Late Shift 138: Skeletor wants your children!

03:13 / 22.03.06

When I was a kid, I searched out comics with Scourge in it. He was the masked vigilante that Marvel wrote into mostly Captain America comics so they could neatly kill off 32-odd old and useless Supervillans...
Yeah Baz! And I think they had a contest where you had to identify every villian he killed and you won a no-prize or something.

Baz Auckland

03:18 / 22.03.06

He was when I was a kid... it took me years to finally track down Captain American #319 where he kills 18 super villans in one panel...

(it's not a very good panel. It's just him saying 'DIE' while firing...)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:21 / 22.03.06

Work's done! Home again, home again, now off to revise that story.

And rip music off CDs borrowed from work. David Bowie!

Saint Keggers

03:21 / 22.03.06

Mr. Denfeld, that is a VERY disturbing picture. I look nothing like that. NOTHING!

I never really was into Cpt. America, except briefly when I read an issue instead of the assigned text in grade 3 music class.
Yet, strangely, I have numerous issues of Nomad.

Baz Auckland

03:21 / 22.03.06

The first comics I read (oddly enough) were Marvel Universes, so I had the whole list of victims, and in which issue they were dispatched with nothing but the sound of an explosive bullet going 'pum-SPAK!'...

...ah sweet days.

Good night/morning all, I have to run to class...

03:24 / 22.03.06

Hey, Baz!

Hey Papers! & Baz!

Hey Baz!

Hey! How are you?

Last note on Scourge: His existence was always a bit of a cop-out on Marvel's part. You never saw his face, he was always disguised, and you only knew it was him because of the tag line "Justice is Served.". In Captain America #320 (which I was never able to find), he's killed off by another masked vigilante... and I don't think he was ever referred to again...

It was only when I was older did I realise the humour of it all when it became obvious why he was created (i.e. to kill off old and stupid supervillans)

03:34 / 22.03.06

Funny that you like Nomad, as he became the new Scourge over in Thunderbolts a couple of years ago.

03:41 / 22.03.06

Zoemancer's your typical Temple fair. Little psychos slide under the radar by spouting khaos magik and then "question everything"... looking for inflammatory topics.

03:41 / 22.03.06

Hey Cassie, Keggers, Stoat, Denfield, Baz...

Nomad's still around? WTF? Didn't they kill him or something?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:45 / 22.03.06

On Nomad, with some Winter Soldier spoilers:

Brubaker had Bucky kill him a few months ago.

Saint Keggers

03:45 / 22.03.06

Hey Papers,

I have no clue if Nomad is still around. I only got a handful of issues back when his comic started up. I like the idea of a superhero fighting crime with a kid strapped to his back.

03:45 / 22.03.06

Cass- ze's been in Switchboard a while ago, too- funnily enough, defending David Irving's right to deny the Holocaust.

03:47 / 22.03.06

Can I ban people? I'm a switchboard mod (a slight downgrade from my King Mod days), I'm not sure what powers i have.

03:50 / 22.03.06

You were dethroned? Was there a coup? Queen alas now reigns?

03:50 / 22.03.06

Sadly, Mister Denfield, your power's only the lamentable ability to make your fingernails grow at will.

03:59 / 22.03.06

Jack Denfield is like Deathstrike? I do have too many comics...

03:59 / 22.03.06

I was more thinking Meg Griffin.

04:00 / 22.03.06

your power's only the lamentable ability to make your fingernails grow at will.
BOZE MOI!!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

04:03 / 22.03.06

You know, Krueger was by far the most disturbing thing in my childhood, apart from the music to Jaws (I once had an entirely musical nightmare when I was a child). All those burns on his face and those claws...

04:05 / 22.03.06

Hey, I've just finished work so it's off home to bed (after a brief dog-walk)... see you all later!

04:06 / 22.03.06

04:07 / 22.03.06

Sometimes I think I'm a girl. I had no patience for the appreication of horror films, no interest in guns & ammo, and only recently developed any skillz on the court.

I had nightmares, but more lucid... like dead dogs and kidnapping scenarios.

04:08 / 22.03.06

Night Stoatie!

04:09 / 22.03.06

You know, Krueger was by far the most disturbing thing in my childhood,
Wes Craven has said that when he was a child someone who looked exactly like Freddy was pounding on his bedroom window in the middle of the night. That must have been scary.

04:12 / 22.03.06

Cass: Sometimes I think I'm a girl. I had no patience for the appreication of horror films, no interest in guns & ammo, and only recently developed any skillz on the court.

I like some horror. I actually prefer horror stories to films. I'm working on a Rumplestiltskin retelling as a Bayou Horror Story. No interest in guns. Can't be bothered with hockey.

04:16 / 22.03.06

I've fired a bunch of guns. M16-A2, Colt .45, an automatic grenade launcher called a Mark-19. This is all from my time in the Army. I'd never want to own one though, as sometimes I get bored and impulsive and might blow my brains out in a bored stupor one night.

04:17 / 22.03.06

I'm fairly thin, and would probably be killed by the recoil of firing a gun.

04:18 / 22.03.06

The rifles have some kind of recoil supressor coils.

04:18 / 22.03.06

Recoil supressor springs I mean.