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I've been reading some old Justice League stories and it's funny the number of stories that leave Superman out of the story to keep the plot from being solved too quickly. Because Clark is a Story Breaker compared to the other members of the Justice League. I don't know why the writers would try to make you think the JLA were going to die or something. We all know that DC Comics isn't going to permanently kill off their meal tickets!

A dog with the powers of Superman would be SCARY.

You should read Alan Moore's Supreme. Supreme has a dog with his powers...and then it turns out that having super speed and a dog's libido is bad news and now there are hundreds of pregnant dogs throughout the city.

Wait, that was Alan Moore's version?

The girl dogs didn't die?

If Krypto wanted your dinner, there would be no stopping him! Of course any of the characters with superspeed could clean out a pantry in a blink of an eye. I don't think buffets like Superman and the Flash.

I'd be more shocked all those female dogs weren't killed. A superhuman can hold back while making love to a normal human, but a dog in heat...

Also, imagine all those poor people who had their legs humped at superspeed.

Ouch. So, how welcome would the Justice League be at an all-you-can-eat buffet?

I wonder if superheroes in the DCU get discounts like the police do?

Which member of the Justice League was the most likely to need rescuing by another member?

edited 16th Nov '15 7:57:50 PM by bookworm6390

New creative teams: Tim Seeley on New Suicide Squad, Dan Abnett on Aquaman, Greg Pak on Teen Titans

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2015/11/16/announcing-new-dc-comics-creative-teams-for-february-2016

Writer of Grayson for SS, Awesome. Abnett wrote that great run of Go G before Bendis right? Pak's great too, he writes a good Superman.

The writers sound good, but its the editors I'm worried about.

Emanuela Lupacchino leaves Starfire

RE: Wonder Woman roges

There are a few Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age rogues who could still match her power level if they bothered to use them. Gundra, who was a valkyrie, Clea, who was Atlantean, and Doctor Cyber (who was, duh, a cyborg) all spring to mind. Sadly all three have seen very limited use Post-Crisis.

RE: Superman rogues

Toyman and Prankster honestly aren't that bad. Prankster's Post-Crisis reboot as a distraction-for-hire worked pretty well, I found. As for Toyman, as long as they stay away from the whole "make him a paedophile" thing he's fine. He's not an earth-shattering threat, but with all his robots he can believably keep Superman busy for an issue or so.

Of course for me where the Superman villains come into their own is in the upper tier. Luthor, Brainiac, Zod, these are all characters who can carry a very lengthy story on their own, but who also interact in all sorts of fascinating ways if you throw them at each other.

Damn about Starfire's artist. It was good art too. Hopefully the new guy is a suitable replacement.

Re: Krypto — it should be pointed out that he was, classically anyhow, written as super intelligent. Capable of coherent thought no less. We didn't get his thought balloons the one time Moore wrote, him, though. Still, he got a particularly heroic death.

So, a superpowered police dog? Why are police dogs cool, but canine sidekicks are silly?

Does kryptonite give Kryptonians radiation poisoning or is it an allergy? If thhe former, why is everything okay once the exposure is ended? Super healing?

Kryptonite has whatever effect the current author thinks it should have, logic be damned.

It's radiation poisoning, but once the thing poisoning them goes away, their superhealing kicks in and they get better. If they were taken to a place with a red sun and exposed to Kryptonite, the poisoning would probably stay with them until they got to a place with a yellow sun.

I just made all of that up, but it sounds real, doesn't it?

edited 19th Nov '15 8:37:39 AM by alliterator

Sure. Now to figure why kryptonite causes severe acute radiation sickness in Kryptonians but takes years to give humans cancer with 24/7 exposure. What's so special about radiation from kryptonite versus terran radioactive sources? Eh, it's comics we don't have to explain it!

Actually, there's a very simple explanation as to why it takes so long to give humans cancer as opposed to nearly killing kryptonians in seconds, and that is because SHUT UP.

It's because Kryptonians have super healing. Listen: cancer is merely the cells in your body expanding in a rapid and uncontrollable rate. When Kryptonians get cancer under a yellow sun, then, that cancer is infinitely worse because their cells can multiply much faster and stronger. Kryptonite, then, gives Kryptonians super cancer, but only regular cancer in humans because humans have regular cells.

Take away the Kryptonite and the cancer doesn't go away, it's just that the super immune system is able to kill it off.

Where's my No-Prize?

edited 19th Nov '15 11:37:54 AM by alliterator

Is that also why they turn green? Of curse you also have the rainbow of kryptonite with different effects. Is the Superhero genre fantasy with a science theme? Because nothing makes any real world sense!

In it's first appearance on the Superman radio show, actual physical contact with Kryptonite could hurt humans (in particular it could burn them) and Superman himself was harmed by proximity. Even then, though, originally it could not, in and of itself, kill him. It negated his powers and, if kept in contact with him, could render him unconscious. If he was unconscious for a considerable length of time, he could, according to Superman's own assessment of Kryptonite's dangers, possibly starve to death. In "The Scarlet Widow" serial, he's chained to some Kryptonite, locked in a box, and tossed into the sea.

edited 19th Nov '15 3:19:47 PM by Robbery

Actually it's because it causes them to release the stored sunlight in their cells, destroying them.

I've heard the various explanations over the years, and that is certainly one of them.

I've never had a problem with Superman recovering instantly, or nearly so, on the removal of Kryptonite. I imagine with Green K gone his body would quickly reabsorb solar radiation. In John Byrne's Bloodsport story, where Superman is shot with a Kryptonite needle, the doctor who removed the needle had expose Superman to a small amount of Kryptonite in order to treat the wound, because as soon as the Kryptonite was away from him his wound started visibly healing.