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DC Universe Surgery

 
  

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the credible hulk
22:39 / 13.09.07
Yep. Just read it. What's going ON over at DC these days?
 
 
Jamie
23:55 / 13.09.07
Yep. Just read it. What's going ON over at DC these days?

I don't know, and something tells me they don't either. Perhaps when Countdown was said to be the "spine" of the DC Universe, they didn't mean "backbone" but rather "sharp thing that pokes you and makes you uncomfortable?"

I count my blessings that, even though I'm buying almost solely DC titles these days, they're all at least passably self-contained and I don't have to pay attention to the stuff I don't like or I don't think makes sense. That's how comics should be, I think.
 
 
PitrPatr
10:51 / 14.09.07
Is it really going to be 14 parts long?
 
 
Spaniel
11:00 / 14.09.07
Is what?
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
11:02 / 14.09.07
The GL crossover? Which sounds dull as ditchwater btw. And I like the new GLC.
 
 
PitrPatr
11:15 / 14.09.07
Yeah, Sinestro Corps. I've been skimming it, and I just can't see how it can possibly yawn on much longer.

Actually, here's a more thread-appropriate question. How is the Anti-Monitor still alive? Granted, I haven't read my Crisis in years, but I'm fairly certain he got all kinds of blowed up. Like, multiple times. How is he alive? Also, given what a big to-do Infinite Crisis was, how is Superboy-Prime being free again not the biggest deal in the universe right now? How is this only the GLC's problem?

Apologies if any of this has been asked before. I just read up on about two months of missed comics so I'm sort of behind.
 
 
Jamie
13:46 / 14.09.07
Actually, here's a more thread-appropriate question. How is the Anti-Monitor still alive?

I believe -- and this is pure speculation -- that he's still alive the same way that the Monitors are alive.

But I'll be darned if I know what that is.
 
 
the credible hulk
17:19 / 14.09.07
In the new issue of Green Lantern, they address the whole anti-monitor thing.

Random Alien GL: "Anti-Monitor? He was destroyed, was he not?"

Some other alien GL: "The Anti-Monitor was a being of PURE antimatter energy. Perhaps something reignited that energy."


Also, given what a big to-do Infinite Crisis was, how is Superboy-Prime being free again not the biggest deal in the universe right now? How is this only the GLC's problem?

I believe that will be addressed shortly, as the Sinestro Corps War has made it to earth, now. Simple fact is that I don't think the lanterns have had a chance to get the JLA and everybody else in on this.
 
 
This Sunday
19:30 / 14.09.07
[R]eignited that energy: worse than the mutant-energy transfer physics of the Marvel U?

I may love science for its sounds, more than anything, but that doesn't even sound good.
 
 
Mario
13:11 / 26.09.07
The obvious fix is that "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed". So the Anti-Monty's energy was simply dispersed, until someone (Sinestro, the Qwardians, etc) found a way to re-integrate him.
 
 
This Sunday
02:52 / 22.10.07
Was Roy Harper legally adopted after his father's death? How'd he make the transition from dad to living on rez with Navajo family to hard-travellin' with Ollie and presumably learning the fine skills of archery and helping someone cope with their hangover?

AKA: Speedy: Who is He and How Did He Get That Way?
 
 
Mario
13:17 / 22.10.07
There was a decent miniseries with flashbacks to his childhood a few years back. Bottom line is that he was never actually adopted, but was Ollie's ward. However, he was only really a sidekick during Ollie's "millionaire playboy" years.

In fact, it was Ollie's soul-searching after he lost his fortune (and his razor) that led to Speedy feeling isolated. At first, the Titans took up the slack, but when they disbanded (temporarily), he turned to chemical support....
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
03:13 / 23.10.07
Would someone like to give me a detailed history of Hector Hammond? Am I wrong in thinking that he's sort of DC's answer to MODOK?
 
 
Mario
15:07 / 23.10.07
Possibly the other way around. He first appeared in 1961, and MODOK appeared in 1967. But the "Big brain, little body" trope is a 1950's classic.

His story is pretty straightforward. Scientist hyperevolved by mysterious meteor, goes bad.
 
 
iamus
14:25 / 24.10.07
Can anyone tell me how big Solaris the Tyrant Sun is?


No particular reason.... you understand......

Just..... wondering.....
 
 
Triplets
15:19 / 24.10.07
It depends how inflamed his body is...
 
 
iamus
16:19 / 24.10.07

Does he have a defined upper or lower? Or a ballpark medium?
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
05:13 / 25.10.07
*peers*

You're not writing Mogo the Planet Green Lantern / Solaris the Tyrant Sun slash fiction, are you?
 
 
SiliconDream
06:29 / 25.10.07
Mon-El seems to be the only remaining Daxamite, although there's some Kryptonian descendants living on Rokyn.

Not true, however! Sodam Yat has appeared in Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons 'let's make a 14-issue crossover out of one page from an old Alan Moore GLC story ('Tygers', btw)' Sinestro Corps thing.


Right, but I was talking about 31st-century Daxamites. The race seems to be totally extinct thanks to Trom.

Although I imagine Mon-El will have a blonde female relative/descendant show up at some point.
 
 
SiliconDream
06:39 / 25.10.07
Does he have a defined upper or lower? Or a ballpark medium?

Solaris kind of varies between house-sized and small-town-sized. Here, for instance, he looks fairly small:

Starman/One Million Scans

But when Kyle flew inside him in the future, he was pretty tiny compared to the central eye thing, and Solaris didn't even notice his approach. So I guess he's grown over the years.

Mind, that's just his solid core; he can generate a photosphere the size of Earth's solar system. So if you count his plasma envelope, he can basically turn into a star of any naturally-occuring size.
 
 
iamus
10:44 / 25.10.07
Aha! Thanks SiliconDream. Much appreciated!


You're not writing Mogo the Planet Green Lantern / Solaris the Tyrant Sun slash fiction, are you?

"The first rays of light announce his entry into the system as he breaks around the rim of Thangar. I reposition continents of my forestry in anticipation, allowing those first gentle rays before the solar storms to send photosynthetic paroxysms shivering across my skin. My oceans swell and the plankton sing. Soon it will be hot. Hot enough to boil that song into a plate-shifting moan.

Solaris, tyrant of my core, merely fixes me with his cold, cruel eye.

He flares, and brings me to Perihelion"
 
 
iamus
10:51 / 25.10.07
A wee excerpt for you, there.
 
 
Jack Fear
11:32 / 25.10.07
Well, *I* just about wee'd...
 
 
A beautiful tunnel of ghosts
19:03 / 25.10.07
Well done - I had to read it twice before I realised that it wasn't a caption from the next issue of All-Star Superman.
 
 
The Falcon
11:47 / 26.10.07
I have to imagine - because otherwise my life would make no sense - that Solaris is sending a projection of some sort when he's having that chat with Vandal S, caveman extraordinaire. Because he's about the size of a really big beach ball there. Start of DC1M #4 he's like city-sized, I'd say. Not as big as Unicron.
 
 
matsya
09:26 / 29.10.07
oh be still my beating magma core...

speaking of planet-on-planet, there's always this:

Shortpacked

and this:

Unicron Vs. Death Star
 
 
This Sunday
09:54 / 29.10.07
So, I've recently been reintroduced to the current Manhunter comic and reading the issues almost entirely in order, I actually like it. A lot more than I did reading just the first issue and then jumping around spottily.

But, I have to ask, all the stuff with the shapechanger and magicks in the recent Wonder Woman story, was it wrapped up somewhere else? Yes, we know it wasn't Ted, we know there's Wonder-villains afoot, and of course Wonder Woman was found not guilty (you'd think somebody out there would be willing to sacrifice limbs to write a Wonder Woman in Prison tale, but there you go... and it'd probably be Chuck Dixon, so I'll just be grateful it didn't play out that way), but it seemed curiously spotty in wrapping things together. Bad side effects of finishing somebody else's story, or is this still moving as a story, just in some other title? It's got nothing to do with OYL Wonder Woman from what I can tell, but I only read the first storyline, there.

Also, is the white-bodysuit spikes 'n' cape Manhunter stuff worth tracking down at all? Steven Grant, yeah? Which could tilt the scales in either direction, but gives me some hope? As long as it's parody or satire and not actually a claw-chain/knife-feet book.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
10:09 / 29.10.07
Seems to be carrying on in the new new Black Canary/Green Arrow title to a degree. At least everyman is pulling his virtually undetectable copy thing there and the Amazons are involved so I'm assuming the two are connected. Might have linked to to Amazons Attack as well, but I wouldn't know about that.
 
 
Mario
13:53 / 29.10.07
The Chase Lawler Manhunter wasn't satire. It had the glimmerings of a good idea (tying to the Wild Hunt), but it didn't really work.
 
 
FinderWolf
04:33 / 11.11.07
so the infamous Third Kryptonian has been revealed, and I yawned and didn't really care. A white-haired sort of fugitive, ethically questionable freedom fighter/refugee? Ah well. Busiek's run on Superman has been pretty decent but is starting to get choppy and uneven, partly due to massive art delays (the Camelot Falls storyline won't be finished until an Annual, much like Heinberg's Wonder Woman storyline being completed in an Annual) and the litigation over Superboy barring Busiek's intended Krypto story.

I didn't get the 'Kathy Wells' name reference with the Third Kryptonian - I thought I knew TONS of Superman trivia, and I do know quite a bit, but Mark Waid (Supreme Lord of All Superman Trivia) must know more about K. Wells than I do. I guess that's the name that a character called Superwoman went under in 1950s comics...?
 
 
Spaniel
08:38 / 12.11.07
Personally I find DC editorial's desire to be constantly adding characters to their super-families tedious in the extreme. It's just so… so redundant.

Who fucking cares about this character? No-one, that's who. No-one at all. Not a single person. She's the answer to mystery that didn't need creating let alone answering.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:09 / 12.11.07
And right there you've summed up the entire hush story arc.
 
 
Spaniel
09:41 / 12.11.07
It's interesting, I like Damien as a character, but in the wake of the ressurection of Jason Todd (forfuckssake*) it does baffle me somewhat.

*Coming, as it did, in the wake of Dididumdio's statements about the redundancy of Nightwing.
 
 
Mario
11:39 / 12.11.07
Kristen Wells was Superwoman in a handful of 1970's Elliot S! Maggin stories. She was from the future, and had a semi-hideous costume design.
 
 
gridley
13:58 / 12.11.07
Early 80s. She was a reporter from the future who went back in time to discover the secret identity of Superwoman and of course (using commonly available futuristic technology) ended up becoming her.
 
  

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