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betatester
23:58 / 20.04.04
yep, /wonder/ twins and 2000AD...

my fault, i started reading comics still in brazil, different translation and publishing strategies...

sorry about the mistakes... about vertigo/DC, well, i guess since DC was bought by 20th century fox (is it true?), comics became a testing ground for movies... so DC is one experiment, vertigo another...
 
 
X-Himy
01:22 / 21.04.04
Mr. Tricks, so you are saying that Plastic Man can change color? I know the issue of JLA that you are talking about, but I thought it was implied that Plastic Man really can't change color (though he did manage to change his nose a bit).
 
 
Mario
01:31 / 21.04.04
DC is owned by Time-Warner, not Fox. Otherwise, yeah.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
03:04 / 21.04.04
well, i guess since DC was bought by 20th century fox (is it true?), comics became a testing ground for movies... so DC is one experiment, vertigo another...

Ah, the tangled web of DC's ownership...

The kind of stuff I love reading about and most everyon else couldn't give a damn about.

In 1967, National Periodicals (DC Comics) and All American Comics (the sistem company of DC) were bought by Kinney, which run a series of funeral homes and parking lots. Then, in 1969, Warner/Six Arts bought Kinney and became Warner Entertainment. (also, William Gaines sold MAD to Kinney as well, and for a short time in the 70's was put briefly in charge of DC, which was a massive failure for both parties). Warner has owned the ever since, and for the most part leaves DC alone as long as they meet their budget.

Rumors show up every few years that Warners is looking to sell DC, but the ancillary profits from Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman will make it hard to give up. There WAS a time in the mid 90's when DC almost lost the rights to those charcaters when Ted Turner said that their rights should be transferred to the Cartoon Network, since they were "better caretakers" of the characters, but DC was able to make a lot of money with The Death Of Superman and the Knightfall stories.

Fox did try to buy Marvel at one point in the 90's, but it became too complicated with all the crap the early 90's robber barrons did to squeeze Marvel for money.
 
 
thirty/thirty
07:28 / 21.04.04
kovacs: I was trying to be...never mind. Super-MAN; Super-GIRL; Super-BOY; Super-DOG...gee gawd...sorry for being stoopid.

BTW - I wasn't trying to get attention; I really do hate the DCU...
 
 
Mr Tricks
20:11 / 21.04.04
Mr. Tricks, so you are saying that Plastic Man can change color?

I'm saying that there's a going theory that he should be able to... his son can. That JLA story implied that he could change colors (his nose) but he'd have to also change some of his personality... It was an effective twist on the leopard changing it's spots metaphor.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
21:34 / 21.04.04
kovacs: I was trying to be...never mind. Super-MAN; Super-GIRL; Super-BOY; Super-DOG...gee gawd...sorry for being stoopid.

Yeah I "get" it, but you know, isn't that like me going on the Sandman thread and posting "what a fucking fey-gay comic...who could read this nancy stuff seriously? Wasn't there a whole issue based around Enid Blyton's Blue Book of Fairies? And that annoying gothic girl, Morpheus' sister... Dream-girl is it? Dream-chick or whatever."

I got over my annoyance with you! (you will be so relieved to hear.) But isn't it more effective to criticise something by showing an intimate knowledge of it?
 
 
miss wonderstarr
21:35 / 21.04.04
Re. Plastic Man's son, I thought in that Frank Quitely "Offspring" comic he was the same colour whether he was a balloon, a cash register, a spring...
 
 
Mr Tricks
21:40 / 21.04.04
OFFSPRING:

I believe you're right... that was in an alternate future though...

Currently (as of his appearance in JLA of a year+ ago) he can change shape AND color...
 
 
miss wonderstarr
22:07 / 21.04.04
Oh, I didn't know he was in current continuity. But if he was maybe 18 in the "alternate future" comic, how old is he "now"?
 
 
Mario
23:42 / 21.04.04
His son, Luke McDunnagh, is only 10.
 
 
thirty/thirty
08:54 / 23.04.04
Yeah I "get" it, but you know, isn't that like me going on the Sandman thread and posting "what a fucking fey-gay comic...who could read this nancy stuff seriously? Wasn't there a whole issue based around Enid Blyton's Blue Book of Fairies? And that annoying gothic girl, Morpheus' sister... Dream-girl is it? Dream-chick or whatever."

I got over my annoyance with you! (you will be so relieved to hear.) But isn't it more effective to criticise something by showing an intimate knowledge of it?
I really am relieved, thanks. No one would ever say that about Sandman because it's art. Oh, I have intimate knowledge (want to know what the name of Tora, the Ice Maiden's fathers is or what Grannie Goodness' Female Furies are called); I just find it easier acting like an ignorant brick-head all the time. I have seen the error of my ways and have been reformed. Can I ask a few questions concerning my new favourite brand? I've cranked the geek-dial up to "Sad-sack Loser" without impunity and I'm ready to fire, so here goes:

1. In the Teen Titans, what was the relationship between Isis, the pensioner/former assassin (who was killed by a piece of chandelier thrown by Cheshire) and the mute Jericho? Was she his grandmother?

2. The Changeling's mother was also a famous hero in a major team but who was she?

3. Is Red Star who used to be called Starfire, the same Starfire from the New Titans? The one Starfire is Russian and the other is a stacked alien. How now?

4. Lara and Jor-El have no eyebrows but Kal-El has big bushy brows. How can this be? Wouldn't Supes have to be hairless in that area as well, if his dad was?

5. After Doctor Psycho used a guy called Colonel Steve Trevor to fight Wonder Woman as the super-villain Captain Wonder he fell in love with a lady-hero called Silver Swan. What was her real name?

6. What were the names of the twin rulers of the Land Of Mirrors that was devastated by Atomia, Queen of the Atom Galaxy?

7. Why was Steve Englehart's interpretation of Wonder Woman such a bitchy bitch?

8. Wonder Woman had a five year old charge called Suzie (in an attempt to try and normalize Bruce Wayne's relationship with his abnormally flexible teenage live-in boypal, I assume), who had a fat sister. What was her name?

9. Who created the Arion Star in the Legion of Super-Heroes?

10. What is Nura Nal's (Dream Girl) sister's name who later became the Legionnaire called White Witch?

11. Who founded the Fatal Five?

12. Did Vril Dox's (L.E.G.I.O.N.) baby boy grow up to become Brainiac (blonde, green-skinned legionnaire, not the skeleton robot)?

13. Who founded the League of Assassins (they tried to drive Batman insane and tried to kill him once)?

14. What is the Looker's power? She makes sparkles shoot out of her eyes but what's actually happening?

15. Dr. Niles Caulder (Doom Patrol) had this thing for the villainess Madame Rouge and even managed to get her on the straight and narrow but what was the name of the Nazi commander who corrupted her and made her evil again? The bastard!

16. Who formed the second version of the Doom Patrol after Caulder died?

17. What did Jimmy Olsen do to become Elastic Lad (he drank some potion but what was it called) and is Elastic Lad related to the Elongated Man?

18. Solomon Grundy looks like Bizarro Super-Man. Does Solomon Grundy also come from Bizarro World?

19. Why did the indestructible cape that was given to Super-Man by the Eradicator disappear when the Eradicator was destroyed?

20. Do Angelica Blaze and The Black Racer have the same power?

21. Was the galactic villain Evil Star the one who created Starro? He also wears a star on his face that sort of looks like Starro.

22. Why were Darkseid and Hawkman such great buddies during the 80's? Didn't Shiera Sanders have anything to say about this? I thought he was a police man from heaven, why would he do business with such an unsavory fellow as Darkseid?

23. What was the name of Dr. Thirteen's ancestral home?

24. What is the name of the alternate version of Earth, where Dollman and the Freedom Fighters live?

25. Why does the Question have a blank face?

26. Who finally won the battle between the United States Army and the United States of Rock in the short lived, Sonic Disruptors?

27. There is a member of the Green Lantern Corps called Katma Tui (she's married to Lantern John Stewart) who looks exactly like the villain Sinestro. Is she his daughter?

28. Was Sinestro a Green Lantern who turned to the yellow side?

29. Is it true that the first Green Lantern was killed when someone threw a piece of wood through his forcefield and knocked his teeth out?

30. What is Black Canary's super-power, apart from the ability to dress like a Berlin whore from the 1930's and getting away with it….

31. When the H.I.V.E. created the Ravager who was the Teen Titan they used to create him? I think it was Jericho but I'm not sure.

32. Who was that space dominatrix with the pink metal outfit and giant pink claws that worked for Hector Hammond and helped him almost kill Hal Jordan?

33. Is the Harlequin in the Batman cartoon the same Harlequin that used to be a member of the Injustice Society of the World? If she is, then where are her magic reading glasses (that can hypnotize people) and her mandolin (with extendable handle)?

34. Were Gunner and Sarge secret lovers?
 
 
miss wonderstarr
11:03 / 23.04.04
I will have a shot at some of these.

11. Who founded the Fatal Five?

Grand Master Flash.

25. Why does the Question have a blank face?

Um...to hide his identity. It's a mask like Rorschach's. Pretty much.

30. What is Black Canary's super-power, apart from the ability to dress like a Berlin whore from the 1930's and getting away with it….

Martial arts (I typed marital arts...could also be true) and that birdlike super-sonic scream.

33. Is the Harlequin in the Batman cartoon the same Harlequin that used to be a member of the Injustice Society of the World?

I say NO, this was an invention of the Animated Series that subsequently became continuity.
 
 
thirty/thirty
12:04 / 23.04.04
Did Grandmaster Flash really start that group? Was he not a well-known 80's rapper?
 
 
doctorbeck
12:11 / 23.04.04
no grandmaster flash was a DJ / producer, not a rapper,
as well as starting teams of supervillians he also recorded the first scratching committed to vinyl (on the wheels of steel 12 inch)

i am not sure if post-crisis DC continuity recognises his massive contribution to hip-hop culture though. i heard the new grant morrison DC project was going to address this, perhaps also making his post-crisis persona female.


andrew
 
 
Mr Tricks
15:48 / 23.04.04
Did Grandmaster Flash really start that group?

it was THE FURIOUS FIVE!!!


From Left to Right:
Mr.Ness aka Scorpio, Kid Creole, Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins, Grandmaster Flash, Rahiem, Grandmaster Melle Mel


But I'm sure you al knew that... Hell there was a KISS comic... these guys would've trashed Luke Cage and most of those MILSTONE peeps...
 
 
Tom Coates
17:40 / 23.04.04
Ooh! Loads of cool questions, some of which I can answer (but not many) and some of which I'm not sure you're serious about, but hey - doesn't really matter, eh? So let's just jump right in:

3) Yes, Red Star was originally called Starfire. I don't recall any explanation about why he changed his name to Red Star, except of course that he was a Russkie etc. and I don't think his name had any influence on Koriand'r of Tamaran's decision to use the name. Remember that it was not uncommon for comic book companies to reinvent characters with similar names but with no connection between them because - basically - they owned the name. Starman is the classic example there. Some other connections are at best tenuous.

4) I imagine that their eyebrows were removed by the same weird cleansing mechanisms that allowed them to be sealed off from their biological urges. After all the men didn't have beards either and Supes has no problem looking manly with stubble.

16) Doom Patrol reformation - basically brought together I believe by Arani - the girl who Grant revealed was experimented on by Niles Caulder to test his immortality serum, which he did to her by marrying her. She then developed super-hero powers over cold and heat (Celsius) and reformed the Doom Patrol to try and find Niles who she insisted didn't die in the explosion on the island. The immortality serum drove her nuts and she died, I *think* during the Invasion cross-over in the late 80s / early 90s directly before Grant Morrison took over.

20 ) The Black Racer doesn't so much have powers as he is the New Gods equivalent of the Grim Reaper.

25) It is a mask he attaches to his face to fight crime with.

27) Not related, but of the same species. Sinestro was the shame of their people.

30) Black Canary used to have a super-high-pitched and vaguely misogynist sonic scream power that could smash things and stuff. She lost it for some reason and then became super-kickass - around the same time that she stopped wearing super-hero fishnets, I believe.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
18:17 / 23.04.04
'Sandman is art' - oh please...
 
 
diz
18:39 / 23.04.04
OK, i feel stoo-pid for not knowing more about this, but wtf is the deal with the Legion of Super-Heroes? they live in the future or something? haven't they existed in multiple versions and volumes? aren't many of them supposed to be very good comics?
 
 
Tom Coates
20:11 / 23.04.04
Again basically yes - the Legion of Super Heroes live in a world roughly 1,000 years from now, where humanity has gone to the stars and lives among many other species on many other worlds. Various branches of humanity have evolved differently on different planets and there are whole worlds full of people with magnetic powers or electricity powers. It's had various incarnations over the years - some pretty terrible, some pretty interesting. The good ones benefit from the fact that - given that it's not set in the present - it can do an awful lot more of lasting change to the universe around it. Best plotlines were probably the Great Darkness Saga and I'm a particular fan of Keith Giffen's Legion 'five years after' series - at least I was before it turned to poo and they had to reboot it all again. It's still not bad, but it's more trad super-heroes-in-the-future stuff, really.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
22:06 / 23.04.04
16) Doom Patrol reformation - basically brought together I believe by Arani ... The immortality serum drove her nuts and she died, I *think* during the Invasion cross-over in the late 80s / early 90s directly before Grant Morrison took over.

I think that clown Pollack brought her back.
 
 
grant
04:06 / 24.04.04
And I kmow this is probably a really stupid question, but where do all the DCU cities fit into USA? Has there been a map produced?

I’m sure there has, but I’m not going out and finding one right now on the web.
Basically, Metropolis AND Gotham City are both New York (go figure), Flash I think is in Philly (can’t remember the DCU city name) and Green Lantern was Seattle (there’s a Space Needle). Starman’s Opal City was… shit, I can’t remember, but might have been Chicago or St. Louis.

Hell, I have to look it up now. Bastards. Here, more than you wanted to know. I disagree with some of the author’s conclusions, but the facts are all there.

Keystone City was the original Flash hometown. Barry Allen was in Central City, which seems obviously Chicago. The article does point out that Opal City was on a coast -- didn't know that. It looks like San Francisco to me, and then that bit with the Old West Chinese dude would fit…

What about Plastic Man? I mean, I understand his backstory in the abstract, criminal gets pushed into a vat of acid, becomes stretchy and whatnot. But what about the costume? Is that the red suit he fell into the vat with? How does it stretch? Is it his skin? What is the deal really.

It’s red rubber. Plastic Man was a work of genius, straddling the genres of superhero comics and “funny books” like Little Lulu (which were, for a time, more popular). I’ve only read the old Archive collection and Art Spiegleman’s Jack Cole biography. (Did you know he invented Playboy’s really distinctive cartoon style?)
I remember the rubber suit being stated outright in the first of those.
He has a son now? With a different last name? (Eel O'Brien -- his first act as Plastic Man is to change his identity so he won't have to be a crook anymore.)

In addition, can someone tell me a bit about Plas's pal Woozy Winks? I remember reading that Winks had a deal where he was unkillable, or perhaps unkillable by anything natural (which I guess might include age, disease, cholesterol, poison, etc.). Is there any truth to this? Kyle Baker's new series doesn't do anything to clear any of this up, and it is only in the last issue that I have finally become interested.

From memory, he was just exceptionally lucky.
Like a cross between Longshot from New Mutants and Wimpy from Popeye.

Not sure whether I should get close to any of these numbered ones, but… 17. What did Jimmy Olsen do to become Elastic Lad (he drank some potion but what was it called) and is Elastic Lad related to the Elongated Man?

I don’t think the potion was named, and I doubt the two are related, except through ability. I’ve only read the Elastic Lad story online, on the same site that has scans of the story where Jimmy Olsen fights Goliath alongside King David. By going back in time. I think it was another potion.

Now THERE’S a part of the DCU you don’t see crossed-over into every day.

(Pedantry: actually, he wakes up at the end and it was all a dream, so there’s a continuity out, but still. Wouldn’t DC’s Bible Stories rock?)

18. Solomon Grundy looks like Bizarro Super-Man. Does Solomon Grundy also come from Bizarro World?

No. SG is just all pale and crusty and stuff, while Bizarro’s all blue and angular. I used to know an origin for him but forgot it. Something Frankensteinian? yeah, that’s it. Like Swamp Thing.

What’s harder is trying to figure out how Weirdzo World mentioned in the Sandman “Doll’s House” series fits in with Bizarro World. Just a fiction within the fiction? Or is Bizarro World currently not within the physical DCU, but representing a parallel universe within that universe?

30. What is Black Canary's super-power, apart from the ability to dress like a Berlin whore from the 1930's and getting away with it….

Perfect for the pre-teen girl, her power was to scream really loud. And then, later, to kick butt and take names. Which was perfect for the twenty-something former screamer, I think.

Heheheh. Oh, yes. The geek questions bring out the Hidden Grant.

OK, i feel stoo-pid for not knowing more about this, but wtf is the deal with the Legion of Super-Heroes? they live in the future or something? haven't they existed in multiple versions and volumes? aren't many of them supposed to be very good comics?


Yes, they live in the future. When they came out, I suspect these comics represented DC’s attempt to capture the teen market the way Marvel had, since most of their “present day” hero stuff was more juvenile. ("Let's get the kids back... by making it ALL sidekicks! Only older! And in the FUTURE!")


I think some of their best issues were done by Keith Giffen (just before he did the first Ambush Bug) but it’s been years since I borrowed those from friends. The original 1960s Legion stuff reads like a cross between cheesy science fiction movies, superhero comics and romance comics (also once a popular sub-genre).
 
 
Simplist
19:27 / 24.04.04
Why not...

25. Why does the Question have a blank face?

It's a mask, affixed to (and removed from) his face by an adhesive vapor stored in his belt buckle.

27. There is a member of the Green Lantern Corps called Katma Tui (she's married to Lantern John Stewart) who looks exactly like the villain Sinestro. Is she his daughter?

28. Was Sinestro a Green Lantern who turned to the yellow side?

Sinestro was a Green Lantern who went power-mad and set himself up as a dictator on his homeworld. Katma Tui was a member of the domestic anti-Sinestro resistance. Sinestro was eventually deposed by the GLC and put on trial, and Katma Tui was selected by the Guardians to be his replacement (incidentally, she's dead now; apparently having a thing for exotically-colored alien women, John Stewart is now shacking up with a blue-skinned former GL whose name I've forgotten). Later Sinestro was given a yellow ring by the Qwardians, the Guardian-analogues of the antimatter universe.

29. Is it true that the first Green Lantern was killed when someone threw a piece of wood through his forcefield and knocked his teeth out?

Alan Scott, Earth's first GL, was in fact vulnerable to wood, but he's still very much alive, and AFAIK in possesion of a full set of teeth.

30. What is Black Canary's super-power, apart from the ability to dress like a Berlin whore from the 1930's and getting away with it….

"Canary Cry", ie. she can yell really, really loud.

33. Is the Harlequin in the Batman cartoon the same Harlequin that used to be a member of the Injustice Society of the World? If she is, then where are her magic reading glasses (that can hypnotize people) and her mandolin (with extendable handle)?

Nope and n/a.
 
 
Hieronymus
21:02 / 24.04.04
2. The Changeling's mother was also a famous hero in a major team but who was she?

Rita Farr a.k.a. Elasti-Girl, also from Doom Patrol, adopted The Changeling after his real parents died and after the executive of his birth parents' estate tried to have him killed. But his biological parents weren't superheroes. Only scientists.
 
 
Mario
21:03 / 24.04.04
He has a son now? With a different last name?

Yeah. The kid was born "out of wedlock", as they say.

What’s harder is trying to figure out how Weirdzo World mentioned in the Sandman “Doll’s House” series fits in with Bizarro World.

Vertigo editorial wouldn't let him use Bizarro World (at that time, Bizzaro World didn't exist. Bizarro was a failed clone), so Neil invented the Weirdzos to take it's place. Another of those "The Vertigo universe is not exactly the DCU" things.

Is the Harlequin in the Batman cartoon the same Harlequin that used to be a member of the Injustice Society of the World?

Harley Quin (two words), is the Joker character. She has no connection to Harlequin I (who is now married to the GA Green Lantern) or Harlequin II (former agent of the Manhunters, who was apparently beaten to death by Solomon Grundy).
 
 
The Falcon
02:55 / 25.04.04
To return to BB:

7. Vanessa Kapatelis.

I really want to know about the major enemies of the Oans from Green Lantern. Does Manx, the Sentient City feature in anything other than that Moore Abin Sur short? Are there any other ones? These Qwardians sound fucking hardcore.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
06:33 / 25.04.04
Anyone notice that some of these questions have been answered identically three times now?

NB. Green Arrow was only in Seattle during and post-Longbow Hunters. The post-Crisis gritty reworking explicitly relocated him in the real world.


What’s harder is trying to figure out how Weirdzo World mentioned in the Sandman “Doll’s House” series fits in with Bizarro World. Just a fiction within the fiction? Or is Bizarro World currently not within the physical DCU, but representing a parallel universe within that universe?

I assumed that (ignoring the institutional continuity rules) it was plausible for someone within the DCU (as all Sandman characters are) to dream up a mythos about themselves but based on DCU characters.

It's as though I had a dream, as I did the other night, that I was in conversation with Britney Spears. If you were in a world where superheroes were like celebs, you might well incorporate them into your unconscious fantasies.

Even if Bizarro was out of continuity, it's still entirely possible that a DCU character would "remember" them subconsciously, an idea supported, I think, by the Morrison Animal Man. Those limbo characters would be likely to resurface in dreams even if their existence had been repressed in waking life.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:03 / 25.04.04

I assumed that (ignoring the institutional continuity rules) it was plausible for someone within the DCU (as all Sandman characters are) to dream up a mythos about themselves but based on DCU characters.

Except that Barbie buys a comic featuring the Weirdzos at the end of "A Game of You", yes? So, either the story takes place in a world that is not the DCU world, which seems unlikely because Barbie is sharing a house with somebody whose partner was killed by Doctor Destiny (for more on the connection between the Sandman and mainstream DCU continuity, see previosu page), or there are comics in the DCU which feature Weirdzos. we already know that there are (or were) Justice Leage of America comics in the DCU, and Guy Gardner comics, so a comic which riffs on Superman doesn't seem outside the bounds of possibility...
 
 
miss wonderstarr
13:00 / 25.04.04
Yes, just as Marvel did comics featuring Kiss and Mohammed Ali, it would be possible for the DCU to include a comic pastiche on the Bizarro World. That they're out of continuity makes it a bit more problematic, but an artist and writer could, as I suggested above, be tapping into some limbo-unconscious awareness of those characters.

We know that Watchmen existed as a comic in the DCU because The Question bought it, and he's in the same mainstream universe as Green Arrow.
 
 
Mario
13:28 / 25.04.04
The major opponents of the Guardians (as opposed to the Corps in general) tend to be races of equal stature, like the Controllers, Manhunters, and Zamorans, or renegades of their own race, like Krona.

And about the only Moore GL creation that gets re-used is Mogo, the anti-social GL

Most of his wildest ideas, like Rot Lap Fan (who cannot perceive color), or the GL's who are bacteria and mathematical equations, were just too out there for your average Big BattleTM.
 
 
SiliconDream
05:52 / 26.04.04
10. What is Nura Nal's (Dream Girl) sister's name who later became the Legionnaire called White Witch?

Mysa Nal.

11. Who founded the Fatal Five?

The good guys--postboot, President Chu of the United Planets. The Fatal Five were supervillains granted amnesty in return for helping the Legion fight the Sun-Eater. Afterwards they hit it off and went about their supervillainly business.

12. Did Vril Dox's (L.E.G.I.O.N.) baby boy grow up to become Brainiac (blonde, green-skinned legionnaire, not the skeleton robot)?

Brainiac 5's ancestry hasn't been fully sketched out post-Crisis, let alone post-reboot. His mother is Brainiac 4, and I think Vril Dox II is generally considered Brainiac 2.

Dox's baby, Lyrl, would presumably then be Brainiac 3--Coluans live several centuries, so it's plausible that Lyrl could have a grandson born almost a thousand years later.

OTOH, preboot it was once stated that "Brainiac" was a title bestowed based on merit, not heredity; so there could have been some non-Brainiac Doxes in the family tree somewhere. But we haven't heard anything about that postboot.
 
 
diz
06:57 / 26.04.04
Except that Barbie buys a comic featuring the Weirdzos at the end of "A Game of You", yes? So, either the story takes place in a world that is not the DCU world, which seems unlikely because Barbie is sharing a house with somebody whose partner was killed by Doctor Destiny (for more on the connection between the Sandman and mainstream DCU continuity, see previosu page), or there are comics in the DCU which feature Weirdzos. we already know that there are (or were) Justice Leage of America comics in the DCU, and Guy Gardner comics, so a comic which riffs on Superman doesn't seem outside the bounds of possibility...

the Weirdzos never appear in Sandman, per se. they exist only as characters in the Hyperman comic books that Wanda reads, and subsequently dreams about.

in other words, in the DCU, they have a comic book about a fictional superhero named Hyperman who is clearly based on the real-to-the-DCU hero Superman, and Hyperman has a Weirdzo analog much like Superman has a Bizarro analog.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
08:18 / 26.04.04
was the 1st green lantern killed when someone threw a piece of wood through his force field question

"Two thousand years ago, one of the greatest of the Green Lanterns, Yalan Gur of Space Sector 2814, was nearly killed by a yellow beast. The Guardians removed his ring's yellow impurity, rather than risk losing their best Green Lantern to an arbitrary weakness.

Yalan Gur was soon corrupted by his power, forcing his will on the people of ancient China. The Guardians had no recourse but to instill a new weakness in Yalan Gur's ring to humble their errant Green Lantern. He was now vulnerable to the wood of the peasants' weapons. The Green Lantern was badly injured by the angry humans.

So enraged by the humans' attack and by the Guardians’ apparent betrayal, Yalan Gur did not order his ring to repair his wounds. Mortally injured, he plummeted to Earth, the air friction setting him on fire.
[GL3 # 19]

The wandering piece of the Starheart felt Yalan Gur's pain and joined with the Green Lantern. He died during reentry to Earth's atmosphere, his life force absorbed by his power battery. Its casing melted and fused with the piece of the mystical Starheart. The Guardians left the remains on Earth, as a monument and prison to a fallen Green Lantern.
[GLCQ # 7]

The remains were found by local villagers and considered a meteor. Chang, a lamp maker that dabbled in sorcery, heard a mental cry from Yalan's tortured spirit. "Three times shall I flame green!" it spoke, "First - to bring death!" it promised in rage, "Second - to bring life!" in its remorse, and "Third - to bring power!" in his desire to live again.

Chang had read prophecy regarding the strange green meteor and took a part of it, frightening the people of the village. They had believed Chang and the fallen star were evil. Chang made a lamp of the molten metal, angering the villagers to the point of attacking him. They burned his books and it was believed they had killed him. In turn the villagers were killed by green flame of the lamp. "First - to bring death!"
[ALL-AMERICAN COMICS # 16, GL2 # 108-110]

The lamp passed through many hands over the years. It brought good luck and fortune to the good of heart. To the evil, though they might achieve mighty conquests, in the end it brought destruction."

Eventually Alan Scott got the lamp and it told him to make a ring from it.
 
 
chairmanWOW
08:50 / 26.04.04
1. In the Teen Titans, what was the relationship between Isis, the pensioner/former assassin (who was killed by a piece of chandelier thrown by Cheshire) and the mute Jericho? Was she his grandmother?

She was his mother's mentor. Just like Charles Lensherr's relationship with Mystique would have been?

2. The Changeling's mother was also a famous hero in a major team but who was she?

Rita Farr, the Elasti-Girl! Although she is technically not his real mother...

3. Is Red Star who used to be called Starfire, the same Starfire from the New Titans? The one Starfire is Russian and the other is a stacked alien. How now?

They used to share the same name but that's where the similarities end. Starfire 2 is space princess, while Starfire 1 is a russian evil bastard.

4. Lara and Jor-El have no eyebrows but Kal-El has big bushy brows. How can this be? Wouldn't Supes have to be hairless in that area as well, if his dad was?

Would an eyebrow-less super-hero sell comic (albums but not comics)?

5. After Doctor Psycho used a guy called Colonel Steve Trevor to fight Wonder Woman as the super-villain Captain Wonder he fell in love with a lady-hero called Silver Swan. What was her real name?

Mysa.

6. What were the names of the twin rulers of the Land Of Mirrors that was devastated by Atomia, Queen of the Atom Galaxy?

Leila and something...don't remember.

7. Why was Steve Englehart's interpretation of Wonder Woman such a bitchy bitch?

That was his attempt at creating an assertive female super-hero. But unfortunately it seems women in comic would only be passive or extreme bitch. No in-between.

8. Wonder Woman had a five year old charge called Suzie (in an attempt to try and normalize Bruce Wayne's relationship with his abnormally flexible teenage live-in boypal, I assume), who had a fat sister. What was her name?

Etta.

9. Who created the Arion Star in the Legion of Super-Heroes?

Doctor Regulus, if I'm not mistaken...

10. What is Nura Nal's (Dream Girl) sister's name who later became the Legionnaire called White Witch?

Got me there....

11. Who founded the Fatal Five?

Kovacs says it Grand Master Flash...

12. Did Vril Dox's (L.E.G.I.O.N.) baby boy grow up to become Brainiac (blonde, green-skinned legionnaire, not the skeleton robot)?

I'm not sure, he definitely looks the part...

13. Who founded the League of Assassins (they tried to drive Batman insane and tried to kill him once)?

???

14. What is the Looker's power? She makes sparkles shoot out of her eyes but what's actually happening?

That's telepathy your seeing in action...pretty sparkles to go with her pretty pink sash and pretty kitty-heels.

15. Dr. Niles Caulder (Doom Patrol) had this thing for the villainess Madame Rouge and even managed to get her on the straight and narrow but what was the name of the Nazi commander who corrupted her and made her evil again? The bastard!

Probably Werner or Hienrich something or other...

16. Who formed the second version of the Doom Patrol after Caulder died?

Caulders wife, Ari Caulder...

17. What did Jimmy Olsen do to become Elastic Lad (he drank some potion but what was it called) and is Elastic Lad related to the Elongated Man?

He drank the imaginatively named Elastic Serum. And yes, he is related to the Elongated Man. They’re pledge brothers in the Brotherhood of Dorky Crap Comicbook Characters...

18. Solomon Grundy looks like Bizarro Super-Man. Does Solomon Grundy also come from Bizarro World?

Solomon Grundy does not come from Bizarro World. He looks like he comes from Sewer World but he doesn't come from Bizarro Super-Man's homeworld.

19. Why did the indestructible cape that was given to Super-Man by the Eradicator disappear when the Eradicator was destroyed?

The answer is probably something like "the same energy that he was made of was the same energy that cape was made from, when he died the cape died"

20. Do Angelica Blaze and The Black Racer have the same power?

She is a She-devil with a fetish for costume jewellery and fish-nets and he is Steep Slope Slider who skies on air!

21. Was the galactic villain Evil Star the one who created Starro? He also wears a star on his face that sort of looks like Starro.

I doubt that...Starro was a star-fish alien, while Evil Star was a guy who had a star-fish themed mask on his face...

22. Why were Darkseid and Hawkman such great buddies during the 80's? Didn't Shiera Sanders have anything to say about this? I thought he was a police man from heaven, why would he do business with such an unsavory fellow as Darkseid?

This was probably one of the twenty Hawkmen flying around the DCU, that you complained about previously. And he's not a police man from heaven, silly. He's a policeman from a world where everyone has wings, that only looks like heaven...

23. What was the name of Dr. Thirteen's ancestral home?

Hell House Hall.

24. What is the name of the alternate version of Earth, where Dollman and the Freedom Fighters live?

Earth-X, dear. Like in the Marvel U, only without Gorilla Hulk...

25. Why does the Question have a blank face?

Kovacs says it’s to hide is identity...

26. Who finally won the battle between the United States Army and the United States of Rock in the short lived, Sonic Disruptors?

The United States Army always wins...

27. There is a member of the Green Lantern Corps called Katma Tui (she's married to Lantern John Stewart) who looks exactly like the villain Sinestro. Is she his daughter?

She's from the same race as he is, eventhough she did lick her lips once and she whispered daddy to him. That was in an old Justice League International issue.

28. Was Sinestro a Green Lantern who turned to the yellow side?

Don't know...but he has a yellow ring that confuses me...

29. Is it true that the first Green Lantern was killed when someone threw a piece of wood through his forcefield and knocked his teeth out?

Yes, unfortunately it doesn't take much to take down a Lantern.

30. What is Black Canary's super-power, apart from the ability to dress like a Berlin whore from the 1930's and getting away with it….

A sonic scream, that's useful for getting rid of rough Johns...

31. When the H.I.V.E. created the Ravager who was the Teen Titan they used to create him? I think it was Jericho but I'm not sure.

You are right about the fact that they used one of Terminator, the Deathstrokes sons but it wasn’t the mute, it was his other son. Whose name is…who knows?

32. Who was that space dominatrix with the pink metal outfit and giant pink claws that worked for Hector Hammond and helped him almost kill Hal Jordan?

Pink Claw Lady?

33. Is the Harlequin in the Batman cartoon the same Harlequin that used to be a member of the Injustice Society of the World? If she is, then where are her magic reading glasses (that can hypnotize people) and her mandolin (with extendable handle)?

No, she isn’t.

34. Were Gunner and Sarge secret lovers?

Yes, they were.
 
 
Mario
15:36 / 26.04.04
10. What is Nura Nal's (Dream Girl) sister's name who later became the Legionnaire called White Witch?

Mysa

11. Who founded the Fatal Five?

pre or postboot?

12. Did Vril Dox's (L.E.G.I.O.N.) baby boy grow up to become Brainiac (blonde, green-skinned legionnaire, not the skeleton robot)?

No, but he's probably an ancestor.

13. Who founded the League of Assassins (they tried to drive Batman insane and tried to kill him once)?

Ra's al Ghul.

15. Dr. Niles Caulder (Doom Patrol) had this thing for the villainess Madame Rouge and even managed to get her on the straight and narrow but what was the name of the Nazi commander who corrupted her and made her evil again? The bastard!

You're thinking of General Zahl, although she was actually re-corrupted by Yaramishi Rama Yogi.

31. When the H.I.V.E. created the Ravager who was the Teen Titan they used to create him? I think it was Jericho but I'm not sure.

You are right about the fact that they used one of Terminator, the Deathstrokes sons but it wasn’t the mute, it was his other son. Whose name is...

Grant Wilson.

32. Who was that space dominatrix with the pink metal outfit and giant pink claws that worked for Hector Hammond and helped him almost kill Hal Jordan?


Sounds like Star Sapphire.
 
  

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