All posts by Kyletheobald

And the Purple Pimpernel!

Off the top of my head

Black:

Black Adam

Black Bat

Black Canary

Black Cat

Black Eagle

Black Hand

Blackhawk

Black Lightning

Black Manta

Black Pirate

Black Serpent

Blue:

Blue Bowman

Blue Devil

Blue Beetle

Blue Snowman

Brown:

Bronze Tiger

Brown Recluse

Gold:

Booster Gold

Gold Beetle

Gray:

Gray Ghost

Green:

Green Arrow

Green Cigarette

Green Flame/Green Fury

Green Lantern

Jade

Pink:

Pinky the Whiz Kid

Purple:

Purple Pilgrim

Red:

Red Bee

Red Beetle

Red Canary

Red Tornado

Red Torpedo

Red Volcano

Rocket Red

Silver:

Silver Fog

Silver Ghost

Silver Mist

White:

White Canary

Yellow:

Yellow Peri

Yellow Wasp

Is Jessica in charge or does she just have an administrative role? I didn't think it was super clear but maybe I just glossed over it when I read.

I like him more as a mentor and ally that fully inducted member.

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Alternatively, who else do you start the universe with?

A non-household name like Hawkgirl or Metamorpho are cool but likely won't pull in people looking a big popcorn summer blockbuster. It needs to be at least one of the big 7, likely one of the Trinity, and if we're really being honest, Wonder Woman is out as well. Batman is huge, but I don't think he has quite the level of notoriety we think he does in our internet/comic/nerd fandom cocoon. Will Batman draw out the teen boys and edgelord nerds? For sure. But will he draw in the families with little kids and 20 somethings out for a non-ironic date night? Maybe but maybe not. To me, Superman has a safe nostalgic feeling to him that I'm not as sure Batman does. Also, if either character has been burnt out to a general audience, I'd lean more towards Batman again here.

Obviously these are all just based on vibes but I really think Superman is the only choice here. And if they do a good job, they can unlock a whole lot more of DC's library.

Have you read The Return of Donna Troy?

Where did you hear that?

I swear I read somewhere that DC only created Elongated Man because they wanted to use Plastic Man and either didn't have the rights to or didn't think they did.

They made jokes that Green Arrow and Warlord are basically the same guy. Probably more to do with Mike Grell drawing both but still funny.

@Fanfic Nick You can read this week's Titans issue to see Gar's opinion on Deathstroke.

I'd be happy to be surprised but I don't think anyone knows this because I don't think it's ever been explicitly shown. Even if it has, it would very likely change writer to writer based on story needs.

I don't think so.

I'd like that. It was a different reading experience than modern books for sure. It's not to say I didn't enjoy them; I weirdly liked the Sarge Steel's hard boiled detective/spy stories for example.

He's pretty serious. Maybe a little more lighthearted than say Question or early Captain Atom but not much. It kind of reminds me of the dry Hal Jordan personality from early GL that everyone loves to hate. I think the whole line was honestly pretty locked into the silver age/no personality trope. Most of the characters you could swap out for one another with no discernible differences. The only real humor I saw was some wise cracking while punching out villains and even that was mostly limited to Captain Atom and Nightshade banter and Blue Beetle.

I wish the Charlton issues would have allowed for more grey areas. But I've read that Ditko created Question to live in a world where the Comic Code Authority wouldn't allow for that nuance and Mr. A for a world without the Code. As for Rodar, he's barely a cameo character. Other than being the creator of Pseudoderm, he doesn't have much of a role in the stories.

My main motivation was seeing how they were used pre-DC and the fact that it seemed pretty achievable; the entirety of Charlton's superhero output was less than 100 issues. I've managed to track down all the issues but the very early Captain Atom issues and the first Peacemaker appearances but those are available to read in collections.

The good stuff is very good (Ted Kord, Question, Peter Cannon) but there is a lot of very average and some very boring stuff. The handful of issues published after the 60s aren't really even worth reading at all.

Nightshade is the one character on the list that never had her own title. She appeared as a supporting character and eventually got a back up spot in Captain Atom's book. Her backstory is mostly unchanged and Suicide Squad even picks up on the brief origin she was given and expands it nicely. I do think she has changed quite a bit since as far as her powers are concerned but I don't recall them really giving her any civilian life outside that one arc.

Question isn't a character I've read as much of in DC. I mostly know him from 52 so I can't really compare properly. I'd love someone who has read the O'Neil run to weigh in. I do feel like he is the most morally uncompromising of any Charlton character. I know Ditko really explored his Ayn Rand/objectivist ideology beginning with Question and further solidified it in his character Mr. A. It was a little on the nose I guess where everyone was basically morally compromised except Vic Sage who continually put himself in harms way or risked his reputation for his unflinching sense of right. And then he acted superior for it. I'm not saying his reaction was wrong but it came off a little heavy handed to me.