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Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Superman, did Wonder Woman die?
Jean Grey

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jean Grey is the queen of this.

Also, The White Queen and Raven.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Aunt frickin May. Not the same way as the others, I guess.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Raven from the Teen Titans?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/niven/142/revolvin/rdd15.html

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The return of Jean Grey was such a hugely big deal to me, I don't even know how to explain it. Especially since I wasn't a regular X-Men reader (but I'd read the Death of Phoenix storyline; everyone had).

Spider-Clone! That needs to get some points for the death itself being not that big a thing and the return being such a huge, shuddering catastrophe.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ELEKTRA!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Wonder Woman DID die (or turn back into clay) in Crisis on Infinite Earths.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought every superhero has died and come back. Most of them several times even, right?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee(eeeeeeeeeeeee)z.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I do remember fondly an episode of PAD's Hulk where Rick James goes to Doctor Strange to get him to resurrect Rick's recently killed missus.

"Don't gimme that. People come back from the dead all the time. I
mean...I've come back from the dead. I bet you have too!
"Admit it!"
"Well...Yes, I have. But I AM a professional."
"How about you, Wong? You ever die and come back?"
"To be honest...yes"
"There! Three out of three people surveyed came back from the
dead! So Marlo should be able to come back too!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that Wonder Woman died just recently, like in the last 5 years or something. I think it's refered to in JLA: Rock of Ages.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that when her mom took over and turned out to be the Golden Age Wonder Woman through time travel? I do remember something like that.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(I'm going to mention Resurrection Man purely to point out that a) he doesn't count, and b) yes he kinda does, cause I figure he's pretty much a send-up of the whole 'superheroes die all the time' thing.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Who is PAD?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Aquaman David

(I'm speculating about the Aquaman, but it explains a lot)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever happenned to Rick, Marlo and Betty -- are they alive or dead now? Whatever, Hulk looks pretty shite at the moment.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Rick is alive and in Captain Marvel. Come to think of it, I think Marlo is too, which really screws the pooch of the coolness of the whole "how come people come back from the dead all the time but my wife can't" bit Andrew referenced.

Betty, I'm not sure.

The Bruce what's his name guy they got on for Hulk for a bit seemed promising, just verrrry slow-paced, so I didn't read more than a couple issues of it. Definitely an improvement over Byrne, but these days who wouldn't be?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(That said, I would pay unseemly hardcover prices to have Byrne's "Last Galactus Story" from Epic Illustrated collected and completed.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, God - Betty is back, I think. But she's now some undeadish superspy (?). The first couple of storylines from Bruce Jones' Hulk run are pretty good (if a bit slowly paced) (and a bit reliant on a bad guy randomly quoting "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"). However, after THIRTY PLUS issues, they're still playing out the whole "secret agency full of undead spies trying to frame the Hulk for killing a kid and steal his blood and sic some Krill on him and etc etc etc" last I remember, and any goodwill Jones & Co. accrued with their superb start has long since been spent in my ledger. Also, losing Lee Weeks & Tom Palmer as the drawrers suuuuuucked.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh geez, one of the reasons I didn't put it on my pull list was because I randomly read an issue (the third or something in Jones's run), then randomly read one a few months later and that secret agency thing was still going on. That's reeeally slow, then.

(Granted, PAD wasn't exactly fast, but he often focused on smaller stories within those big arcs like the Joe Fixit stuff etc.)

(Future Imperfect -- still my favorite Hulk story.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

this miniseries wasn't anywhere near as cool as it should/could have been
http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/images/deadman_dead_again_b.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks suspiciously like a DC wankathon to me. "Look at our massive HISTORY! Mmmm, it has veins!"

― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

But the Deadman miniseries illustrated by Kelley Jones is just GRATE. Don't think it ever got collected, but you can find it in bargain bins.

That other Deadman series was indeed a disappointment.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

When was the Kelley Jones one (I mean not specifically but like early 90s/more recent/earlier)? I can picture a Kelley Jones Deadman -- maybe he did a poster? -- but I know I'd remember reading it if I had.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it came out in the very early 90s, after he did some work on Sandman but before his roundly excoriated Batman work (which was totally unfair, but that's comics.) It was a two or three issue prestige format thing. I'd say that it was no later than 1992, but was probably no earlier than 1990.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 14 May 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

His Batman work was the best thing about the title @ the time! Mike Baron was the writer of that mini, wasn't he? He also did a Deadman serial in the "short-lived" (only 42 issues!) Action Comics Weekly - no KJ art, though; I think Dan Jurgens was the penciler!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Action Comics Weekly was a pretty disappointing exercise. It was a great idea though. Actually, I think I remember liking the Blackhawk stories, and I liked the fact that there were solo Black Canary, Speedy and Nightwing stories even though none of them really did much to impress me. And the Green Lantern stories were basically what sent Hal Jordan on his way to why this thread started in the first place. Those stories were AWFUL. He went on Oprah, self-lobotimized his fearlessless, and was just lame lame lame.
By and large, though, the covers were pretty cool.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I kinda liked those GL stories - Priest wrote them before he became Priest! And the first 6 chapters featured Gil Kane art! Actually, come to think of it, Priest (as Jim Owsley) had a lot to do w/ the post-Crisis GL - I think he wrote the Emerald Dawn mini that preceeded the regular series.

And I thought the crux of those stories was to mess with John Stewart, not Hal.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Owsley only wrote the first issue of Emerald Dawn, then Giffen and Gerard Jones were brought in to "space it up" or something.
Some of Owsley's stuff was okay, and the Gil Kane art at the beginning was boffo, but the carnage seemed really pointless, like Katma Tui's death just seemed really, um, off-handed. The Lord Malvio stuff was kinda interesting, but really didn't hold a candle to Englehart's two years of GLC.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Mosaic was pretty fun, in a how-long-before-it-gets-cancelled way.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ever since the Crisis, it's just been dismantle the Corps, start it up again, dismantle, start it up again! It's boring! Who cares?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the Corps, for one!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I just wish they'd decide. I mean, sheesh. They spent 40 issues rebuilding the Corps after the end of the Englehart GLC run and then 3 destroying it, and now it looks like they're rebuilding it again, but how long before they decide to tear it down. It's almost as bad as the Legion of Superheroes.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

They should just merge the Corps & the Legion; that way, DC can increase cancellation productivity by 100%!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dial H for Hlegion Corps!

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Starring Captain MarAquaHawkManvel

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

MANVEL. The anvil that walks like a man.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

You can hit him with a hammer until your arm falls off!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit I think Hammerhead has a new made man in his inner circle!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Hammerhead and Manvel! The new MAX series by Garth Ennis.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Cover to GL: Rebirth #2 is sooooo cooool.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0408/16/glrebirth2.jpg

― Huck, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

How can it be cool when it's got Hal Jordan on it looking miserable? It'll just be another angst-fest featuring buckets of DC's incredible MYTHOS, a panoply of legends that will never die etc etc etc...

I like blood and skellingtons as much as anybody but this does not rock in the slightest.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/corbis/DGT343/OEE0003.jpg

La la la la la la la la la!

― Huck, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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