JD DeLuzio replied to Captain Comics's discussion The Nerd Canon
"Argh! I wanted to add to my canon post and somehow I hit "delete" instead of "edit." I'll repost later. Is there an "undelete"?"
11 hours ago
Captain Comics replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"And not die young."
12 hours ago
Captain Comics replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"As Jeff said earlier, that's what Big Town was about, but I don't think they went far enough. The existence of Pym particles alone would change the world into something unrecognizable. If you can shrink entire armies and grow them back to size after…"
12 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to Captain Comics's discussion The Nerd Canon
"Ah, what's your beef with the way the Titans rap, Baronhead? You gotta glim the ginchy way those groovy swingers make the scene. It's the love-in generation, Daddy-O, and if you're like uptight you'll be left out of the blast. You dig?
("Beads,…"
12 hours ago
The Baron replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"Does the general public know where Spider-Man's powers come from, or do they maybe think that he's a human/spider hybrid that escaped from some lab somewhere, especially now that another guy (Miles Morales) and a woman (Spider-Gwen)  with basically…"
13 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"It's a good point. I suppose that the argument might be that you could be infected by a radioactive elf in Crime Alley and become a metahuman. The children of the X-Men will always be metahuman, and keep reproducing.
I did like the moment in the…"
13 hours ago
The Baron replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"It's always seemed to me that in the 1940's (if you added up all of the characters published by all the companies), there were a hundred or so super-humans/people with tech or magic that effectively made them super-humans (and left out the…"
13 hours ago
Captain Comics replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"That's a great question JD. I think probably a, c and d, or some combination, as circumstances allow. "B" makes the character Homelander, and I don't see how you could pull off a gung-ho superpatriot and sell enough comic books to get by. I don't…"
15 hours ago
Jeff of Earth-J replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"Maybe (d) Fight from within the current American government to effect change...?"
19 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"In 2026, does Captain Mainstream Superhero:
(a) Oppose the current American government?
(b) Fight on behalf of the current American government?
(c) Continue to fight supervillains, ordinary crooks, and stand-ins for real people?
The only viable…"
19 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to JD DeLuzio's discussion Conventional Superheroes Today
"As you say, without both teleportation and shape-shifting abilities, it would be impossible to maintain a "secret identity." And separate of that question, the world would probably resemble The Boys or Watchmen more than I'd like to think."
19 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"The two sides of the eternal triangle.


Years ago-- late 90s, I'm thinking-- I was waiting in a grocery store lineup. A pair of coeds* were in front of me. One of them pointed to the Archie digests in the checkout rack. "Did you ever read these?"…"
19 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to The Baron's discussion Anyone Heard of "Selling Superman"?
"I've started it. It's already clear that it's going to be padded."
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Well, as long as we're posting Harvey Comics:

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yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"From all of us, to all of you...."
Saturday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Interspecific hockey:"
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