The now NEW Official DC Stupid Questions thread: Didio Headaches - Part 1

[Kahoot]

So Martian Manhunter has nothing at all to do with The Manhunters of the Green Lantern stories. Just a name. I've sorta half wondered that my self.

One of the SDCC panels mentions that in the JLA book they mention stuff about J'onn though. We don't know what yet they wouldn't spoil it to us. But there is a reason that there is only 1 alien on the JLA (Superman) and not two at first.

There seems to be a lot of xenophobia in the new 52 from what I understand.

 

[Anubis]

Well, actually.....there is a slight connection to the GL corps and the Martians. The Martians didn't always have that Fire weakness. Eons ago, when the Martians were just starting to come into their own as a possible universal power house, the Guardians showed up and decided to nip these crazy powerful beings in the bud by instilling a subconscious fear of fire.

Not that it has any real connection to the Manhunters, but I don't know. If the Guardians were intruding on them way back in their early stages of existence, maybe the term got tossed around into their subconscious along with the fire. It's certainly a possibility.

 

[Karelia]

Any chance of DC releasing a Lobo graphic novel containing a lot of the parodies they did (Lobocop for instance.) I noticed they have a new Lobo graphic novel coming out called "Lobo: Unbound" in 2012. I'd rather wait if they put the parodies into a graphic novel format than track all the issues.

 

[Anubis]

Unlikely.

 

[trustyside-kick]

EDIT: Nvm. Found it.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Stupid Question: What kind of Green Lantern is the guy from JSA? He's not involved in the Corps in any way that I can see. Or, in the great Green Lantern scheme of things, is he just always forgotten?

 

[Manic]

Stupid Question: What kind of Green Lantern is the guy from JSA? He's not involved in the Corps in any way that I can see. Or, in the great Green Lantern scheme of things, is he just always forgotten?

He's not part of the Green Lantern Corps. His ring and lantern were created separately and slightly differently from the rest. His weakness (though I don't know if this still stands) is wood instead of the color yellow.

 

[The Morningstar]

Alan Scott is the best Green Lantern. This is scientific and mathematical fact. Hal Jordan isn't fit to polish his ring, the fraggle.

 

[Anubis]

Stupid Question: What kind of Green Lantern is the guy from JSA? He's not involved in the Corps in any way that I can see. Or, in the great Green Lantern scheme of things, is he just always forgotten?

Long ago, when the Guardians were just starting out with their putting the universe in Order boos**t, they decided to gather up all this stuff called Wild Magic. While they were trying to put the Wild Magic into the trash, a piece broke off (All Aku from Samurai Jack style) and ended up on Earth. That piece would be known as the Starheart. Some *****e made a ring and Lantern out of it, and took over the world (Or most of Asia or something like that.) and the Guardians found out, so they went to Earth, and put a weakness to wood into the starheart. (Cuz that's pretty much all the Rebels had to fight with.) And they defeated the crazy mock Lantern guy. Centuries later, some *****e working on a train found it.....and that *****e....was Alan "F**king" Scott.

He's an honorary Lantern, so technically he is a Lantern. It's just really one of those cosmic coincidences that that primitive chose to make a Lantern and Ring out of the Starheart. Like Swamp Thing and Man Thing. Or the Doom Patrol and the X-Men.

 

[Kahoot]

Have the Teen Titans ever had a birthday party for team mate and then kicked them off the team at the end of the night for being 20?

 

[Manic]

Codename: Kids Next Door style

 

[chamber-music]

Seeing as Superman gets messed up by magic could John Constantine kick his ass?

 

[Anubis]

Superman doesn't get messed up by Magic....so no.

 

[Manic]

Considering Superman forgets he can move at super speed in literally every fight he engages in, yes I think John Constantine could take him.

 

[chamber-music]

Considering Superman forgets he can move at super speed in literally every fight he engages in, yes I think John Constantine could take him.

Superman forgets he usually has any Super power beyond super strength and flying.

Half the time I read Superman I'm like "why are you trying to beat a supervillain in a fist fight you shoot lasers out your eyes"

Never before has a superhero with so many powers made such poor use of them

 

[chamber-music]

Superman doesn't get messed up by Magic....so no.

I thought he was to susceptible to magic

 

[Anubis]

He's as susceptible to magic as anybody else of with his strength and durability.

For instance, the infamous SHAZAM debacle in Kingdom Come. Now, Supes took like eight or nine blasts of magical lightening. If Batman had gotten hit once with that s**t, he would have been killed. Supes not only took it, but won that fight.

The Magic weakness is overrated.

 

[Manic]

Didn't he accidentally cut his hand while holding Wonder Woman's enchanted sword during Kingdom Come?

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, because it was an enchanted sword that could cut through Atoms. And it would do the same to anybody from Jimmy Olson to the Anti Monitor or whatever.

 

[Kahoot]

Half the time I read Superman I'm like "why are you trying to beat a supervillain in a fist fight you shoot lasers out your eyes"

He doesn't have laser vision he has heat vision!

 

[WolfCypher]

If Deathstroke has a healing factor, why didn't his eye grow back?

 

[Tron Bonne]

Superman forgets he usually has any Super power beyond super strength and flying.

Half the time I read Superman I'm like "why are you trying to beat a supervillain in a fist fight you shoot lasers out your eyes"

Never before has a superhero with so many powers made such poor use of them

Well, a lot of that is just up to you the reader with suspension of belief. Really, if you can't separate that, might be best to just walk away from the genre. I know that probably sounds like a condescending 'love it or leave it', but really, you try to apply this kind of stuff by our real world logic, the entire thing just completely falls apart. It might just not be up your alley, because like old school magic, you have to have a very liberal suspension of belief.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

If Deathstroke has a healing factor, why didn't his eye grow back?

Same reason Daken is able to get tattoos.

 

[trustyside-kick]

I always assumed he lost the eye before the serum that gave him abilities but I haven't read all of Deathstroke's appearances before.

 

[Artistsean]

There was an issue of Wizard Magazine where they did an in depth (almost) panel by panel commentary on Planetary. Does anyone know which issue that is in?
I am sure I have it, but I have so many that it would take me forever to find it.
Anyone know which Wizard Magazine the Planetary commentary was in?