To: Hawkeye's Girl
Superman will -always- be cool. Ditto for Captain America (at least, before Marvel turned him into an anti-American leftist wuss.)
2 posted on
05/10/2004 12:12:06 PM PDT by
TheBigB
(My posts are full of ironic sarcasm. Or sarcastic irony. Whatever'll keep you from gettin' PO'd.)
To: TheBigB
Amen.
3 posted on
05/10/2004 12:12:27 PM PDT by
ECM
To: TheBigB
Superman will -always- be cool. Two words, "Christopher Reeve."
12 posted on
05/10/2004 12:25:34 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: TheBigB
He debuted in the 1930s, when Americans liked their heroes like they liked their steaks: tough, thick and all-American. He was rejected in the thirties as too "Arian" i.e. neo-nazi, perhaps you are all too young to remember.
To: TheBigB
Oddly enough, the 'Ultimates' repackaging of the Avengers has a Cap I prefer to the 'classic' (read: leftist wuss) Cap.
The 'Ultimate' Cap is a tactically brilliant soldier (they borrow a bit, I think, from DC's depiction of Batman), with backup plans for every contingency.
He's a bit tougher than 'classic' CA. He takes down the Hulk (admittedly somewhat weaker, again, than 'classic' hulk) with a kick in the ol' nether regions. Hulk gets back up, but still...
Best caption from the Ultimates run: Cap in fight to death with shape shifting alien, who's pounding him quite nicely, till alien tells him all he wants is to hear him say 'I surrender.' Nice flurry of hand to hand, followed by slamming shield THROUGH aliens gut (slicing him rather messily in half), while yelling "You think this letter on my head stands for FRANCE?!"
Hey. I thought it was funny...
= )
58 posted on
05/10/2004 3:52:13 PM PDT by
Mr. Thorne
("But iron, cold iron, shall be master of them all..." Kipling)
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