DC's Best Martial Artist

[Chuckg]

When Bruce was recovering from his broken back, Shiva could've whipped him *ten* out of ten times, until he finally got back in shape. Dude was seriously hurtin' for a while.

I don't recall the editors saying this. Linkage, if possible?

[Steve]

When Bruce was recovering from his broken back, Shiva could've whipped him *ten* out of ten times, until he finally got back in shape. Dude was seriously hurtin' for a while.

I don't recall the editors saying this. Linkage, if possible?

Here is one link I found, but I don't have a direct link to any editor quoted as saying this. It is just hearsay, but I do remember reading this same thing in one of the editorial pages at the back of one of the Batman comics several years back.

[Chuckg]

There's a lot of hearsay going around.

Now that you jog my memory, I vaguely recall hearing a '6 of 10' estimate... but from a *Wizard magazine* editor, not a DC editor. And Wizard, natch, don't know its *** from its elbow.

[megaplayboy]

Well, wrt to the "superhuman" thing, there are plentiful examples from anime/manga and Hong Kong comics of martial artists whose strength and agility levels are clearly superhuman, but who derive said levels of ability from "training" and manipulating their "chi/ki". Almost all of the human fighters in DBZ, Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, the cast of Ranma 1/2, etc etc.

Seems to be a judgment call as to where one draws the line.

[Chuckg]

If you draw the line to exclude funky chi powers, then you exclude all the wuxia SFX ever written -- and if you're throwing *that* out, then what kind of 'comic book martial arts' tourney *is* this? It'd be like holding a 'comic book speedster' contest and then outlawing everybody above Black Racer and Speed Demon.