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Post by jonclark on Feb 25, 2023 3:09:13 GMT
Now that's an excellent idea, Kaiser. Although that tech's a little too advanced for the Golden Age, so it'd have to be a modern day Earth-Two hero or heroine. Perhaps it could be Earth-Two's Cliff Steele (the AU counterpart of Earth-One's Robotman) too? There actually has already been a modern Earth 2 heir to the Robotman mantle introduced on this site.
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Post by kaiserleomon on Feb 25, 2023 12:12:01 GMT
Now that's an excellent idea, Kaiser. Although that tech's a little too advanced for the Golden Age, so it'd have to be a modern day Earth-Two hero or heroine. Perhaps it could be Earth-Two's Cliff Steele (the AU counterpart of Earth-One's Robotman) too? Basically I was thinking that this technology for the new Robotman heir to Robert Crane / Paul Dennis from Earth-2 would be the technology of modern Earth-2 of the DC Universe in which things like quantum nanoparticles would be technologies available to both Earth Prime and Earth-2 although in this case I think it would even be possible to reduce the level of technology that I suggested and in this case the new Robotman would use an Android body with a human appearance indistinguishable from a normal human being to which he would have his brain transferred and who would have the same physical configuration of a human being with things like synthetic organic tissue making up your skin and artificial android organs being a man at all but superhumanly powerful which would mean an immense reduction in the burden of being a brain of a man inhabiting a synthetic body perhaps being an "Androidman" instead of a Robotman.
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Post by kaiserleomon on Feb 25, 2023 12:15:34 GMT
Now that's an excellent idea, Kaiser. Although that tech's a little too advanced for the Golden Age, so it'd have to be a modern day Earth-Two hero or heroine. Perhaps it could be Earth-Two's Cliff Steele (the AU counterpart of Earth-One's Robotman) too? There actually has already been a modern Earth 2 heir to the Robotman mantle introduced on this site. Yes basically that's what I thought when I suggested using the All-Star Squadron totally new and unpublished versions of the superheroes of Golden Age gathered in modern times.
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Post by reichsmark on Mar 6, 2023 21:53:24 GMT
An internet friend showed me a panel from JSA 3, which apparently is on Google Play. It shows what looks like Easy Company surrounding a captured Per Degaton. He is described in that panel as being tbe assistant to Prof. Zee in the German uhrwerth program. Degatons a Nazi. Who woulda thunk it!
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Post by reichsmark on Mar 7, 2023 13:39:31 GMT
Had a chance to dissect that panel, which is on DC Universe Infinite's New Golden Age discussion thread. Definitely GIs of Easy Company discussing Degaton and Germany's Uhrwerk "clockwork" program. Without seeing the actual copy i can only speculate. We know that after the war Werner Von Braun and the German scientists working on the V1 and V2 rocket program were brought to America to work on the USA's nascent space program. I am inferring from that panel that we did something similiar in DC. Namely brought Degaton, Zee and other scientists over to work on the Time Trust project.
When did the first member of the Time Trust appear in All-Star Comics. Was it before or after the war?
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Post by kaiserleomon on Mar 7, 2023 20:04:56 GMT
An internet friend showed me a panel from JSA 3, which apparently is on Google Play. It shows what looks like Easy Company surrounding a captured Per Degaton. He is described in that panel as being tbe assistant to Prof. Zee in the German uhrwerth program. Degatons a Nazi. Who woulda thunk it! Just think about how all those heroes of the DC Universe would be in current times when things can no longer be resolved on the basis of simple and pure superhuman physical strength in which international laws and sovereignties have to be respected and in which many times the great villains of humanity are in power ruling great super powers as corrupt heads of state who command nuclear arsenals capable of destroying the world hundreds of times and you can't solve things simply by sending an army of metahumans to fight in place of the soldiers in great international crises and things need to be resolved with diplomacy, intelligence and a lot of politics that sometimes causes much more damage than a million Superboy Primes.
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Post by kaiserleomon on Mar 7, 2023 20:19:27 GMT
Had a chance to dissect that panel, which is on DC Universe Infinite's New Golden Age discussion thread. Definitely GIs of Easy Company discussing Degaton and Germany's Uhrwerk "clockwork" program. Without seeing the actual copy i can only speculate. We know that after the war Werner Von Braun and the German scientists working on the V1 and V2 rocket program were brought to America to work on the USA's nascent space program. I am inferring from that panel that we did something similiar in DC. Namely brought Degaton, Zee and other scientists over to work on the Time Trust project. When did the first member of the Time Trust appear in All-Star Comics. Was it before or after the war? I think the All-Star Squadron members would eventually be incorporated into the Justice Society of America or the Infinity, Inc. as valuable reinforcements and heirs or heiresses to the heroic legacy of Superheroes and Superheroines from the Golden Age of comics in completely new and unpublished versions that would end having to battle regular DC Universe villains like Vandal Savage, the Injustice Society of the World , Ultra-Humanite , Solomon Grundy , Secret Society of Super Villains and other super groups of classic villains that would gather in their interior entirely renewed versions of the classic enemies of each hero like Per Degaton for example who would receive a new and unprecedented version for the new times in which he would probably be something much worse than "just a Nazi super villain ". Maybe he was still a "Nazi and a racial supremacist" just in the same vein as the Red Skull from the Marvel Universe with much bigger and grandiose goals than "just ruling the world" maybe rewriting creation itself the image of your evil mind taking God's place for itself.
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Post by reichsmark on May 9, 2023 17:06:05 GMT
The next three titles in the New Golden Age have been announced. They are all six issue minis and all scheduled to debut in October. Alan Scott's Green Lantern. His first solo series since 1949. Seems to be the only one that has major scenes take place in the 40's though I suspect the others will have flashbacks. It's described as a coming of age and coming to terms for Alan and a "eternal flame burning bright". It promises to give a new power that could make him one of the most powerful heros' in the DCU. (I thought he already was.) Jay Garrick's Flash. Can he connect with his long lost daughter. Meanwhile the consequences of one of his early failed cases rests in a "secret threath...decades in the making." (Yet another long hidden secret). Wesly Dodds sandman. When somebody steals the journal of his failed missions he may be the only one who can stop the countries trying to plunge the country into a new World War. (The only one that sounds halfway intersting).
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Post by lawrenceliberty on May 9, 2023 21:22:04 GMT
I've found the JSA and Stargirl stories to be rather disappointing. WHy not just have Huntress be the daughter of the E-2 Batman since DC brought back the idea of a multiverse? Giving sidekicks to heroes who never had them bugs me too.
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Post by reichsmark on May 9, 2023 22:39:59 GMT
I'm crossing my fingers that when the JSA arc is done he does something like he did at the end of Flashpoint Beyond. Send this NGA into the snowglobe as the second universe in that multiverse. But since some of us might be expecting him to do that, he probably won't. I can accept the new sidekicks but agree they were probably unneccessary. He cpuld have used Genius Jones instead of Quiz Kid, with a few minor tweaks. And it looks like he completely forgot Sir Butch, Shining Knight's sometime companion. Or maybe he's still trapped in one of Rip Hunter's time capsules.
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Post by redsycorax on May 9, 2023 23:16:25 GMT
I'd have to agree that this iteration of Earth-Two is unnecessarily convoluted, although I admittedly am a fan of classic continuity. That doesn't mean I don't welcome reasonable tweaks to that continuity. However, some of them aren't necessary. I agree with Lawrence about the Sandman storyline, although I quite liked the tweak to Alan Scott's background. But as for Jay suddenly having a long-lost daughter... given how long he's been married to Joan, how is that even remotely possible?
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Post by jonclark on May 10, 2023 4:21:08 GMT
The long lost daughter is Jay and Joan's kid who apparently was removed from everyone's memories sometime in the 1960's and had also been journeying back to the 1940's to be one of the forgotten sidekicks of the Stargirl mini
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Post by redsycorax on May 10, 2023 4:30:20 GMT
Does she have Jay's superspeed abilities?
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Post by jonclark on May 10, 2023 5:41:15 GMT
Does she have Jay's superspeed abilities? Yes. She called herself The Boom when joining her father-to-be in the 1940's
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Post by kaiserleomon on May 10, 2023 13:13:09 GMT
I would just love to be now in this new phase of comics book titles of Dawn of DC the DC Comics brought back the iconic Justice Society of America of Geoff Johns with its emblematic formation that brings together the best of the old and new generation of superheroes.
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