Luke Fortescue

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@The_Epic_Mike Remember when Peter was so angry over not getting paid that he let the bad guy go?

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@SerpentorsLairX Loved my Voltron and treated it with kid gloves. Stupidly brought it school for show and tell. I relented when a friend asked to hold it, and within five seconds, he snapped the yellow lion's tail in half. I'm still bitter almost 40 years later.

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@KevinWolffart Huh. Clearly, that was the inspiration for Boy Thunder's costume from the 2022 arc in World's Finest. Had no idea.

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@ManFirestorm A red clad villain with no face behind his mask. Johnny Sorrow seems to have taken a few notes from this guy.

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@ClassicGIJoe Loved how his katanas and bow fit into his quiver. Great design.

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@HolmesBooth I've long bemoaned that Christopher Lee never played Moriarty. His Sherlockian roles include Mycroft, Sir Henry Baskerville and the master, himself. But I can't help feeling that Lee missed his most ideal casting.

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@KevinWolffart "Feed the birds...tuppence a bag..."

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@mofromyt Epicness? Epicosity? Epicitude?

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@ClassicXMen Is Omega Red that big a deal to call the issue a "landmark?"

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@KevinWolffart Why? Probably because he shaved

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@ClassicMarvel_ Never understood the love for this cover. The reflected image is nice. But Wolverine's face looks like it's made out of Silly Putty.

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@SerpentorsLairX @_SgtSlaughter What happened to Cover Girl???

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@GailSimone If Wolverine was using his Patch alias, a meet-up between him and Bond in Madripoor wouldn't strike me as daffy in the least. I'd even argue that his claws are less fantastical than Jaws' teeth or Odd Job's hat

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@KevinWolffart I thought Virus X was a good idea for a non-kryptonite weakness. Has it ever been seen again? Would have made a good COVID-era story...or would that be too on the nose?

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@mvlsraff I know this sequence is beloved, but the art doesn't do it for me. And I'm a huge Byrne fan. Yes, it's huge within the context of the story and Wolverine's character development. In isolation, however, I'm not impressed.

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@GIJoeRepairShop And after being discharged by the Joes, he joined Starfleet

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@SFabiani67 There seems to be a proliferation of shows that tack names from the Canon onto characters that bear little or no resemblance to their canonical counterparts. I was fooled a couple of times when the practice was new. But I'm less inclined to fall for the same trick again.

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@JasonMusgrave6 @ClassicGIJoe Was it because he was portrayed as an idiot on the cartoon? That's why I didn't play with him as much as other Joes. It's too bad because the figure itself is nicely designed

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@BlazeBinges Poor Nicholas Hammond, always left off these lists

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@WilhelmArnesen @BackintheBronze ...because you're absolutely right. There's nothing new under the sun. Shakespeare constantly had his characters break the 4th wall. It's not a new concept. I just think its interesting that so many comic characters who sprang from the same period developed in that direction.

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@WilhelmArnesen @BackintheBronze Of course, Animal Man famously broke the 4th wall as well just a couple of years earlier. But he's not in the same manic, comic mold as the others, which was my primary point of comparison. At least, that was my intention. I didn't want to get into a debate about who did it first