Hermit

Re: I could watch him get slapped around all day
 
Between this thread and the "Cap vs. Midnighter" thread, I got to wondering.
What would happen if Midnighter got into a fight he absolutely could not win?
I would love to see this.
 
"I've already run this battle a million times in my mind. I know every move you're going to make. And I can't beat you. No matter what I do, you're going to kill me. I just s**t myself."
 
:celebrate :celebrate :celebrate

Re: Ww 219 / Omac 4 -- Spoilers!
 
I just started reading this thread, so pardon me if I seem to be rehashing things, but this topic brought up something that I just noticed recently, so here goes:
 
I stopped buying new comics in the early 80's.
Before that I had been a fairly regular purchaser of both DC and Marvel, but things just seemed to be going in a direction I didn't like, and prices were skyrocketing, so I just quit buying.
 
Just last week I started reading the DC Comics Encyclopedia:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/075660592X/qid=1124130508/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8313881-3612759?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
 
Take a good look at the cover.
Batman - Grim (normal)
Superman - Grim and Smug Looking
Wonder Woman - Grim
The only smile I see is on the face of the Joker.
 
Now I know that this is just a picture, but then I started reading the contents.
 
DC was working its way toward becoming an Iron Age slaughterhouse all through the 80's.
 
Almost every single entry I read, for major or minor characters I remembered from the past, had some ridiculous 'dark' twist added in, usually in the 80's.
 
Everyone, it seemed, either turned evil or had some atrocity committed against them.
 
Snapper Carr had his hands cut off for goodness' sake.
 
As annoyed, angry, and betrayed as I feel by this pile of crap being heaped upon my favorite genre, I don't really have much more to say about it.
 
I don't mean to stifle anyone else's opinion on the topic, and believe me I understand your suffering, but it is ultimately pointless.
 
If my favorite restaurant decides to add raw squid to the chili, and refuses to serve it any other way, all I can do is walk away.
 
The owners have the right to make decisions about their product, even if those decisions are disastrous for them and upsetting for me.
 
All I can do is find somewhere else to eat or start cooking at home.
 
The only comics I buy are reprints of things from the time when comics were enjoyable to me.
 
Who knows, perhaps this act, in itself, might someday help.
 
Maybe someday, someone from the sales department will drop by the editor's office.
 
"Hey how are sales going on Wonder Woman : Total Castration?"
"Not so good."
"What about Superman : The Last Son of Krypton Rapes Your Daughters?"
"Not so good."
"Odd. What is selling?"
"Well, the Golden Age Archives are flying off the shelves, and the Silver Age archives are selling even better."
"I don't know what's wrong. Don't our customers have enough sophistication to see the difference between the kewl, edgy, Iron Age stuff we publish now, and all that heroic crap we used to publish?"
"I think that's the problem, Sir. They do."

Re: The cranky thread
 
I slave over a hot supervillain in the wee hours, and does anyone seem to care, nooo...
 
Okay, she's not that hot, actually she's pretty fugly....
 
mmmph.. nevermind.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Subject: Spiritural One-Liners
 
 
"Don't let your worries get the best of you, remember, Moses started out as a basket case"
 
Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited - until you try to sit in their pews.
 
Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers. It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.
 
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.
 
When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.
 
People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.
 
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
 
Quit griping about your church; if it were perfect, you couldn't belong.
 
If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it has.
 
God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?
 
Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
 
Peace starts with a smile.
 
I don't know why some people change churches; what difference does it make which one you stay home from?
 
A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises"s are just sitting on the premises.
 
We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges.
 
Be ye fishers of men. You catch them - He'll clean them.
 
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
 
Don't put a question mark where God put a period.
 
Don't wait for 6 strong men to take you to church.
 
Forbidden fruits create many jams.
 
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
 
God grades on the cross, not the curve.
 
God loves everyone,but probably prefers FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT OVER RELIGIOUS NUTS!
 
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
 
He who angers you, controls you!
 
If God is your Copilot - swap seats!
 
Prayer: Don't give God instructions -- just report for duty!
 
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.
 
The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.
 
We don't change the message, the message changes us.
 
You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
 
"Father, bless the person reading this in whatever it is that You know they need"

Re: The Last Word
 
The last word has little meaning, so instead, I shall have the BEST Word
 
Fnord

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Get your tyrant waxed at crazy eddie's "Imperial Emporium and Lube". We have a special on autocrats and dictators until the end of this month, so hurry hurry hurrry and get the body work on your Ruler done soon!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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I won't go into it like last time... but, yes, I hate Sapphire to a great degree.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
Could the Pope beat Captain America or the Batman?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
"You're looking for that Amish guy? Last time I saw him, he, his family, and their mule powered wagon were picnicing outside the gas station and laughing at the folks at the pump..."

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
It's okay if you make a norse sounding epic out of it...
 
Like Thor's Hammer upon the Jotun Bug
Did my heel strike fast!
Its shell was like an oaken shield
Defiance was in its heart
 
Yet evil armor cracked
Under Righteous blow
And like night leaking from the goldenboar
it oozed its last!

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 
"He's about to destroy the statue of liberty... oh wait, he's not destroying it he's... oh my... now that's just not riiiight... At least buy her choclates first you bastard!"

Re: Answers & Questions
 

 
Q: Ms. Lewinski, Perhaps you'd like a glass of our Chateu de Clinton 98?
 
A: For once Scarlet, I actually DO give a damn.

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Inspired by Old Man's sig, which is often erriely appropriate, or at least funny, I have altered my own in a temporary experiment.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
That's because people outside the south tend to think that anyone who sounds like they're from here are morons. This is an attitude propped up by popular culture (its true... southern characters in movies and TV tend to be the "aw shucks, I ain't into book learnin' " types a step or two more intelligent than Jethro Bodine).

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
Steve Long on a water tower outside a convention with a sniper rifle
"You want CLOWN back huh? Well... CLOWN this!" *Bang*
"Right in the funny bone...You laughing now, Fanboy??!"

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
Steve Long on a water tower outside a convention with a sniper rifle
"You want CLOWN back huh? Well... CLOWN this!" *Bang*
"Right in the funny bone...You laughing now, Fanboy??!"

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
"No son, you won't go blind, but you might kill someone if it breaks through a window and strikes a passer by... you're half kryptonian for Rayo's sake!"

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 
Halle Berry is wearing leather and playing a superhero...
 
without Ian McLellan, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and a whole bunch of other good actors backing her up.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

You need to do what feels right. One of the best things I ever did was learn to live my life for me and not someone else. You shouldn't let your parents interfere with your happiness.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
The Sea Princess is a lovely ship, Julie, but when do we get to meet the captain?

Metaphysics Americana
 
From a metaphysical perspective, if there is any truth to power in symbols, could the many successes of the United States in spreading from shore to shore have something to do with our taking the Bald Eagle as our emblem?
The Eagle has long been a symbol of greatness, sometimes even conquest, in Europe. Among many American Indian tribes though, it was the greatest of the birds, if not the greatest of the spirits... a sign of chiefs.
 
In short, could the early United States have seized the greatest medicine for themselves?
 
On the other hand, in early colonial efforts to do things the opposite of Europe, we had our race tracks etc go widdershins or counterclockwise. This denotes an opening, an unbinding...
and then we got into it big time with roads etc.
 
If one believes in such, does this be used as a rationale why America has often been at the forefront of revolutionary ideas, technological progress, etc... and yet often has trouble staying content or focused in the past? It could it be what guarentees that our nation has 'lived in interesting times'?
 
Are we the ones who are inadvertantly opening the seals of the Apocolypse which will no doubt just cheese everyone off eventually?
 
EDIT: And mmm ,if another nation cozies up to the United States and asks it "What's your sign?" it answers Cancer (July 4).

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Ingrid is currently very close by and good news, she dropped some "weight" going from a category 5 to category 3. Previous post with links here: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=650213&postcount=5065
 
Hoping for the best.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

Okay, let's get this ball rolling...
 

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

 
No, it should be "My Amazon sisters and I will be ready for you."
 
 
If you'z is gonna be an American Icon, at leastwise learn the lingo, kay?