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I am irresistably called to a challenge, is why. :cool:

[spoiler]It’s not about your section – it’s more at yet another story idea that began occuring to me after reading yours and Harborwolf’s comments. I may do a follow-up to my Fantastic Four chapter and have Superman explore why adamantium and vibranium hurt him so much and why Reed Richard’s bigotry towards magic can cause him to dismiss some other possibilities.

Also, it occurred to me alchemy is almost never expanded upon as a magical discipline outside of the Harry Potter universe. Not even Crowley, information on voodoo, DC’s BOOKS OF MAGIC or PROMETHEA deals with it much – and it’s aching for exploration. The only self-proclaimed comic book alchemist I can think of is the Fantastic Four’s enemy, Diablo, although the Absorbing Man is for all intents and purposes one and it’s not a much of a stretch to consider Dr. Will Magnus an atomic one.[/spoiler]

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I seem to remember his falling into a vat of Chemo, which then took on the form of a giant green SuperGolem. It was, as I recall, defeated by the Metal Men, via their surrounding it and blocking out all sunlight. Tin was shattered in the attempt, and Doc Magnus refused to rebuild him. Doc Magnus is a dick.

Oh, and Boris is teh awsome111!!! Hail the Cosmic Can-opener! :smiley:

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Uhh… what about…

Firestorm? Dr. Alchemy? The Molecule Man? Dr. Alchemy?

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:smack:

I seriously forgot about him. I forget about the extant Rogues beyond Professor Zoom, Grodd, the Weather Wizard and Captain Cold, sometimes.

The other two you mentioned can transmute metals but have never once, to my knowledge, had their abilities explained in the manner of the ‘solution’ I proposed.

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Sure, but, did Absorbing Man’s get explained that way? I honestly don’t recall having seen it. And I know that Doc Magnus is not an alchemist by any conventional interpretation.

And then of course there’s Chemical Boy and Element Lad

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Well, just as Swamp Thing was eventually retconned into a plant elemental, I’m kinda toying with the idea of retconning the Absorbing Man into an alchemical elemental, somewhat similar to Metamorpho and the Element Girl as metamorphae – since it was the Enchantress, a Norse goddess-sorceress, who gave him his abilities. Just as the Metal Men’s responsometers have been retconned into devices that simply mimic the properties of the metals they are composed of rather than actually being those metals, I’m toying with the admittedly unconventional idea of making Dr. Will Magnus a modern-day atomic alchemist, although my idea is not entirely without precedent. I just flipped through my DC BLU RIBBON 100-PAGE DIGEST No. 34 featuring the original Rob Kanigher/Ross Andru METAL MEN issues and in the very first issue, on page three, there’s one of those descriptive text boxes that says… “In the inventive genius’ laboratory complex, perfectly run by automation, where one mechanical hand takes the place of a thousand, ancient alchemy is easily surpassed by the wizardry of Will Magnus’ modern science… [bolding mine].” when you throw “alchemy” and “wizardy” in the same sentence, I think it might be a legitimate interpretation. I did say they (MacClain and Magnus) re-discovered alchemical principles. I didn’t say they set out to deliberately re-create them.

No more! I humbly ask you hit me up on an email if you want to talk more on this particular topic. I didn’t want to fill this thread with spoiler boxes for a third story idea I’m not sure I’ll have time to write.

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ADDRESSES FROM THE ASYLUM

ITEM: I’m a bit concerned with the progress of SWAP! Superman and Spider-Man Fanfic. I’m woebegone. Stunned. Nay – I’m dismayed. It’s been a full week, SDMBFC fans, and so far I’m the only one of the Fanboy Collective who’s posted complete written stories. Have you Aslyum Inmates been having so much fun writing your adventures with Superman battling Marvel baddies and Spider-Man’s vexing DCU villains you’ve forgotten to post them? For shame, hogging all that story goodness to yourself! Don’t you know there are story-starved children in Africa who hound their clunky dial-up connections waiting, just waiting for a sample of your imagined prose? Share the wealth! You’re soaking in it!

Dopers who have posted to the boards and emailed me privately are excited about the ideas pitched! A lot of us are looking forward to reading the story ideas of “Scintillating” Stuffy, “Canny” CandidGamera, “Calculating” Kythereia and “Too-Cool” Tengu. Where the heck are they, Inmates?

[FANFIC COORDINATOR super-cape on] If any of you are stuck on story ideas, feel free to email me with any concerns, questions, changes or deadline extensions. Sometimes these things are best done off-the-boards, y’know? My email is askiah@yahoo.com. [/cape off] – Avuncular Askia.

ITEM: If any posters reading this so far has spotted any factual inconsistency in the PROLOGUES so far, feel free to explain why this mistake isn’t really a mistake and prepare to earn a heaping helping of our nifty new 'networthy KNOW-PRIZE! A nicknack normally needed by neo-classical noblemen of necessary knowledge, it now be nicked by your nuanced know-how! Hop to it! First come, first nerve! You can start by explaining how Spider-Woman is constantly addressed as Spider-Girl!

ITEM: I’m working hard on my Spider-Man and Superman chapters, **“The Last Temptation of Spider-Man” ** and “Superman versus The Mole Man,” to finish and post them this weekend. There’ s some minor re-writing that needs to be done because I had not planned to post them so soon after the original PROLOGUES.

ITEM: Finally, I’m toying with the idea of a third story, a flashback set entirely in the distant past of the Marvel Universe, concerning the Greek god-metal adamantine and its link to contemporary adamantium, to strengthen the idea that Superman can be injured by it.

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ITEM: “First come, First nerve?”

I had time to kill at work today and wrote outlines for both of mine. So they’re coming. Just don’t rush me. I’m an artiste.

A certain ever-lovin’ blue-eyed Thing will also cameo in my Superman story, and the primary Imperial Guardsmen featured will be Gladiator, Smasher, Warstar (B’nee and C’cil) and Starbolt.

The Spidey story is back on, and pretty much features only Booster, Beetle, and Spidey, except for a brief mention of the alter-ego of Irwin Schwab, and a one-line cameo by Guy Gardner.

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Yeah… uh… that sounded cool until I re-read it just now.

:: Happy dance ::

Cool.

HOT DAMN!

I just through re-reading the last two Super-Buddies mini-series, and I am very happy to hear this!

Now if only I could locate the hole in the Earth that seems to have swallowed up Tengu, Kythereia and Stuffy.

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Sorry guys. I had a technical manual to write up the dregs of which still occupy my mind and compromises my creative writing style. Fear not, a cure is at hand involving consuption of special liquids and the burning of certain herbs. I exect to finish tommorrow.

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Slight change of plans, Inmates. I was toying around with the third story so much I went and damn near wrote the durn thing! This is background information not germaine to the Superman and Spider-Man plot except to explain why Superman is vulnerable to adamantium. I’ll post that here in this thread instead of the SWAP! thread (unless popular demand says otherwise! I’m a sucker for audience opinion!) and instead of the other two chapters. Probrably tomorrow.

Toodles!

– Assessing And Adjusting Askia

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Update.

My Spidey half is almost done. I need to finish it up tonight and proof it.

Turned out more of a Beetle and Booster story than a Spiderman story.

Very dialogue driven - I may need to go and adjust the action sequence in Chapter Three to be a little tighter.

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Still working too, I hope to submit before the weekend.

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Finished Story #1. Going to have to proof it tonight though - didn’t have time last night.

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Posted. Enjoy - you’ve finally corrupted me into joining the wide world of Fan Fiction.

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Hey, of course Coast City doesn’t exist! Dan Jurgens blew it up!

I kid, I kid…

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um, askia…

OK, you know that Superman could fly out a window & back into the parking garage with less exertion of force than it would take to compromise the integrity of the Bugle’s building’s structure by drilling through the floor, right? Right.

So, do you see Big Blue as a nitwit? Frank Miller fan, maybe? I know, I know, it gives you that great JJJ line, but still. Marvel favoritism abounds here.

Then again, I’m of the late-'80’s DC-with-a-grown-up-attitude school.

as for you, Mr. Explicit TurtleMeat:

I imagine Ted would just say Oreos. But further, I take exception to calling the Giffen Justice League “simpler times.” The current retro-inspired take is a lot more simplistic, really.

Funny stuff, though.

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Well, danke for the feedback. As for the two issues - the ‘sandwich cookie’ ambiguity is a nod to the fact that A.) they had to stop calling them Oreos at one point and substitute a generic name and B.) I couldn’t remember the generic name.

As for the “simpler times” comment - Just sort of the character’s take on the “darkening” DCU.

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I seem to recall heroes replying to the “simpler times” meme in the Identity Crisis storyline. As I recall, they state that a few decades ago, things weren’t simpler, just diffrent.

Oh, and as I recall, the cokies the Martian Manhunter is addicted to is refered to, post-lawsuits fears, as “Chocos”

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Anybody? Bueller?