Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5

Ewwwww.

Look, it's Red Hulk. Oh wait, it's just Green Hulk with no skin, and bleeding a lot.

Thanks for the hint on that one. New Q soon.

You're welcome.

One of the Hulk's allies says, "Somebody get him 10 gallons of Bactine!"

yikes! sounds gross and painful

and also, Giant Hulk bits flapping around... eek!

Grand Guignol -- it's not just an overlong Starman storyline.

little

Soon is clearly subjective. New Q when I next get to my funny books.

Who enabled the world's governments access to the Avengers, where they kidnapped and dismantled The Vision?

Mockingbird, that dastardly damsel!

(I actually am one of those readers that feel that she was hard done by, by both the comic characters and the writers in following years.)

Got it one stile.

In a text piece of the trade I'm reading, Byrne says that he really likes The Scarlet Witch. Then proceeds to make her a focal point for a number of stories that don't go well for her.

He always hurts the ones he loves, I guess

He was very keen on bringing the original Doom Patrol back.

To be hurt again! and again!

A Doom Patrol/ Phoenix crossover would have been high on his to do list.

Don't forget that Byrne wrote Reed and Sue's second child being stillborn. It was 19 years later that other writers retconned this to have Franklin save her to be eventually born as Valeria. Byrne does very well at writing tragedy as well as triumph.

Superman is fighting a strange being calling herself Supergirl who thinks he must be a villainous Kryptonian escaped from the Phantom Zone. Realising she comes from a different Earth/dimension, how does he shock her memories back?

Hypnotizes her?

Introduces her to Lex Luthor who was a hero in her world?

Thoth has it.

This was Byrne's reuse of the Pocket Universe where that Lex Luthor, with the best of intentions, accidentally released from the Phantom Zone three Kryptonian criminals who decided the best way to subdue a rebellious populous was to kill everyone. Genius. Luthor empowered a handful of heroic survivors such as Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen and created a protoplasmic matrix lifeform using Lana Lang as a template who would become Matrix Supergirl. Matrix is sent to recruit the main Superman but is confused on waking and ends up fighting him (of course). After figuring out where she must come from, part of Superman's way to shock her memories back is to show her Metropolis still standing and introduce her to his Lex Luthor. She then takes him back with her to his world where he helps in the fight against the Kryptonian criminals, eventually defeating him but being the only one left alive. As the only remaining source of justice in that universe he executes them and returns to his universe, taking a slowly reforming Matrix with him. His guilt over his actions lead to him leaving Earth, encountering Warworld and Mongul, and returning with the Eradicator device which will ultimately play a vital role in his later resurrection.

That adventure is still controversial but I did like how the consequences continued to play out for years and years to follow.

Thanks for the background stile. I hadn't been aware of he later implications, having stopped reading it. Back to the comic boxes for a new Q shortly...

Which Batman character became an early part of Checkmate?

King Faraday?

Not King Faraday

Amanda Waller?

Nope. This would be before Amanda Waller, is someone tied to Gotham more than I recall her being.

Valentina Vostok?

Nope. This is much more of a Batman related character.