Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Alpha Roulette #2 Message-ID: <175@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 17:11:23 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.175 Posted: Sun Dec 30 17:11:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 00:44:29 EST References: <1153@ut-ngp.UUCP> <4972@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Organization: Somewhere in Soho Lines: 33 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