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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 19, 2019 20:27:57 GMT -5
From Superman 139 written by Otto Binder. Superman's hair and fingernails have grown due to the effects of Red Kryptonite. Earlier in the tale, Superman tried cutting his finger nails with the full force of his X-Ray vision but nothing happened. It took Supergirl and Krypto's "combined X-Ray vision" to do the trick. So yes, Superman's hair doesn't grow unless he's under a red sun or red kryptonite is involved. He's lucky to have come to Earth with a full head of hair.
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 19, 2019 20:32:54 GMT -5
Why does Donald Duck have a shirt; but, no pants? I think this one at least was covered in an episode of Cheers. "Why does Micky Mouse wear pants but Donald Duck doesn't?" Their answer satisfied me - "Because Donald Duck's genitals can be concealed by his feathers whereas Micky Mouse's can't"
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 20, 2019 17:38:22 GMT -5
I'm reading Chase , that series that came out in the late 90's. Does anyone know if J.H.Williams 111 is doing any comic work ?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 20, 2019 18:02:40 GMT -5
I'm reading Chase , that series that came out in the late 90's. Does anyone know if J.H.Williams 111 is doing any comic work ? How recently do you mean. He hasn't been very good about updating his blog. Last thing he posted about was doing an adaptation of Dracula. But I don't know if he has a publisher or if it's completed or near completion. He doesn't have a very big footprint on social media. He split with DC over editorial issues with Batwoman.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 20, 2019 18:18:22 GMT -5
He has a nice unique style. I'd forgotten that he did Batwoman.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 20, 2019 18:40:24 GMT -5
Okay, how does Superman get a haircut? I recall an episode of Superman TAS where he uses his heat vision via the bathroom mirror to shave. This grooming question came to me after reading Superman Family #195. In the Clark Kent story by Conway, it's referenced that Superman's hair can't even grow under our yellow sun. Why is that a plot point? Because a former gossip columnist for the Daily Planet (now working for a rival network) thinks she's stumbled across the scoop of the year when she discovers that Clark's hair never grows, not even a millimeter over time. Thus he must be bald for he wears a toupee/hair piece! Of course, this ties in with the police asking for Clark's help in nabbing Luthor's top 2 lieutenants by impersonating an imprisoned Luthor because wouldn't you know it, Clark (sans hair) resembles the bald Luthor quite a bit. Anyway, if his hair is as indestructible as every other body part (assuming it can grow right??) then how does he trim it? And how has Lois never keened onto this small personal detail as well? I know, useless factoids but it's amazing what springs to mind after late night comic reading.... Silver Age Superboy stories established that his hair didn't grow, even making that a plot point in one, where Clark sort of has to go to the Smallville barber, after he makes noise about never cutting Clark's hair (though he handles Jonathan's) and Clark trying to figure a way out, eventually revealing to the barber that he is bald, and wears a wig. The barber aggress to keep his secret.
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 20, 2019 18:51:10 GMT -5
It looks like the last work he's had published was for Humanoids' Screaming Planet, a series I just wrapped up about a month ago. The works were published in 2016.
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Post by berkley on Mar 20, 2019 21:09:38 GMT -5
I'm reading Chase , that series that came out in the late 90's. Does anyone know if J.H.Williams 111 is doing any comic work ? How recently do you mean. He hasn't been very good about updating his blog. Last thing he posted about was doing an adaptation of Dracula. But I don't know if he has a publisher or if it's completed or near completion. He doesn't have a very big footprint on social media. He split with DC over editorial issues with Batwoman. I was wondering about the same question a while ago. Dracula is an interesting choice for him. At first glance, I'm not sure how well it would fit his style - I'd almost rather see him do an up-dated version, Dracula in the 21st century or something - but he's talented enough that I'll take a look at anything he works on, even characters I don't normally enjoy reading, such as Batwoman. Glad to hear he's working on something, at any rate.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 22:39:44 GMT -5
I'm reading Chase , that series that came out in the late 90's. Does anyone know if J.H.Williams 111 is doing any comic work ? How recently do you mean. He hasn't been very good about updating his blog. Last thing he posted about was doing an adaptation of Dracula. But I don't know if he has a publisher or if it's completed or near completion. He doesn't have a very big footprint on social media. He split with DC over editorial issues with Batwoman. He also did the Sandman Overture mini with Neil Gaiman a couple of years back (2013-2015 there were a lot of delays in the 6 issue series which took almost a year and a half to all come out). The most recent credits I find for him on GCD was a 10 page story called Screaming Planet with Jodorowski for Humanoids, a variant cover for IDW's Micronauts series in 2016, and a cover for the IDW series Kid Lobotomy in 2017. I thought I saw his name attached to one of the recently announced start up publishers (maybe the Humanoids One line?) but I can't recall, or find anything to confirm that. -M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 9:22:56 GMT -5
I was thinking and would a Helen (Supergirl) Slater and Christopher (Superman) Movie would work in the 80's ... How come that they never made it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 10:32:39 GMT -5
I was thinking and would a Helen (Supergirl) Slater and Christopher (Superman) Movie would work in the 80's ... How come that they never made it? Because the Supergirl movie was panned critically and bombed at the box office, so the studio wasn't going to do anything with it. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 21, 2019 12:53:27 GMT -5
The problem was the Salkinds, who controlled the properties, with Warner distributing them. They focused more on selling humor to kids, with a repeated dumbing down of the material. Superman I and II worked because Richard Donner treated the material seriously, with touches of humor, rather than a deep dive into it. He soon found himself fighting to make his movie a success despite the Salkinds, who also wanted to do things on the cheap, to maximize their profit. It came to a head and he was fired, before finishing II (which had been mostly shot simultaneously), which was then handed to a humor director and camped up. That trend was followed into III, which was even cheaper, then killed with 4, which was ridiculously cheap. Supergirl suffered through the Salkind's aim to do it cheap and for laughs, with a horrible script, characters and scenes. helen Slater was fine and could have starred in a great film, if she had had a Richard Donner at the helm and the Salkinds were kept at bay.
That movie is part of why the character was allowed to die (and the failure to do anything of note with her, after the 60s) and why it was a long time for the character to become anything that either publishing or Hollywood would take a chance on.
So, yeah, a film with Reeve and Slater could be great, with Donner at the helm and the Salkinds exiled to Siberia.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 15:07:39 GMT -5
So, yeah, a film with Reeve and Slater could be great, with Donner at the helm and the Salkinds exiled to Siberia. What you said here ... make a lot of sense and I totally forgot that Supergirl got bombed at the Box Office as @mrp stated previously. The last two films are so laughable and I will refuse to watch them. I only watch the first two films of Superman that Reeve did and based on what you said and mrp ... the Salkinds should had kept Donner and stick to him and make the film his way ... not the Salkinds and Donner should had directed Supergirl not Jeannot Szwarc that had no understanding what to do with it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 15:41:11 GMT -5
The commentary for Supergirl, by Jeannot Szwarc and Scott Michael Bosco, is worth a listen. There were plans for Superman in the film, and Szwarc commented that he felt it would have been richer with Superman in it. He also revealed what Superman's contributions would have been.
I feel Supergirl is underrated. Some of it is flawed, e.g. certain scenes seem to have come out of a Danielle Steele adaptation. The threat does not seem as high as anything found in the Superman films. But I like the fairytale quality of it, there are some good set pieces, and Helen Slater is very earnest. And what a great score by Jerry Goldsmith!
It did feel very contrived, though, to have Supergirl arrive on Earth as we heard a radio station DJ discussing the fact Superman has travelled to a distant galaxy on a peace-keeping mission...
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 21, 2019 18:18:26 GMT -5
I was thinking and would a Helen (Supergirl) Slater and Christopher (Superman) Movie would work in the 80's ... How come that they never made it?
Never thought about it.
That would've been cool; then we could get Krypto and Streaky too !
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