(03-18-2016, 07:25 PM)SpaceAnJL Wrote: And before that we wouldn't have had some godawful character derailment of vicious one-liners and a lack of anything resembling common decency.  Because Loki did not occur in a bloody vacuum, and he didn't learn his racism and (self) loathing on Midgard.  I'd like to see Hemsworth and Hiddles' idea of them as actual *brothers* not that spiteful garbage (he's adopted - fuck you, you jock asshole, fuck off back to your gold-plated football town.)  The family dynamics and parenting fail are horrendous before we get to the whole 'tortured by a psychopath and possibly mind-controlled' bit.  Three days vacay in New Mexico and a bonus girlfriend versus being dropped through space vacuum into the hands of a monster...one of them tries to start a war with his big mouth, the other one tries to finish it.  Which one ends up being muzzled and dropped into a hole forever?  Seriously,  bollocks.

(03-19-2016, 05:02 AM)devilbk Wrote: DC did its own super-hero registration story during the 80s. It was called The End of the Justice Society, was set during the 1950s and echoed the Communist witch hunts of that era. It's worth reading even if I give away the ending which everyone knew going in anyway. The Justice Society, seated in front of a Senate Committee, just vanished and were not heard from again.

Until the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and in their upcoming new series. But that's another issue entirely. Though as a fan of classic characters I bought, read and collected every one of those series. BEWARE UPCOMING SELF-PROMOTION. And I got to edit several volumes of the archive collections of their original 30s and 40s adventures.