BoloOfEarth

My wife and I really enjoyed Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, to the point that one of my daughters recently commented, "Dean Cain is my Superman."

Welcome back, less-strange-than-Old-Man.

Given the slow pace of responses, let's cut this group at six, and someone can post a new team. Death tribble, I nominate you!

Part of me (okay, mainly the contrarian part) would really like to see the Democrats nominate and vote for her, if for no other reason than to watch all the MAGAT heads explode. Think they could get a half dozen or so Republicans to vote for her?

"Coulda been the whiskey... Might have been the gin... Coulda been the three or four six-packs, look at the mess I'm in...

A man knocked on my door today asking for donations to the local swimming pool. So I gave him a glass of water. If money doesn't grow on trees, then why do banks have branches?

C'mon, Dean, getting him arrested isn't a very nice solution. (just kidding) I hope all works out okay for your family and especially your mother. Wishing you best of luck.

Given that (at least in my opinion) the GOP House members had no intention of actually doing their jobs, but instead just being obstructionist / perpetually try to impeach Biden / posture and pontificate without legislating... I'm not sure them being tied up indefinitely just trying to elect a Speaker of the House is all that much worse, or even all that different.

Maybe they mistakenly thought they were "mental defectors" and felt they would be redundant with a Republican majority.

The villain known as Tick Tock is a master gadgeteer, who has a legion of tiny wind-up robots to help him with his crimes - though a handful of them are dedicated to recording every utterance of their master and broadcasting it online. (He also has a bit of a crush on Pretty as a Picture! and often dedicates a minion robot or two to record her as well.)

That's a great game. My daughter and son-in-law got me that a few Christmases back and we've had a blast playing it, both at home as well as at GenCon the last two years. I have a pretty complete collection now (including most of the variant cards).

<Foxbat> This is the perfect use for the Incredible Centipedemobile! </Foxbat>

Hey, man, don't have a cow!

I'd say that's insulting to Bart Simpson and Bud Bundy. Each of them has way more intelligence than Greene and Boebert combined (not that that's saying much), and a lot more sense than a vast majority of today's GOP.

I've always maintained that "rap" just forgot to put the "C" at the beginning.

I heard them referred to as "Cards Without Humanity." I think I'm going to refer to them that way myself.

I don't know, but I can tell you what he's NOT giving them... NO CAPES! New Topic: Santa Claus tests positive for COVID two days before Christmas, and Foxbat volunteers to fill in for him (whether the Jolly Old Elf wants him to or not). What "minor changes" is Foxbat going to make to this festive holiday?

Shouldn't that "onwards and upwards" be "up, up, and away"? Just sayin'.

Ironically, I wonder if, in the long run, that might not be the best option. I mean, I don't think Trump retains enough info - he never struck me as a details person - that he could provide them with much of strategic or tactical value. It wouldn't be the US government, particularly the Democrats, doing it to him, but rather him doing it to himself. I think I could see whatever the Russians put him through as punishment for his actions. And it would show his base his true colors (though I suspect a fair number would still be in denial).

Jellied cranberries. I mean, who eats that stuff?

If I use the same name for the team and the team's leader (Ape-X), I have the added level of confusion that there's another villain team with a very similar name (Apex). Though I was initially thinking of doing this for amusement sake, I'm now leaning away from that. Hmmm... If I can get the mini for Harangutan, that would be 8 members (not counting Zero Device, which I'm not having be an actual member). I could do Prime 8, though that would be copying Worldmaker. Maybe I could call it an homage... Thanks for the input, guys!

Let's see if this works. Ape-X Ape Austin ElastiApe Gibbon Glider Goradiator Hyboriape Jumpmonkey and Zero Device Harangutan I'm hoping that uploaded the images, rather than going to online links (like I tried to do originally). Let me know if that didn't work. Another question - do you think I should stick with Ape-X as the team name or maybe switch to something like the Prime-Apes?

I picked up a PDF of Supersytem, which is what the Superfigs are supposed to be for, but while the rulebook mentions the above characters in examples, it doesn't provide any sort of writeup or description of what the characters can do. 1. Does anybody know of any existing writeups for these Superfigs characters? 2. Failing that, I'd love to hear anybody's ideas on any of the Superfigs characters - fun powers or other ideas. I'm not married to any of the above ideas so feel free to suggest something else that strikes your fancy. (I can't guarantee that I'll use it, but I'd certainly like to hear what you have to say.)

So, I had previously created a supervillain team called Apex, who believed in the inherent superiority of superpowered individuals over non-powered people. Along the way, I found a mini identified as Ape-X, and decided that he had heard about Apex and figured that he was the natural one to lead them. He and Apex's original leader (Alpha) fought to a standstill, so they became co-leaders of the team. I included Ape-X in the team mostly as a joke, with half of Apex still following Alpha but some members thinking Ape-X has some good ideas. He's a brick / blaster self-taught scientific genius type. He has a backpack unit (not visible in the pic) that I decided can project either a cloaking field (Invisibility) or a force field (Resistant Protection). A few weeks ago, I ran across miniatures called Superfigs, and among them are a handful of primate-type super-characters. I bought a bunch of the miniatures, deciding that Ape-X was going to split from Apex and form his own team (named after himself, naturally) made up of super-powered primates. So in addition to Ape-X (the leader) the team Ape-X includes: Ape Austin - I figure he's a bionic brick https://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/prodimages/superfigs/za2.jpg Elastiape - stretching powers https://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/prodimages/Superfigs New Foundation Zero Figures/SF-ZB-02-1_large.jpg Gibbon Glider - I'm thinking a flying mentalist https://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/prodimages/Superfigs New Foundation Zero Figures/SF-ZB-04-1_large.jpg Hybroiape - sword-wielding berserker maybe? https://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/prodimages/Superfigs New Foundation Zero Figures/SF-ZB-03-1_large.jpg Goradiator - team brick? https://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/prodimages/Superfigs New Foundation Zero Figures/SF-ZB-05-1_large.jpg Jumpmonkey - gadgeteer, maybe teleporter based on the "jump" part of his name? His figure came with a robot, Zero Device. https://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/prodimages/superfigs/za3.jpg They also have a figure that was out of stock - Harangutan https://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/prodimages/Superfigs New Foundation Zero Figures/SF-ZB-01-1_large.jpg I haven't painted any of the minis yet; the linked pictures are all done by others, and I can only hope mine turn out as well.

Cross-posted from the More Space News thread: Can't you just feel your superpowers coming into being? A bizarre gamma-ray burst breaks the rules for these cosmic eruptions (sciencenews.org)