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Post by Cheswick on Nov 4, 2018 18:59:23 GMT -5
She appears in All-Star #72 and 73, fighting Helena Wayne for the right to use the name Huntress, ala Power Man ove in Marvel. I've got the TPB collecting these, though i also have the back issue of All Star Comics #58. I'll probably have to try and get those last All Stars eventually and maybe the three Showcases with Power Girl. One interesting thing, in the Showcase letter column they mention The Huntress would follow Power Girl in that title, but it was cancelled before that... what became of any Huntress stories prepared for Showcase?I'm pretty sure I read the old baddie Power Man vs. new good Power Man sequence once, which is surprising to me, I never was able to find a lot of Power Man comics (still wish I could get #48-50 most). Maybe it happened in a Defenders or Avengers though? Huntress eventually had a back-up in the Wonder Woman book. But, I don't know if those were the stories originally intended for Showcase. The initial stories by Paul Levitz were collected in the long-out of print, yet still reasonably-priced Huntress: Dark Knight Daughter TPB, along with her origin from DC Super-Stars and her Batman Family appearances.
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Post by Cheswick on Oct 17, 2018 19:21:20 GMT -5
I'm up to 2011, so I'm technically past the time frame for classic comics. I've read the first three issues of New 52 Detective Comics. I don't think I've read any of these early issues since they first came out. They're not really very good, but they're not bad in a way that particularly bugs me. In the first issue, the Joker, looking to re-create himself again to be a more weird and fearsome and bizarre Gotham creature, has his face surgically removed by a character called the Dollmaker. So for the next few years, the Joker is running around without his face. His face becomes a sort of Gotham villain artifact. The GCPD displays it like a trophy. Other villains try to steal it. I think the Joker got it back for a while and wore it like a mask with a string tied around his head. The Joker's face is actually a hilarious idea for a place as weird as Gotham. So I like the basic idea. But I'm not really thrilled about the execution. The first issue is OK, but the next couple of issues focus on the Dollmaker, a villain whose father was a Gotham serial killer that was shot and killed by … James Gordon as a young police officer. So he's after Gordon as well as Batman. He cuts people up and puts the body parts back together. I don't mind that it's gruesome. It's just so relentlessly and pointlessly gruesome. Can't believe that they used the Joker as the villain in Detective #1. How many Detective #1's have there been since this one? None, actually. With Rebirth, they returned to the original numbering. They probably have something planned to take advantage 1000-issue milestone, like they did with the recent Action Comics #1000.
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Post by Cheswick on Sept 20, 2018 22:15:39 GMT -5
I'm a late comer with X-23 but the new series piqued interest in her back catalogue.
Got both series from 2005 and 2006 in this mix. I think they qualify here as they are over 10 years old.
If you're a fan of X-23, you might like Kyle and Yost's run of New X-Men. It ran from #20-46. The first arc was actually pretty bad, but the rest was good. It was a bit dark for my usual tastes, but an entertaining read overall.
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Post by Cheswick on Sept 18, 2018 10:08:24 GMT -5
In the TV show Family Guy, they killed off the dog. I was shocked but apparently they brought him back later on in the season. Maybe there was backlash ? They planned to bring him back all along. I'm fairly certain the episode he returned in was already produced by the time the episode he died had aired.
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Post by Cheswick on Sept 6, 2018 23:03:16 GMT -5
I like this two-issue storyline a lot. Detective Comics #794 and #795. The Tarantula wanders over from Bludhaven for a few issues. Since she's from Bludhaven, I assume she's part of Nightwing's supporting cast. And she shows up in "War Games" as well. I've only seen her a few times, starting back in 2011 or 2012 when I started reading Detective Comics again (as of #879) and I acquired a bunch of back issues and bought the "War Games" trade paperbacks. She's pretty cool! Did they bring her back in The New 52 or Rebirth or is she in limbo right now? The only time I recall Tarantula being used post-New 52 was in a Green Arrow arc, just prior to Rebirth.
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Post by Cheswick on Aug 16, 2018 20:14:41 GMT -5
It's amazing to me that DC has let that trade remain out of print for so long. It seems to me it should be one of their evergreen books. It's definitely worthy of a Deluxe Edition.
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 18, 2018 8:13:39 GMT -5
It took 12 years for Poison Ivy to get an origin story, in World's Finest 251-252. It was actually a Wonder Woman story and not a Batman story.
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 10, 2018 1:43:12 GMT -5
Marvel had a mutant character named Eye-Scream that could transform into ice cream, a power that was both useless and disturbing.
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 10, 2018 0:33:53 GMT -5
Thanks! I did see that when looking into newer comics I've missed, but I wasn't completely sure if they were all women or if the team was more of a bird themed situation. Gail Simone's Birds of Prey run is really good. It ran from #56-109 and the lineup featured Oracle (Barbara Gordon), Black Canary and Huntress at first, with other women characters being brought in later.
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 9, 2018 21:38:29 GMT -5
But, that wasn't Moore's intent. It's Ostrander and his collaborators on Suicide Squad who deserve the credit for Barbara Gordon's initial, post-Killing Joke character development and, of course, other writers like Dixon and Simone, who worked with the character later. I realize you weren't crediting Moore with that, but some people do try to make that argument. It's like thanking someone for setting fire to your kitchen because you got a nice remodel afterward.
Every indication is that T he Killing Joke was never meant to be in continuity. So again...not Moore’s fault but that of the execs who decided to make it part of DC continuity. That is irrelevant to the point I was making, which was that I have come across a few Moore fans who like to act like he was consciously doing the character a favor by crippling her.
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 9, 2018 19:54:43 GMT -5
Birds of Prey wasn’t there an all-female X-team recently? You're thinking of A-Force and I'd hardly call them mutant centric, though your mileage may vary. It did at least bring Dazzler back into the limelight, so that's a plus I think he was referring to the roster during Brian Wood's run on X-Men from about 5 years ago. It was an all-female team (Storm , Kitty, Psylocke, Rachel, Jubilee, M and, initially, Rogue).
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 9, 2018 19:43:32 GMT -5
I'll still say the treatment of Barbara Gordon in "The Killing Joke" is completely distasteful, though. It was shocking. But it also opened up new directions for her character rather than "Robin, but female." But, that wasn't Moore's intent. It's Ostrander and his collaborators on Suicide Squad who deserve the credit for Barbara Gordon's initial, post-Killing Joke character development and, of course, other writers like Dixon and Simone, who worked with the character later. I realize you weren't crediting Moore with that, but some people do try to make that argument. It's like thanking someone for setting fire to your kitchen because you got a nice remodel afterward.
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 9, 2018 16:31:07 GMT -5
Pyro. Can anyone identify the specific appearance? Avengers Annual 10
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 6, 2018 23:44:17 GMT -5
The drug's name, "Mongoose Blood" is a reference to how the Golden Age Marvel character Whizzer got his powers.
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Post by Cheswick on Jul 6, 2018 23:07:58 GMT -5
Things that come to mind for me: 1) Eye-Boy - In everything I've read of him, his power is just that he had lots of eyes, which had no practical use, and would make one extra sensitve 2) Marrow - Besides being insane, her power was that she had extra bones, which she would break off and use as weapons. (it's possible she also has a healing factor, but that's definitely NOT a useless power) 3) Mr. Immortal - He just... dies alot. I think there were some good ones in Ressurection Man.. I remember at least one story where he'd just kill himself over and over until he got good powers, but I don't recall atm. It was eventually revealed that Eye-Boy (R.I.P.) had multiple vision-related powers (X-ray vision, infrared vision, etc.). He could even "see magic", whatever that means.
Mr. Immortal's teammate Flatman also had a pretty useless power. As the name suggests, he could become flat.
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