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2017-05-26
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2017-05-26

May27
by Aaron on 2017-05-27 at 3:04 pm
Issue: Ps238 Volume 11

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  1. Stephen Bierce
    2017-05-28, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    And Marlocke makes a worthy dismount. In a moment we’ll get the scores from the Judges…

    • Thunderfoot
      2017-05-31, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      And here are the scores:
      USA 9.5 GBR 9.2 SPN 9.5 GER 9.3 RUS 4.2

      • Stephen Bierce
        2017-06-01, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

        The highest and lowest scores are thrown out, so the total is 28 out of 30. Marlocke moves on to the next discipline…

  2. Messenger
    2017-05-28, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

    Huh. The Human Alloy is gold. I was expecting something like chrome or shiny steel.

    • J.J.
      2017-05-29, 1:26 am | # | Reply

      Same. I was thinking a la Silver Surfer.

    • Prairie Son
      2017-05-29, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

      Given “Alloy”, I’d say something more like brass or bronze.

      • SFI
        2017-05-29, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

        That colour looks a lot like some brass jewelry I have. So I’d vote brass for body and bronze for his hair.

      • Weatherheight
        2017-06-02, 11:48 pm | # | Reply

        He’s goldinium (my name for gold/titanium alloy).

    • Mike
      2017-05-31, 9:22 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he can change his personal alloy at will? He’s going with brass/bronze since as a chaperone he needs to look semi-formal, changes into gold for formal occasions, and becomes steel when it’s time for physical labor. That would be kinda cool.

    • Nightmask
      2017-06-04, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

      I always thought gold, particularly when early on we learned he could transmute metals into at least gold. I figured he was transforming the metals into something resembling his coating.

  3. MrBookBoy
    2017-05-29, 9:49 pm | # | Reply

    Geez, the power to turn into a balloon? In what situation would that help at all?

    • grashoppa
      2017-05-29, 11:39 pm | # | Reply

      Having usable abilities never seemed to stop Zan and Jayna.

      Form of water!

    • Nightmask
      2017-05-30, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      That’s basically what Bouncing Boy did, and can be quite helpful since for one you don’t have to worry about falling to your death.

    • Segev
      2017-05-30, 10:44 am | # | Reply

      What makes you assume that “powers” are always something that could even be situationally useful? I mean, other than the fact that you can probably find a situation where ANYTHING is useful, if you look hard enough.

      The Rainmaker program has students whose powers are nigh-useless for superheroing. I imagine some of their number will wind up being kids who have, essentially, spot-on-the-wall talents. (That is, a power that is no more useful than putting a spot on a wall.)

      • Rynon
        2017-05-31, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

        Three cheers for the Piers Anthony reference!

      • Nightmask
        2017-06-02, 10:04 pm | # | Reply

        A good point, in comics you almost never see people with powers that are useless for fighting/committing crime, while it’s slowly more common it’s only because they use them as cannon fodder or joke characters or like in the X-men to demonstrate that most mutations don’t create terrifyingly powerful beings but instead people that aren’t really that better than any other human.

        • Messenger
          2017-06-07, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

          For the usual superhero content, they’d make for boring stories where over-the-top action, heroics, and villainy is what’s expected.

          That said, some good writer could probably write a heartfelt story about guys like that. In particular, I’m thinking Kurt Busiek since his “Astro City” series is slice-of-life of people living in a world with superpowers (heroes, villains, civilians). He already has 1 or even 2 stories about super-powered folk who don’t want to be either hero or villain- but the fact that they can handle themselves in a fight when backed into a corner disqualifies them from our topic (people with utterly useless powers).

          Speaking of Bouncing Boy, this also reminds me of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, the sort of sister-team to the Legion of Super-Heroes. Despite being rejects from the LoSH’s recruitment, they too can handle themselves in a fight when needed, so they don’t count as well.

          Hm. I haven’t really read X-men much. Aren’t there stories where mutants are getting persecuted despite having no real dangerous superpowers? It’s an illustration of the ugliness of prejudice. I’m guessing there are…

          • Stephen Bierce
            2017-06-08, 12:29 am | #

            It was a very common theme in Marvel’s New Universe of the late Eighties.

  4. Mike
    2017-05-31, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    I can’t help but hear “Down is easy” in the voice of Remo from Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. Right before Chiun turns off the lights and makes him do the training course in the dark, resulting in a “Whooaaa!” and a very loud series of crashes.

    • Russell White
      2017-05-31, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

      @Mike…I LOVE that movie!!!!

      • Weatherheight
        2017-06-02, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

        A very young Kate Mulgrew and a very old-looking Joel Grey made that movie awesome (and holy fishbits, he’s still alive at 85-ish).

      • Mike
        2017-06-07, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

        One of my favorites too. I know the acting by the “bad guys” was laughably bad, but dang, was it fun to watch.

  5. Jon
    2017-06-03, 3:45 am | # | Reply

    Dang. Tyler made that jump without a grapple hook or anything? He’s really gotten over his fear of heights.

    • Faust
      2017-06-06, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

      Grapple hook a balloon is a quick way to go down 🙂 aren’t they sharp?

    • Stephen Bierce
      2017-06-06, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

      He didn’t jump. Cecil’s bouquet hit him from below.

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