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Yesterday, I was flipping channels on the TV and came across Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It's like Ocean's Eleven or Ocean's Thirteen or Barney Miller for me; I can always drop what I'm doing and watch Barney Miller.I came in late in the…
Feb 9
ClarkKent_DC replied to Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)'s discussion Absolute Power
"Captain Comics said:
 ABSOLUTE POWER #1
A lot happens, but it's all plot stuff we've been told already is going to happen. So I don't mind being a bit spoiler-y.
Waller floods the Internet and broadcast media with video of supeheroes attacking…"
Feb 4
ClarkKent_DC replied to Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)'s discussion Absolute Power

Captain Comics said:
I understand your rage at Waller, and I share it. But my understanding of the awfulness of people has been buttressed astronomically as I've grown older, helped along by such things as a convicted felon running for president…"
Feb 4
ClarkKent_DC replied to Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)'s discussion Absolute Power
"Okay, I read Green Arrow #13 (didn't find #12). Coming in on the tail end of whatever was going on in the book before that, it didn't make a lot of sense to me, but I did appreciate the notion of the Arrow family taking a relaxing vacation on a…"
Feb 4
ClarkKent_DC replied to Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)'s discussion Absolute Power
"ClarkKent_DC said
* One thing I liked in Suicide Squad: Dream Team is the way writer Natalie Maines characterizes Bizarro. He's as childlike as ever, but Maines dispenses with the confusing Bizarro double-talk. I wish more writers would follow…"
Jan 23
ClarkKent_DC replied to Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)'s discussion Absolute Power
"Okay, I have the 2024 Free Comic Book Day Absolute Power Special Edition, the Absolute Power Ground Zero Special, all four parts of Absolute Power proper, all three parts of Absolute Power: Origins, all seven parts of Absolute Power: Task Force VII…"
Jan 23
ClarkKent_DC replied to Richard Willis's discussion Jules Feiffer Dead at 95
"I like this cartoon, but as it applies to today's times, it's more like ...
"Once there was a people who discovered -- through his own statements and actions -- that their leader had no values, no morals and no ethics. And some of them said:…"
Jan 22
ClarkKent_DC replied to The Baron's discussion The List of 1,203 Super-Heroines
"One more for you: The Wonder Woman of China (Peng Delian), a member of the Justice Leagu of China, from New Super-Man. https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Peng_Deilan_(Prime_Earth)
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Jan 11
ClarkKent_DC replied to Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)'s discussion Absolute Power
"I have been searching in comics shops all over my area and even in neighboring states (really) for the disparate parts of Absolute Power, including the spinoffs and tie-ins and even the "Countdown to Absolute Power" setup issues, something I haven't…"
Jan 2
ClarkKent_DC replied to The Baron's discussion Earliest Versions of Popeye and Tintin Enter Public Domain
"Is Bobby London -- the guy who illustrated the notorious Popeye strip from the late '80s and early '90s -- still in business?"
Jan 1
ClarkKent_DC replied to Commander Benson's discussion Deck Log Entry # 254 Merry Christmas 2024!
"My best to the Good Mrs. Benson, and thanks that she was attended to swiftly and the prognosis is positive. There's nothing like a Christmas miracle."
Dec 26, 2024
ClarkKent_DC replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion Miscellaneous New Universes
"I collected Next Men, which can easily be read as John Byrne's way of doing the X-Men "right," in his mind. Here, at least, he was putting real effort into his work."
Dec 17, 2024
ClarkKent_DC replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion Miscellaneous New Universes
"The only CrossGen title I ever saw was Ruse, which was a take on Sherlock Holmes except the Watson figure, Emma Archard, was a hot blonde -- and thus, underestimated by everybody, Victorian mores being what they are. Also, there was some vague magic…"
Dec 17, 2024
ClarkKent_DC replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion Miscellaneous New Universes
"Of the Tekno Comix line, the only title I ever saw was Mike Danger, which basically was "Mike Hammer in the Future." Y'know, the common, two-fisted man-out-of-time stuff. The work of the late Eduardo Barretto went a long way in selling me on this…"
Dec 17, 2024
ClarkKent_DC replied to Commander Benson's discussion Deck Log Entry # 253 Happy Thanksgiving 2024!
"I did not see this when it was initially posted. It's an interesting departure from your typical column, which is strictly about some historical and not-well-known aspect of the holiday. But bringing in a comic series like the Atomic Knights was an…"
Dec 12, 2024
ClarkKent_DC replied to Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)'s discussion Absolute Power
"Okay, guys, you talked me into it. I saw online someone posted the scene from Absolute Power #4 showing Dreamer telling Amanda Waller how she made it impossible for Waller to access the secrets she knows, as well is inimating that something maybe…"
Dec 6, 2024
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