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Tie-ins / Super Friends/Super Powers Uni...

Last post by Slash Man - Yesterday at 23:23

I was reading through the Super Powers by Jack Kirby collection, and went down a rabbit hole to try to find all the stories that exist within the Super Powers universe.

The core is the comics. Originally, there were 23 pack-in comics, and 3 limited series' of comics. The second limited series specifically mentions the graphic novel The Hunger Dogs, so that's canon to the events of this universe.

Next, we have the TV shows. Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians were direct tie-ins.

The first show indicates this is a spin-off of the Super Friends series, and there's a lot to that universe already (I'll have to do a deep dive later).

The Filmation series' for Superman, Batman, Superboy, and Aquaman were also reissued under the Power Powers name.

#2

Movies / Re: The RoboCop Thread

Last post by Silver Nemesis - Yesterday at 22:23

#3

Graphic Novels / Re: Batman: Year Two

Last post by The Dark Knight - Yesterday at 21:17

Specifically relating to this topic, I thought it was crazy that Bruce kept Joe Chill's gun from the crime scene in Year Two, but that was already explained in this issue that it was thrown through a fence.

I don't mind that. It's in character for Batman to keep mementos of tragedy. It doesn't get any bigger than Chill's gun in term of motivation. Actually using it is another matter.

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Comic Film & TV / Re: Spider-Man 2 (2004) Comic ...

Last post by Slash Man - Wed, 26 Mar 2025, 00:44

You'd think it would be a bigger deal. It was still from the classic era as a Stan Lee story, but it rarely gets brought up. Might be due to being an Annual issue, which have had weird placements in the timeline.

#5

Misc Comics / Re: Why is the art different?

Last post by Slash Man - Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 01:06

Trying my hand at my own edit to bring the digital version closer to the original colors

Here's a simulation for how it would look on newsprint

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Misc Comics / Re: Why is the art different?

Last post by Slash Man - Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 00:44

Yes, there is occasional censoring too.





Stryker makes reference to being executed in the unedited page but that dialogue balloon is removed in the second version.

Just for fun, I tried to edit an original scan very quickly:

Unfortunately, it's really low quality, so there was only so much I could do. I lost all the blues trying to bring out the black levels.

Both of the digital versions differ from each other and the original significantly. But the top version has closer line work for sure, the bottom is a poor tracing. It's also hard to argue against an entire word balloon being forgotten. An ellipsis is also missing in the bottom middle panel, which throws off the spacing of the text.

The colors are also more accurate on top, but that's high praise. Batman's gloves are properly colored purple, the light from outside Batman's house is red, and the smoke from Bruce's pipe is dark blue. Those digital gradients create a really awful look, but they were likely thrown in because it the backgrounds look blank when there's no dot matrix pattern on grittier newsprint.

#7

Movies / Re: Recommend a movie

Last post by The Joker - Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 00:24

On March 24th, 1984, five teenagers met at 7:00AM, on a Saturday morning, to serve detention.

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Misc Comics / Re: DC has sunk to a new low

Last post by Slash Man - Mon, 24 Mar 2025, 03:58

I'll be fair, this is a tall order for anyone to attempt. You could put Alan Moore on this and it still wouldn't be anything short of embarrassing.

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Comic Film & TV / Re: Spider-Man 2 (2004) Comic ...

Last post by The Joker - Sun, 23 Mar 2025, 06:21

In real life, whenever I happen to get into superhero movie discussions, I kinda get a kick out of dropping some comic book trivia that it was the 1950's communist russian Red Skull (technically Red Skull #3 since it's not convoluted enough), who was responsible for the deaths of Spider-Man's parents in the funny books.

It's amusing to watch, almost without fail, their eyes just glaze over by that statement. haha

#10

Misc Comics / Re: DC has sunk to a new low

Last post by thecolorsblend - Sat, 22 Mar 2025, 21:09

My initial reaction was that this is obviously intended to be funny. But I just don't see it. Without even bothering to check, I just assumed that it was written by a woman. After Slash Man's reply, I checked it out.

Sure nuff, Joanne Starer.

Women aren't funny.