clyde@ut-ngp.UUCP (Clyde W. Hoover) (12/24/84)
*** WHY ME? I NEVER WENT ANYWHERE NEAR THE SECRET WARS! *** Bullentin from the "oh God, Paul is dead!" department of journalism: Well, I just saw the new Alpha Flight T-shirt and Shaman is missing, with Tailsman is his place. So it looks like he is next on the Byrne massacre list. Pity, I very much liked him and would really rather see Snowbird (who has been pretty useless recently) get trashed. Probably Shaman will lose it saving her in another of those patented life-essence transfers or supreme efforts. On the other hand, I would like to see ONE high-powered superhero die in an ordinary auto accident - now THAT would be a real kick in the head. -- Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center; Austin, Texas "Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown" clyde@ut-ngp.ARPA, clyde@ut-sally.ARPA ...!ihnp4!ut-ngp!clyde, ...!allegra!ut-ngp!clyde
ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi) (12/24/84)
> Well, I just saw the new Alpha Flight T-shirt and Shaman is > missing, with Tailsman is his place. So it looks like he is next > on the Byrne massacre list. The new issue of Amazing Heroes has previews for the coming year. Byrne indicates that Shaman will RETIRE back to the reservation, and Talisman will take his place. Sasquatch and Northstar will drop out, and so will Snowbird. The new lineup will be Heather, Puck, Talisman, and Box (formerly of Gamma Flight, and whose equipment was used in Omega Flight). So, looks like Aurora may be the one to go. > On the other hand, I would like to see ONE high-powered superhero > die in an ordinary auto accident - now THAT would be a real kick in > the head. Well, years ago in The Defenders, we had the infamous Elf get run over by a truck. Of course, we later found out that he was a robot, not the real Dr. Doom...whoops, not the real Elf (actually they were all robots). Mike Ciaraldi
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (12/31/84)
In article <4972@rochester.UUCP> ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP writes: >> On the other hand, I would like to see ONE high-powered superhero >> die in an ordinary auto accident - now THAT would be a real kick in >> the head. >Well, years ago in The Defenders, we had >the infamous Elf get run over by a truck. >Of course, we later found out that he was a robot, not >the real Dr. Doom...whoops, not the real Elf >(actually they were all robots). > >Mike Ciaraldi Somebody out there in net.robotics *must* be making generic robot parts for these folks ("No, no -- NO ANDROIDS! I don't WANT it to resemble humans... I just want it to squash city blocks"). Good idea about car accidents, tho' -- I'm afraid the most "ordinary" death in comics I can think of is Capt. Marvel, and he got his cancer from super-villain fighting... Why do I have this image of John Byrne wheeling in a dead Alpha Flight member on a hand truck and saying to a Federal Express person "I need this body in Calgary by tomorrow!" ? Guess I'm just warped... "She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA