― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Superman had been off the Earth, doing research for the government. When he returned, he found complete city blocks horribly destroyed, and was told Bizarro had gone berserk, smashing buildings and injuring innocent people.
Confronted by Superman, Bizarro told him, "This am part of genius Bizarro self-improvement plan." Bizarro tells Superman that he had destroyed Bizarro world, as Krypton had been destroyed.
The death of Bizarro. Art from Superman #423 (Sept 1986), by Curt Swan."Bizarro? Come on out and show yourself! I want an explanation for this!""Ha! That easy! It am part of genius Bizarro self-improvement plan! See, me suddenly realize that me am not perfect imperfect duplicate! Maybe me not trying hard enough. Example: when your planet Krypton blow up by accident, you am coming to Earth as baby... so me decide to blow up whole Bizarro world on purpose and come to Earth as adult!""The Bizarro World? Blown up?!""Th-that's right! Ha ha! Pretty imperfect, huh?""Bizarro... what's happened to you? I can't believe you've really destroyed your homeworld!""Ha! That am only the beginning! Next, me realize that Superman never kill, so me kill lots of people! Them very grateful! Scream with happiness!""Killed people? Oh, merciful Rao...""...But then me finally understand what me need to be perfect imperfect duplicate: it am little Blue Kryptonite meteor that me carry in lead case for good luck!"Bizarro holds the Blue Kryptonite before him."See... you am alive Superman... and if me am perfect imperfect duplicate, then me have to be... h-have to be..."Bizarro staggers and collapses to the floor."Bizarro!""Uh... everything, him go d-dark... Hello, Superman. Hello."Bizarro dies.
Not much later, Superman's secret identity was exposed and all the members of his rogues gallery attempt to kill him and everyone associated with him. Superman later discovers that Mr. Mxyzptlk is the villain orchestrating the attacks, and was most likely also the one responsible for Bizarro's strange behavior.
and a page that looks like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bizarrodeath.PNG
FWIW, I barely remember it either and it never appears as part of Moore DC collections.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Aldo's point remains, though - dead or not dead, there's no silver-age Bizarro any more.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I believe that the story appears in the second edition of Across the Universe: the DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore, the one with the Brian Bolland cover.
There's an episode of Superman, the Animated Series, that focuses on Bizarro. Excellent, but not as good as the one what has Gilbert Gottfried as Mr Mxyptlyk.
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
sissy boy that i am, I wept while re-reading the story in the mid-90s.
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
THIS IS MY CONTRIBUTION TO DC DISCUSSION.
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Plus it was specifically written immediately pre-Crisis so that it would be written out the next month obv.
("the times" - it actually happens MUCH MORE these days but they think there's such a thing as canon now!)
― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
(137 points)
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Dark-haired, bitchy, full of herself and utterlymagnetic – was Hopey an older version of Lucy? (Justyn)
I had an only half-joking crush on Hopey Glass in Love&Rockets — despite my Grate Critic's Brane being perfectly aware that she is nothing if not a Comicbook- Device-by-Which-to-Produce-Pash-in-the- Punky-Fanboy — which I then managed to transfer into a non-joking crush on an extremely Hopey-like friend, with DISASTROUS consequences. crushes on the Hopey-like in Real Life: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS!! THEY ARE ALL AS MAD AS MAD JACK McMAD!! (mark s)
Greatest moment: "Hay's for horses, ass-bite!" (Douglas Wolk)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
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The flagship character for the galaxy's greatest comic, a not entirely subtle parody of the Thatcherite police state that survived that and a lot else over the last 30 years. I've never been that fond of the big epics, but the little done-in-ones where he ends up arrseting everyone are fantastic.
The greatest comment ever on the fascist overtones of the fantasy of the costumed hero. (Douglas Wolk)
Like Batman, Dredd is good because of his world, not himself (Pete Baran)
Greatest moment: Too many to count. Dredd's worst day under JohnWagner is better than 80% of other comics. (Vic Fluro)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Obviously future technology means that the ageing in real time is a bit of a cheat - active lifespan can be as long as the writers need it to be - but definitely Dredd's role in the stories has shifted: he's more of a planner than an action man, and he's gone from being the best Judge of an upcoming generation to a living legend with a mildly anti-system aura - his repeated refusal to become Chief Judge, for instance. There's a younger Judge Dredd running around too, of course - the second Rico (I think).
I don't think Wagner planned any of this at all, of course, but because he's been the main scripter for so long he's been able to steer the ship in mostly sensible directions, and the result is a strip and character of surprising depth when taken as a 30-year ongoing whole! (Probably closer to some of the European single character strips, like Tuomas' favourite Corto Maltese!)
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
"As the strip occurs in real time, Dredd is currently more than sixty years old. However, his vitality is explained in the context of the stories with allusions to rejuvenation treatments. Recently, characters in the comic have mentioned that Dredd is not as young and fit as he used to be.
Joe is nicknamed "Old Stoneyface", a name he apparently acquired while still a cadet. More recently, he has become known as the "Old Man"; though not confirmed, Joe is likely the oldest Judge still on active street duty."
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
The idea of a comic book character who ages through the years is very interesting, but it's better fitted for character who have their own monthly comic books, which isn't the case with most European or indie comics. It's a pity so few superhero/action comic publishers have even tried the idea.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Note, though, that "Day By Day With Hopey" started in late 2004, ended in the most recent issue, and takes place over the course of a week...
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Um, apart from 52, you berk.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link
(154 points)
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Linus's recitation from the Bible in the 1965Christmas special remains the most moving minute oftelevision ever. It's hard to know what to add tothat. (Justyn)
Indeed.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ray (Ray), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
(x-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
FINAL DESTINATION 4
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark Co (Markco), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
(157 points)
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Charles Schulz once said that he woke up every morningwith an inexplicable feeling of dread. He poured thatfeeling into Charlie Brown, a gentle, likable boy whois, for no obvious reason, scorned by his peers and plagued by persistent anxiety and loneliness. "Iwonder if I'm dying," he said to himself during ahospital stay. "I wonder if they'd tell me if I weredying…Maybe I'm already dead….I wonder if they'd tellme." There was something strangely abstract andKafkaesque about Charlie Brown's troubles: he seemedto be a decent ball player and a reasonably goodstudent, but still the 600-to-nothing losses and badgrades came. Of course, some of Chuck's problems were more familiar: Surrounded by friends withall-too-obvious crushes on him (Peppermint Patty,Marcie, even arguably Lucy), he obsesses over a girlhe can't even bring himself to talk to. At some pointSchulz seemed to back off from this theme, perhaps feeling he had revealed too much of himself; it'spossible he never intended to show so much in thefirst place. But it gave Peanuts more lastingresonance than (almost) any other comic strip everpublished. (Justyn Dillingham)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Linus is also, at least in the early years, shockingly competent, preternaturally gifted, and completely unaffected by and possibly unaware of that, which foils off Charlie Brown's obsessions over his mediocrity. But, again, he's also the one who believes in the Great Pumpkin.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ray (Ray), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
All of the Peanuts characters could have swept this poll had we worked together as a team, I think.
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link