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Jack made Jim too mature. Jim almost looks like he could be getting ready to take on his role as Mr. Action. Fun way of mixing him with Black Panther. Almost like a scene from an animated movie.
I think it'll also be fun to see Shuri make her transition from the Q figure to the Bond... or doing both, and basically becoming a Wakandan Batman.
(Speaking of which, I'd love to see another Batman/Black Panther team-up some time soon, this time leaning into their high-tech aspects.)
Detective Tobor said that Kirby made Jimmy Olsen too mature, well, we all gotta grow-up sometimes and Kirby was the best at the time to do this. But I digress, from the angle that Jimmy is standing he looks more like a Gil Kane character than Jack Kirby.
We are near the end of Pride Month but you have not done any LGBTQA+ covers yet. Representation matters. Can we get Alan Scott, Tim Drake, Ice Man, and Rawhide Kid teaming up?
@Rainbow Superman: Speaking as a gay man, representation does matter...but maybe not as much as good stories or following your inspiration.
If representation really mattered in comics, why aren't there any obese superheroes? If you have ever been to a comic store or convention you see plenty of plus sized fans. Where are their heroes? A fat person with a Green Lantern ring, mutant powers, magic powers, etc would work. Instead they play fat characters for jokes and make them sidekicks.
@Fat Elvis: I know of at least Butterball (Marvel), Bouncing Boy (DC), and Faith (Valiant).
As a man on the spectrum, I wish there were more autistic characters. Right now, the comics has only Marvel's Claudette St. Croix, one of the "M-Twins." She's not just the Big Two's only autistic superhero; she's the only currently-published autistic character that I can find.
Characters named Butterball and Bouncing Boy just sounds like jokes. Why can't they have heroes who just happen to be overweight without having that define the character. There is no reason why there couldn't be a fat Superman, Green Lantern, Black Lightning, Professor X, Cyclops, Ice Man, Phoenix, Quasar, Wonder Man, Thing, etc. As long as they have powers their weight shouldn't be an issue.
@Detective Tobor: I liked his 4th World look! And the Mr. Action phase that followed it. I mean, he couldn't wear a bow tie and spout "Gosh-Golly-Gee" forever.
Great team-up! Jack Kirby was such a great artist. Even in the vast universe of comic books, his vision was very original and unique.
I haven't actually read anything with Butterball, but I get the impression that he chose the name as a sort of self-deprecating humor.
As for Bouncing Boy, he started as a joke, but soon became one of the Legion of Super-Heroes' most easily-underestimated members. He even married Duo Damsel, in the earliest example of which I'm aware of "not-hot guy gets hot girl." He actually is my favorite Legionnaire.
For the list you gave, the only ones that would make sense to me are Green Lantern and Professor X. (I especially would find an obese Professor X sensible.) The rest all have reason to stay in shape, especially Wonder Man and the X-Men.
If you have a super power such as super strength, electrical powers, ice powers, energy powers, etc then body type shouldn't matter. Cyclops wouldn't have to be a certain body type to blast someone with his powers. If Wonder Man isn't slowed by death a few extra pounds shouldn't affect him. Superman is an alien so he would have the same powers fit or fat.
Bob Greenwade said...
"As a man on the spectrum, I wish there were more autistic characters. Right now, the comics has only Marvel's Claudette St. Croix, one of the "M-Twins." She's not just the Big Two's only autistic superhero; she's the only currently-published autistic character that I can find."
Isn't Reed Richards canonically on the spectrum too?
@Simreeve: I wish. No, the Reed Richards who identified himself as having "a mild case of autism" was an alternate version, and the claim was belied by his making it a disclaimer to his "being of sound mind," and his "trying to find a cure," neither of which is something you'll hear from any real person on the spectrum.
I'd be extremely pleased if the MCU Reed was on the spectrum, though, as long as the above garbage was excluded.
Fat Elvis, early sixties had alien Lantern members of all body type. Their personalities of overcoming fear was the only thing they had in common. Pick any body type and one of the Lanterns had it.
And Bouncing Boy was not a joke, just underrated enough as the bad guys constantly found out.
So only two or three fat superheroes have been named, yet the past few years they have introduced dozens of LGBT heroes including retroactively changing heroes who had been straight to now being gay. I'm sure there are far more fat superhero fans than LGBT superhero fans. So where is the representation?
@Fat Elvis and Bob Greenwade: shame on you both for overlooking Herbie Popnecker. Alias...The Fat Fury!
@Cary: I didn't overlook him; I just had never heard of him.
We can now toss in the Golden Age Red Tornado, and there's a team: The Fat Pack!
(That's still more obese heroes than autistic.)
Why do fat characters have to have the word fat in their name? That's as bad as the African American characters having to have the word black in their name. I don't see any of the LGBT characters being named Bi-Robin or Gay Ice Man or Groomer Nick Fury. And again, it's just played for laughs. Can't you have a competent fat superhero who isn't a joke or defined by his size?
@Fat Elvis: It's probably against the Now-Obsolete Comics Code Authority.
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