Well, I might want to drop by with a casserole, just to be neighborly.
Aren’t there parts of Antarctica that get a bit of daylight in winter? Not the South Pole, but near the coasts?
Mrs. Claus used to do that. I think that’s why Supes moved.
I mean, she’s obviously a good cook, to judge by Santa’s figure.
There are some spots on the east coast and on the peninsula that are outside the Antarctic Circle. I don’t know whether they are on the ice shelf, though. I think Greenland with its massive ice shelf outside the Arctic Circle would have been more logical.
What does “east coast” mean for Antarctica?
Well technically, the entire coastline would be the north coast. The East Coast is in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Besides the peninsula, there a few spots that look to be north or the Antarctic circle.
I just saw the movie – liked it OK.
Brian
Saw the movie this week with Pepper Mill. We really liked it.
It’s hard to set the right tone, especialy for Superman. But James Gunn is the King of Superhero movies now, and clearly knows what he’s doing. I like thst they also brought in not just Krypto, but also Metamorpho and the Guy Gardner Green Lantern. I also liked Hawkgirl and Mr. Terrific, although I haven’t been reading DC comics for a few decades, and was unfamiliar with them (Hawkgirl was clearly not the Shayera Hol I grew up reading about, although I like that this Kendra Saunders still uses the mace in battle). I also haven’t read the Superman graphic novels that most closely influenced this one, but I like the tone and style.
Well, what else could she do? “She can fly” isn’t much of a defining superpower when, well, almost everyone can fly.
Granted, “She can fly and she has a big mace” isn’t much more, but you take what you can get.
Doesn’t she have a supersonic screech of some sort? Not sure what damage that does.
Good Lord, how can you ask such a question. In comic books (and comic book movies) you can do anything. She could have a gun. She could have a disintegrator pistol. She could manipulate force fields. There are plenty of things you could imagine her doing. The fact that the Shayera Hol version (and the Katar Hol version of Hawkman) deliberately restricted themselves to medieval weapons like the mace (when they had access to various ray guns and the like) made them visually and thematically interesting.
Heck, the only reason that Sue Storm-Richards can make invisible force fields is for precisely this reason – someone who can just turn invisible needs an attack weapon. It turned out so good that they stole it for Violet Parr in The Incredibles
I think she flies and is really strong, though not anywhere near Superman level.
That is Black Canary.
Hawkgirl’s mace is powerful and could be considered magic.
But can Hawkgirl talk with birds in the comics?
Apparently so.
People from planet Thanagar (hawk-people, essentially) have access to something called Nth metal. Among its capabilities is gravity control, which allows them to fly. (The wings alone don’t do it.) The metal also has other properties, to be honest those properties are whatever the writer feels like (a common storytelling crutch in DC Comics stories). Weapons made of that metal can do whatever the plot requires, and are an open-ended source of superpowers on their own.
Saw it with my 12yo today. We don’t have a dog, which is one of the great regrets of her life, so when Krypto showed up her delight lit up the theater. Obviously a show-stealer, but watching it with this kid was the perfect way to watch it. When Supergirl showed up, it was so much like how my kid plays with dogs. So good!
The action scenes didn’t do a lot for me. There weren’t shots that I haven’t seen before, for the most part; even Krypto’s interruption of Luthor’s speech was a clear callback to Hulk and Loki. And the actor for Superman had a few good moments (his face-twitch when Pa said he was proud was excellent acting), but didn’t really stand out. Mr. Fantastic and the Green Lantern were pure delight, though, as was Lex Luthor. I overall had a blast.
You mean Mr. Terrific. Mr. Fantastic leads the Fantastic Four and is from Marvel.
I guess Mr. Terrific can start his own team called the Terrific Tetrad though.
Did Kandor show up? The bottled city should be the focus of another movie. There’s a backstory about why he refuses to smash the bottle and free the last remaining Kryptonians.