Comments on: Snark Free Corner for 6/18

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:56:24 +0000

Yeah, he was supposed to be the same character as Quicksilver, but in name only.

By: felgekarp

felgekarp — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:48:28 +0000

Wasn’t Max Mercury supposed to be Quicksilver?, didn’t he enter the speed force and pop out some time later and then change his name to Max Mercury, I’m sure I’d read that in one of the Flash stories.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:36:22 +0000

Random trivia: The golden-age character that max Mercury was based on was named… Quicksilver. Yep. A speedster who wore blue and white, back in the 1940s.

By: Lothor

Lothor — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:16:49 +0000

“hee hee . . . Comic Boy . . .

Now thatâ€™s a super power that should be more common: Super Humor!”

Not exactly his super power, but Captain Ultra’s dayjob/secret identity was stand-up comic.

By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:58:51 +0000

Isn’t Eros and the Mandrill the only characters that have the ability to make woman want them?

I’m surprised no one’s brought that power up yet….

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:35:59 +0000

I like Gambit’s kinetic charging powers…not enough folks using that kind of thing.

Good Luck (Hazzard, Longshot) is also unused.

And super-eating! Matter Eater Lad and Calorie Queen are the only with that!

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:52:30 +0000

Yeah, Skids had a cool power.

I’d like to see the power to have a layer of kinetic energy that replenishes and strenghtens itself through activity that creates kinetic energy. Movement, impact, etc.

I like characters who can just hurl themselves into battle (literally) and mess things up. Like Cannonball.

I’d like to see more offensive personal force fields, basically. Cecilia Reyes was on her way there, but they wrote her as not wanting to be a superhero from the start, so she was kinda doomed to fade away.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:29:39 +0000

I need to get that Avengers comic simply for the scene where Ghost Rider bike-kicks one of the Avengers in the face. Iron Man? Thor? Someone.

And yes, Max Mercury *is* cool.

Ron Troupe in five. Should’ve got it earlier, but I’m dumb.

By: James

James — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:43:35 +0000

I think that Skids (a minor X-Factor/New Mutants character) has a terrific power that hasn’t been developed to a full potential. She creates force fields (not unlike Sue Storm’s secondary power), but she can glide on them, moving rapidly “on air” (something I don’t remember Invisible Woman ever doing, though I’m sure it probably happened in some stories). That combined with the usual uses of a force field makes for some interesting powers.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:35:43 +0000

I have no idea what the cover theme is, but – is that Angel with the Avengers? Warren Worthington? What the hell?

Shooter used that issue of Avengers to tie up old Ghost Rider plotlines, and Angel was there due to his former Champions connection to Ghost Rider.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:33:21 +0000

All 3 covers feature former headliners of Marvel Spotlight:
Ghost Rider, Son of Satan, and Spider-Woman.

Correct-a-mundo!

By: Will

Will — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:22:42 +0000

I have no idea what the cover theme is, but – is that Angel with the Avengers? Warren Worthington? What the hell?

By: acespot

acespot — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:53:04 +0000

Earth power! Like Geo Force! Yeah!

By: The Mutt

The Mutt — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:48:43 +0000

The ability to wear a pointed helmut and get shot out of a cannon?

I was going to make a “talks to fish” joke, but then I realized there are a good number of heroes who can talk to the animals. Even Hawkman used to talk to sparrows.

By: lauren

lauren — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:57:06 +0000

how about changing the elements – Element Lad and Metamorpho are the only 2 I can think of.

Or shapechanging- beast boy, Chameleon lad

By: Billy F

Billy F — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:11:01 +0000

Cover theme:

They’re all really Skrulls! Right?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:58:03 +0000

I think we need more superheroes who can eat any kind of matter.

By: buttler

buttler — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:37:12 +0000

All 3 covers feature former headliners of Marvel Spotlight:
Ghost Rider, Son of Satan, and Spider-Woman.

Ghost Rider and Spider-Woman both first appeared there, and Son of Satan narrowly missed doing the same, appearing in Ghost Rider one month before his 12-issue run of Marvel Spotlight.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:25:24 +0000

“Lots of heroes can run fast or fly or use magnetism or teleport – but what is the super power that is not as common as these but should be?”

The power to heal others. Yeah, it sounds hokey, I know, but for all the good that super heroes are supposedly doing, nobody (or very few) has the ability to heal.

-r-

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:17:19 +0000

I think telepathy should be up there before magnetism. All I can think of are over-used powers, I can think of very, very few UNDER-used powers.