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John Byrne
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In my bundle of comps from DC today came the second SHOWCASE "Superman" volume, containing the story in which Luthor summons Hercules out of the past with a time machine he builds in his cell out of -- yes -- an alarm clock and an aspirin. You know, I have used that line so many times as a joke that I'd forgotten completely that he actually did it!
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Bill Wiist
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Try THAT Dr. Doom!!
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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He must have taken a tip from McGuyver!!!
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George Peter Gatsis
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JB,
would you know exactly what issue that was?
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Jason Michalski
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That is so awesome. I'm just about finished with Vol. 1. Fantastic stuff.
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Robert White
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Feh. Doom could have done the same with but a single tic tac and a Casio wrist watch.
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José Emilio Amo
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In the TV show "Get A Life", Chris Peterson made the time juice, each
time you drink it you can travel in time. I don't remember all
the ingredients but the most important is the Michael J. Fox's hair
lock. :-)
I'm reading the Showcase volume 1 (everyday I read a story) In today's
story, Superman drinks the strange brew from a scientist experiment and
he became a 70 years old man.
I bought the showcase 2 the last week, I will start it when I finish the volume 1, I like all these naive stuff.
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Marcel Chenier
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Is this the kind of story folks on this board tend to like, or dislike?
Does it remind people of 'simpler times' that you'd like to get back
to, or is something like this appreciated for its nostalgic value--but
you would never want to see this in a comic today?
Just curious.
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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I'm afraid to get Showcases, because i did rarely read a comic from the silver age when i was a kid. I would read them, and put it in the bookcase, and probably never read them again....
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Hugh Cherry
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I remember you making that joke a long time ago on the AOL boards. Then when Generations came out, and Luthor says he discovered a way to travel thru time by bombarding acetylsalicylic acid with a 107.mghz frequency (or something to that effect, I don't have the book handy for an exact quote), I was laughing out loud!
I tried to explain it to my wife, and she just looked at me funny tho.
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George Peter Gatsis
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you know...
Lex Luthor has got to be the stupidest character in comics...
clearly he's a genious... but he spends his time attacking Superman and doing other EViL deeds...
why not step back... create the perpetual engine for the cars, create the perpetual battery for toys and laptops and license it out to everyone...
BILLIONS!!!! I tell you BILLIONS!!!! Bwahhahahahahahahaha....
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Joe S. Walker
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Is this the kind of story folks on this board tend to like, or dislike?
Does it remind people of 'simpler times' that you'd like to get back
to, or is something like this appreciated for its nostalgic value--but
you would never want to see this in a comic today?
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I think they have qualities that comics are desperately short of today: an unselfconscious acceptance of their nature as fantasy, a certain kind of throwaway inventiveness and spontaneity, quick efficient storytelling.
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