Superman Down

Wolverine, aka Logan, was always a mutant - his healing factor and
extremely sharp senses were ingrained in his DNA. The healing ability
merely made the (Canadian?) government's WeaponX programme possible,
whereby the adamantium alloy was fused on to his skeleton. ISTR that
the retractable claws, although only emerging once the adamantium had
been applied, later turned out to be based on his own mutated bone
structure. Logan is somewhere around 200 years old, as his healing
factor (which also counteracts almost all known pathogens) at least
slows down his ageing process, if not stopping it altogether, and as a
result may be effectively immortal. Wolverine is not the only product
of the WeaponX programme.

 

"Only two things sure in life Bub, and this ain't taxes" SNIK!!

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Yes, but did he tiuta?

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Knew him, did you? I did. Not well, but he was a client of the bank that
SWMBO worked for. She ran the division which looked after his dosh in UK,
and Reeve would often turn up to receptions and days-out. That was before
he fell off his horse, of course. The whole staff liked him, and I never
heard a bad word about him. He was talented, intelligent, interesting,
inquisitive, balanced and funny. He was a gent, who made even the dimmest,
newest and most awe-struck clerk feel special. At parties he'd join in, get
drinks, fetch food for the oldies and sit down and noodle on the piano at
the end of the evening.

I think his dignity, in the years after he was crippled, was astonishing.
Still, Cab reckons he was a ****, and Cab must be right. Silly me.

 

Sounds useful in an argument.

 

Not literally, but the problem with wolvie as a character is that
healing factor - he'd get into a fight and you could almost see the
writer thinking: "Hmm, what shall we do to liven up this fight? Ah yes
we'll see to it that he gets beaten to within an inch of his life, then
his opponent will forget the healing factor and sit back to gloat while
he expires on the floor, and then - this is the good bit - he heals
himself, gets up, and beats his opponent up".

The ol' canuckle head is my fav comic character[1] - he has just the
right attitude for a superhero. You just think he'd be bored of being
almost killed every fight scene by now.

Tiff

[1] Closely followed by John Constantine, Jesse Custer and Jason (the
talking raven that doesn't do the 'n' word)

 

Who the **** are you?

 

Some muppet who wouldn't recognise a witticism if it stood up in his soup.


Ah. He's probably me, then.

 

I was never a big Wolverine fan, personally, but there you go. He was at
least a bit different in that he was a bit of a psycho and actually smoked
(didn't harm him because of his recuperative powers, see).

However my favourite character from any comic book is Hob Gadling from the
Sandman series. He's a human who is given eternal life after Death and
Dream overhear him saying that he intends to live forever.

His character is beautifully and skilfully drawn, which I didn't really
appreciate until his final appearance in "The Wake"; after Dream dies Death
offers Hob the chance to die as well and he turns her down. He is 600 years
old, everybody he has ever loved is dead, he's haunted by the memories of
the terrible things he has done during his long life and yet he still can't
face the thought of jacking it all in.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Christopher Reeves best mate, apparently.

Be nice to him and you might get a bargain on a 2nd hand super-deluxe
wheelchair.


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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:47:25 +0100, "AndrewR"

Hob Gadling.

I'm very fond of the portrayal of Ishtar. In fact, apart from the
early appearances of old DC characters to keep the fan base happy, the
whole thing is outstanding.

<voice from the other side of the room >

ANDREW R YOU ****.

<me>

What, what's he done?

Matt is still only half way through. Still you weren't to know. Just
don't say anything about Babylon 5 FFS.

 

"One Spastic Owner"

"Never Raced"

 

Nearly as good as Unobtanium.

 

Kryptonite brake blocks.

 

According to a piece in today's Times, he *did* race it - if only against
his kids! So, one for the Trades Descriptions Act nazis!

 

Or Imthedandyhighwaymanium...

Phil

 

In the real world, the super-villians wear suits.

Well, that's what makes them *super* villians, innit? Otherwise
they'be common or garden murderers or speeders.

 

Pip Luscher wrote

This is true, you never see them wearing a boiler suit and DMs do you?
Kin sell outs to the bleeding middle classes is all they are. Traitors
to their working class roots the lot of them.

 

A Long Rider bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along
the lines of:
<snip>

Well actually, I did meet him years ago, when he filmed Superman 'whatever' in
Milton Keynes. He struck me as the most arrogant wanker I've ever met.

To top it off, there was a party that was arranged for locals kids in the city
and he demanded to be paid to attend, before he turned up.

'sides, apart from doing Superman, he wasn't much good at anything else.[1] He
couldn't even fall of a horse properly.

Good, I'm glad we agree then.

[1] Even then, his acting prowess as Superman could be debated.