Badass Panels: An Alternate Dimension Called the Idiot Zone

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SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

Speaking of being terrified of Plastic Man:

DCeased: Dead Planet #2

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 06:32

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

Fantastic Four #276 (1985)

I am probably the only one, but I always kinda hoped they would bring back Elspeth Cromwell someday. Look at her just effortlessly clowning on Reed and Sue while wearing stylish sunglasses and a cool ponytail. Her power and style is matched only by her incredible stupidity (Reed and Sue are trying to live incognito, so she assumes they must be witches pretending to be the Fantastic Four pretending to be normal people). Sadly, she was never mentioned again after this story.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2021 12:21

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

Sandman #22 (1991)

I was curious what Lucifer was talking about here, so I looked it up, and the characterization is surprisingly close to Gaiman's.

The Demon #6 (1990)

The Demon #7 (1990)

# ¿ Aug 24, 2022 13:41

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

usenet celeb 1992 posted:

Luthor really does embody the projection ("obviously he's just virtue signalling because he harbors darker motives just like the rest of us"), zero-sum thinking ("his very existence diminishes me"), and grievance culture ("he's getting in the way of my greatness") of the modern right wing.

Reposted from the funny pictures thread:

SimonChris posted:

Superman #2 (1987)

CLICK! WHIRR! CLACK! Ah, the 80's.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2023 21:04

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

From the Danish Valhalla comics. Hard-boiled Odin is investigating the mystery of Suttung's mead.

Valhalla #11(1998) (Unofficial translation. Transl. date unknown)

Valhalla has never been officially translated into English, but I am posting the entire run in the favorite comics thread.

SimonChris fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Aug 30, 2023

# ¿ Aug 27, 2023 17:25

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

Superman: Up in the Sky 6 (2020)

# ¿ Dec 9, 2023 10:10

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

usenet celeb 1992 posted:

Yeah sorry, it's hard to read that sequence as anything other than a cynical, facile play to get circulated online. Something memeable rather than meaningful. It's hard to sustain tension and excitement over just a sequence of panels that are just repetitions of "but Superman is the strongest of all" rugpulls. He couldn't even have Superman not look angry when rescuing a little girl. Superman, at his best written, is so much more than this.

In the actual comic, these are interspersed with pages showing the heroes back on Earth getting their asses kicked by the exact same types of robots. Whether that makes it better or worse is up to you.