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Then there's WW's kinda stuff.

This was a Silver Age villain of hers, the Crimson Centipede

Don't forget Egg Fu.

Edited by kkhohoho on May 14th 2022 at 8:19:44 AM

Compared to some Silver Age stuff, the Cheetah, Dr. Psycho, Dr. Poison, Angle Man, and the version of Giganta who's a gorilla are pretty normal.

Egg Fu actually killed both Wonder Woman and Steve in his second appearance (I think; there was more than one of him, one of which was a supercomputer) by both bludgeoning them against Some Kind of Force Field and spinning them so fast they disintegrated from the friction. Hippolyta saved them both somehow.

Death by friction disintegration was also a tactic used by the Golden Age Star Sapphire against the women of Earth when they tried to stop her when she banished all men to her home dimension, but Jay Garrick was able to foil her in time.

EDIT: Speaking of WW's kinda stuff, Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) exists because someone didn't realize the 'Impossible Days' she had were with her child and toddler self, not separate characters.

Edited by lalalei2001 on May 14th 2022 at 9:46:12 AM

I wish we could forget Egg Fu.

Same.

When will Mouse Man make his great comeback? XD

Edited by lalalei2001 on May 14th 2022 at 9:58:19 AM

Superman has to take the "weirdest adventures" prize for one simple reason: Red Kryptonite. That favorite plot device of the Silver Age, which transformed Superman's mind and/or body in a completely random way whenever it showed up.

Turn him into a giant space dragon? Sure.

Make him grow an eye on back of his head? Sure.

De-age him into a baby? Sure.

Split him into two people, one good and one evil? Sure.

Give him the head of a lion? Sure

Swap his body with someone else's? Sure

The best Red Kryptonite scenario I can remember was in Superman #226, where Superman was exposed to it from Jimmy Olsen's box of Cracker Jacks. It turned him into King Kong.

Ah yes. And that quagmire would come to utterly define Donna, because writers seemed to start to think that the constant Continuity Snarl behind her existence was a feature, not a bug.

Also, add me onto the list of people who think Egg Fu needs to be forgotten forever.

Superman dealing with weirdness at least plays to some extent into why he's a super-hero. He helps people, and deals with things ordinary people can't, and so his being something of a buffer between humanity and the weirdness of the greater universe makes some kind of sense. With Batman, though, you have to wonder if Silver Age Batman doesn't occasionally ask himself how dealing with Bat-Mite fits in to avenging the deaths of his parents...

You think he'd ask Bat-Mite if he can revive his parents or something

Given Bat-Mite's track record, I think he's aware it would just go horribly, horribly wrong.

Found a fun example on Throw It In! about Aquaman The Atlantis Chronicles.

In the script for an issue of Aquaman: The Atlantis Chronicles, Peter David described the "face" of the meteor that destroyed Atlantis. He meant it metaphorically, but the artist, working from a script translated into Spanish, took him literally and drew the meteor with a skull face on it. When he saw the art, David said "Keep it," reasoning that the only thing more terrifying than a meteor heading right for you is a meteor heading right for you WITH A SKULL ON IT.

It later turned out to be a spaceship.

Edited by lalalei2001 on May 15th 2022 at 11:22:31 AM

Course there's also the team up books where Batman gets yanked into Superman's weird stuff. Or take silver age plots and make them darker. Like have Batman get Superman's powers, and then Supes got shot and Bats went temporarily insane with power. The silver age stories wouldn't ever get that dark.

Edited by bookworm6390 on May 16th 2022 at 6:16:59 AM

Damn that does look menacing.

Good art.

Superboy: Man of Tomorrow won DC Round Robin 2022!

Also confirmation that Vampire Batman had about 200 bots.

Hilarious thing how Superboy won if your curious.

If you go to just DCUI forums, Vampire Batman should have lost to both Justice League Redacted, Constantine and maybe Kid Flash (they were 50-50). Why did it win, Instagram. For whatever reason Instagram voted for Vampire Batman in droves, providing a mass amount of votes that enabled them to curb-stomp all the other titles in opposition.

So why didn't Vampire Batman won? Cause the final round only allowed voting on the DCUI forums, no Instagram. So Superboy won by virtue of being the most popular pitch and pretty much everyone on the site uniting against the Batman title.

Final chapter of DCeased announced, DCeased: War of the Undead Gods

So Kara ended up on New Genesis instead of Earth?

Apparently thats a major continuity error cause Kara was seen in background shots several times in the original D Ceased comic.

So its probably an unintentional retcon.

Edited by slimcoder on May 18th 2022 at 5:42:17 AM

August 2022 Solicitations

Ooooof no Aquamen issue in the solicits, it might be canceled and its final issue a tie-in issue at that.

Also Supes son of Kal still on the Bendix plotline even on issue 14 wow.

Edited by slimcoder on May 20th 2022 at 3:06:01 AM

I still can't get past the fact that this new Superman villain's name is one letter off from the name of a recent Superman writer.

The hilarious thing is thats a coincidence as Bendix is a Wildstorm character from the 90's.

Makes me wonder if Taylor chose him as the main villain if not at least partly for that reason.

I imagine Taylor chose Bendix because he likes Wildstorm stuff (he did create a 90sAntiHero -ish superteam after all).