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Your Obedient Serpent — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:41:39 -0000

...or, perhaps, for renters who aren't allowed to drill holes in their walls?

Re: Test

Your Obedient Serpent — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:53:25 -0000

The dog ate my homework! I DIDN'T STUDY!

Re: Oh BROOKLYN!

Your Obedient Serpent — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:13:11 -0000

Is it really a RETCON retcon? I thought Kirby established that himself at some point.

Re: You’d Think This’d Come Up.

Your Obedient Serpent — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:33:40 -0000

As someone who's spent four decades and three major droughts in a coastal state... what does having a harbor full of salt water have to do with weathering a drought?

Re: Batman: Victim

Your Obedient Serpent — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:36:38 -0000

With Barry, that WORKS -- even the silly costume bit, since Barry was established as a hardcore Jay Garrick fanboy no later than "Flash of Two Worlds".

With Bruce... it just ignores and cheapens the origin. On the other claw, this was during a period when they didn't really pay much attention to Bruce's childhood tragedy, and Bruce didn't obsess over it all the time. Losing track of that hook may have been why the Bat-books were on the verge of cancellation for most of the early '60s.

Funny, in the '60s, they paid more attention to SUPERMAN'S childhood tragedy than Batman's. It was all about Tragic Lost Krypton, Jor-El and Lara's Brave Sacrifice, wah wah wah. Superboy stories invariably referred to the Kents as his "foster parents" -- even when Clark is thinking to himself.

Re: Oath-a-palooza.

Your Obedient Serpent — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:11:57 -0000

I thought that Alan used the "shed my light over dark evil" in his origin story, too, but I might be wrong.

And... of the ones above, I have to say that "In brightest day" works best for me. A few years ago, I might have voted for one of the others, but after hearing John Stewart invoke it in Justice League... whoa.

Still, I have a fondness for Rot Lop Fan's oath:

"In loudest din or hush profound,
my ears catch evil's slightest sound.
Let those who toll out evil's knell,
beware my power:
The F-Sharp Bell!"

Re: Knowledge is Power.

Your Obedient Serpent — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:02:15 -0000

Doc:

He doesn't actually SAY "mind wipe". He SAYS "knock the knowledge out of my head".

Which, given Hal's Silver Age proclivities, suggests the Big Green Glowing Mallet of Laser-Guided Amnesia.

Re: Small Non-Partisan Political Thing.

Your Obedient Serpent — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:30:22 -0000

Yeah, but when Thomas first appeared, it was clear that he was an experienced mechanic with a good rep -- so he probably came down at LEAST a year or two before Alaska became a state.

Re: Letter Pages Rock.

Your Obedient Serpent — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:02:43 -0000

...you were surprised that Roy Thomas was an Ascended Fanboy?

After All-Star Squadron??

Re: Odd Gotham Law

Your Obedient Serpent — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:52:08 -0000

Rorschach: Robin already has the R-In-A-Circle Registered Trademark Logo! What more do you want?

Someone needs to send this to Cory Doctorow at boingboing, so he can rant about copyright extensions and the public domain.

Re: Wait, WHAT?

Your Obedient Serpent — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:16:40 -0000

Naked Bunny: well, HE did. Maybe he doesn't want the competition.

Everyone Else:

Yeah, pretty much. Lightning is a lot slower than c, and a normal human's neural responses are even slower. If Barry's powers knock his nervous system transmission times up to light speed, that would give him ample time to perceive and react.

"An endless gallery of statues", indeed.

Re: Bat-Alanis

Your Obedient Serpent — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:52:44 -0000

Okay: yes, two black-haired parents could have a red-haired son, because the genes for black hair are dominant, and the genes for red or blonde hair are recessive.

On the flip side, on Batman Beyond, both of black-haired Terry McGinnis's parents have red or reddish-brown hair, which ISN'T likely. That JLU epsiode that revealed that Terry was really Bruce's biological son, thanks to gene tampering by Amanda Waller? That was foreshadowed.

Re: International Law

Your Obedient Serpent — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:08:51 -0000

Illegal? Hell, I thought they were MANDATORY.

Re: A Very Public Apology

Your Obedient Serpent — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:02:55 -0000

I only just realized that the blog was up today, when, after checking the 404 error at http://luchins.com/wwtt/ for the umpty-umpth time, I realized that, hey, there were ARCHIVE LISTINGS down in the corner.

Re: Once More, With Bigotry.

Your Obedient Serpent — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:55:04 -0000

Yeah, the Eric and Linda Strauss relationship is quite posibly the single topic most worthy of the title of this blog. The usual excuses a generous person might allow a Golden or Silver Age story simply don't apply here. It's not innocent subtext, it's not misinterpreting something directed at kids.

I've been a Dr. Fate fan since the '70s, with that magnificent Walt Simonson First Issue Special. I was really enthusiastic about the character's Post-Crisis revival -- but I had to drop the book. The whole Creepy Stepmother Seduction angle turned me off. As soon as the Strausses were shuffled off, and Inza Nelson took on the mantle, I was right back.

But, seriously - WHAT were they THINKING??

Re: Take a Memo, Lois.

Your Obedient Serpent — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:52:41 -0000

Man, I want scans of that whole comic. If it's her only appearance, hasn't it fallen into the public domain by now?