Superskrull

Re: Lex Luthor's armor Yeah, I do know what's actually going on, but in the words of B:TAS Joker, "if you have to explain the joke, it's not funny."

Re: Lex Luthor's armor Oh. So that's why Superboy-Prime played "waste the crunchy" with the Titans. He's all hopped up on Black-K. That stuff has some kick, huh?

Re: Lex Luthor's armor

Re: An Avengers Campaign So, since this a Marvel-based campaign idea, is Blade in it? After all, he & Dracula go way back and I know Dracula's in the Marvel Universe. For that matter, what's the position of Dr Strange on the "Powers That Be", with him being top dog in the mojo department? What's he think of the Watcher's Council? Did his casting of the Montesi Formula from the Darkhold to destroy all vampires affect the transfer between Slayers back in the late 80's? Is there a connection between N'Garai Sa'ar Pools & the Hellmouths? For that matter, is there any relations between Buffy Summers & Scott "Cyclops" Summers? Was Dr Reed Richards ever called in to examine the Stargate? Why hasn't Dr Doom gotten all up in SG-1's grill? What's the connection between the Everglades' Nexus of All Realities & the Hellmouths? Was the Initiative a branch of SHIELD or simply an independent govt operation? Does Union Jack work with the Watcher's Council owing to the multigeneration enmity between the Union Jacks & Baron Blood? What's Baron Mordo up to in all of this? Will Jack Russell (Werewolf By Night) give Oz any tips on controlling his lycanthropic nature? Why hasn't Silver Dagger showed up and gone all stabby on the various Guardian Witches-in-training? He hates all other magic-users & thinks he's killing them in the name of God. He'd be frothing at the mouth over the whole Pagan/Witch thing. Well, I may think of more later.

Re: An Avengers Campaign This would explain why both of them are so blasted hard to keep dead.

Re: Dr. Destroyer monologue Somehow, the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of this one was the image of Dr Destroyer doing observational humor like at the beginning of Seinfeld. Hmm. 'Zerstoiten', a show about nothing. Imagine, Dr D & a few of his lackies hanging around his New York apartment among other places making bizarre pronouncements, avoiding anything productive and fueding with his neighbor, Takophanes in the role of Neuman. Well, I'd watch it anyway.

Re: An Avengers Campaign Interesting. Are you going to use Merlin of Otherworld to allow for the creation of the Black Knight & his Ebony Blade? Keeps him around and still leaves you room to work in the Captain Britain Corps. On a side note, you'll need to hand-wave Morgan Le Fay & Modred as being from Otherworld as well. She may have worked with and possibly hosted a Bane spirit at one time, but she's also a skilled sorceress in her own right. Anything else on her and you have the 'Le Fay' Bane sealed up for centuries and what fun is that? On the bright side, using the Pendragon & Bane spirits works pretty good for the Iron Man/Dr Doom time travel to Camelot story. After all, he's already a Pnedragon ally and this would help account for his identification by the Gawain-bot as Sir Bedevere's current host.

Re: An Avengers Campaign You do realize changing Camelot & King Arthur is a huge deviation from a standard Marvel earth? There's quite a bit of Marvel history that requires a standard King Arthur, complete with Merlin, Camelot, Lancelot & Holy Grail.

Re: Is there still such a thing as a mainstream Marvel Universe? You might want to check out the Annihilation storyline coming out from Marvel in March then. Nova's got a part in it. Best of all, it's supposed to be about the space-based characters, none of whom currently have a book right now. Personally, I want to read the Superskrull part, but he's been a favorite of mine for a long while. http://www.marvel.com/publishing/stories/showstory.htm?id=59

Re: DC Suckverse? If having to put up with Wonder Woman is the price to pay for seeing Linda Carter, I can deal with it.

Re: All-New Iron Age Zoo Crew? Pig-Iron was originally Peter Porkchops, one of the old funny animal characters. He used to have problems with a wolf who was always wanting to eat him. The wolf was later brought back as the Wuzwolf, a reverse lycanthrope. The Frog & the Dodo supplied Captain Dodo & Frogzilla, though the Frog's transformation occured in the Zoo Crew Comic. The Terrific Whatzit was Fastbacks uncle, McSnurtle the Turtle. He was given an 'automatic conscience' & superstrength & speed. he'd disguise himself by discarding his shell in his super-identity & wore an outfit like the Golden Age Flash. I think Nero Fox & the Mouseketeers were also old Funny Animal strips. Other than that, I can recall only Bo Bunny and a few others, mostly from info written by Roy Thomas.

Re: Marvel's Best Martial Artists

Re: All-New Iron Age Zoo Crew? Ah! The Brothers Grinn, right?

Re: Comics that I miss. Y'know, they started another She-Hulk comic a couple months ago, has the same artist & writer as last year's. Still really fun.

Re: Marvel's Best Martial Artists Hmm, I keep forgetting Puck. 'Course, nowadays he's superhumanly strong & durable but he used to just be short and violent. Maybe it's all those Alpha Flight stories that start out fun but quickly get painful to read over about 8 issues.

Re: DC Universe Overview Now, now, if we try to forget the horrors wrought by such as Leifield in the past, we (much like the current writers at DC & Marvel) risk letting it happen again in the future.

Re: Marvel's Best Martial Artists No kidding, Hermit. How many opening shots of Cap in the Avengers comics have him working out in their equivalent of the Danger Room?

Re: A tidbit from "Hidden Lands" Yeah, something like that could leave you a little the worse for wear even if you can smack gods around. It's one thing to be tougher than anyone, it's much harder to be tougher than everyone.

Re: Marvel's Best Martial Artists One of the real problems with the Marvel stuff is how many awesome martial artists are dead. Therefore, I shall give two lists. One for the living and one for the dead and/or theoretically alive. The Living Masters of Butt-whoop 1: Captain America, he's got that awesome track record, after all 2: Shang Chi, 'cause he's gotta be tough with a dad like Fu Manchu Iron Fist, 'cause K'un L'un is THE place for traditional Chinese wire-fu skills The Cat, 'cause Shang Chi says he's just that good. Heck, Deadpool is a drooling fanboy of his. Oh, and he's a kung fu-using thief, which is vastly amusing to me 3: Daredevil, Crossbones, Electra, Wolverine, Black Panther -all real good, none of these guys can consistently beat Cap, though and Iron Fist beat the Panther like a drum a few years ago. 4: Black Widow,Batroc, Nick Fury, Red Skull, Nomad, Night Thrasher, Baron Zemo II (he got pretty darn good during his Citizen V days)- all can be worn down by mooks faster than those higher on the list, all have a good showing against those higher on the list but just don't seem to pull out the win. 5: Punisher -he's really good at HTH but likes to shoot people a lot more 6: Silver Samurai, most of the Chaste (the not-dead ones), Mandarin, (he's just not whipping out the HTH anymore, so he's probably gone to seed, needs to spend 6 months in the woods training) 7: Zaran, Black Widow (blond replacement one) -she's pretty good but just doesn't impress me 8: Machete, Kitty Pryde -she's always seemed kinda sloppy in her butt-kicking, relies on her phasing, depower her and she'd probably improve greatly, and yeah, I know how little that makes sense 9: The Bengal -he was pretty good but he seems to be less of a threat after you fight him once & the Vietnam origin is pretty played out these days 10: Razorfist -of course he's dangerous, and yeah, he knows kung fu, but he loses major points for being crazy enough to replace his hands with swords and he's always getting punked lesser stuff 11: any supervillain who's shtick is HTH and wears spandex, also those martial arts lieutenants that litter the pages of Masters of Kung Fu & Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 12: Hand ninja -these guys are like Pringles, crunch all you want, they'll make more, often most deadly when encountered in groups of less than 4 There's no ranking for these guys as they are all talked up a lot but only showed up a few times before dying on us or worse, only seem to smack around the main character and yell at them for being screw-ups (yeah I'm looking at you, Stick) Midnight- trained alongside Shang Chi, dies in first appearance but seems to be really good at HTH. should have avoided fighting way up off the ground , cause he falls and breaks his neck when his cape catches on something, later revived by Kree as cyborg clone called Midnight Sun who whomps on Silver Surfer a while before losing, I think he's supposed to be in Attilan currently, along with Star Thief III (who we never saw again, either) Kirigi- repeatedly resurrected master ninja of the Hand, currently incinerated, I think Stick- I know he dies at least once during that whole dead Electra/reborn Electra thing, but he's like some wierd martial arts hobo or something and crawls outa the gutter when you aren't expecting him The Chaste (Stone , Shaft, Wing, Claw, Star, Hammer , Flame and all those students they go through when they show up) Challenger- old Timely guy, a little like Mr Terrific IIRC, he popped up in second most recent She-Hulk comic, the one that ran 12 issues Mantis- she's awesome in HTH except when she isn't and I don't like her 'cause she's a pet character of Englehart Yoshida Shingen- he was badass, he stabbed a bokken through Wolverine and later got stabbed by him in that 80's Miller miniseries Ogun- supernatural ninja master who popped up in that execrable Kitty Pryde & Wolverine miniseries. Oddly, he's not a member of the Hand. He is mostly dead though, but sometimes pops up as a ghost long enough to cause bad miniseries to happen

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Re: Did anyone ever write-up the DC Impact comic characters?

Re: Did anyone ever write-up the DC Impact comic characters? Y'know, it's kinda funny looking at this thread. Apparently it took me a year and a day to get around to measuring out the Jaguar comics. I'll see about summing up what I have of the others a lot faster.

Re: Did anyone ever write-up the DC Impact comic characters? Hmm, well, I think Jaguar is a little tougher than Arac-4105 has written her up. No flames here, just a pile of the source material. Trick is, lots of the info and story in Impact is subjective and often contradicts what the comics themselves show. For example, Joe Higgens claims he isn't superstrong but he routinely performs feats that put the lie to that claim. He bends steel and lifts huge objects routinely. Give me a little while and I can list off what I have on the other characters as well since I also have Black Hood 1-5, 7-11, Fly 2, 3, 5 & 10, Comet 1-7, 12 &17, Shield 1-15, the Web 2-10, 12 & 13, Crucible 1-6 & the annuals for Shield, Comet & Black Hood. Anyway, here's what I can find of Jaguar's performance. As a side note, the only time she did not have a massive Dex advantage was during that robot thing in issue 13. She's definitely in the mid 20s or higher on PD & ED but I can't point to anythng that directly says she has resistant defenses. sure, it's likely she could shrug off a shot from a pistol but she herself doesn't seem to know the limits of her own powers, discovering facets of them in several issues. Feats of Jaguar Issue #1 Throws Maxx-13, a battlesuit character, a few dozen feet, demonstrates Breakfall, tosses adult male over her shoulder approx 6-8 ft with one hand, can smell machine oil and the chemicals running through Maxx-13's tech Issue #2 punches through two brick walls, able to summon Jaguar costume from closet when switching forms Issue #3 repeatedly regains footing between panels during fight with Maxx-13, they both casually crash through another brick wall, shoves (possible move-through) Maxx-13 into steel door, he and door both launch a few dozen feet backwards,takes a long drop from the flying Maxx-13 and gets right up, leaps up to the edge of a three story building, accidentially crumbles concrete in her hand, rips chestplate from Maxx-13 (it's artificial singularity power source is going to explode and is described as a titanium alloy that's "impossibly heavy", for whatever that's worth) and hurls it up into the air high enough to explode safely Issue #4 displays enhanced hearing perception by hearing an old Rabbi being accosted by thugs several blocks away at a synagogue she'd visited earlier, the perspective this artist uses is pretty bad and she initially appears to be jumping into an alley rather than onto the lawn of the synagogue when returning Issue #5 displays enhanced hearing in human form by overhearing both sides of a phone conversation 25 feet away and behind a closed door, survives energy bolts that liquify lunch trays (could be metal or plastic who can tell with this art) and burn through tables flung at him, is stunned but not even singed by these attacks Issue #6 lifts one side of a jeep with no real effort and changes the tire without bothering with a wrench for the nuts (I will manfully avoid typing anything about bare hands and nuts), later picks jeep off ground after it's flipped over and rights it, displays Tracking Scent, does a very acrobatic looking jump kick that sends a 10 ft monster called the Doomster (presumably silicon-based as he apparently ate sand and ammonia for nourishment) flying, isn't appreciably affected by sub-freezing weather even though barefoot I don't seem to have issues 7 or 8 right now Issue #9 brawls with a mind-controlled Web agent in the Shield's armor, falls three stories trashing the car she hits but doesn't seem to really feel it, throws "the Shield" around and through windows and such, can't crack his force field Issue #10, casually jumps from a WEB jet and lands easily from around a hundred feet or so, easily makes nontargeting roll to spot the Invisible Terror (apparently a foe from #8, later realizes she can see make herself switch to the IR spectrum and slaps him around, tearing apart his powered exoskeleton easily (again, described as made of titanium) Issue #11 entire comic is a dream sequence, bah, no useful data Issue #12 shoves the steel security grating tearing it apart and off the wall using one hand Issue #13 I dunno, she fights a hatemongering robot inconclusively and then it blows itself up. Meh. I remember this story when they did it back in All-Star-Squadron in the 80's. I also lack issue #14, I do have the annual though & all the Crusaders issues Annual #1 Jaguar scares the hell out of a local fence to get info, she's actually depicted as being rather high in Presence consistently through the series, she's able to beat up a gang of trained thugs, sweeping several of them, she grabs and uses a small safe that had been welded to the floor as a bludgeon,tearing it loose seems to be a use of casual Str like the Thing grabbing a lamp post to use as a bat, she tears the doors off the back of the thug's van only to have one of them take her out with his energy rifle, frankly it looked like a combo of boostable charges and a haymaker judging from the time it took to set up, she later ignores several hits at regular power from these guns while breaking out of steel bindings, falls 200+ feet and lands on her feet, claims the wind was knocked out of her Crusaders Issue #1 flings soldiers around like rag dolls, smacks Big Daddy Rothco back 20+ feet then picks up a jeep and smashes it over his head, snaps an M-16 in half, rips a robot's leg off, puts large cracks in reinforced concrete bunker Issue #2 pulls van wedged through a bridge's railing to safety (with the 'aid' of Black Hood & Shield) though she did sink her hands into it for a grip, stops out of control bus by catching front end and digging her heels into the pavement leaving a 6 ft long trench before it stops, this didn't hurt her at all Issue #3 mostly just punching the bad guy, since he's like a 20+ ft tall freak who can use tanks like clubs this isn't going too well, especially after the mental powers he has come into play, she seems to be able to hurt him but not severely Issue #4 punches a hole in an ultrasonic transmitter & the treestump it sits on, the case is driven into the stump which is shattered as well, doesn't seem too pleased by the ultrasonics, but she can definitely hear in those frequencies Issue #5 doesn't do anything impressive, does have to shift to human form to squeeze out of the wreckage of the ship she got trapped in during a crash, she lacked leverage in her larger form, she did however take no damage from the crash itself or the metal smashed into her, the Fly discovers her secret ID Issue #6 unable to claw through Mann-X's armor, unsurprising since it's about as tough as the Sheild's armor then gets KOed by flung rock from Maxx-14, the next gen of the Maxx-13 armor Issue #7 completely off-panel, Jaguar & Fly trash a Russian army unit, the panel shown has large vehicles overturned and lots of wreckage Issue #8 Fly reveals he too is a kid transformed by magic, sabotaged teleporter transports the Crusaders, to another world, this makes a nice point to drop them into a campaign

Re: Did anyone ever write-up the DC Impact comic characters? Hero Designer. They sell it here onsite and everything.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever