Reposted ( and longer ) Superman Saturday

Sometimes I get a bit carried away with my posts, because I keep adding to them and adding to them and all just because I´m too lazy to do a new post. The thing is I want to keep my blog a bit diverse so I want there to be at least four posts on the first page instead of the two that are now there. So here is the Superman stuff that has gotten really long reposted again. Mainly because it alliterates with Saturday.

I also put the Power Girl cosplay in here to put it higher in the blog. Gotta pimp the Power Girl cosplayers dude.

IT´S THAT OLD FEELING OF SUPER DEJA VUE AGAIN

Like I promised in my last post here´s the second part of hommage pictures of Action Comics 1. The first one is one of Image´s Superman clones who was an interesting concept when Ed McGuiness was drawing him and they let him do the things DC was afraid to do with Superman. In this story they sadly destroyed everything to make him unique and even gave him a secret identity although there was no need for that.

I just don´t understand why some writers are so hellbent on forcing secret identities on characters even if it makes absolutely no sense. Like when Dan Jurgens gave Thor another unnecessary secret identity after Walter Simonson finally got rid of all the Donald Blake stuff. Oh the humanity.

Back to Image´s Superman clones the more successful one was Supreme especially once Alan Moore got his hands on him and did all the things they didn´t let him get away with at DC. Okay, there was one story that included the boring " guy travels backwards in time and becomes his own origin story " that has been already done to death and was extremely annoying when the Flash went back in time and caused his own origin. But you have to forgive this one blunder in an otherwise fabulous run.

And there´s even a wonderful homage cover to the first issue of Superman´s selftitled book by Jerry Ordway on issue 41 of Supreme.

 

Back to the homage covers of Action Comics 1.

Here´s Wonder Woman doing her version of the pose although it´s slightly changed in that she´s coming out of the water.

Another homage this time a variant cover by Dale Eaglesham for JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA which is rather clever since Damage is catching the car not lifting it. I don´t know if he could. It´s from issue 8 which is part of the brilliant THY KINGDOM COME storyline, one of THE best stories of the JSA and of Geoff Johns. I know he´s getting a lot of flack for the stuff he´s currently writing ( you know, reading this and FINAL CRISIS - LEGION OF THREE WORLDS it´s almost impossible to believe it´s the same guy who was one of the main architects of the NEW 52 train wreck ) but if you want to check him out in his prime read THY KINGDOM COME.

If you want to know more about the story you can read my post on it .

Here´s Spidey riffing on The Man of Tomorrows coat tails - or better cape tails. I find it interesting that Spider - Man´s strength never has been so much in the foreground like with Superman. I mean, he can easily throw around cars with his proportionate spiderstrength but you never see him do that. Mostly you see him going up against supervillains so it´s difficult to get a good grip on how powerful he really is. Which means that when he´s throwing around cars people are surprised.

And from one Todd McFarlane picture to another here´s Todd´s own creation fooling around with a car. I don´t have this issue in my collection because - I think - my last issue of the title was 200. And that was mostly because nothing was happening in the single issues and I got tired of waiting around for the big anniversary issues for stuff to happen. You know, that´s one of the things I liked with Marvel comics, that the really important stuff didn´t always happen in the issues 25, 50 or 100. And they took the anniversary issues to look back on the history or such.

Okay, not a lot I can say about this one since I never read any of the BUFFY comics except Joss Whedon´s FRAY. I´m a huge fan of Buffy and the Angel spin off series so I probably SHOULD be reading them since the tv series continue in comic form. Somehow never gotten around to it.

Maybe when I have watched the two seasons of ANGEL I have lying in my to watch pile. I got them at one of the " 2 seasons for 20 Euros " sales of amazon and mainly got them because of Charisma Carpenter who plays Cordelia and has some nice outfits in the second season.

This one is Walt Disney´s Super Goof - at least I think it is. In Germany he´s just called Supergoofy and all I remember from him is that he got his superpowers from eating some special peanuts. Kind of the first superhero doping case I got aware of. What a great example for the kids.

Here´s one with everyone´s favorite sailor from the new IDW series which I think ended with issue 12. At least that´s the last issue I saw of it at my online comicshop. I really can´t say if it was any good because I only got issues 6 and 12 which were drawn by Roger Langridge. I just love his stuff like the brilliant SNARKED mini series or his THOR - THE MIGHTY AVENGER of which - incidentially the complete trade is right now available at amazon Germany for a measly 12 bucks.

This is one from this year´s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY but I don´t think you´ll read about it in my posts about this year´s issues.

I have no idea from where this is. The name Nodwick sounds familiar but I´m just drawing a blank here.

The same here. The only thing I can say is that by the price tag it´s obviously a british publication. Maybe Terry Hooper can help me out.

Another unknown series. The art looks interesting though.

And with this last one - also from parts unkown - we come to the end of this new intallment of the hugely popular ( at least I hope it is ) DEJA VUE section. If you have any information about the unknown covers or have any homages to Action Comics 1 that I have missed please let me know.

BEST POWER GIRL COSPLAYERS UPDATE

Time to make a lot of my readers happy with another section about one of those incredibly talented and sexy cosplayers I never meet because I don´t go to comic conventions. Or rather the return of a very popular one. Some of my longtime readers may remember that I posted a picture of Power Girl cosplayer  lady_wolf_star with a link to some other pictures.

She´s my current number 1 of Power Girl cosplayers because she really knows how to fill out her costume ( especially the magical cleavage window !!! ) proving that such women DO exist in the real world.

Now apparently she has some new pages under the name of Vegas PG or it could be her sexy twin. Anyway here is her facebook page the photosteam with dozens of pictures and here´s a website with a few selected pictures . I also found an interview with her on J1studios .Here are a few pictures of her and let me tell you it was really difficult to get it down to five. I especially like her new costume design for Supergirl. Daym, girl !

And here we are back to Power Girl again with the classic pose. Perfect costume - like it´s supposed to look - and all I can say is : Brritzki.

This picture kind of reminds me of Alex Ross´ cover for JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA although the hair is a bit different.

This last one has more of an Amanda Conner vibe to it with the trademark Power Girl snark and her goods almost popping out.

So why are you still reading this ? Click on those links already, check out the plethora of hot or funny pics and like her on facebook.

And once again we´re at the end. I thought about adding more Power Girl stuff to the post but the goal is to make the posts shorter but more frequent. And I think it´s better to post Power Girl in small doses to prevent my more sensitive readers from getting massive nosebleeds.

So instead of taking time to get some much needed rest I just spent most of this day ( I also watched the three episodes of SUPERNATURAL I taped from last week ) after work at the laptop writing not one post but splitting one post into two and adding a lot of new material.

Yes, the burden of writing a blog and being a perfectionist. So I don´t know what my next post will be about. It could be about FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2013 which is a post I already prepared - or I could write about another of the few series at Marvel I´m still reading to get some kind of balance here. Judging from the last handful of posts a new reader might get the impression that the guy writing this stuff is some kind of diehard DC nut but it´s not that. The thing is after I mentioned ALL NEW X - MEN in my last post I ordered DAREDEVIL by Mark Waid volume 5 from amazon because it´s at 13 bucks right now. So that may be my next topic.

 

Since this post was in grand part about cosplaying I want to include this video that was brought to my attention by Terry Hooper from Comic Bits Online ( You DO know that his new blog is here , don´t you ? ) that just shows cosplaying at the highest level : JLA versus Avengers. Enjoy !



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If a banker comes to you with a favor check your wallet before you leave.

Some public announcement stuff

This is now the second time the I´ve gotten a note by the DMCA that my post RECOMMENDATIONS - HORROR AND UNDERGROUND has been deleted due to possible copyright infringement.

The problem is that I don´t know which part of the post - if there really is any - is to blame and so far it has been impossible to get that info. So this goes out to the person who made the claim : there is my e - mail info on the blog and if you want something send ME an e - mail. I´m sure we can fix this. And if this is just a prank - dude, don´t you have anything better to do with your time ? Really ?

STOLEN IDENTITY - FOR REAL

By the way, I just came across this blog called greenz9 who totally copied all my posts until Friday, November the 4th 2011 which was my post about POP CULTURE TV SIREN MARKIE POST . It´s really one of my favorite posts and number six on the favorite posts according to my readers.

I don´t know why the person doing this stopped, maybe because he also included the backlinks to my top ten posts and people found out that this here was the real blog and he was just trying to rip off people. Or maybe it turned into too much work. What I do know is that he still has the first version on the blog while I have redone the post various times. I have update all old links I used and deleted the ones that don´t work anymore but he still has all that on the website. Anyway, the guy may even have been sending more readers my way. So accept no substitutes for the one and only, the true blue, the golden oldy done without the influence of pharmaceutical products ( at least for the most part ) TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN. Like Connor McCloud said : " There can be only one. "

THE NEXT STEP OF COMIC PRICE INCREASE : X MARKS THE SPOT

Some of you out there may have already noticed, but comics have become more expensive again. The only reason I´m mentioning it at all is that it happened kind of through the backdoor so you may not be aware of it.

There is a kind of rhythm to the comic industry and if you have been reading comics as long as I have you know the patterns. This is not the first time prices have increased over the last three decades and it will not be the last. The same things happen over and over again and the steps are always the same. First there will be a price increase that will be accompanied with added content like DC did before going back to the 2.99 mark. Then there will come the time when the increased price - in our case that´s 3.99 which is now the price for most books - will be the standard for the old content which means the usual 21 to 22 pages. And then the page count will go down to 20 or less pages for the 3.99 price because otherwise the companies couldn´t produce the comics we love.

Another step is that ultimately prices for collected editions will go up and collections will contain less issues for the regular price. This has NOW come to pass with my recently acquired hardcovers of ALL NEW X - MEN.

With this series I waited for the hardcovers since I heard so much good about it from various sources on the internet like Comikbookgirl19.

One of the first things I noticed was that while it is still priced at 25 bucks it only contains 5 issues of the regular series instead of the standard 6. Now you may say that there are some collections out there where 5 issues for 25 bucks have always been the standard like - for example - Stephen King´s THE DARK TOWER which I am reading. But you have to keep in mind that when the series started the standard price for issues was 2.99 and to justify the astronomic price of 3.99 - at least at that time - Marvel offered an increased value by producing high end issues with better quality paper, hard, cardbox covers and extra content in the form of illustrated text pieces to give the readers more info about the world of The Dark Tower. So while there were only 5 issues the page count could be compared to the other collections that contained 6 issues.

Now in ALL NEW X - MEN not only are there only 5 issues in the trades, each issue only has 20 pages. Don´t get me wrong, the book is all that it was promised and more.The story really grabs you instantly and putting the original X - Men in it is a stroke of genius by Brian Michael Bendis especially for readers who have been absent from the title for many years. They see the world of the X - Men through the eyes of the mutant teenagers who just want to know what the hell happened to Xavier´s dream. And don´t get me started on Stuart Immomen who is firing on all cylinders here, especially in issue 5 where he does some wonderful collages taking a stroll down memory lane through Jean Grey´s history.

Isn´t his cover for issue 5 just absolutely brilliant ? Very Dark Phoenix.

No, don´t get me wrong. ALL NEW X - MEN is a good book, in fact it´s so good that when I finished with the first volume I read it all over again. I don´t think that will be the case with the second volume because the issues by guest artist David Marquez just don´t look as good.

Here are some previews to check out more of the art : issue 1 / issue 3

issue 4 / issue 5 ( unlettered ) / issue 6 / issue 7 / issue 8 ( unlettered )

issue 8 / issue 9 ( unlettered ) / issue 9 / issue 10

Anyway, with the way things are going at Marvel right now we need some good books bad ( I think the only other Marvel title I read on a regular basis is FF ) and while this series delivers it´s just sad that with the constant AR crap popping up we also have to endure a page cut.

Another change in the hardcovers is that instead of the usual logo imprinted book with a wraparound dust jacket we now get a regular cover that´s printed directly on the cover which looks kind of matt. Which is not that big a deal and may be done to stop prices from going even higher but it still looks odd compared to the rest of my Marvel hardcovers. In any case, I got my copies from amazon when they were at 16 bucks but for all out there who have to pay the full price I wanted to get the information out there so you know what you´re going into. I can totally recommend the title but I´m really not that happy with the way it´s presented. In a struggling economy like we are having Today it´s really unbelievable that while other industries like the car industry lower prices drastically and give huge incentives the comic book industry is the only one that increases prices. And it´s not like comics are vital like water or food.

NEW INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE PEREZ AND DAVE MCKEAN

I think I might have mentioned it before that George Perez has signed an exclusive with BOOM ! Studios. Maybe not. Anyway, here´s a new video interview courtesy of CBR TV :



I just can´t wait to see his new books.

There´s also a new interview with longtime Sandman collaborator Dave McKean. I´m also really excited about reading the last untold Sandman story Neil Gaiman is doing for VERTIGO.



I don´t know if I already told the story ( judging by my bad memory I probably did and forgot about it or I wanted to, didn´t and thought I already did ) but back in the last century I was standing in line to get an autograph of Neil Gaiman at one of the first comic conventions in Erlangen where I went to get sketches by artists for myself.

Now I didn´t expect Neil to do any drawings, I just wanted to tell him how much i liked his book and I wanted to ask him a question. With the years I have come to learn that you better don´t buy the new books three to four months prior to Erlangen because in some cases you have to buy something to get comics signed or for a sketch. So when it was my turn Neil just asked me who my favorite character from the comic was and then he started to make a drawing into my little sketchbook. Back then I had my little sketchbook which lead me to get a big one because some artists just didn´t put as much effort into it like with the people before me or after me only because my sketchbook was smaller. And it was totally not fair since I was standing in line as long as the guy before me.

Anyway, the woman from the german publisher told Neil that he was not supposed to do sketches and only sign the books that people bought at the booth to which he replied that he had already started and was going to finish it anyway. The woman then told me I had to buy something and since there is always some VERTIGO book you haven´t bought I got the BLACK ORCHID trade where Neil Gaiman revamped the character.

That´s how I got an original death sketch from Neil Gaiman, it´s how I got my BLACK ORCHID trade and that is sadly also the story how I totally forgot to ask Neil Gaiman that all important question.

Where the hell did Morpheus come back from in issue 1 that he was so weak he could be captured ?

I ´m not the most attentive reader and I didn´t read the series in chronological order so I might have just overlooked it or forgotten. I might have made a total fool of myself if I had asked and the answer would have been obvious. The fact was in issue 1 Morpheus is captured because he was very weakened and he´s wearing his traveling gear so either he was going somewhere which left him weakened which made no sense. Or he was returning from somewhere and whatever he experienced there weakened him a lot. Well, it seems that was the ONE dangling question that was never explained and now Neil Gaiman is coming back to Vertigo, coming back to Sandman to unravel that last mystery.

Neil Gaiman announces SANDMAN OVERTURE

Neil on SANDMAN OVERTURE and The Ocean at the End of the Lane

MISFITS OF SCIENCE OR MISFITS OF NATURE ?

Since I´m recommending things I wanted to plug a tv series most of my readers probably already know about since I´m always the last one to arrive the party. It seems the british television guys have done it again.

People from my generation may remember the tv series MISFITS OF SCIENCE but the new tv series about teenage superheroes is nothing like that. Just titled MISFITS the show that could be really bad but is just awesome is about a group of five youths who are on probation and have to do community service. And while they are doing just that they get hit by lightning and acquire super powers. Hey, it worked on SMALLVILLE.

Anyway, like most good tv series it was shown on german tv by one of the new tv stations like RTL Nitro or somesuch and - also like usual - two or three episodes at a time after midnight. And then they say it didn´t find an audience with german viewers like they did with SEINFELD.Back to MISFITS, since I saw an episode from the second season I was interested but the DVDs were just too expensive, especially since the season 1 only consist of six episodes and season 2 of seven. I was a bit hesitant when I saw the first season for ten Euros but when I found the first two seasons for seven bucks at a drugstore in Ludwigsburg I just grabbed them.

Now as I said, the seasons are short compared to other series like BONES or HAWAII FIVE - O with its 20 plus episodes but it´s still worth it. The series reminded me a bit of Doctor Who because in 45 minutes of an episode happens more than in ten episodes of german television. The characters are really original, totally believable and the super powers are used in interesting ways. Also, if you can please do watch it in the original version. As with most episodes of Doctor Who it can be kind of difficult to understand sometimes but it´s so much better in english.

MISFITS is action packed, it´s mysterious, it´s funny, it´s definitely sexy, it´s rude, well, in short it´s a rollercoaster hell of a ride and you´re really missing out if you haven´t seen it. If the label " must see tve " was ever appropiate then here. Check it out because SUBZERO said so !

Last but not least I wanted to mention movie cult siren Raquel Welch who celebrates her 73rd birthday Today. It´s been a while since our last celebrity birthday and one of those days I will get to do a post about her.

But for now that´s all for this post. Maybe next time we will get to the FREE COMIC BOOK DAY comics of 2013. It´s something I really want to write about but other things come up and I keep on postponing it and I want to get it done so I can select the ones which are going into the next big free comic giveaway which will probably be the Christmas shinding. In any case, as it´s almost one o´clock after midnight so it´s high time to finally bring this baby to a close. I´m going to get me some beer from the fridge ( which should have the right temperature by now and Yes, that means cold ) and watch the next episode of MISFITS before sleep.

Since I already gave a recommendation to ALL NEW X - MEN in this post Today´s inevitable video at the end of the post is the Comicbookgirl19 MARVEL NOW episode which also covers the other new x - books.



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Magneto threw a bicycle at me.

The overdue Deja Vue from my last post

As you may have noticed there haven´t been a lot of posts in the last few weeks since I didn´t write as much in my kind - of - two - week - vacation as I expected. So much for increasing my posting quota.

But there were some things I had kept off too long - like sleeping or getting rid of a lot of the trash that has piled up on the laptop - so that took priority. Not that things got easier once I had to work again.

Quite the opposite. Sometimes I really think that fate is against me - or at least my mother. I don´t want to say that she´s some kind of evil genius who always tries to spoil my plans for those few days when I don´t have to work. But it can´t be coincidence that every time I´m ready to write a new post or at least relax from the hard work she always finds something for me to do instead. Maybe it´s just me but I absolutely love it when my Mom - or any other member of my family - seems to be unable to notice when I´m doing something. Like when I´m sitting at the laptop doing stuff and she comes in and starts talking and then there´s this super duper important thing that I have to do right now. Because I´m not doing anything right now, or at least nothing important.

And that not only happens when I´m doing stuff you could argue not everybody sees as important. My mother always nags that I have to clean my room more often but the last time I did it there were these important phone calls I had to make and it took a few hours and in the end I didn´t get to finish cleaning my room until a few days later. Like hello ? Or last Wednesday. Since I don´t work on Thursday and Friday that´s practically my weekend so I like to prepare all the stuff I´m going to need the next few days so I don´t have to leave the house. I like to stay at home on my free days and do marathon sessions of watching BONES, THE MENTALIST or - my newest acquisition MISFITS. I like to stay indoors mostly.

So I had stocked up on snacks and ice cream, the fridge was full with cold bottles of beer ( I have now switched from BECKS Green Lemon to what I call " the beer for all old railway workers " BECKS ICE which is lime and mint flavored and a bit sweeter ), I had new seasons of SMALLVILLE, BIG BANG THEORY and BOARDWALK EMPIRE on my desk and my last two comic orders from amazon and one of my online comicshops had just arrived.

I was ready to go for two days of debauchery and comic reading, comic arranging, writing about comics and doing all those things to recharge the batteries when I came home and there was one of the usual catastrophes waiting for me. So in the end I didn´t get to do anything I had planned, the two days came and went super quickly and before I knew it I had to work again and I haven´t had a chance to catch my breath until - well, until Today basically. And since I have to work Tomorrow I can only do a short post. I had intended to do a post about the FREE COMIC BOOK DAY issues of this year because as I mentioned my last comic order from one of my online pulp peddler just arrived last week. I didn´t get to do a post about FREE COMIC BOOK DAY last year but the one I did in 2009 seems to be be pretty popular since it´s at the top of this blogs list of popular posts. Although that may have something to do with the picture of Power Girl having a wardrobe malfunction. They seem to be pretty popular too.

( Here is the link to the picture below by elee0228. But I have to warn my more sensitive readers, there´s some nude stuff in the gallery. Which you can only see if you´re logged in so that can be avoided easily. )

Back to Todays post, in my last post I didn´t get to include the obligatory Deja Vue section which I´m doing now. Since it was all about Superman I thought it only appropiate to do an installment with one of the Man of Steel´s iconic covers and what could be more iconic than the one that started it all. Not only the rise of Superman but the superhero genre which was non existent before ACTION COMIC 1.

Back then Superman was not a allpowerful as he later would become which ultimately lead to such extremes where he could move entire planets.

When he first appeared on the scene he was " only " faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap small buildings in a single bound so lifting a car high over his head was a big deal. And since it was such a huge success he did it again ( although this time without doing any harm to the vehicle because of the passengers involved ) on the cover of SUPERMAN 19.

Here´s another cover, this time setting the whole scene in the future. This was in the DOMINUS storyline when Superman was scattered through four different timelines, one for each Superman title. Happy times, folks.

The image was also used for the anniversary issue of ACTION COMICS 800, although in this case seen from a different perspective.

Alex Ross also took that approach when he did the variant cover 100 issues later on ACTION COMICS 900. I don´t know about you but I liked the fact that the series had been around that long and I always got a kick out of the anniversary issues with the big numbers. But that´s all in the past now thanks to those geniuses with their NEW 52.

Another version by Alex Ross is this one. I´m not sure where it´s from.

Of course it has also been used inside of comics like this splash page of Earth 2 Superman crushing Earth 1 Superman from INFINITE CRISIS 5 by Jerry Ordway ( Which by the way was a much better reboot than the actual one since it was prepared 3 years in advance. Not 3 weeks ! ) .

The last one with Superman lifting the car on the cover is SECRET ORIGINS 1 which also uses the old Justice Society crystal ball schtick.

And our last one with the big guy himself on the cover this time on the receiving end of the car courtesy of Bizarro Number 1. The art is by LOVE & ROCKETS artist Jaime Hernandez and it´s a trade of Silver Age Bizarro.

There also have been other people wearing Superman´s costume - or a variation of it - getting into hijinks with a car like young Superman who then was discovered to be a clone and who took the name of Superboy

a shape shifter from a parallel world who later shared her body with a dead girl got different powers and turned out to be an angel - but not the new main character in FALLEN ANGEL after all probably due to copyright infringement reasons - who for a while took the name of Supergirl

and last but not least ...... I don´t know ? Superstrong weirdlooking Hornguy ? I don´t even know who this guy is or what his story was.

And that´s all for the first part. Next time we will come to the more exotic homages like this one for the spanish fanzine SLUMBERLAND.

As for the next post, with any luck we will get to what I originally wanted to post this time but what I had to cut short in the hopes of savoring the beer buzz before it has totally faded because I´m writing this.

With comic prices being what they are I´m delving into the realm of free comics with the FREE COMIC BOOK issues from 2013 that I was able to get as well as the ones from GRATIS COMIC TAG 2013 to appease my readers in Germany as well as outside. And since that is probably going to take a while and a few posts we will then come to the next best thing, which is comics you can get for a buck. I got some issues from Dark Horse´s ONE FOR ONE line as well as some new ones from IDW´s HUNDRED PENNY PRESS label that I want to go over.

I also wanted to mention the current bargain books from amazon : still at only 57 bucks is the IRON MAN OMNIBUS hardcover by David Micheline, Bob Layton and John Romita Jr which is a steal for a 100 Dollar book. Also still at 43 bucks is the AVENGERS VS X - MEN hardcover which normally goes for 75 Dollars and if you don´t want to invest that much you might want to get the DARK AVENGERS hardcover for 28 bucks which collects the entire series ( except issues 7 and 8 which are included in the UTOPIA collections ) normally priced at 50 Dollars or the AVENGERS BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS - HEROIC AGE at 23 bucks, a 40 Dollar hardcover collecting AVENGERS 1 to 6 by John Romita Jr, NEW AVENGERS 1 to 6 by Stuart Immomen and AVENGERS PRIME 1 to 5 by Alan Davis. Lately I really tend to get the collected editions and especially the hardcovers and one of the reasons is that they mostly include all the variant covers.

Todays video is from the SUPER FRIENDS : THE LEGENDARY SUPER POWERS SHOW since most of the post - aside from some whining on my part - is about Superman. I already posted one video of one of the later incarnations with the death of Superman. One of the DVDs my brother brought back from Spain was LO MEJOR DE SUPERMAN which includes episodes from all the different Superman cartoons over the years.

My favorite ones of the bunch have been by far the SUPER FRIENDS and I really would be superhappy if I could find the complete seasons somewhere. I just love that they brought in all the popular characters like Firestorm and I just have to learn more about the ones they made up for the series like like Black Vulcan, Samurai, El Dorado or Apache Chief ( who was the template for Raven Manitou and who is reintroduced to DC continuity through the YOUNG JUSTICE cartoon ). I also love that when they approach Cyborg from the Teen Titans for membership he is totally like " Meh, not interested. " and they con him into joining by pointing out that since he has made a new enemy out of Darkseid he´ll need some serious backup - like the Super Friends. How convenient.

Anyway, this is THE BRIDE OF DARKSEID part 1 which introduces Firestorm. Darkseid seems to have been the go - to bad guy.



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