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- Sun May 07, 2023 3:13 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Glorious Godfrey! Mantis! Devilance! Black Racer!)
My introduction to Bedlam was the Legends miniseries, where he was sent after the first hero Darkseid wanted to destroy, namely Captain Marvel. He'd created a gigantic Animate body called the Macro Man, which had sufficient power to give Cap an actual fight. Bedlam then planted in Cap's mind a psyc...
- Fri May 05, 2023 11:42 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Glorious Godfrey! Mantis! Devilance! Black Racer!)
As a thought experiment, picture the Silver Surfer wearing stylized medieval armor and realize that it isn't just the skis and poles.
- Fri May 05, 2023 7:36 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: The Black Racer
Jack Kirby did his best work when he had a collaborator, whether it was Joe Simon or Stan Lee or whomever. I said it before, I'll say it again. Jack Kirby needed a collaborator. Whether Joe Simon or Stan Lee or whomever, Jack needed to be working with someone to help filter the good ideas from the ...
- Thu May 04, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Warhounds! Glorious Godfrey! Mantis!)
I always proffered his last pictured look over Kirby's design. I thought it made Mantis look more unique. I believe that last design is also a Kirby design. He was involved with redesigning the New Gods for the Super Powers toy line. The picture itself was penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Greg T...
- Wed May 03, 2023 5:50 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Granny Goodness! Warhounds! Glorious Godfrey!)
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/1/18154/1343938-g_gordon_godfrey_04.jpg Sometime circa 1987, my dad was in charge of his union's publicity when they were striking. The superintendent was particularly unpleasant and unbudging. Dad swiped some of the G. Gordon Godfrey pictures from ...
- Mon May 01, 2023 10:25 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Mister Miracle (Shilo Norman)
Yes. Younger. When he showed up in the late '80s/early 90s he was drawn as an adult.
- Mon May 01, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Mr. Miracle! Big Barda! The Female Furies!)
Aside from Lashina, the Kirby designed Furies just look sooo silly; when you toss in Granny Goodness, Glorious Godfrey, Kanto, and Vermin Vunderbar…I mean, Jack Kirby wanted to tell this epic story with grand themes, but seemed to have one foot stuck in really goofball Silver Age stuff. Just materi...
- Mon May 01, 2023 5:04 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Mister Miracle (Scott Free)
Scott ended up being trained by an escape artist named Thaddeus "Mister Miracle" Brown, who was impressed with Scott's hard-fought escape-artistry (used to avoid punishment in the orphanage). Scott befriended Brown's assistant, a dwarf named Oberon, and took the name Brown had used when t...
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Metron! Highfather! Takion! Mr. Miracle! Big Barda!)
Jack Kirby did his best work when he had a collaborator, whether it was Joe Simon or Stan Lee or whomever.
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Mister Miracle (Scott Free)
And recently, in the vast wasteland of misunderstanding comics that is DC, we have learned that Thaddeus Brown was the "golden-age Mister Miracle" and was a member of the "Justice Society Dark." I threw up a little when I read that comic, and I told my dealer to stop pulling Jus...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:58 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Mister Miracle (Scott Free)
Scott ended up being trained by an escape artist named Thaddeus "Mister Miracle" Brown, who was impressed with Scott's hard-fought escape-artistry (used to avoid punishment in the orphanage). Scott befriended Brown's assistant, a dwarf named Oberon, and took the name Brown had used when t...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Takion
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:13 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Takion
Every time I've read a story with Takion, he just seemed sad, no matter his mood.
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: Orion
Orion as A-hole: Fixed it. Orion is one of those characters that DC kept trying to redesign. In the post-Kirby years, in the 1970s, he got a completely different super heroish look. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/10/108504/2588585-orion_new.jpg Then in the mid-1980s, Kirby himsel...
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:02 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Lawnmower Man! Samus Aran! Metroids!)
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Re: The Forever People
They dressed and acted like the "Flower Children" of the 1960s- Jack says "The Forever People were the wonderful people of the ’60s, who I loved. If you’ll watch the actions of the Forever People, you’ll see the reflection of the ’60s in their attitudes, in the backgrounds, in their ...