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Tim Tempest
23:47 / 21.10.05
Many of the costumes on this thread are ####### ace

Should we have some fun debating on this?

I admit, there are a ton of characters in here that I think are awesome...but this thread is just here to make fun of the stupidest looking costumes that they tend to wear.

Of course, "stupidest looking" is a rather ambiguous term...

All in all, this thread is just here for some laughs.
 
 
Tamayyurt
02:38 / 22.10.05
Wasn't the DC One Million Superboy based on this Omac dude?

  
 
A
03:11 / 22.10.05
"OMAC", in DC One Million stands for "One Millionth Actual Clone" (I guess I've seen worse acronyms, but not by much). Clone in this case, meaning clone of Superman; Kon El/Superboy being the first ummm "actual" clone.

(...Which is kinda interesting in the context of this thread, seeing as how folks were comparing the looks of Gladiator and the original OMAC before, and Gladiator is intentionally ripped off the original Superboy. Ahh, the circle of life.)
 
 
Juan_Arteaga
04:38 / 22.10.05
The seriously unhip leather-jacket-over-costume, the round-rimmed shades (mercifully absent), and the Michael Jacksony belts and bangles placed by the world's most sadistic tailor.

If you think Superboy was bad...



Byrne's Wondergirl is all the stuff that was wrong with Superboy, but elevated to the Byrne power.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
07:14 / 22.10.05
Seriously reminds me of The Manhattan Guardian's first story. (Not in terms of costume, mind.)

  
 
Spaniel
08:38 / 22.10.05
Oddman, this is Barbelith, where you are allowed to swear, like what grown-ups do.

I'm not sure I want to debate the rights and wrongs of tights and pants, capes and booties, but I should stress that it's the very absurdity of many costumes that I find attractive. The datedness, the impracticality, the naivety, the outlandish design.
 
 
rabideyemovement
14:04 / 22.10.05
In my opinion Speedball was the victim of the worst costume design ever. I hated that blue jumpsuit with all the confusing orange bubbles. He was named after something that killed River Phoenix and his power was to-- get this--bounce off of things. He also had a bouncing cat.

  
 
Warewullf
15:55 / 22.10.05
Not a great costume, true.

Maybe he could cool it up a bit by adding....




A trenchcoat! Speedball goes gritty!
 
 
Warewullf
16:07 / 22.10.05
Firestar. What the hell was she thinking?



An ugly mess. That weird spark on her stomach, the pointless three fiery lines and the baffling presence of jet black on her shoulders. Let's not even mention the painted-on mask. Did no one see the JLA made-for-tv movie? Did we not lean that painted on flames as a mask looks shite?

Her original costume may have had it haters but it was a classic...
 
 
Tim Tempest
16:17 / 22.10.05
Oddman, this is Barbelith, where you are allowed to swear, like what grown-ups do.

I was F###ing kidding for ####'s sake! ####! ####### @$$####! #### you, #### that other guy, #### Gattaca, and #### your sister, and #### your stereo, and #### your ####### pet monkey! ####!

Son of a #####.

####.

And, I'm spent.
 
 
gridley
16:39 / 22.10.05
I don't know who that Speedball guy is, but I'd wear his boots (from the first picture) in a second.
 
 
fluid_state
06:46 / 24.10.05
His midsection (can we call that a belt?) would make a kickin' cummerbund.

(for the record, I like the mad-Ditko costume action)
 
 
grime
17:32 / 24.10.05
add some fun fur to that speedball costume and you could make some serious money selling it to the ravers.

which pretty much confirms it's place here.
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
17:51 / 24.10.05
Ain't nothing wrong with the Speed-man. His costume was one of the better ones on the New Warriors (let us not forget Nova...or Luke Cage).

...though I could never understand why the stealth character who couldn't run away from the bad guys (Silhouette, who only got around with crutches and leg braces) was the one who's costume had large amounts of shiny gold on it. Stealth+not running away=not wanting to be target. And yet...SHINY GOLD!

Then again, their Batman wannabe, Thrasher, insisted on wearing so much body armor its a wonder he was ever able to do his acrobatics.
 
 
Slim
22:01 / 24.10.05
Speedball's costume is perfectly acceptable.
 
 
Michelle Gale
22:17 / 24.10.05
Dude! the costumes arnt real tis (daft)fiction. The physics of the thing dont mean shit. joycore and iconicicyness and is what its about.

an speedballs costume is verily retarded.
 
 
_Boboss
13:25 / 25.10.05
more in the effort to sod that 'patty cockrum's hilarious nutty break' thread off where it belongs...

what if judge dredd was a talking sheep? well, i'd just skip straight past the strip and on to whatever the next one was, obviously... kids (there's a few about these days), i give you inspector harry ram, on the left there. (her on the right's hardly a masterpiece of innovative aesthetics either mind)

  
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
20:25 / 25.10.05
...is that a goat?
 
 
Spaniel
08:50 / 26.10.05
Sheep can have horns.
 
  

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