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Post by tingramretro on Sept 16, 2017 4:08:54 GMT -5
A shame Trump couldn't resist getting involved and trying to use the incident to promote his own agenda.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 15, 2017 5:54:07 GMT -5
An explosion on the London Underground this morning which injured several people has now been confirmed as having been caused by an improvised explosive device. The authorities believe the device, left in a plastic bucket, may have exploded prematurely, and are treating it as a terrorist incident.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 13, 2017 15:14:38 GMT -5
It wasn't that simple. The Skull had half of Xavier's brain grafted to his own. His personality was gone, the Skull just had the part that gave him his powers. It was removed from him by Beast, who can now apparently perform brain surgery and build time machines despite being a biochemist. Beast can be blamed for quite a bit of crazy and irresponsible things of late but not for this.  I meant Beast removed the brain from the Red Skull, not from Xavier... |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 11, 2017 9:23:05 GMT -5
The best writer to pen Swamp Thing. :-( Hmm...certainly one of the best, anyway... And without Len and a bright idea he had in '74, Hugh Jackman would probably be working as a waiter somewhere. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 11, 2017 8:43:43 GMT -5
I think you're misremembering. I read a few issues last night... it seems he still had the powers right after standoff, but he was in hiding with his daughter for some reason. Not sure I care enough to read more (they're pretty bad) but we'll see  No, I mean he had Xavier's powers, but no hooking up to machines was involved-he had part of Xavier's brain in his own skull. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 10, 2017 17:28:18 GMT -5
OK, if we're doing that, I call Ant Man I, Ant Man II, Ant Man III, Yellowjacket II, Yellowjacket III, Atom II, Atom III, Dyna-Mite (Marvel), Sting, Bluejay, the Micronauts and Micro-Force. And also 2000 AD's Banzai Battalion. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 10, 2017 14:02:55 GMT -5
Surprised nobody's mentioned Oberon.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 9, 2017 17:31:50 GMT -5
Gah. If Xavier's brain was still functional, why didn't they just bring Charles back? It's not as if he hadn't been cloned before. I don't remember the exact mechanics, but IIRC from Uncanny Avengers, Red Skull stole the body and somehow hooked the brain up to some machine so he could have his mental powers. He also somehow made his own mutants (not sure if that was related or not). I think you're misremembering. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 9, 2017 17:30:23 GMT -5
Red Skull having Chuck Xaviers brain was resolved underwhelmingly in the pages of Uncanny Avengers. After Red Skull was defeated I think Rogue cremated the brain but can't remember exactly. Gah. If Xavier's brain was still functional, why didn't they just bring Charles back? It's not as if he hadn't been cloned before. It wasn't that simple. The Skull had half of Xavier's brain grafted to his own. His personality was gone, the Skull just had the part that gave him his powers. It was removed from him by Beast, who can now apparently perform brain surgery and build time machines despite being a biochemist. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 8, 2017 8:07:01 GMT -5
The contents surviving without the original comics is irrelevant to me. No interest in digital, never have had, never will. Digital comics are not comics. Really? If a time comes when a comic is only available in digital because no original artifact still exists, isn't that preferable to the contents being lost forever? Would you refuse to watch a classic silent film whose crumbling negative was transferred to a digital format? Or refuse to read Shakespeare because you can't get your hands on a First Folio? Cei-U! I summon the bafflement! That's entirely different. For me, a part of the experience of being a comics fan and collector is handling and owning the original physical item. I have no interest in renting digital copies of comics, and can't stand reading them off a screen anyway. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 8, 2017 8:01:09 GMT -5
Earth-B was not the home of the humor titles. That was Earth-12. Earth-B was where Bob Rozakis assigned stories by Bob Haney that supposedly violated some aspect of continuity (like Bruce Wayne's older brother or Catwoman killing) but actually seems to have been based on some sort of personal animosity toward Haney and Murray Boltinoff since comics by other writers and editors with continuity violations as bad or worse were never assigned to Earth-B. At any rate, no comic book story has ever been explicitly set on that world. Cei-U! I summon one of my biggest pet peeves! Rozakis said otherwise, in an Ask the Answer Man column. I still haven't found the proof; but, he said in two different ones that Binky and the others were Earth-B. In one of the columns he lays out the Earths with 1, 2, 3, S, X, A, B and Prime. I wanna say this was circa 1978-79, in the Daily Planet page. Have to do some digging. On the other hand, in one column he states that Earth One has a Wildcat, while most people assign the B&B Batman/Wildcat team-up's to Earth B. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 4, 2017 9:09:08 GMT -5
If you could see my pitiful copy of Flash #123, you'd know I don't worry about such things. As for preservation of old comics, the original paper-and-ink relics may not survive but as long as there are folks out there dedicated to making good, clear, digital copies of them while they can their contents will live on. Cei-U! I summon the hope for the future! The contents surviving without the original comics is irrelevant to me. No interest in digital, never have had, never will. Digital comics are not comics. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 4, 2017 9:06:44 GMT -5
I always understood that some stories by E. Nelson Bridwell were also assigned to Earth B. It was stated in Eclipse's Index to Crisis on Infinite Earths, IIRC. There is a contingent of fandom, including the folks responsible for the Eclipse COIE Index, that insists the Super Friends title, which was mostly scripted by Bridwell, was set on Earth-B. Bridwell himself always insisted it was set on Earth-One and there is no reason to think otherwise except that some people can always be counted on to get their panties in a twist at any suggestion of silliness in their super-heroes. In short, Super Friends was exiled to Earth-B because Wonder Dog and Gleek offended their fanboy sensibilities. A pox on such thinking! Cei-U! I banish the killjoys! I must admit, I still find it hard to imagine a chunk of the JLA plus Robin hanging out at a completely different HQ on the weekends and calling themselves "Super Friends". It just seems like bizarre behaviour to me. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 4, 2017 7:37:14 GMT -5
Earth-B was not the home of the humor titles. That was Earth-12. Earth-B was where Bob Rozakis assigned stories by Bob Haney that supposedly violated some aspect of continuity (like Bruce Wayne's older brother or Catwoman killing) but actually seems to have been based on some sort of personal animosity toward Haney and Murray Boltinoff since comics by other writers and editors with continuity violations as bad or worse were never assigned to Earth-B. At any rate, no comic book story has ever been explicitly set on that world. Cei-U! I summon one of my biggest pet peeves! I always understood that some stories by E. Nelson Bridwell were also assigned to Earth B. It was stated in Eclipse's Index to Crisis on Infinite Earths, IIRC. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 25, 2017 4:57:05 GMT -5
I missed the 80s series, but I enjoyed the 70s one. Are they very different? Wasn't the 70s series a reprint book? The 80s version was all new retellings of the origins. Great book. |
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