JSA Storytime: Quasar

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Counterpoint: youtube.com/watch?v=IPmq9YuBbLk

I swear there's a song about Bouncing Boy's wedding, but I haven't seen a sign of it in ages.

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Okay, that's Hyperion, and....

fuck, which Hyperion IS this

>last panel
Actually, Wendell brings up a really good point. This is one of the reasons the whole chosen one plot always grates on me, the fact there's apparently only ONE person who can save the world. Why the hell not a chosen army? You're kind of artificially limiting yourself there appointing just one protector.

oh shit is that Speed Demon?

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>fuck, which Hyperion IS this

Looks like the blind one.

anyone reading SS?

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Sorta.

It sure ain't Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's not dad.

Nothing I'm reading can be shortened to SS so I guess I'm not, but I assume you mean Suicide Squad?

Nah. Can't afford to have more than eight things on my pull-list, and I haven't bothered to follow it here on Cred Forums

>dat X-shade

She means Squadron Sinister.

Squadron Supreme

Squadron Supreme.

My bad, yeah I'm not reading that either

uhoh, this hobo looks dangerous

yeah, it's ok but not really anything special.

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Cool that Centurius is back, but I don't remember him talking like an encyclopedia.

Walker overshot pretty hard on the dialogue, but it's nice to see him.

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Gimmick dialogue from David Walker? Say it ain't so!

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Yeah, Steckley gonna have him in a ball gag by next Thursday, easy.

>Should I make myself scarce, or is this like a team-up?
I like how Rider 2 here knows his shit.

Wendell would probably still say "fangh oo"

it's funny because it's true

Still waiting on Eon making a Wendell's dad puppet homonculus.

time for tying up Wendell

Who's Haywire supposed to be? i'm assuming the Shape is Metamorpho

Wow just cut the exposition thought bubbles out of this one. That hang glider dude looks awesome.

I think Shape and Haywire might be reformed villains, which would further complicate things.

i am so sleepy, the rain is not helping with that

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Thor/Hyperion: the best part of Hickmanvengers, y/y/y?

no doubt about it

Shape is a reformed villain, Haywire is ambiguous as to his past before Nighthawk recruited him, but he wasn't a known character before that, so likely new to his powers.

Gruenwald wasn't known for frequenting bondage clubs or anything, was he?

Huh, looks like Makkari helped Hype heal his eyes.

My inner 12 year old was really hopping one of those energy prongs would hit him square in the crotch.

first Lee, now McFarlane, we 90s

didn't we all?

Haywire is Vibe who was on JL Detroit at the time of Gruenwald's SS.

Shape I guess would have to be Metamorpho, though I used to think he was Plastic Man.

So who's next? Larson or Rob the Jeans Model?

OH DAMMIT GRU

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I can't wait for the pay off on this dead dad storyline. It's great.

this is some....old-school Marvel shit?

;___;

HE SAYS 'AW SHUCKS'

Before Thor and Hyperion, there was Quasar and Hyperion...

Oh, it's gonna be heartbreaking when he finds out and turns on Eon.
So well done.

So much Upper Midwesterner.

He is, it's really delightful.

Forget what the fuck Spencer's doing with him in his Constantine suit, put Wendell with the GLA

>teaming up your superman and your superman

it's a credit to gru how readable this is

I miss the Marvel that would give us this kind of straight-up weird shit

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This is like a weird encounter in a Gygax D&D module.

Y'know, Storyteller, I kind of assumed your basement was full by now. The handcuffs are starting to look a little suspicious on your tax papers.

is that...

I have no clue what's happening here

I don't think our heroes do, either.

This dude has a magnificent stache.

I didnt think the new characters like Haywire, Inertia, Redstone were supposed to be JLA analogues at all, just new characters.

hey it's Kurt Russell in Guardians 2!

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Yeah, there a touch of "single chance on a percentile dice encounter table" to this scene.

saving roll failed, trap activated

>Ego-Prime
Uh...

>I have no clue what's happening here
Same.

This really is reading like the DM has gone off the rails and just started making shit up.

It's Kurt Russell.
He's gonna jizz in Star Lord's mom.

this does feel really DC to me actually.

It's because this is good.

I feel like a lot of this stuff may be references to earlier stories on the Stranger's planet?

Makkari is unfazed by a field of corpses.

It's just the "every room is totally different and has a weird but solvable situation with zero context" - the closest thing I can relate that to is D&D.

That makes sense

Only maybe Ewing would do this sort of shit right now, I think

Like I said last thread- This series is apologetically Silver Age. Having the Justice League show up to be supporting cast members fits.

YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY PASSAGES

Dr. Watchman!

Labworld's apparently originally from Thor #178 from back in 1970.

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well this is gonna suck

>adventure games overcome even Wendell's patience

>I ATTACK THE MAZE!
>NAT 20! I have 18/00 Strength, how much damage do I do?!

Hey, that's vore, that's really really /d/

What team would you like to see spend an issue playing D&D?

uhohhhh

easy mode: Legion, we've seen them do it

So I wanna see the Thunderbolts play D&D, but Karla doesn't get to be DM

Zemo is

>top panel

Woodgod?

Fixer would actually be a great if somewhat sadistic DM. Very inventive.

HEY thanks for reading, we should be on tomorrow except it is Opening Night and that might be distracting

X-Men 100%. Xavier does it all mentally.

I don't think Zemo is the type. He'd play once, and stop when he killed the party as a DM or forced the DM to give up as a player.

WHO KILLED THE WATCHER?

Thanks for posting as always, Storyteller.

... COMIC BOOKS. Quasar shows what we've sadly lost in this modern age.

Shit user, Hickman and Aaron were just recycling stuff from this run at us all along.

Thanks OP!

company wars are garbage

yeah, it's totally Gru doing DC fanfic. Like I said that it's readable at all is a big testament to his writing.

this seems ungood

Thanks again OP

there has to be some old blog run by like Waid detailing all the references in this issue right? cause like, these are DEEP CUTS

comicvine says will fucking payton cameos??

I recognize a bunch of these assholes; Bi-Beast, Red Guardian, Woodgod, Dragonfly, I think that li'l glowy dude is two dwarfs (twins) ...combined together in a nuclear accident -- Fusion, I think, Those dudes on Hype's right might be The Zodiac, and the guy on his right is awful familiar -- I should fucking know who he is. Same with the guy between Bi-Beast and Dragonfly.

Yeah, you can see him in the upper right, star on his chest

>, these are DEEP CUTS

No shit.

I miss crazy shit like this, it makes you want to find out who all these fucking randos are

Aaaand now I'm all sad, again, that Remender never wrote that TURNER D. CENTURY Annual he wanted to.

>TURNER D. CENTURY

Oh Jaysus.

Thanks OP.

Mean of you to kill it mid-storyline.
But you did say you were tired. Sleep well.

I kinda want the Gen X kids to play DnD with Ange as DM.

> I think that li'l glowy dude is two dwarfs (twins) ...combined together in a nuclear accident -- Fusion

No that's Twin Terror

>Bi-Beast
... Too easy.

>TURNER D. CENTURY
He's a real Vaudevillain

FYI the odds tomorrow's storytime isn't drunky are < 0

I'm finding them referred to as "Fusion, The Twin Terror".

Holy shit, The Simpsons Sigil Magiced Arnold Palmer.
usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2016/09/25/arnold-palmer-obituary/1881465/

>I miss crazy shit like this,

Yeah, heroes used to bust into an evil lab/prison/whatever, and find a character or three who've been languishing there all the time ( because no writer or artist wanted to use them after they fell into obscurity).

Story follows after the Squadron Supreme graphic Novel "Death of a Universe" which in turn follows the Squadron Supreme 12-issue limited series, arguably Gru's masterpiece in the art form.

Star Trek bridge layout joke, of course.

The Ethicals, they were from Machine Man post-Ditko (IIRC)

Jakar, the fake Stranger, from Captain America (yes, really)

Ego-Prime, the spawn of Ego, from Thor.

Woodgod, had his own short series of stories and some Hulk appearances. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are from Giant-Size Fantastic Four.

Shanga The Star-Dancer from Marvel Two-In-One, the mate she refers to is golden age crimefighter the Blue Diamond. They hooked up in her one previous appearance.

The Trikon from the post-Kirby Inhumans series. Yes they had a comic in the 70s

Alpha the Ultimate Mutant from Defenders (he's the one who de-aged Magneto) and the Futurist from the era of Fantastic Four shortly before Byrne, and the Creature from Kosmos (aka Pilai) from Wasp's first appearance in tales to astonish (the Kosmosians later featured in Thunderbolts).

The Power Elite, Gru original creations.

From top, clockwise. Stardust from ROM Spaceknight Annual 1, Starlight and the Presence from Incredible Hulk (presence is Darkstar and Vanguard's father). Starman, Will Payton, a DC character written by Roger Stern (mostly) and later a vital part of Robinson's Starman. Trikon. The Captive from one of Kirby's Captain America Annuals (I think #5). Dragonfly from the start of Claremont's Uncanny X-Men. Mercurio the 4-Dimensional man from Thor. The Bi-Beast from Hulk 8and other titles). Fusion from Amazing Spider-Man. Ego-Prime, the Ethicals, Woodgod, Alpha and Futurist, the Four Horsemen again.

hes better than nova he
should be the GL or marvel

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Thanks Mark Waid!

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HAH!

Hahaha, oh wow. TY

Ronan and Beta Ray Bill giggling like children will never stop being wonderful

You win, brah. Someone get this dude a No-Prize.

Even by Annihilators, Wendell was still pure husbando

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