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Well, Tinya and the Calorie Queen look good, but I can't say the same for Pulsar.
And to show I bear no ill will, I, too, shall bestow a gift...
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True, but that's quite an impressive "package" he's *hic* carrying around!
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Gotta be packing something to be able to pull an outfit like that off...
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I wonder if the other super villians made fun of him dressed like that?
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Maybe it's the cut-outs, but Cal is looking a bit like Thunder Thighs there.
Holy Cats of Egypt!
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Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
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Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
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Hear the loud alarum bells-
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor,
Now–now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows:
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells-
Of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
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Hear the tolling of the bells-
Iron Bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people–ah, the people-
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All Alone
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone-
They are neither man nor woman-
They are neither brute nor human-
They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
With the paean of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells-
Of the bells:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells-
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells:
To the tolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells-
Bells, bells, bells-
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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Surely a reimagined sonic-powered Legionnaire would join Phantom Girl in the bell-bottom ranks!
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Bold Flavors
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 Tinya of course, not Pulsar... 
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Originally posted by Rainmaker:
Well, Tinya and the Calorie Queen look good, but I can't say the same for Pulsar. I agree about Tinya and Cal, but Stargrave's costume has to go. Oh, and it's nice to see this, ah, incarnation of you back.
Dan
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To me it's just the bellbottoms, if he was in knee high boots it would be fine.
And to show I bear no ill will, I, too, shall bestow a gift...
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Cal looks okay to me here, but if she isn't drawn by Mike Grell or Dean Lee, she just isn't CAL, y'know?!?!
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Oh! I also liked Cal's look during TMK's LSH # 14, during Giffen's "chicks with big lips" period.
Chicks with big lips space-rawk.
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Climbing toward Miracle Machiner rank (89,000 to go!) on Edgar Allan Poe's back is NOT going to get you psychic satisfaction, Scott 
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Thunder thighs? Cramer, ya know i loves ya, but please...
Sorry, but i likes a woman with womanly curves. These current Aniston waif wannabees with gaps between their thighs and thirteen year old desire to bee's leave me cold.
Check out Tina Louise on Gilligans island, or Salma Heyak. These are gals with CURVES! Hot damn and pass the mustard. RRREEEOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Something pithy!
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I kind of liked TMK-era Cal myself.
Dan
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Originally posted by Greybird: Climbing toward Miracle Machiner rank (89,000 to go!) on Edgar Allan Poe's back is NOT going to get you psychic satisfaction, Scott Nothing to do with psychic satisfaction my fine feathered friend. The Bells is told in four parts, hence four posts. And The Bells was the first poem I ever learned by heart. Hence my love of Poe.
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Very cool, LL. I did my senior paper on him in High School, and have a "collected works", leather bound, put up safely. My wonnerful wife gave it to me. I always had a taste for the macabre as a kid. 'course, i also liked Kubla Khan by Coleridge.
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Something pithy!
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Originally posted by rickshaw1: Very cool, LL. I did my senior paper on him in High School, and have a "collected works", leather bound, put up safely. My wonnerful wife gave it to me. I always had a taste for the macabre as a kid.
'course, i also liked Kubla Khan by Coleridge. Coleridge is a fav of mine too. I have a number of Poe's works, including two leather-bound collected works, one from Caroline, the other from her parents. I also have 8 volumes of a 10 volume collection that was published during his lifetime. I'm always trying to get my hands on more of his works as they were published while he was still alive. Another 'macabre' favorite of mine is H.P. Lovecraft. I just dug all that stuff growing up. Still do.
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I never knew about Lovecraft growing up. I just never came across it strangely. My choices were pretty eclectic growing up. I went from comics and pre-teen stuff at about 9 to Bulfinch's mythology to Mort De Arthur to Louis L'Amour, and from there i branched out. I had stops along the way with Verne, Poe, Rice-Burroughs...it was a strange, wonderful, delightful twisted childhood of reading that i really enjoyed.
I mean, for the early part of my childhood, i drove my parents nuts since Dracula was my hero. I saw a movie of him, he had really hot chicks at his beck and call, and if some guy shoved a stake through his heart, someone would always bring him back.
yeah, he was evil, but lets face it, the badguys get to chew up the scenery while the good guys are stuck being heroic.
But then, i liked Louis' hero's, mainly because they weren't scared to have a good knuckle and skull knockdown fight.
Still, fall of the house of Usher, telltale heart, Poe's mysteries...ah geez, its been so long since i read them i forget the guys name, it started with a D i think.
while some might see it as a highly commercial reading list, i like to think i got quite a lot of differing, sordid and saucy tastes to enjoy.
Hmmmm, gotta break out my Poe and have a lil' fun. Any wonder Halloween is becoming my favorite holliday?
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Something pithy!
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Sounds like we had similar reading patterns in our teens Rick. Just replace Louis L'Amour with Don Pendleton and his "Executioner" books and they are nearly identical. And I also grew up with a love of vampires, not just Dracula though. Its the one thing that actually led me to meeting Caroline, fascination with vampires.
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Oh, and the gentleman's name you were trying to remember, the first literary detective. Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, from "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter".
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