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Post by MDG on May 2, 2023 11:59:30 GMT -5
From the same issue--talk about firing in all cylinders...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2023 15:26:15 GMT -5
I never met Silver St. Cloud in the comics... but each time someone posts about her, I get the impression she's a cool character. (No slight to Deadshot, of course. I wouldn't want him angry at me!)
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Post by codystarbuck on May 2, 2023 20:32:35 GMT -5
I never met Silver St. Cloud in the comics... but each time someone posts about her, I get the impression she's a cool character. (No slight to Deadshot, of course. I wouldn't want him angry at me!)Self-assured career woman who falls for Bruce & vice-versa. Said panel above is during a fight, at a convention center (with giant props, in an homage to Dick Sprang) and when Batman speaks either to her or near her, she realizes it is Bruce. That put her ahead of Commissioner Gordon, most reporters, enemies who met both and the entire GCPD. They meet again, he in costume and she basically tells him she couldn't hold him to a relationship, because of what he has to do and she couldn't stand losing him to a madman. It was really the first adult relationship (in every sense) in the Batman comics, if not comics, in general.
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Post by MDG on May 2, 2023 20:38:43 GMT -5
I never met Silver St. Cloud in the comics... but each time someone posts about her, I get the impression she's a cool character. (No slight to Deadshot, of course. I wouldn't want him angry at me!)Self-assured career woman who falls for Bruce & vice-versa. Said panel above is during a fight, at a convention center (with giant props, in an homage to Dick Sprang) and when Batman speaks either to her or near her, she realizes it is Bruce. That put her ahead of Commissioner Gordon, most reporters, enemies who met both and the entire GCPD. They meet again, he in costume and she basically tells him she couldn't hold him to a relationship, because of what he has to do and she couldn't stand losing him to a madman. It was really the first adult relationship (in every sense) in the Batman comics, if not comics, in general. I'm pretty sure no-one except Englehart used her, correct? And then, only in his original Detective run and the mini he did w/ Rogers 20(?) years later.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 2, 2023 21:48:24 GMT -5
Self-assured career woman who falls for Bruce & vice-versa. Said panel above is during a fight, at a convention center (with giant props, in an homage to Dick Sprang) and when Batman speaks either to her or near her, she realizes it is Bruce. That put her ahead of Commissioner Gordon, most reporters, enemies who met both and the entire GCPD. They meet again, he in costume and she basically tells him she couldn't hold him to a relationship, because of what he has to do and she couldn't stand losing him to a madman. It was really the first adult relationship (in every sense) in the Batman comics, if not comics, in general. I'm pretty sure no-one except Englehart used her, correct? And then, only in his original Detective run and the mini he did w/ Rogers 20(?) years later. As far as I recall, yes. Welll, except the Engelhart only part. She leaves Gotham, at the end of the storyline, when Englehart was leaving the book (and the country) The LODK revisit was the first use of her, as I recall. The "Prey" storyline, from LODK #11-15, revisits Hugo Strange, in a new format and he discovers Batman's secret, though due to Batman slipping, in a stressful moment of combat and some detective work. No Silver, though. That was Doug Moench & Paul Gulacy and they come back to that, with "Terror," in LODK #137-141. However, Silver, as far as I can tell, doesn't return until LODK #132m, with Siege, which was Archie Goodwin writing and Marshall Rogers returning to do the art. No Englehart on that story.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 3, 2023 9:07:23 GMT -5
Self-assured career woman who falls for Bruce & vice-versa. Said panel above is during a fight, at a convention center (with giant props, in an homage to Dick Sprang) and when Batman speaks either to her or near her, she realizes it is Bruce. That put her ahead of Commissioner Gordon, most reporters, enemies who met both and the entire GCPD. They meet again, he in costume and she basically tells him she couldn't hold him to a relationship, because of what he has to do and she couldn't stand losing him to a madman. It was really the first adult relationship (in every sense) in the Batman comics, if not comics, in general. I'm pretty sure no-one except Englehart used her, correct? And then, only in his original Detective run and the mini he did w/ Rogers 20(?) years later. If that means nobody turned her into a super-powered cyborg bent on revenge against Batman for being jilted or something, nor given the refrigerator treatment to give Batman another reason to gnash his teeth, then I applaud DC!
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Post by codystarbuck on May 3, 2023 12:14:42 GMT -5
I just think everyone forgot her and was more fixated on Catwoman, as a love interest, from the late 70s into the 80s, then Vicky Vale, to tie-in to the movie, then more flirting with Catwoman. For the most part, though it was no icky girls allowed! Unless they have whips!
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Post by k7p5v on May 10, 2023 9:01:43 GMT -5
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Post by impulse on May 10, 2023 10:14:15 GMT -5
Funny panel, but wasn't this right before Cyber absolutely wrecked Wolverine? Or am I thinking of a different comic?
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Post by mikelmidnight on May 10, 2023 11:14:56 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on May 10, 2023 12:01:03 GMT -5
A little context for what is happening.... This is from the Patty Cake Christmas Special, from Scott Roberts & Caliber. Patty Cake has been haranguing her parents for an expensive toy (a Monkey Playground, $395 {some assembly required}) and driven them nuts. It has gone on since the toy catalog came out. meanwhile, her father has designed and built and decorated a rocking chair for her, with his own hands. She throws a fit when she sees it and not the Monkey Playground. Cue a talk with Mom... She gets the message, though.... When I was young, I became fascinated with aircraft carriers and how they worked. My dad took our World Book Encyclopedia, made a design sketch, either bought a few pieces of wood or got some scraps, cut out a deck shape, an underside and a tower and put it all together, painted it and presented it to me, out of the blue....no birthday, not Christmas. Best present I ever got. Scott Roberts tells a similar story, in the afterword. Loved that series.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 10, 2023 13:55:33 GMT -5
Funny panel, but wasn't this right before Cyber absolutely wrecked Wolverine? Or am I thinking of a different comic? I don't know the origin of this panel. But the story it sounds like your thinking of is when shortly after Magneto leeching his adamantium, he comes across Cyber and yes get's his a$$ handed to him and his bone claws broken in this issue ...
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Post by impulse on May 10, 2023 14:39:36 GMT -5
adamwarlock2099I remember getting this one when it came out, ha. The one I am thinking of is an older one, though, sometime in the 80s or early 90s I think. It might have been in a Marvel Comics Presents? Wolverine is also served his own buttocks on a platter in that issue, too.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 10, 2023 15:33:33 GMT -5
Yeah he was almost a regular in MCP after Weapon X came out and I think that was at the start of the 90's. Most of the MCP I bought was for the Nightcrawler and Ghost Rider stories more so than anything. So I maybe not have read the story in question where that panel came from. But it certainly looks like the style of many of the different rotating artists that were doing the book following Weapon X.
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Post by Duragizer on May 11, 2023 5:01:38 GMT -5
Everytime I'm reminded Wolverine's bone claws are a thing, I want to track down whomever thought up that bright idea and bludgeon them with a salami.
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