Jan 06, 2009 in Aquaman, Bad Science, Batman, What Were They Thinking
JLofA #13 certainly does a lot to cement the “Aquaman is useless”. In this issue, Aquaman is reduced to shouting out helpful suggestions from the sidelines.
That’s not why I clipped the below though. That’s just an aside. Why did I clip it?

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Human personal electric fields DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
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Jan 05, 2009 in Batman, Robin, What Were They Thinking
The Penguin claims he has a gravity beam. It’s really a magnet.

Okay, so some boots have metal, so that works… but I am amused by the thought of steel toed pixie boots amuses me.
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Jan 02, 2009 in Aqualad, Bad Science, Justice League, What Were They Thinking
Aquaman has taught his dolphin friend something interesting. And by interesting, I mean scientifically impossible.

That’s… not what dolphin speech means. Not even a little.
However, there is one thing dolphins do that Dr. Light is interested in.
There. Try getting that image out of your head.
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Dec 31, 2008 in Green Lantern, What Were They Thinking
Continuing the story of the crook disguised as Hal, the partygoers are bored. Carol thinks up a Very Special Carol Ferris Party Game.

Lois Lane would be so proud.

Carol was a bit suspicious when he didn’t use his ring, but she knew it had to be Hal when he knocked himself out.
(You can take a shot, but since it’s not really Hal, it should be a virgin drink)
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Dec 30, 2008 in Green Lantern, What Were They Thinking
A couple of crooks get the idea to rob a shindig dressed as galactic law enforcement officer and well known party-goer, Green Lantern.
They even have a plan for dealing with requests to see a display of Oan Abilities:

Either that guy has some really impressive hang time, or they really are saps.
“The waiter stayed in the air for five seconds! Isn’t Green Lantern amazing?”
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Dec 29, 2008 in Green Lantern, Lois Lane, Sexism, What Were They Thinking
From Green Lantern #5, a peak at a Roy Thomas story we’ve never seen:

They should do this.
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Dec 26, 2008 in Batman, Justice League, Odd Powers, Superman, What Were They Thinking
Superman’s got quite an impressive array of vision powers. So many that he can’t be bothered to come up with names for them all.
As seen here, in example # 329 of “Superman and Batman trick the bad guy by swapping costumes”.

Superman can “telescopically” see into other dimensions (by, one assumes, vibrating his eyes at the right dimensional frequency), and then zero in on his teammates somewhere within that dimension.
That’s one hell of a telescope.
Also, just a quick comment on the costume switching idea… that works out well for Superman, obviously, but what about Batman? The Superman-specific traps are always kryptonite-related, but what if they were red sun, stronger gravity related?
“That’s to Batman and I switching places, I was able to save you all!”
“Yes, but Batman was crushed to death.”
“Yes. A tragedy. Hey Hal, can I try your costume on?”
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Dec 25, 2008 in Batman, What Were They Thinking
With little fanfare, I give you Batman #66:
The boner issue.






Almost all of those word balloons are comedy gold.
Mmmm. Lingual shifts.
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Dec 24, 2008 in Uncategorized
So, you know that game “got your nose”? You pretend to “steal” a child’s nose and not give it back?
Yesterday, my almost-8 year old puts her hand on me, yanks it away, and says: “Ha-Ha! Got your DNA!”
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Took everything I had not to say “I know sweetie, and I wouldn’t be laughing if I were you.”
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