tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post114709218867230432..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: The Plot Threads of DamoclesScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-42959235015311231502016-06-26T13:31:06.681-05:002016-06-26T13:31:06.681-05:00Here in the Future, I still find myself wondering ...Here in the Future, I still find myself wondering where the second Puzzler (Valerie Van Haaften), the one who was actually made out of levitating puzzle pieces, came from, whether she was an android or a metahuman, and what her beef with Superman was really all about. Geoff Johns never got around to telling us. Barghestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1156357247878086102006-08-23T13:20:00.000-05:002006-08-23T13:20:00.000-05:00Somewhere in the Marvel Universe there is a little...Somewhere in the Marvel Universe there is a little man in a purple spacesuit walking from Earth to another star called Starron on steps made of light. That's right, WALKING. How far do you think he's got in 31 years?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147453424770891582006-05-12T12:03:00.000-05:002006-05-12T12:03:00.000-05:00Late hit: Just finished off Crisis on Multiple Ear...Late hit: Just finished off Crisis on Multiple Earths 4, which contained one of the biggest long-term Legion danglers; the lost tale of one of their battles with Mordru referenced in a footnote there.<BR/><BR/>(Same issue where the 'Brok' panel of Hal using one of those giant green fists to punch himself in the head came from, BTW.)Jeff R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00893541435938915895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147443437411975942006-05-12T09:17:00.000-05:002006-05-12T09:17:00.000-05:00Yeah, I too am still waiting for the titanic showd...Yeah, I too am still waiting for the titanic showdown between The Shadow's-Head-on-a-Robot-Body and Shiwan-Khan's-Head-on-a-Robot-Body. I also wouldn't mind finding out exactly what Marvelman was about to say to Avril...<BR/><BR/>...but those are questions left unresolved by the harsh realities of periodical publishing, rather than subplots that have just been forgotten about. To be honest, I'm too fickle to keep proper track of such things: if I don't like the new creative team on a comic, I tend to drop it fairly quickly, so I very often miss it when dangling threads <I>are</I> tied up...<BR/><BR/>...and then, too often, you get the converse problem of "Too Much Information", where a <I>bad</I> writer feels the need to go back and fill in the blanks of something the previous <I>good</I> writer intentionally left vague.Will Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08051985966790024245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147405727460352772006-05-11T22:48:00.000-05:002006-05-11T22:48:00.000-05:00That Swamp Thing one mentioned over at progresiver...That Swamp Thing one mentioned over at progresiveruin always bothered me. I was a huge Swamp Thing fan (even pre-Moore) and always wanted that story to come out. Also around that time there was a Swamp THing story where Swampy found this town surrounded in fog that of course disappeared once the fog was gone. There was a girl there and the implication was that she was Swamp THing's wife still alive in that town somehow.<BR/>The entire run of Green Lantern from Action Comics Weekly had some stuff that never got resolved like the afore mentioned Lord Malvolo as well as the Priest character who was an ex-GL that the gaurdians had exiled or soemthing and was trying to tell Jordan that he didn't need his ring to be Green Lantern. If I recall, Priest got unceremoniously killed and that was that.<BR/><BR/>There was always gobs of stuff with the 5 years later LEgion that never got explained like who really was honest and for true the clones, the adult legion or the SW6? Bounty, Black Dawn, Ivy, the vampire-type dude on the planet with the king whose dauther(s?) wanted to be sueprheroes and Polar Boy ended up staying there. <BR/><BR/>Then there are other kinds of dangling plots where series got canceled or creator's kicked off like Rick Vietch's infamous Swamp THing storyline or the Shadow storyline where the Shadow is dead.<BR/><BR/>Then there are all those superheroes and teams who are out there in limbo. Power COmpany, the New gardians, the Wanderers. Sure their books may not have been all that great, the New Gardians were horible, but they weren't ALL killed off, were they?Bryan-Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01186471352854473743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147377624279730632006-05-11T15:00:00.000-05:002006-05-11T15:00:00.000-05:00"There must be a dozen X-Men ones, including one a..."There must be a dozen X-Men ones, including one about a supporting character who seemed to keep getting killed off everytime he appeared, but never mentioned it when he returned"<BR/><BR/>Kenny was an X-Man?Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147364723866684062006-05-11T11:25:00.000-05:002006-05-11T11:25:00.000-05:00Bruce Wayne "adopted" a class of inner-city school...<I>Bruce Wayne "adopted" a class of inner-city school children somewhere in Detective Comics. I've often wondered what happened to them.</I><BR/><BR/>He ate them. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, he went a bit crazier than we thought.Tegan O'Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147357758160236732006-05-11T09:29:00.000-05:002006-05-11T09:29:00.000-05:00Let's see, how about: What was the deal with the w...Let's see, how about: What was the deal with the winged alien Azrael from the New Teen Titans back in the 80s--he just sort of came out of nowhere, and then went back. Or an even bigger dangler from the New Titans: we were assured that Marv Wolfman knew who the seven (supposedly pre-existing) Evil Scientists that made up the ruling council of the HIVE were, but he never seemed to get around to identifying any of them--when the HIVE story wrapped up, we got the bimbo widow of an unnamed leader instead (between her and the Citadel, Marv sure seemed to enjoy putting the "idiot" in "idiot savant"). There must be a dozen X-Men ones, including one about a supporting character who seemed to keep getting killed off everytime he appeared, but never mentioned it when he returned, but I've managed to successful repress most of my memories of those...<BR/><BR/>-MindbenderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147333355009205312006-05-11T02:42:00.000-05:002006-05-11T02:42:00.000-05:00Anyone remember Lena Luthor?No, not Lex's daughter...Anyone remember Lena Luthor?<BR/><BR/>No, not Lex's daughter. The <I>other</I> Lena Luthor. The one which was the physical embodiment of the intelligence that ran the B13 technology and had a fling with Jimmy Olsen. In Superman: Metropolis, or the Chuck Austen Superman story that didn't suck.<BR/><BR/>I think she appeared like, once after that issue, which is too bad, because she was actually interesting.Tom Fosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796424725228769265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147313773384126522006-05-10T21:16:00.000-05:002006-05-10T21:16:00.000-05:00Waid also made it VERY clear that Wally didn't wan...Waid also made it VERY clear that Wally didn't want any of his relatives at his wedding, and invited them only because Linda insisted.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14772087090448461047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147304134543218392006-05-10T18:35:00.000-05:002006-05-10T18:35:00.000-05:00I could swear Johns had Flash saying something abo...I could swear Johns had Flash saying something about how he doesn't really get along with his parents roundabouts when he and Linda were about to announce their pregnancy. I'd be kinda pissed if my kid told something like that to Impulse before me, but to each his own, I guess.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15681540647028985792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147292301722198182006-05-10T15:18:00.000-05:002006-05-10T15:18:00.000-05:00Flash is on of the worst offenders when it comes t...Flash is on of the worst offenders when it comes to dropped supporting cast syndrome. This is bad enough when limited just to the Flash's friends and acquaintances, but when Bill Loebs left the book, Wally's mother went with him, and as far as I can remember she was basically never seen or heard from after that. Maybe in the background at a wedding or something. Not only did Wally never interact with her again, he never really thought about her either. That's just weird.Cole Moore Odellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09041638617925724048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147290478555058792006-05-10T14:47:00.000-05:002006-05-10T14:47:00.000-05:00Seeing Empress in 52 reminded me that her parents ...Seeing Empress in 52 reminded me that her parents are still de-aged to infants. Furthermore, her, Secret, and Arrowette are all sharing a room at Cassie Sandsmark's school. <BR/><BR/>I'd thought of another one earlier today, but like the editors, I can't seem to recall it.Tom Fosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796424725228769265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147287567848661502006-05-10T13:59:00.000-05:002006-05-10T13:59:00.000-05:00Myth and character development are often contradic...Myth and character development are often contradictory forces. <BR/><BR/>For example, I recently tried to re-read my Batman comics from the mid-1990s. Couldn't do it. I just don't care as much about Batman's day-to-day life anymore. I want to see him have the big iconic adventures. A rotating cast of writers tends to keep him closer to the freshness and myth.<BR/><BR/>That being said ... Bruce Wayne "adopted" a class of inner-city school children somewhere in Detective Comics. I've often wondered what happened to them.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984799425896501960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147276817994282182006-05-10T11:00:00.000-05:002006-05-10T11:00:00.000-05:00But both show up in Team Supergirl in last month's...But both show up in Team Supergirl in last month's Superman/Batman, and presumably in the next one too, if it ever publishes.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14772087090448461047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147275445853647012006-05-10T10:37:00.000-05:002006-05-10T10:37:00.000-05:00Supergirl (Cir-El): vanished into a portal and was...Supergirl (Cir-El): vanished into a portal and was immediately forgotten. Assumed dead on no evidence at all. <BR/><BR/>Supergirl (Linda Lee): Retired, posted her costume to Clark Kent (why?). Still super powered but also immediately forgotten.<BR/><BR/>Neither even got a throwaway Earth 12 panel in Un-funite Crisis.Marionettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985975073151200366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147274887476835252006-05-10T10:28:00.000-05:002006-05-10T10:28:00.000-05:00There was this villain in a Batman Secret Files bo...There was this villain in a Batman Secret Files book, who would dress like other criminals and commit crimes. His face was like a skull, IIRC.<BR/>It was an introduction, but I think he never appeared again.Nachohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936798925730475277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147270493963780442006-05-10T09:14:00.000-05:002006-05-10T09:14:00.000-05:00I was hung up for a long time on who Thrust's fath...I was hung up for a long time on who Thrust's father was, from the old Timber Wolf limited series, like two reboots ago. But I've been a long term X-men fan, so I'm used to subplots being resolved the first of never...<BR/> There's lots of questions I'm sure I could find the answers to eventually, I just don't have the energy anymore. Like the Gordon family: is the aforementioned James Jr. retconned into Barbara? Is Bruce Gordon from Eclipso related? Jennifer Morgan appeared in Day of Vengence, is Warlord still in continuity? Why would Alex Luthor know, or care, that Joe Chill was brought to justice? (Sorry, that last one just slipped out.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147269881875900612006-05-10T09:04:00.000-05:002006-05-10T09:04:00.000-05:00Being one of the (apparently) few fans of the Adia...Being one of the (apparently) few fans of the Adian Chase Vigilante, one thing that has bothered me for years is the mystery behind the group that actually brought him back to life and trained him as the Vigilante.<BR/>I asked Marv Wolfman a few years back about this, and he said "I really don't remember."<BR/>Now that's frustrating.<BR/><BR/>Another thing that bugs me... Cameron Chase. Love the character, but pretty much the entire CHASE series was a dangling plot thread that DC never allowed to be resolved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147263641212452702006-05-10T07:20:00.000-05:002006-05-10T07:20:00.000-05:00Where the heck is James Gordon, Jr.? I've seen may...Where the heck is James Gordon, Jr.? I've seen maybe one line of dialogue about him (in a non-flashback tale)since Year One.<BR/><BR/>As mentioned above, Ollie's other son and Shado: where are they now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147236660418239672006-05-09T23:51:00.000-05:002006-05-09T23:51:00.000-05:00Yeah, anyone who thinks Roy Thomas doesn't huff pa...Yeah, anyone who thinks Roy Thomas doesn't huff paint needs to look at his brief Legion run for proof of the huffery.Tegan O'Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147233679710684242006-05-09T23:01:00.000-05:002006-05-09T23:01:00.000-05:00It was Ultra Boy, dressed as Superboy, dressed as ...<I>It was Ultra Boy, dressed as Superboy, dressed as Reflecto.</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, it was Superboy, <I>possessed by the spirit</I> of Ultra Boy, dressed as Reflecto.<BR/><BR/>Well, I didn't say it was a <I>good</I> story. But it did bring Superboy back to the Legion....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147226106095296142006-05-09T20:55:00.000-05:002006-05-09T20:55:00.000-05:00The one that really bugs me is the non-Carol Ferri...The one that really bugs me is the non-Carol Ferris Star Sapphire from the 1970s Secret Society of Super-Villains.<BR/><BR/>Who the hell was she?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147222575548803042006-05-09T19:56:00.000-05:002006-05-09T19:56:00.000-05:00Back in the mid-80s "Moench" era of the Bat-books,...Back in the mid-80s "Moench" era of the Bat-books, there was a renaissance of villainy, and many of the infrequent C-listers (Cat-Man, Calendar Man, Mr. Freeze) were getting attention.<BR/><BR/>I distinctly remember a letter column where a fan asked when Killer Moth would make an appearance, and the editor (Len Wein?) swore that major plans were afoot for ol' Killer.<BR/><BR/>Sadly, those ideas bore fruit, and KM didn't make an appearance until he got jobbed out in <I>Batman #400</I>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1147217784464756982006-05-09T18:36:00.000-05:002006-05-09T18:36:00.000-05:00It was Ultra Boy, dressed as Superboy, dressed as ...It was Ultra Boy, dressed as Superboy, dressed as Reflecto.<BR/><BR/>And, even though he never used the codename, I'm sure that the SW6ers would eventually have gotten around to pinning it onto Devlin.<BR/><BR/>Do "intentional" danglers count? Because we still don't know why Morpheus was so weak as to be captured by the order, or what caused Delight to become Delirium, or any of the story with the first Despair...Jeff R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00893541435938915895noreply@blogger.com