Echoes of the Multiverse

The Geist II https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-mpXKcRW/0/c22ab7fd/M/geist-M.png From 1966 to 1986, Chicago's most noteworthy costumed crimefighters were the mysterious figure known as the Geist, and his young partner the Goblin. Frequently accused of being a copycat of Freedom City's Ra...

Next up: Over to Chicago for a look at the activities of a group of nighthawks.



No, not them.

... after that last one, I'm hesitant to bring it up, but ... doesn't the Martian Manhunter sometimes swear "by Hronmeer's ghost"?

Spectrum wrote: ↑

Mon May 21, 2018 9:51 pm

I've been a big fan of Preston and Child over the years, especially the earlier stuff. I don't remember it that way. You're talking about the mbwun, right?

Reviewing some facts, I think I was seriously overstating the similarity.

-The Devourer isn't really someone you'd expect to see Daredevil fight, but his creators are people I've never heard of, so this cries "Filler" to me, even more than the other stuff. He came about when a kid named Tommy Webster spilled his blood on a statue while trying to steal from the Metropolit...

Been there done that got the I went to Foxbatcon and got this tshirt shirt Ooh, you might not want to hold on to that, it supposedly has a mind control circuit woven into the fabric that can turn people who wear it into Foxbat's fawning slaves. Of course, things being as they are, it probably won't...

Foxbat II https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-72cG88w/0/dd9c6522/M/Foxbat-Champions-RPG-M.jpg The life story of Freddy Foswell, the original variously adjectived Foxbat, is too well-known to be more than briefly summarized here. The comic book-loving child of wealthy parents, he was devas...

It's worth noting that the "two weapon fighting" bit was originally a racial ability of the drow, as presented in Unearthed Arcana, rather than a class ability of rangers. So it's possible that Mr. Skolnick was playing a heroic double wielding drow before he'd heard of Drizzt.

Jabroniville wrote: ↑

Mon May 21, 2018 5:40 am

LOL, way to give if your best effort with a design, guys!

Seems fairly typical of who he was fighting, though.

MacynSnow wrote: ↑

Mon May 21, 2018 5:18 am

Those are the few Conan comics i don't have,where'd you get them?

Those issues get a bookshelf format reprint when the Conan license was at Dark Horse, which is where I read 'em. This is the volume.

Well, summoning talismans for him aren't that common on Earth-Prime, though unfortunately a good number of rituals to "summon the devil" are built up out of old spells meant to summon Horkos to witness an oath, which now connect to guess who.

Orkus https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-9mwRzjc/0/e341ebe3/S/orcus-S.jpg Imagine, if you can, the destruction of your home. And not just your home, but the home of everyone you have ever met, along with all of those people. Then go a little further, and imagine that your entire world, a...

Oh, wow.

The Shah's Iran is your ideal. Wow. Just wow. And you called me a fascist.

Jabroniville wrote: ↑

Sun May 20, 2018 4:09 am

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the horns on the sides of its head make it look like the original Death's Head?

BriarThrone wrote: ↑

Sun May 20, 2018 5:28 am

Islam is stagnant, and will die on its own if we just let it.

I wonder what he thinks will replace it.