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"Anyone know anything about Steel's neice in 52? She looked cool and I was wondering if she was new."Anyone? Bueller?
posted by Bill at Comix Connection @ 8:23:00 AM
28 Comments:
Steel's niece is not a new character. I remember her from the end of the original run of Steel when Christopher Priest was writing it and it was actually really good.
Somewhere along the line, maybe in the terrible "Our Worlds At War" X-over, she got her own armor and John Irons kinda quit being a hero to become an inventor full-time.
Evidently he came out of retirement since then since he's going strong in '52'.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
My nomination for most inovative move of the year is the 6 page center-fold of the batcave in Batman & Robin All-Stars. That has gotta be the coolest thing ever! Jim Lee is the MAN! And how crazy IS batman... trying to make poor Dick eat rats!
I got Allstar Batman and Robin for the first time on Wednsday...
I agree, that six page spread kicked butt!!
Did anyone read Moon Knight #2?
Thanks for the Steel anwser Linnen. Havn't read any of this weeks stuff yet. Ive just read about half of The Winter Solder. Wow so far It's been good. I like the way Cap. is being written these days. So Far so Good.
Craig
You're quite welcome, my friend.
I never read Cap until Brubaker took over the book, but I have to agree with you that it is fantastic! The Winter Soldier was one of the best reads I've had in a long time.
I just started reading Cap with the "21st Century Blitz" arc, and will definately be reading the rest. I LOVE the art. I'm not sure If I'll be able to pick up the Winter Soldier trade...can anyone fill me in on how Bucky returned?
I really liked Jack Staff #10 this week. It even had a guest appearance by a doppelganger of Alan Moore.
WOW! Just finshed read "The Winter Soldier" Trade. Great read! Is the second trade out? If you guys have any drop one in my box! I need the rest of the story! Poor Nomad.**Sniff Sniff**
Craig box13
Yeah, the Batcave is kinda cool...but what Batcave doesn't have a giant penny? or did I miss it...
(OT) Can everybody see my SpiderMan Birthday Cake! I ate a piece of Spidy's head!
Craig Box13
Moon Knight was pretty cool and I am excited to see where this is going. But the most intersting book has been Wolverine Origins. Something about seeing Wolvie so Bad @$$!
Hey Ken... About the penny, I wondered the same thing. So I found a Batman timeline somewhere. http://thebatman.bravepages.com/comics/timeline.htm
Apparently the first appearance of Robin was in April of 1940, Harvey Dent (Kent at the time) appears later in August of 1942. All thats too early for me to remember but it explains the missing penny, maybe ole Jimmy did his research?
There was a Joker penny in A.S.Superman #2.
Ah, see all that's way before my realm of existence. I for some reason thought of Two Face for the penny. Youre prolly right.
I grabbed the following from Wikipedia:
Three memorabilia items often seen in the cave are a defunct full-size mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex, and an equally large U.S. penny and a Joker playing card. The origins of these trophies are explained in Batman #256: the T. rex comes from an adventure on "Dinosaur Island"; the penny is a trophy from Batman's encounter with a penny-obsessed villain named The Penny Plunderer (in World's Finest Comics #30, 1947). Other "keepsakes" in the cave include Two-Face's original coin, Deathstroke's sword, the shroud of the Vampiric Monk, and over-sized ten-pins.
So, that still fits that Batman hasn't aquired the penny yet.
(The "Penny Plunderer"? Sheesh.)
And craigbox13, I think I saw that on the cover of MARVEL ZOMBIES!
MARVEL ZOMBIES.......Me on the Cover??? Be still my heart.
Craig Box13
That would be the rare CRAIG BOX 13 PHOTO COVER RETAILER INCENTIVE MARVEL ZOMBIES #1, in a ratio of one per country.
SWEET! I'll do a signing!
Craig Box13
HA!!
Marvel Zombies: Cake Edition.
Now THAT I would buy. The entire comic done through cake. You can read it, then you can eat it.
g-evan: DON'T give them any ideas!
The strangest thing I ever saw included in a comic book was a packet of Kool-Ade-type drink mix. I guess you have to keep that bound in with the comic book for it to be in MINT condition!
Sorry, Bill. Sometimes the ideas just slip out. Like a packet of Spam with every--
Oops, better not go there...
Bill: Why does my Kool-Aid taste like comic book store?
*GAK!*
HEY. MY comic tastes like Kool-Aid!
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Thanks for all the research on the big penny! I was going to originally end that post with the state "A penny for your thoughts..." Now I am glad I didn't..
The Penny Plunderer went broke years ago...
He make a comeback as the "Dollar Depradator".
I'm kidding.
Bill: I knew "Kaptain Kool-Aid" was a bad comic...
The Dollar Depradator isn't a bad idea...I KNEW there was something else to fall down there in the pit where the "Clone Saga" fell!
Oh, and Bill: I believe the Penny Plunderer became the Nickle Nipper...
*Nickel* sorry.
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