tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post4811692403331702266..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: More Fun with FACESScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-40760126120920368122021-04-05T18:11:09.913-05:002021-04-05T18:11:09.913-05:00No theoretically amusing comments relating the Hoo...No theoretically amusing comments relating the Hoover link to the present-day controversy about taking Hoover's name off of FBI HQ, I see. Okay.<br /><br />"A robot dinosaur won't fit in an armoire."<br /><br />A TINY robot dinosaur will. And you just KNOW that there's some villain, somewhere, who at some point sent tiny robot dinosaurs out to commit crimes.<br />cybridhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788036470551505985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-25975254378417087732021-04-03T20:33:52.704-05:002021-04-03T20:33:52.704-05:00A robot dinosaur won't fit in an armoire.A robot dinosaur won't fit in an armoire.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-58063735103050236952021-04-03T20:32:15.894-05:002021-04-03T20:32:15.894-05:00"has no reason to know who Angel is"
....."has no reason to know who Angel is"<br /><br />... I had to think about that.<br /><br />But -- in fact -- Ollie hasn't EVEN SEEN PROFESSOR ANGEL'S FACE.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-79854903743403490752021-04-03T11:13:19.127-05:002021-04-03T11:13:19.127-05:00So Batman has ROBOT DINOSAUR as a trophy, and Gree...So Batman has ROBOT DINOSAUR as a trophy, and Green Arrow has ... someone else's Equity card? <br /><br />I think that tells us all we need to know about the relative merits of Batman and Green Arrow. Bryan Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04358102127982954750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-27067342290257510282021-04-03T09:34:36.891-05:002021-04-03T09:34:36.891-05:00These stories must be Ollie retelling them at a ba...These stories must be Ollie retelling them at a bar years later, because it really feels like he had no idea that he was involved in a crime, has no reason to know who Angel is, and certainly wouldn't know that he was off the streets. I propose going back in time to change that coda to "that's right, if it weren't for that card, Roy, we would've climbed into the carnage to claw our new tires from the cold, dead hands of caravan security guards and gone home instead of crashing that fun charity event. And did you see the papers? Apparently J. Edgar flipped his wig and was gunned down in Another City when he pulled a gun officers who just wanted his autograph."<br /><br />The mention of saving Bright from the CW reminds me, though, that 1942 was also the year that <i>original</i> "fourth network" Dumont launched. It seems weird that, for the wide variety of shows they tried out, none of them were costumed vigilantes. And for a cheap knockoff like Green Arrow, I can't think of a better network than "let's film everything in our own offices and maybe hang some hubcaps on the wall for science fiction shows" Dumont...John Chttps://john.colagioia.net/noreply@blogger.com