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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 26, 2021 11:03:16 GMT -5
Deathlok was also a favorite of mine. He was one of those characters that was published by Marvel but didn't really fit in the mainstream Marvel universe.
Cyborg I know little or nothing about. Did he even exist when I dropped out of comics in 1978?
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 26, 2021 11:14:47 GMT -5
Deathlok was ann angry Black man who was mostly a robot.
Cyborg was an angry Black teenager who was mostly a robot.
Tough choice.
I'm voting third party: Robotman... the Cliff Steele version.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 26, 2021 11:15:44 GMT -5
I'm going with Deathlok, with the caveat that I haven't read a comic with him in it in well over forty years. I like what I recall of Deathlok from the original Astonishing Tales run. I absolutely like that it was largely outside the main Marvel Universe. The character design was excellent.
Cyborg never really did much for me even when I was reading New Teen Titans regularly. He was fine. But nothing that I found particularly interesting. .
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Post by foxley on Apr 26, 2021 11:58:22 GMT -5
New Teen Titans is one of the main reasons I stayed interested in comics when I became a teenager, so it's got to be Cyborg for me. Deathlok is a character I didn't discover till much later, and while I like the design, his background has always been a bit to convoluted for my taste.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2021 12:17:46 GMT -5
Deathlok was ann angry Black man who was mostly a robot. (...) Don't know about the later versions, but the first Deathlok, Luther Manning, was a white guy.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 26, 2021 12:42:23 GMT -5
Deathlok was ann angry Black man who was mostly a robot. (...) Don't know about the later versions, but the first Deathlok, Luther Manning, was a white guy. Wow! I never realized that. I thought it was cool that it wasn’t seen as a big deal. To me, he looked more like Gabe Jones than Steve Rogers.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 26, 2021 14:08:11 GMT -5
The Deathlok from the 90s, Michael Collins, was Black, and this version of the character was also used in the SHIELD tv series.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 26, 2021 14:38:07 GMT -5
Deathlok was ann angry Black man who was mostly a robot. Cyborg was an angry Black teenager who was mostly a robot. Tough choice. I'm voting third party: Robotman... the Cliff Steele version. Sorry, Vote disqualified. ROBOTman with only a brain encased in a mechanical body is NOT quite the same concept as mechanical/bionically replaced limbs. But I do LOVE me some Cliff Steele.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 26, 2021 14:57:21 GMT -5
Deathlok was ann angry Black man who was mostly a robot. Cyborg was an angry Black teenager who was mostly a robot. Tough choice. I'm voting third party: Robotman... the Cliff Steele version. Sorry, Vote disqualified. ROBOTman with only a brain encased in a mechanical body is NOT quite the same concept as mechanical/bionically replaced limbs. But I do LOVE me some Cliff Steele. Hmmm. That means Automan ("the first graduate of Robot Tech, an Institute for higher learning designed exclusively for mechanical men)'s out, too. Ah, wait. My vote goes to this guy:
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2021 15:04:41 GMT -5
Don't know about the later versions, but the first Deathlok, Luther Manning, was a white guy. Wow! I never realized that. I thought it was cool that it wasn’t seen as a big deal. To me, he looked more like Gabe Jones than Steve Rogers. However, his wife from his pre-cyborg days was Black, which wasn't really seen as a big deal.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 26, 2021 15:07:53 GMT -5
Wow! I never realized that. I thought it was cool that it wasn’t seen as a big deal. To me, he looked more like Gabe Jones than Steve Rogers. However, his wife from his pre-cyborg days was Black, which wasn't really seen as a big deal. No memory of that, but maybe that's another reason I presumed he was meant to be a Black man. And how refreshing that it wasn't made a big deal of.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 26, 2021 15:45:33 GMT -5
If we're talking strictly comics, then it has to be Deathlok for me, seeing as I have never read a comic book with Cyborg in it as far as I can remember.
If we're talking all media, then Cyborg takes the win due to Teen Titans Go!, which was a favorite around our house about four or five years ago.
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Post by berkley on Apr 27, 2021 11:02:51 GMT -5
Deathlok, easy choice for me. I read the first 50 issues or so of the Wolfman/Perez Titans in the 80s but never did develop much interest in the individual characters. Starfire was probably my favourite, if you can call it that, and the villains Trigon and Deathstroke.
Deathlok, OTOH, was a really unusual (for comics at the time) SF serial in the 70s Astonishing Tales that should have had a longer run. A minor classic, cut short too soon, like so many of the better 70s Marvel series.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2021 12:46:14 GMT -5
Easily Cyborg. I've read a lot of the Wolfman/Perez Titans comics, but it's his higher profile in the post-New 52 world that has made him a favorite. In the Zach Snyder Justice League, Ray Fisher does an amazing job. And then there is Teen Titans Go and particularly "The Night Begins to Shine": Game over. ***Full disclosure, I haven't read much or really any Deathlok. I think there was a new Deathlok in Joe Casey's Cable run, but other than that my exposure to him is the Marvel trading card:
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Post by brutalis on May 3, 2021 9:33:50 GMT -5
So then, Which One wore the fishnet stockings best? Black Canary, Black Widow or Zatanna?
All 3 were sensational but my choice is for the Mistress of the Backward Spells, the stunning Zatanna! Her outfit doubles down as her professional performance outfit and as her heroic costume. A 2 for 1 design. And she looks FAAAAAABOOOOOUUUULOOOOOOS!
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