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Superboy

Okay, the original, original-original Superboy was Superman as a kid. It was Clark Kent, and his adventures as a pre-teen in Smallville. Yes, this is where the tv show got its best ideas (except Chloe Sullivan) from. Superboy, Clark Kent, had adventures, and made friends with the Legion of Superheroes (I may have mentioned them), and even ( Read more... )

Suicide Squad

Argh.

The most well known version of the Suicide Squad--a team of minor supervillains recruited by the US government from prison to perform "black ops" missions the government could disavow if things went wrong--was one of the greatest comic book series ever written. They even had an episode devoted to them on the cartoon Justice ( Read more... )

Stormwatch ( Read more... )

Static Shock

It doesn't matter what I think! The series will be cancelled at issue 8!

Nanny nanny boo-boo!

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Okay, okay, all right. I never read the original Static series from Milestone, it premiered in the 90s when I wasn't reading much, if any, superhero comics, particularly independant stuff. When the cartoon Static Shock premiered, I ( Read more... )

Resurrection Man

Back, back, in the Silver Age of comic books, there was a character called the Immortal Man, who was . . . immortal. Well, okay, he could be killed, but then he'd revive himself within, like, a day, with a new persona and personality. After COIE, he was reinvented as Mitch Shelley, the Resurrection Man, who would come back to life ( Read more... )

Red Lanterns

I don't get why this is a series. Maybe they needed to pad out the 52 and didn't want to start with comics about Batman Inc., the heroes of Earth 2, Powergirl and Huntress teaming up, a reimagining of Dial H for Hero, a new G.I. Combat, or a Titans and Superboy spin-offBefore the relaunch, the Green Lantern serieses had an overarcing ( Read more... )

Red Hood and the Outlaws

I fucking hate this comic.

Penguin: Pain And Prejudice ( Read more... )