Sideburns nothing, look at Batman Junior’s pants! :eek:
You must be mistaken. There was no such time as the early to mid 90s
Late-90s. Starting in 1997. The Energy Supermen.
I’ll go on record as actually having LIKED Superman Blue, at least. (I don’t think I’ve ever read a story involving Superman Red - my Superman reading from that period is mostly from JLA.)
YOu know, I have come to realize something from going over that superdickery webpage.
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Superman is, in fact, a dick.
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Superman and its spin-offs must have been the worst fucking comic in the 50’s and 60’s. Seriously, half the stories are Lois marrying someone, Jimmy having something weird happen to him (usually getting some kind of super power,) or Superman fighting another good guy. Hey, old, dead, writers: Here’s my friend…his name is original idea.
[slight hijack]
Can anyone tell me what is funny about this one? I don’t read Spanish.
Check out the title:
FLUSH MAN
Well, keep in mind, we’re seeing fourty years of comics on those pages. And most of those covers are misleading. And the readership changed over so fast that they could get away with reusing stories a lot.
So, lemme get this straight … they reassemble Krypton in the outskirts of our solar system, and then put it in an orbit that will take it back to its “original constellation” in another friggin’ galaxy?!
Even assuming the other galaxy is really really close by, like the Large or Small Magellanic Cloud, it would still take over a hundred thousand years for such an “orbit” to reach it – even assuming that New Krypton travelled along its “orbit” at the speed of light. The only way for such an orbit to happen in a reasonable amount of time is if New Krypton is travelling faster than light, and I refuse to believe that even pre-Crisis Superman is capable of pushing an entire planet up to FTL speeds.
That one’s pretty goofy alright. Just read it for the first time. Help me out here…what’s the red kryptonite in the drawer have to do with anything? He uses the “long preserved apparatus” to shrink himself. What am I missing?
I love the way in old DC comics some story points were made with signs. The “House and Rocket Ship of Kandor Before the Tiny Bottle City Was Enlarged” is a perfect, idiotic and hilarious example of this.
The writers screwed up. Anything that is shrunken by Braniac’s shrinking ray can’t be made normal again, or at least Superman has not found a way to reverse the effects yet.
The red kryptonite once caused Krypto to shrink down. Superman was going to use that since the effects were only temporary. I guess somewhere along the line someone erred by having him use the shrinking ray on himself.
Lady: Stop him! He stole my baby!
Superhero in Red (Flush Man?): Stop him…? Stop WHO?
So, not particularly humorous. The humor must be in Flush Man’s name.
That’s only slightly more ridiculous than the entire population of Atlantis swimming to a whole other planet or, for that matter, Superman having wasted the time and effort to model an entire planet after the long-dead Krypton.
Sure, you make fun of it when the editors of Superman do it with mer-people, but let Douglas Adams do it with dolphins and he gets a cult classic.
Did they say it was specifically in another galaxy? The reason i’m aksing is because Krypton is supposed to be about 30 light years away. How do we know? Superman was 30 when the light from Krypton reached Earth (pre-crisis).
I remember a really bizarre one from when I was little. There’s this bubble boy type of character. He breaks out of his house and cuts himself. The reason he was kept in a bubble? His white blood cells, when exposed to air mutated into a huge white blood cell monster that looked at all life like an infection. :eek:
Did they say it was specifically in another galaxy? The reason i’m aksing is because Krypton is supposed to be about 30 light years away. How do we know? Superman was 30 when the light from Krypton reached Earth (pre-crisis).
I remember a really bizarre one from when I was little. There’s this bubble boy type of character. He breaks out of his house and cuts himself. The reason he was kept in a bubble? His white blood cells, when exposed to air mutated into a huge white blood cell monster that looked at all life like an infection. :eek:
Oh spit. Didn’t the cover of that one have the kid watching TV and saying “If only you were real, Superman. You could help me.” With our favourite Big Blue Boy Scout flying past his window?
Inside, he had spotted Supes, but since his parents had told him that television showed fictioinal things he decided that his parents had lied to him all these years and he escaped to help the victim in a “Fugitive from the Future” series. But there was a nefarious plot involving the producers trying to fire the star of that show…
And now my brain hurts and I seem to have blocked any further memories…
I think he’s using “galaxy” in a common but incorrect way to mean “star system”.
Weird… how about Superman vs Muhammad Ali?
DC’s Greatest Imaginary Stories features the story of Superman Red and Superman Blue; Superman’s marriages to Lois Lane, Lana Lang, and Lori Lemaris; Superman’s sons; and Lex Luthor becoming a good guy. Plus some stories on other characters.
Superman Red/Blue also appears in the 95-cent The Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #19 (Dec 81) along with imaginary tales of:
[ul][li]Lex Luthor as Superman / Clark Kent as Batman[/li][li]Lois marries Clark[/li][li]Lois marries Superman (and oddly, Clark doesn’t appear at all and Lois thinks of her husband as “Superman”)[/li][li]Lois marries Superman but is killed, leaving him with their young daughter, and[/li]Kal-El’s rocket lands in the Pacific in 1976, making the Americans and Soviets scramble to recover it. By far the only halfway serious story in the collection, it suggested that in the year 1990, we’d have mile-tall skyscrapers, a female American president, and at least one lunar base. By 2001; hover-recliners. I really want a hover-recliner.[/ul]