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DAMN SKIPPY! That's also where I was introduced to Darkseid, and where my love of LOSH began. That was a damn good story!Fist and Faith wrote:Holy cow... Darkseid is a very important figure in the DC universe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkseid
My intro to him was, oddly, in the Legion of Superheroes. He came back 1,000 years in the future (which is the Legion's time) in one of the coolest epics of all comicdom! What a fantastic story!
The conclusion is inescapable, my friends ..... we face Darkseid.
I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but technically Stamp has been brought back - in a bit of casting genius, he's voicing Jor El over in Smallville.Matrixman wrote:Good ideas, Plissken. I agree, Terence Stamp chewed up the scenery as Zod. Bringing him back would be hilarious! Batman would be good, too. Something along the lines of the Batman/Superman Armageddon crossover comic book story would be interesting.
Overpowering Etrigan? Too bad I missed that. And Lobo hurting his hand. Heh, what a wild 'n' crazy guy. But since when did Lobo become a planet destroyer? Never mind, I'll spend the night clicking all the links in that Wikipedia article. I'm way out of touch with what's going on in comics.Darkseid posesses superhuman physical attributes that rival those of Superman. He has proven capable of overpowering the mighty demon Etrigan, and the planet destroying being known as Lobo once hurt his hand when he landed a punch on Darkseid.
I didn't read the wiki article, but I'm not surprised it's not there. Most LSH stories seem to be hypothetical. Then the original Crisis messed things up so bad that, afaik, the Great Darkness Saga never even happens to the Legion, much less to the future of the present DC universe.dlbpharmd wrote:Strangely, that wikepedia article about Darkseid doesn't mention the LOSH story (or did I miss it?)
Some incarnations of Fate are among my very favorite characters too! He's awesome!!Matrixman wrote:Darkseid never really displayed any power in the Dr. Fate story, just his personal authority as ruler of his world. He presented his "honourable" side in that story. Now that I'm aware of just how powerful Darkseid is (even the toned-down version), it would have been interesting to see him go toe to toe with the sorcerer supreme, but it just wasn't meant to be. (Sorry, just plugging a favorite DC superhero of mine. The good Doctor doesn't get any respect, I tell ya.)
Actually, the Omega Beam can perform various tasks, not just destroy. In that LSH story, he used it to send Superboy back to his own time.Matrixman wrote:Darkseid's Omega Beam sounds like a variation on the Disintegrator Beam, the ultimate weapon of the Destroyer (from The Mighty Thor).
I gotta read that Doomsday stuff again. Fun stuff! heh Anyway, my intro to Etrigan was in Alan Moore's fantastic run on Swamp Thing. He was very cool there, and I think that's the first time we heard about the ranks of Hell's demons, with Etrigan being a Rhymer. Sounds silly, but Moore wrote him some great rhymes!dlbpharmd wrote:I don't know alot about Etrigan, but in the 2nd Superman Doomsday story arc (Hunter/Prey,) Doomsday kicked Darkseid's ass all over Apokolips, and nearly killed him.
I was just making sure I was remembering the right one, so I looked at amazon.com. The reviews there are a tad bit less favorable than yours. 
Ah yes, I just looked, and see that we have touched upon this before. Levitz and Giffen at their collaborative best!!! And I think we need a LSH thread in Comics!dlbpharmd wrote:DAMN SKIPPY! That's also where I was introduced to Darkseid, and where my love of LOSH began. That was a damn good story!