okay, here's the best of them imohttp://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lois-lane/102-1.jpg
"when you're dead, you're dead!"
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lois-lane/112-1.jpg
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lois-lane/135-1.jpg
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lois-lane/88-1.jpg
the dog
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
I love that there is a least three batshit things about every cover. No single-issue batshittery here.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
To redress slightly, I think these are all fucking great.
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081229160125/marvel_dc/images/c/c0/Superman_v.1_417.jpghttp://clzimages.com/comic/large/1a/1a_2796_0_ActionComics571MissiontoEarth.jpghttp://covers.cbrd.info/86faedcb61befc19ee3df59584839ce2_l.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
And
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081229155858/marvel_dc/images/0/04/Superman_v.1_410.jpg
Superman 422 is very much all time.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
loving all the DC batshit but yeah maybe should be its own thread, i do love the idea of being able to open this one up on days when i'm feeling cocky with all my amazing powers, getting some perspective, all that
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
And what might your amazing powers be, Doctor Casino?
― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
this thread has just turned into Po-Faced #3 is all
The Po-Faced Absurdity of DC Comics (picture thread)Po-Faced Absurdity of DC Comics, Part 2: Son of Po-Face
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah that wasn't really what I was going for - it's not like the title trope is unique to DC
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
as evidenced by the v first post
it happened organically
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
for all our powers, we couldn't keep the thread on topic
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
https://themiddlespaces.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/putthingsright-asm70.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/thor/256-1.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
this one is only four issues later
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/thor/260-1.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link
awesome
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051107154935/marveldatabase/images/5/59/Tales_to_Astonish_Vol_1_75.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
seems characteristic of Marvel to go the more self-absorbed route:http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/pasttreasures/items/360646/catphoto.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
i think these final panels from daredevil 7 by lee and wood are an interesting variation or inversion of the kind of the thing this thread is getting at - ie what 'value' are superpowers - or, for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul etc etc. stan is telling his readers, hey kids, courage and determination are more important than any silly superpower.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Panel-2.JPG
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
I can't get over the kitschy bad-taste of that Heroes Against Hunger cover. did that 'marvel superheros react to 9/11' book have one of these?
― soref, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
they had crying911doom.jpeghttp://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/doom-crying.jpg
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
stay on topic here kids (Marvel had Heroes for Hope - which was just as bad in content, altho the cover was standard "Wolverine is a badass" nonsense)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
what 'value' are superpowers - or, for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul
tbh I was thinking of it more in a Greek-tragedy sort of context, ie you are fucked no matter what you do or how badass you think you are, the universe is a merciless clockwork and you are just a pawn
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
"Not all my power can save..." is such a weird (and repeated!) construction compared to "All my powers cannot save..."
Not to be prosaic and such
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
if there's one thing Stan Lee is good at, it's mangling syntax
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
back on topichttp://archive.facetasm.com/bundles/bilderundworte/uploads/catalog/product/110001/item110814.1.thumb.300.jpg
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 March 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
I hate it when diseases won't die
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 March 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/3125/317691-18006-124072-1-world-s-finest-comic.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d7/9b/c5/d79bc56c2eed2109d1bcf424bde0b532.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081101124342/marveldatabase/images/thumb/2/27/Incredible_Hulk_Special_Vol_1_4.jpg/300px-Incredible_Hulk_Special_Vol_1_4.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
lol what's up with that phrase and that character, you'd think it'd at least be "NOT ALL HULK'S POWER CAN SAVE HULK!"
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JLIXx7Zw0rE/hqdefault.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
"NOT ALL HULK'S POWER CAN SAVE HULK!"
lol
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
had detailed discussion w my wife last night about the difference between Hulk and Bizarro syntax
"Bizarro Hulk has excellent syntax, thanks for asking."
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 March 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
this is not quite the same thing but feels related
http://www.newkadia.com/Covers/S/A/Action%20Comics%201938%20series/actioncomics385.jpg
― I took part in a race last week and Jenny was the name of my horse (soref), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
ok, i love that.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
in the future, all doctors are white guys and they still use head mirrors for some reason
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
late to this but is that Aquaman cover upthread Aparo? somehow it doesn't all quite come together into a visually striking design but so many elements of it are wonderful
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Thursday, 12 March 2015 11:28 (nine years ago) link
yup: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Aquaman_Vol_1_62
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 March 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Aquaman and Mera are each about 13 heads high
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
just realised I don't think I've ever read a comic with Mera in it but I wrote her name without thinking
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
for all my powers, I could recall her
Love the 60s Aquamans by Aparo and Steve Skeates, amongst the most formally inventive of all Silver Age DCs eg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0aF72ivaEJI/TDlIyF5YdCI/AAAAAAAAEVA/LT2MEJpq0U0/s400/Aqua%252053%2520Splash%25202.jpg
pencilled, inked and lettered by Aparo.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
wow, that's cool. when i started reading comics as a kid in the mid-to-late 80s, i was buying new batman comics which aparo was drawing alongside british reprints of older batman stories he'd drawn too, so his version of batman is pretty essential to me.
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 13 March 2015 09:28 (nine years ago) link
Gotta love the fact that even when Mera is berating her husband for the death of their child, she still calls him "Aquaman".
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 March 2015 10:10 (nine years ago) link
weirder still is that their kid was also known as 'aquababy' according to that wiki page
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 13 March 2015 10:35 (nine years ago) link
how is aquababby formed
Chewed up aquababby parts squashed between aquaman and aquawoman.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Friday, 13 March 2015 10:36 (nine years ago) link
fish paste
Someone I know was Aparo's inker for a while - said his pencilled pages always smelled of cigar smoke!
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 13 March 2015 10:54 (nine years ago) link
i always imagined kirby's would too
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 13 March 2015 11:16 (nine years ago) link