It tried way too hard to be cool and edgy that it was uncomfortably cringe. I watched two seasons. The only character enjoyed and felt was authentic was Superboy.
Jean-Paul Valley is half animal?! Humans are 100% animal. What the hell is the other half?! Plant? Bacteria? Fungus?
Published by DC but not apart of it, the second series of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen gives the Invisible Man a little ironic justice—considering how they first found him during recruitment. If you know, you know. I don’t want to spoil it for those who don’t.
Bueno Excellente administered the same style of justice on the scientist who released dinosaurs in Gotham City.
Etrigan giving Smegma an impromptu caesarean then stealing Glenda’s newborn from the hospital to use it as a vessel for his own child, only to fight his son to the death when Jason sacrifices himself for his daughter while Tommy fights an impossible battle against an undead army, saving three bullets for Glenda, baby and himself.
My favourite thing is his big fork.
My least favourite is how he smells like low tide at the pier.
Victor Fries in BTAS. He was so successfully portrayed that the comics adapted it all.
There’s a source for the Baltic? I only ever imagined it in the Med considering its history. Your placement certainly fits my understanding of Zandia.
Where do people put Zandia in their minds? It’s very vague only saying it’s a European Island. When I read NNT, I imagined it to either be between Italy and Greece or sort of a Cyprus type nation close to Turkey.
I personally don’t like GC and Metropolis being depicted so close together. They’re so very different it seems strange they’re so contiguous.
Interesting, I remembered Quad Cities from Wild Dog quite vividly for some reason because I assumed it was fictional and like the concept.
I honestly don’t think about the geography that much unless there are weird maps or inconsistencies. Fictional countries tend to be the only ones I dwell on at all. I think comic readers tend to have the ability to eventually accept things without too much explanation.
I will challenge you to add Opal City and Quad City to your real world map though.
I believe the seller made headlines a few years ago when they bought it for around $3 mil. If it’s the same copy that’s good mark up. IIRC, that copy was graded around a 9 so it may be a different one. The reason it survived in near pristine condition (with white pages even) was it was stored in a wooden chest in Colorado. The guy was traveling and bought it on a whim then put it away in a chest of books when he got home where it stayed for decades under just the right conditions to preserve it. It was later discovered after his death and sold to a collector who later sold it for the huge price tag.
Existed.
To be fair, how many of us (that are Bruce’s age) have kept in touch with our BFFs from childhood? Not me.
One of the great resources of this fine wiki are the disambiguation pages for each character that lists all known variations of that alias. A quick search will easily tell you that Mad Mod first appeared in the comics in 1967, whereas Control Freak and Mother Mae-Eye were original characters for the show and have not yet been adapted into mainstream comic continuities.
“Sounds like “mogul,” but a pun by including an N in it…”
How is that a pun? If the Black Racer’s name was Mogul, maybe.
I thought it was obvious that Mongul is just a variation on “Mongol,” implying he has a thirst for conquest.
Anyway, Mongul is pretty one-note. They found use for him as a story device during “Exile” but he’s just a power hungry tyrant. No one cared when he and his son were offed in NE.
Mongul would have been more apt if he was introduced in the Silver Age as a Green Lantern villain.
Self publishing is also a way to get your work out there if you truly believe in it and are willing to commit to marketing it.
How many times has someone from the future requested the help of heroes past? Might as well make a team about it. It would be a good way to get Rip back into comics, but even LOSH could revamp the idea if they are more marketable. It could then be a kind of Brave and the Bold where they enlist new people in different stories.
The best part about the original Richard Dragon series was the introduction of Lady Shiva. She’s my fav but never gets to play enough in the comics.
Of these, only two have potential to be strong antagonists to Batman in a storytelling sense, meaning they provide a necessary conflict in motivation, morals and character, but there are still much better choices available.
Anarky and Killer Moth follow the anti-Batman formula where they are similar to Batman in many ways but with a twist. Neither have powers but utilise an array of gadgets and skills to pursue their agendas, which clash with Batman’s personal goals. Of the two, Anarky is more interesting to me. He is a genius and could stay one step ahead of Bats. The film could be about them both pursuing a shared antagonist and obstructing each other. The climax being an ethical one regarding their different morals on how to deal with crime/corruption.
Walker is a gimmicky antagonist who simply mimics the protagonist’s MO but protecting criminals instead of innocents. He would be better suited as a number-two physical threat to a main intellectual threat.
I’ve only encountered the Janus Directive through SS. I remember little of it, but it’s been a few years now since I read SS. I would happily give the first Checkmate series a read though.