series black K splits a Kryptonian into good and evil. Red mutates but on Smallville it turned him into a douchebag. Green is the lethal one.
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Rhyno posted:Red mutates but on Smallville it turned him into a douchebag.
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https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Kryptonite There's a lot of kinds I forgot about.
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Rhyno posted:Blue heals him.
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Rhyno posted:https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Kryptonite Kryptonite Plus sounds like something bodybuilders would take.
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bessantj posted:Is that real? I hope its real and they did it in a 60s comic. It was in the final arc of Peter David's Supergirl series. 2003ish?
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Didn't this kind of stuff come about due to cover artists making up bizaare poo poo for the cover and the interior artist and writer had to try figure out a story for it? Is that true or just an urban legend?
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Rhyno posted:It was in the final arc of Peter David's Supergirl series. 2003ish? I was hoping it was on one of those 60s covers that had little relation to the content of the comic.
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Madkal posted:Didn't this kind of stuff come about due to cover artists making up bizaare poo poo for the cover and the interior artist and writer had to try figure out a story for it? Is that true or just an urban legend? That and absolute mountains of cocaine/psychedelics
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bessantj posted:Is that real? 
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Superman could do better.
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bessantj posted:Superman could do better. Than Jimmy Olsen? Oh hell no
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Rhyno posted:Red mutates but on Smallville it turned him into a douchebag. So could red Kryptonite also explain the existence of Dean Cain?
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bessantj posted:Superman could do better. But he knows Clark Kent can’t, he’s gotta keep the ball in both courts
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Retro Futurist posted:That and absolute mountains of cocaine/psychedelics Who in the Silver Age was doing mountains of cocaine? Is this some inside scoop about the DC staff culture I've never heard or a reference to a specific writer or editor? I don't want to sound confrontational or skeptical but based on everything I know cocaine would have been a strange drug of choice for a bunch of nerdy white guys in the 50s and 60s. It just seems like a strange socioeconomic and professional milieu for coke to be prominent in during that time, but I don't know, what do I know?
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I guess that'd be more an 80s thing. Just the psychedelics then.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Than Jimmy Olsen? Oh hell no Yes he could. Batman for a start. Thaddius the Large posted:But he knows Clark Kent can’t, he’s gotta keep the ball in both courts Fair.
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bessantj posted:Yes he could. Batman for a start. Batman's taken, Superman's too good a dude to bust up his relationship with any of a number of Robins
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Batman's taken, Superman's too good a dude to bust up his relationship with any of a number of Robins If that pink outfit further up the thread is anything to go by he's only "taken"
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Archyduchess posted:Who in the Silver Age was doing mountains of cocaine? Is this some inside scoop about the DC staff culture I've never heard or a reference to a specific writer or editor? I don't want to sound confrontational or skeptical but based on everything I know cocaine would have been a strange drug of choice for a bunch of nerdy white guys in the 50s and 60s. It just seems like a strange socioeconomic and professional milieu for coke to be prominent in during that time, but I don't know, what do I know? Again just remembering vague details but I think the guy who was working on Superman in during the 50/60's was taking psychodelics and using Superman to work through some personal issues. I vaguely remember reading about that, possibly in these forums. Will try find more details.
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I have a question about something I brought up in the BSS TV thread. I the X-Men Evolution cartoon show, they introduced a character named Spyke. About a year later, X-Force/X-Statix briefly added a character named Spike to the team, who had the same ability of firing bone spikes. Did Milligan ever directly come out and say anywhere 'Yeah, we cribbed that's character from the show as a joke' or anything? I always just assumed it was him being cheeky
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I figured it was intentional and he may have even been asked to bring it in X-23 was from Evolution as well.
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I don't think any of the "old dudes at DC in the 1950s/1960s were taking drugs" stories are anything but "man those guys must have been soooooooooooooooooo ooooooo ooooooo oooooooooo ooooo stoned to make that, man!" speculation/unsourced stories; Ditko and Kirby never did drugs according to anyone and did some pretty weird poo poo, as did [insert a ton of artists, writers, musicians, painters, sculptors, actors, etc. across centuries]. What is 100% confirmed from multiple primary sources is that in the 1950s well into the early 1970s National/DC employed early market research/focus groups/etc. to determine what was hot with the kids these days, and go through jags of "the kids love gorillas! the kids love roller skating! the kids love things that are purple! the kids love go go checks!" and push those elements on their covers. They also had their 'top' artists draw all of the covers based on whatever came out of these reports/brainstorming, and then handed the covers to the yeoman writers/artists to work backwards to figure out why Lois Lane had a Kryptonite xylophone or Jimmy Olsen was a violent hippie or the Flash was getting beaten in roller derby. The young fans-turned-pros at Marvel in the early 1970s (many of whom migrated to DC later on) did in fact do all sorts of recreational drugs and wander through Central Park and the East Village while high pitching each other stories for Supervillain Team-Up or whatever, but that was an entirely different generation and tone than the Silver Age covers people were talking about.
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