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I actually looked at that resource before I posted the question, but I thought it had a serious shortage of "superheroes," so I went ahead and started this thread.

Looking back on it, though, I...

Even now that you've mentioned him, I'm still coming up almost empty when I try to remember anything interesting that Karma ever actually did after he debuted during Kupperberg's "Doom Patrol" run in...

The only "Lady Luck" I actually remember was a Golden Age character, a blond society girl whose real name was "Brenda Banks."
Near as I can tell, she had no superpowers, neither connected to...

I can remember a handful of DC villains who can "manipulate probability," or to put it another way, can hit you with some sort of incredible bad luck if they see you as the enemy. Amos Fortune, Tao...

As far as I can tell, it's a rock-solid fact that this nearly happened. There were some talks going on, not long before "Crisis on Infinite Earths." (Around early 1984, I believe.)

Let me tell...

Well, the story I've heard repeatedly is that all through the decade of the 1990s, the problem was not "lack of interest in Hollywood in making a Spider-Man movie"; the problem was "too many people...

I remember that story -- I bought it ages ago, cheap, at a sale -- but I think the reason Roy didn't specifically acknowledge it in his story was that it made no pretence of being a story about "the...

I just want to mention something about the tangled history of how and when Clark and Bruce became acquainted:

After decades of flashbacks and retcons and so forth, eventually there had been so...

Reminds me of how Warren Ellis rationalized some (if not all) of Superman's standard powers in his Elseworlds story: "Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta." Ellis had a mad scientist villain explain that...

I pay precious little attention to sales figures, but in the past I have seen people complain that the facts were these:

1. Dan DiDio asserted that Cass's title was cancelled because of...

Ever since I read the story arc that introduced Damian Wayne, my attitude has been:

1. "This little brat never should have been created in the first place."

2. "But my money's on Morrison...

If memory serves . . . ages ago, when I wrote (and posted on this forum) a Mad Magazine-style parody of "Hush," I had Batman come face-to-face with the Mysterious Bandaged Trenchcoat Guy for the...

Gee, in my browser window it's only on Page 38!

(Shortly after I joined this site, I adjusted my settings on here so that each "page" of a thread contained the upper limit of 40 posts apiece. It...

Well, it might work as a subtle signal to communicate the following to Mrs. Wayne: "Red alert! You don't know me; I don't know you; there are bad guys lurking in the shadows with guns pointed at me;...

Thinking it over, I see I should have clarified that: I agree that when Alfred is speaking about Bruce in the third person, to someone who isn't on "intimate terms" with Bruce (such as close friends...

Well, I can't say how he does it in the "New 52" version of Bat-continuity, because I haven't been reading any of that. But in previous decades, I believe Alfred usually says "Master Bruce" when...

I believe that, in theory, a proper British butler would normally be expected to address his adult male employer as "Mr. Wayne." With such usages as "Master Bruce" being reserved for a juvenile...

Years ago, I agreed with someone who was complaining that there are lots of hardcore fans who say things like this: "'Uncanny X-Men' hasn't been fun in at least two years, but I must keep buying it...

Well, I tend to see that as "DC and Marvel are failing to find ways to lure in a new generation of readers on a large scale," rather than "it's a natural law that there will never be a large new...

I've said something very similar, more than once over the years, about DC's lack of real and sustained effort in this direction. I began saying it long before the whole "New 52" started happening....

Should I assume that you mean: "If I were writing a comic starring characters I didn't own"?

Because even today, if everybody knows you own the characters, and then you kill off someone your...

Yeah, I think I'm like many DC fans in that I always use "Pre-COIE" for any story which was published around 1985 or 1986 and was clearly set in the version of continuity which existed for that comic...

Ah, the memories this thread brings back for me . . . :smile:

Way, way back in 2004, I posted a list of possible reasons behind someone's decision to make a comic book character suddenly die. Near...

If it's any comfort, it looks like your memory was right about why Marvel didn't end up publishing comic books about the classic DC heroes in the 1980s. I did a little Googling just now to find the...

A few months ago I caught up on Gunnerkrigg Court (by downloading the entire webcomic). I was a couple of years out of date with it. Good stuff!

Of course, with webcomics and manga productions,...