Back when Steel was a supporting character in Superman: The Man of Steel, a few months went by when Superman and Lois and Clark were all strangely casual about the whole secret identity issue. When Clark finally revealed the truth, John revealed that he’d known for some time, and that he and Lois hadn’t exactly been very careful with it. At which point Natasha walks through and demonstrates her ignorance as to the whole identity issue.

A similar thing happens with Superboy; Kon learned Clark’s identity when he met a version of the Silver Age Superboy, and only told Clark about it when Clark revealed his identity during Sins of Youth. Incidentally, Clark knew he’d been helping out the Kents for some time, even though he supposedly didn’t know Clark’s secret.

I bought all of Maximum Carnage as a kid and loved it at the time. I liked the game, too. My opinion of the game has changed considerably, but I haven’t read the story in awhile. Perhaps it’s due for another chance. Count me among those who didn’t mind Michilinie’s Spider-Man, though. I loved the whole Peter’s Parents saga, even when they turned out to be evil robot duplicates.

Venom was fine for a once-in-a-while but by the time of Max Carnage he was so ubiquitous … and I absolutely hated Carnage as a character. I couldn’t take what was happening to the Spider-Man titles and I was so sick of Sal Buscema’s inappropriate (for Spider-Man) art style and I gave up.

Lois & Clark, end of second(?) season, Clark proposes to Lois and is apparently about to unveil, when she says, brightly, “Who’s asking? Clark Kent, or Superman?”

SpiderWoman, original series, she comes out to her friend Lindsey(?), who says “that’s your big revelation? Girl, I knew that all along!”

-Tim

At the end of No Man’s Land, when Batman unmasked for Jim Gordon. Why’s that deserve a place of coolness? Because Gordon closed his eyes and refused to look. He, like Ben Urich, implied that he knew who Batman really was and was insulted by Bruce wanting to “reveal” it to him. He reminded Batman that he’d been a detective long before he was commissioner, and refused to face Batman until the mask was back on.

Better names for Shadowcat? Well, “Ghost” would have worked, at the time, but it was probably considered too masculine. “Spirit” is close to her original, terrible codename, and would serve double duty by describing her role on the team, as well. Or we could follow the logic that gave us a character named Storm and just call her “Phase.”

It wasn’t a Love Bomb. That would be silly.

It was a Goodness Cannon.

Or in a team book. I’ve always thought he did better in Avengers where he had to uphold morals and be the spirit of the group, even though the group didn’t necessarily agree.

I quit reading Spectacular, in spite of being a Matteis fan, because of that crossover. I’m starting to feel a small twinge of regret on missing that issue, because that ending does sound pretty neat. But, again, a small twinge.

It’s great that they completed his quest and gave him a happy ending, but I would still love to see him again.

It’s a shame that I only really found out about him after his heyday was over, so I never really got to see the scope of the wraiths in the Marvel Universe.

Hell, I’m still trying to track down a copy of the issue where apparently everyone teams up and finally beats them all down.

LOVE BOMB. Craziness.

The idea that Ben knew Peter was Spidey makes sense.

Then, the last page of the story, BIG splash page of Captain America standing above Spider-Man, saying something along the lines of, “Hi, you look like you could use a hand.”

That does sound cool. I will have to look that one up. Interesting how iconic Captain America can really be in the right story.