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Chad Carter
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Chad Carter
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By the way, is it really feasible that Green Arrow and Black Canary, experienced professional superhero types, are "momentarily paralyzed by the Dark Knight's appearance...startled like frightened deer..."
GA panicks and pops his own partner, no less. Ouch, babe.
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Jason Czeskleba
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Chad Carter wrote:
| By the way, is it really feasible that Green Arrow and Black Canary,
experienced professional superhero types, are "momentarily paralyzed by
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Well, that's Gerry Conway for you. I may be in the minority here, but my enjoyment of the gorgeous artwork in JLA #200 was really impeded by the fact that it was just another bland Conway story in which everybody fights everybody else due to some big misunderstanding (if I recall correctly... I haven't read the story since it came out). It was ostensibly a tribute to the old Gardner Fox style, but in my opinion lacked any of the charm and cleverness of Fox's work.
And I can't believe they didn't ask Mike Sekowsky to do a chapter. At the time (in those pre-internet days when facts were not as readily available) I assumed he must be deceased, and was surprised to see him turn up drawing a Kurt Busiek fill-in issue of the book a few years later. He could've knocked out a five-page section for the book in 30 minutes, and it would have been fun to see him involved. He wasn't a beautiful artist, but he knew how to tell a story effectively.
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Ray Brady
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"Cap's shield must be designed so the kinetic power used against its
center actually creates some kind of dissipating force around its edges."
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I thought the shield wasn't designed as a shield. I thought it was an accident that just happened to produce a disk.
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Chris Beaton
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Or perhaps the kinetic energy isn't absorbed as efficiently from the thin edge of the shield as from the blunt, broad face of the shield...
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George Peter Gatsis
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Of all the punches and smack downs, this had to come into my life...
Every page of pure release...
I don't think there has ever been a more perfect set-up to these panels...
 
Edited by George Peter Gatsis on 20 August 2007 at 10:58pm
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Here are two panels from Avengers 158 that shows Sal Buscema knows how to throwdown.
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Joe Smith
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they even uhghh the same.
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Richard Stevens:
"Regarding why Cap's shield still ricochets while it shouldn't- maybe the
edge is coated with a non-Vibranium material that doesn't absorb impact?
That'd explain why so few people have the skill to throw it like he does. "
Chad Carter:
"I was thinking the same thing today. Cap's shield must be designed so the kinetic power used against its center actually creates some kind of dissipating force around its edges...so if the shield is impacted on its edge, the dissipating force (unanchored by Cap's body) probably causes the richochet. Like a struck tuning fork?"
I like Richard's version best. A thin lining of a different metal or substance around the very edge of the shield. Just enough to make it possible for Captain America to throw it against something and have it bounce. Avoids the whole speculation about how to make vibranium not work like vibranium.
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Joe Smith wrote:
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Cue the theme from The Patty Duke show!
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Chad Carter
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A Mike Sekowsky slugging.
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