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Tempus Fugitive
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Yeah, doom and gloom. But the only way was up for the Legion (as a team - I was buying it so not as a book) after that. Well, slowly probably.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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Like the Legions of fan fiction writers here! Exactly. We don't need whatever weak offerings DC makes.
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Humanoid from the Deep
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I don't see offerings of any kind in our future anyway.
Keep up with what I've been watching lately! "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches
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I'd like to offer up a witty and interesting comment here, but neither the coffee or the allergy meds have really started to work yet. I wonder if Allergy Lass was the original version of Infectious Lass, but then they had to rework her to make her more powerful.
Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on DeviantArt! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*
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Fabulous and Sparkly!
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I think DC's overall problem the last several decades (apart from varying quality) was they couldn't decide whether their timeline was fixed or fluid. The JSA was active during World War II. The Legion was 1000 years in the future and roughly aged with it. Everything else was kind of ambiguous. The Infinitors became more and more remote in time from their parents. The Justice Leaguers aged and some retired or died and had others take up their mantles. Superman and Wonder Woman endured, but as a Kryptonian and an Amazon, respectively, they didn't grow old. It all came down to Batman, a character I was never that fond of. He was starting to get too old, so they sent him off and had Dick take his place. Then they brought him back, were back where they started and decided to "fix" it all with Flashpoint (and we all know how well that worked. ).
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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Humanoid from the Deep
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That's a good point, Rocky. Batman's inability to age is tied back to WB's insistence on using the character as their cash cow in their multimedia ventures. While Dick taking up the mantle was an interesting and logical choice, it simply would have burdened the Batman franchise with continuity that scared the WB investors.
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Hmm... if there were only some way you could have characters age while periodically introducing newer and younger versions of characters in some sort of alternate reality... like on a parallel Earth or something...
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Tempus Fugitive
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But won't another Earth be confusing for readers? It would be like having Sherlock Holmes and Wuthering Heights on your bookshelf. Obviously madness, as you'd immediately want to know why Watson wasn't teaming up with Heathcliff. That's why my library only has one book. And that book is Absolute Crisis.
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Note to self: scratch plans to let thoth lad read my latest fan fic, Hound of the Earnshaws.
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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I'm currently working of a fan fic where Jem and the Holograms meet the Transformers.
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Note to self: give Invisible Brainiac time-travel AND self-aging powers and have him team up with IB's from the multiverse with all split into their seven selves. Every time I meet Thoth, introduce a different IB. Giggle madly while doing so.
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Humanoid from the Deep
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I think thoth has had enough of your multiverse selves shenanigans, Ibby.
Keep up with what I've been watching lately! "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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It can't be worse than marrying his cat who claws him all day
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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Pop star and alleged prima donna Ariana Grande first gained fame as a Nickelodeon actress, playing Cat Valentine on VicTORIous.
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Tempus Fugitive
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thoth gently dabbed the last of his iodine on another cat inflicted wound. The sharp pain contrasted with the dull all over ache he felt from recent adventures. With a sigh, he rose from the comfy cane chair and shuffled in his worn slippers to the squinty ziggurat's kitchen. That fridge wasn't going to clean itself. Despite having given it plenty of time to gain sentience and get on with it.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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I was so surprised when I found that out. Cat was really ditzy if I recall.
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Humanoid from the Deep
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Pop star and alleged prima donna Ariana Grande first gained fame as a Nickelodeon actress, playing Cat Valentine on VicTORIous. What are your thoughts on Grande, Fanfie? She has a good voice, but makes terrible music, in my opinion.
Keep up with what I've been watching lately! "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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Ibby, Cat was ditzy, but she was still much more likable that Ariana seems to be in Real Life.
Stalgie, I don't like her voice (too much like Mariah Carey karaoke) or her songs.
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Cat was indeed quite likable, Fanfie.
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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Yeah, I still remember the Wi-Fi in the Sky episode where we see what Cat's bedroom looks like, and it's all bright colors and stuffed animals. Awwww.
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The world could stand to have more positivity and optimism
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Humanoid from the Deep
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I can't stand any of Nickelodeon's live action shows, though that may be due to my bias towards their cartoons.
Keep up with what I've been watching lately! "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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Fabulous and Sparkly!
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I liked Nickelodeon back in the early '80s when it was mostly British and Canadian imports. My favorite was the original Tomorrow People.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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I think Nickelodeon actress Victoria Justice would make a good Shadow Lass.
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Fabulous and Sparkly!
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The Hall of Justice on Super Friends was modeled on Union Terminal in Cincinnati, now the Cincinnati Museum Center. Cincinnati's skyline was shown in the opening credits of WKRP in Cincinnati (of course) and The Edge of Night, where it stood in as the skyline of the fictional city of Monticello. Edge was owned by Procter and Gamble, which is, naturally, based in Cincinnati.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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