03/22/2013
Posted on 2013-03-22 by Aaron

21 thoughts on “03/22/2013”

  1. Rock

    “Different” to a FISS is probably “mighty painful” to someone without superpowers… >_<;

    1. David Nuttall

      Which, of course, explains Toby’s current position. Maybe he should have stuck it under the helmet instead.

      1. leor613

        David, Moonshadow is Tyler, not Toby. Toby is the super-powered clone of Tyler created by Angie and Victor Von Fogg to trick Prospero into not destroying the world. Toby doesn’t even know Moonshadow’s secret identity!

        1. Partigal

          So, wouldn’t that make victor and Angi Toby’s parents?

          (Shivers.)

        2. leor613

          They couldn’t possibly be worse parents than Ultima and Sovereign were to Tyler. 🙂

        3. Rock

          I have to agree that those two idiots make for horrible parents.

          But I can easily see how Victor, at least, could be much, much worse. Angi would probably make a cool mom.

        4. leor613

          Ultima and Sovereign are terrible parents, bordering on abusive. Compared to them, Dr. Phillipe Von Fogg and his wife (I don’t believe she was ever given a name) are parents of the year. Dr. Von Fogg takes his kids trick-or-treating, video tapes their birthday parties, and hired the finest tutors for them (until Victor and Lady Alexandria kept gaslighting them). Given the way Victor views his family (compared to everyone else on Earth) he’d take his parenting cues from his dad. Unfortunately the Von Fogg siblings are more ambitious and ruthless than their dad…

          Angie would probably be a cool mom, but she’d continually embarrass her kids with her weird jargon, hip fashion sense and bizarre inventions.

        5. Jshap

          If the Von Foggs are based off of Phil Foglio and his family (which is pretty much accepted as fact), then Mrs. Von Fogg is named Kaja.

  2. McBob

    Printed on the back of the disks: “Not safe for the non-invulnerable”.

    1. Smurfquake

      But it was printed in Argosian, so it didn’t help much.

    2. leor613

      CAUTION: Use of this device may cause headaches, migraines, blurred vision, unconsciousness and frizzing of the hair. Please consult with your local meta-engineer before being subjected to device by emotionless robots.

    3. Meta-Mind

      DISCLAIMER: By using this device to understand Argosian, you agree that you have read and comprehended the Argosian warning on the opposite face.

      1. Gordon

        Said disclaimer is also in Argosian.

  3. Anonymous

    ‘but you will be sent for’: I can’t remember a single instance in fiction where that line hasn’t ended with the addressees fighting their way through to get to the person who they were supposed to be brought to. (Usually to reveal the evil being carried out and concealed by subordinates.)

  4. G0vnah

    XD That was FUNNY! thanks for the laugh! 🙂

    1. leor613

      I’m not sure which is more hilarious, the fact that the disk shocks Tyler unconscious or that it caused 84’s bad hair day!

  5. leor613

    Atlas: “Oh. Huh. I’d always thought I was just a fast learner.”

    That’s a cute subversion of the Silver Age concept that Superman was not only super-fast, super-strong and invulnerable, but also super-intelligent, able to learn new languages in minutes using superspeed and his Kryptonian brain. Turns out that the reason Atlas can learn new languages quickly is plain old Argosian cyber-ware.

    1. Meta-Mind

      I’m fairly sure that originally, Superman was supposed to be Exactly What It Says On The Tin – he could do everything everyone else could, but better. He couldn’t fly, but he could jump pretty much infinitely high Hulk-style, and could see straight through walls and across ridiculous distances. The whole “super-brain” thing kinda ties in with that theme, so it’s probably a remnant of that era. When the writers decided to take his jumping (and other powers, like super-sight) Up To Eleven with abilities like flight and eye lasers, though, his powers just sorta decayed into a random mess, with leftovers like super-intelligence and super-vision alongside his F.I.S.S. combo.

      …Suffice it to say I’m glad that Aaron Rodgers averted this, heh.

      1. leor613

        The Golden Age Superman that appeared in Action Comics #1 differed in many respects from the Superman that most people are familiar with today. He couldn’t fly, he did not have X-Ray vision, he could not run faster than a high speed locomotive, he was bullet proof, but exploding shells might hurt him, and he got his powers as a result of Kryptonian evolution (no red sun, no heavy gravity: all Kryptonians were stronger, tougher, faster, and smarter than humans).

        Superman began to gain more powers on when he appeared in radio serials, in the Max Fleischer cartoons and on the “Adventures of Superman” TV show, and those new powers were worked into the comic book.

        During the Silver Age, the writers, especially Mort Weissinger, went a little nuts adding new powers to Superman’s arsenal. While Superman was always very intelligent, the Silver Age Superman took it to ridiculous new heights. Most of these powers were toned down in the 1970’s, and then toned down further post-Crisis, with John Byrne’s reboot of the character in “Man of Steel”.

  6. Quin

    Not only does this page help make sense of some things its also hilarious on how the “chips” work. I still can’t tell if it shocked Tyler unconscious or if it was strong enough to “blast” him off his feet.

  7. =Tamar

    Ron, being in stasis, hasn’t had the implant. That could become a plot element.

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