Originally posted by cdtm
Up until the Crisis, Mr. Miracle was on Superman and Barda's level physically. In fact, he defeated Barda in a h2h fight (Although Barda wasn't in her right mind.)Obviously, he's been depowered to Spidey level, give or take. Which kind of doesn't add up, when you consider all other New Gods are high end bricks, yet Scott isn't..
Genuinely asking where you get this. I've read almost all of MISTER MIRACLE under Kirby and Scott didn't show anything like that during those comics. He arguably was stronger and faster than human, but not clearly. Have the Barda fight or reference? I have not seen that.
Originally posted by Delta1938
Genuinely asking where you get this. I've read almost all of MISTER MIRACLE under Kirby and Scott didn't show anything like that during those comics. He arguably was stronger and faster than human, but not clearly. Have the Barda fight or reference? I have not seen that.
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
Every so often I actually get the attention of and interact with storied people.I remember to this day Kurt Busiek surprising me by responding to a thread in which I shared an article on why Comics disappeared from newsstands and being literally very near everywhere newsprint was sold, to gradually becoming a niche item sold in specialty shops only (and now of course, the Internet where it's become or becoming big again). The author of that article made the surprising case that keeping the price of comics LOW, and thus theoretically more affordable for everyone, actually led to the decline. Reason was, from the perspective of a retailer who has limited shelf space, it made more sense to stock, say, Time or Life Magazine, which you could sell for at least a dollar a book versus Superman 132 or whatever, which gained you perhaps s quarter or so per sale, but used 4 times the space and often left you with a ton of overstock to recycle or throwaway.
Kurt also had an interesting perspective to share on why publishing rights are a big deal to Marvel and DC but not libraries.
I remember a while back I was in an argument over something in JLA/AVENGERS (actually no, not Superman vs Thor 😆 ) and went to Busiek's site and emailed him through it. To my surprise he gave a quick response (like about 10 minutes). I know he at least used to be active on message boards(I do believe the DC boards when they were around, and I've seen him on other boards but not sure if it was verified to be him or not, but at least once mods at least believed, so maybe), so he doesn't really have issues with interacting with fans.
Originally posted by bluewaterrider Joking aside, if you look on that webpage, though it breaks down data mined from literal thousands of participants, it conspicuously notes, after calling KMC a "trustworthy site with mostly negative reviews", iirc ...... exactly ONE down vote in its visual thumbs up/thumbs down section.
If, as I suspect, they LITERALLY based worldweb judgement of KMC on that lone review, Abhilegend representing India might not be QUITE as improbable as we're all imagining ...
It gives the home page, I think it's possible that has more views than the forum. It could be the site has such negative reviews because it hasn't updated in over 6 years.
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
[B]Back to J'onnz.DC seems to have realized that MM having the ability to grow bigger and stronger might prove TOO Deus Ex Machina to create plausible tension in a story after awhile. Who could stand against him?
So it seems they QUIETLY began imposing limits on J'onnz.
Note that, by the time the 9th issue of that series rolled around, J'onnz was complaining about the stress of changing the proportion of his "Martian mass" for "Earth mass", whatever that means, even though J'onnz had substituted a literal skyscraper's worth just 7 issues prior.
Note that they impose no such limitations on J'onnz's green Martian counterpart, Malefic, however:
From what I recall, the issue was from when he faced his death, putting his brain(and maybe other organs) into his arm, cutting it off his body, and leaving it to crash in a ship so his brother thought he was successful. He gathered Earth mass to REPLACE what he lost in his body, and it was adjusting, trying to turn it to Martian. So different than him taking mass for a temporary increase in size. He was also unable to use some of his powers while this adjustment happened.
Originally posted by cdtm
[B]Hitman was never called that in his own series. He called himself that, in his debut from Bloodlines, but every other time he was Tommy Monaghan.
Unless I'm mistaken, he called himself "Hitman" when he went to try out for the JLA solely to look at Wonder Woman with his X-Ray vision. I think the scene went, "Hi, I'm Hitman. I kill people." "Er uh sorry, you're not what we're looking for." "That's ok, I just came to check out Wonder Woman with my X-Ray vision. Now I can die happy."
The Joker once served as the Iranian ambassador for the United Nations.
Originally posted by Delta1938
Unless I'm mistaken, he called himself "Hitman" when he went to try out for the JLA solely to look at Wonder Woman with his X-Ray vision. I think the scene went, "Hi, I'm Hitman. I kill people." "Er uh sorry, you're not what we're looking for." "That's ok, I just came to check out Wonder Woman with my X-Ray vision. Now I can die happy."
DC’s Pre Crisis explanation for why Superman’s glasses worked as a disguise...
(Superman Vol.1 #330)
...relied on a mix of unconsciously projected Super-hypnotism, and the fact that yes -everything- from Krypton seemed to have super powers, even the glass.
The John Byrne written Post Crisis explanation...
(Man of Steel Vol.1 #1)
...took advantage of a RL phenomenon called “change blindness”.
The below article explains it, and, while it doesnt suggest it’d be 100% effective, especially w. those closest to him...
...it makes a decent case for it working in general, on the average joe.
