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Trevor Smith
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No way! Tell me there's not more than a 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,
20, and a 30! And those goofy 100s that never took off.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Yeah, JLA/Avengers was packed with lots of Easter Eggs, but the basic story still comes down to two teams from different worlds fighting against each other before teaming up to take down a common foe. How's that any more hard to grasp than any other superhero comic?
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Tony Midyett
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No way! Tell me there's not more than a 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,
20, and a 30! And those goofy 100s that never took off.
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I told them at the RPG Academy that I'd one day create a 235 and one-quarter-sided die, and they laughed...LAUGHED at me! Well, I'll have my revenge! I'll perfect that die!! And then, I shall rule the world of D&D forevah!!! Bwah-ha-ha!!!!
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Marc M. Woolman
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"Right -but if the Hulk can withstand Thor's hammer, shouldn't Superman be able to as well? " You're missing the difference. The Hulk has a high degree of invulnerability. This invulnerability is not affected by magic and therefore does not go away when he's hit by Mjolnir. Superman has a higher degree of invulnerability. It does go away when he gets hit by Thor's hammer, and therefore hitting Superman with Mjolnir is the same as hitting Batman with Mjolnir. (Magic hammer = no degree of invulnerability beyond that of a normal human, for superman.)
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John Byrne
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This is something a lot of people seem to have trouble with. Because DC chose to make an issue of Superman's vulnerability to magic, some read is as a [i[special vulnerability. Like his vulnerability to kryptonite. But, really, he's just vulnerable to magic in the same way EVERYONE is.
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John Byrne
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Yeah, JLA/Avengers was packed with lots of Easter Eggs…•• Is this really the right usage of this term? I see it cropping up a lot in discussions of continuity intensive stories, but given the source of the term -- ie, Easter egg hunts: a search for something that is hidden -- it seems like what is being referenced is more akin to a "secret handshake". You don't have to be a "member of the club" in order to participate in an Easter egg hunt. You DO in order to catch all these reference. ++ …but the basic story still comes down to two teams from different worlds fighting against each other before teaming up to take down a common foe. How's that any more hard to grasp than any other superhero comic? •• "Come down to" is the key phrase, and the point upon which JLA/AVENGERS stumbles. There is an awful lot of superfluous fan-wankery to wade thru before that "basic story" comes to center stage. Compare this to the original SUPERMAN/SPIDER-MAN, or SUPERMAN/HULK, or my own BATMAN/CAPTAIN AMERICA, and note how soon the "basic story" gets started in those volumes, compared to JLA/AVENGERS.
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Eric Smearman
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Whenever a reference to Superman's "weakness" to magic was made
I used to get an image in my head of the Man of Steel's knees
buckling at the sight of a card trick or a rabbit being pulled out of a
hat. But I digress...
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Michael Tortorice
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Geek-check of the day: There is such a thing as a 16-sided die. It looks a lot like a 10-side, but obviously with more sides. The ones I saw looked suspiciously like custom jobs.
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Lars Johansson
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Trevor died just like me, we were so bad RPG players so we died, very early on during the RGP session when we played with friends so we never got far enough to roll the dice and see how many sides the dice had.
Edited by Lars Johansson on 25 October 2011 at 12:36pm
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Trevor Smith
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"Trevor died just like me..."
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That's news to me!
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John Byrne
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Thread drift alert!
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Lars Johansson
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I don't know what fan written means but everytime different companies meet it can be a problem or "fan-like" such as the movie Ernst Krüger versus Jason Vorhees. Sometimes it would be better as it is, a fan asking "What if Tarzan met the Phantom, they are both in a jungle, right?" That's my opinion.
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