tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post243687750852871716..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: Why We Hate Adam Strange and RanniesScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-54311580283365566192007-10-04T23:58:00.000-05:002007-10-04T23:58:00.000-05:00Gyuss Baaltar said... Am I the only one who keeps ...Gyuss Baaltar said... <BR/>Am I the only one who keeps misreding Adam Strange and the Rannies> as something else? <BR/><BR/>Dunno 'bout that, but I can remember way way back to the days when the Rawhide Kid was straight, and his derogatory term for outlaws (when he wasn't calling them "owlhoots") was, yes, "rannies." Not until now did I suspect the philological derivation of this term.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-79823356924668748872007-09-29T06:40:00.000-05:002007-09-29T06:40:00.000-05:00Ranagar is the name of the capital city on Rann. ...Ranagar is the name of the capital city on Rann. Originally not related at all to Thanagar...Marcoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00170588816722651862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-45624381565423487352007-09-26T18:52:00.000-05:002007-09-26T18:52:00.000-05:00Polaris? Who lives there?Why, Polar Boy, of course...<I>Polaris? Who lives there?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Why, Polar Boy, of course.</I><BR/><BR/>Good one!<BR/><BR/>Question: If a man from Poland is a Pole, what is a man from Holland?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-80070160684682258622007-09-26T16:27:00.001-05:002007-09-26T16:27:00.001-05:00Am I the only one who keeps misreding Adam Strang...Am I the only one who keeps misreding Adam Strange and the <I>Rannies></I> as something else? I've really got a wrong video collection.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08558559691963639123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-41904025572645407072007-09-26T16:27:00.000-05:002007-09-26T16:27:00.000-05:00I have almost all the stories in Archive format an...I have almost all the stories in Archive format and I still almost bought the Showcase. <BR/><BR/>Yes they are crazy to the point of being evil.<BR/><BR/>Yes the Rannians are Super Feeble.<BR/><BR/>Yes the things he fights defy explanation.<BR/><BR/>But the man is just cool! He beat Herculese with Judo! Coated himself in various metals and fought aliens with killer vaccums! Fought the Tornado Tyrant!<BR/><BR/>Then again I AM crazy. So, much like a Bizzaro, it's possible every thing I love is the exact opposite of Fantastic.<BR/><BR/>I mean I squee with joy over Hellstorm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-64615611348763982552007-09-26T14:58:00.000-05:002007-09-26T14:58:00.000-05:00idjust use a jetpack for me!want to trade links wi...idjust use a jetpack for me!<BR/><BR/>want to trade links with my humor blog? check it out at http://jaysmoney.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/>if you want to trade post my link then contact me back.<BR/>thanks!Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04479640289038431760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-12245950711158983572007-09-26T14:47:00.000-05:002007-09-26T14:47:00.000-05:00Polaris? Who lives there?Why, Polar Boy, of course...<I>Polaris? Who lives there?</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Why, Polar Boy, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-91942244591316845922007-09-26T13:41:00.000-05:002007-09-26T13:41:00.000-05:00A triple-sun with a stable planetary system?Actual...<I>A triple-sun with a stable planetary system?</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, it <I>is</I> possible. Take a look at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-115.<BR/><BR/>Ajit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-48819654035151693402007-09-26T11:52:00.000-05:002007-09-26T11:52:00.000-05:00Polaris? Who lives there?Why, the Polish, of cours...<I>Polaris? Who lives there?</I><BR/><BR/>Why, the Polish, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-2840955182517536152007-09-26T11:47:00.000-05:002007-09-26T11:47:00.000-05:00They wouldn't wait for Adam Strange to save them. ...They wouldn't wait for Adam Strange to save them. First, Sardath, the sole repository of science for the planet, would have to invent something that would make the danger 100x worse.<BR/>Then Adam Strange would fly in for the save.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-80172092125635629572007-09-26T11:44:00.000-05:002007-09-26T11:44:00.000-05:00It was called Ranagar before the planets were comb...It was called Ranagar before the planets were combined? Wait. Thanagar was destroyed and the Thanagarians did move onto Rann? Apparently I have no clue what happened in the Rann-Thanagar War, and it's barely been 2 years since I read it. Now I have a headache.Patrick Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04244280974612331889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-84234310164874897112007-09-26T11:18:00.000-05:002007-09-26T11:18:00.000-05:00Polaris? Who lives there?Polaris? Who lives there?Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-31025190315102136422007-09-26T09:59:00.000-05:002007-09-26T09:59:00.000-05:00A triple-sun with a stable planetary system?Polari...<I>A triple-sun with a stable planetary system?</I><BR/><BR/>Polaris is a triple-sun system too, so that's a problem not exclusive to Rann.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1368271311354810302007-09-26T07:56:00.000-05:002007-09-26T07:56:00.000-05:00A triple-sun with a stable planetary system? I can...<I>A triple-sun with a stable planetary system? I can barely type that without stuttering in indignation for Gardner Fox's mockery of science!<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>To be fair, Adam Strange was hardly the sole repository of Silver-Age pseudo-science.<BR/>According to the Legion of Super-Heroes, a triple sun could not only support a planetary system, but endow any inhabits of its planet with the ability to split themselves into three beings!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-50927839245722184542007-09-26T07:35:00.000-05:002007-09-26T07:35:00.000-05:00Wait- "Ranagar?" That explains so much.It seems th...Wait- "Ranagar?" That explains so much.<BR/><BR/>It seems that manly Thanagar and boy-ly Rann were once combined, USSR-style, into a single planet. <BR/><BR/>No wonder they've gone to war- people who can't open doors hate to be associated with people who can't change lightbulbs. Those other DC space-societies, ignorant of everything outside their orbits, must have gone for decades thinking "Ranagar" was some sort of real planet without distinct cultures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-40882379597990392902007-09-26T01:11:00.000-05:002007-09-26T01:11:00.000-05:00Please forgive my naivete (I like to think of it a...Please forgive my naivete (I like to think of it as something closer to charming innocence) but if we are to truly to believe that you, Scipio Garling, hate Adam Strange and the world he protects to the degree that you claim, what possessed you to buy and then read a 510 page book that would then cause you nothing but frustration and misery?<BR/><BR/>J'accuse!<BR/><BR/>Methinks thou doth protest too much, Mr. Garling! Much like the unusually vocal homophobe whose anti-gay rhetoric is merely a pathetic ruse to disguise his own man-on-man lusts, your anti-Rannian protests are rank with the odor of hidden desire.<BR/><BR/>Tell the truth! Deep down in your heart, you know that you yourself are a Rannie! Don't be ashamed! Tell the world and free yourself from this terrible burden! Sure it will be hard and you risk the loss of your friends and family, but in so doing you will be embraced by new friends and start a new family with the "dirty stinking rannies" you once claimed to abhor.<BR/><BR/>Don't just do it for yourself, but for all of the other closeted Rannians out there who look to The Absorbascon as a role model and who will greatly benefit from your heroic example.<BR/><BR/>I just ask that after you do, you stay away from me, because if there's one thing I can't stand its those terrible, filthy Rannians and everything they represent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-35728654312285307382007-09-26T00:42:00.000-05:002007-09-26T00:42:00.000-05:00Stinking Rannies... it's like the opposit of that ...Stinking Rannies... it's like the opposit of that planet in Darkwing Duck where everybody was a superhero except for Normal Guy. whose sole purpose was to be rescued by the rest of the planetary population.MaGnUshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351888054411049033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-12343823705585642942007-09-25T23:17:00.000-05:002007-09-25T23:17:00.000-05:00"Enfeebled." BWAH!I guess Rann is an ideal settin..."Enfeebled." BWAH!<BR/><BR/>I guess Rann is an ideal setting for a power fantasy like "Adam Strange": a whole planet populated by nothing but victims. I'm guessing their legal system is tied up with class action nuisance suits, their hospitals are choked with hypochondriacs, and their top-rated game show is "Who's More Deferential?"Jeremy Rizzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08480479249595700846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-34914010509020134492007-09-25T21:25:00.000-05:002007-09-25T21:25:00.000-05:00See, me? I'd just take its jetpack for myself.See, me? I'd just take its jetpack for myself.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14326906935557548236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-79997002550249916682007-09-25T21:02:00.000-05:002007-09-25T21:02:00.000-05:00To be fair, if I had been given the opprotunity to...To be fair, if I had been given the opprotunity to have a life sized wind up toy complete with jetpack, I'd have jumped out of windows all day to be rescued by it.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08558559691963639123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-49746805228405697052007-09-25T20:48:00.000-05:002007-09-25T20:48:00.000-05:00That's just pathetic.Children play with them makin...That's just pathetic.<BR/><BR/><B><I>Children play with them making believe "you're" saving them from one danger or another!</B></I><BR/><BR/>Yick. For the kids who identified with Lois Lane falling out of skyscrapers...argh.simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16548192000865786179noreply@blogger.com