tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post7868118041126067228..comments2024-03-28T17:36:06.132-04:00Comments on The Legion of Super Bloggers! : TOS: Superboy #125MetropolisKid41http://www.blogger.com/profile/12121196519360092429noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-19644838880450875142018-05-19T09:59:13.892-04:002018-05-19T09:59:13.892-04:00I wasn't being sarcastic--I really appreciate ...I wasn't being sarcastic--I really appreciate it!wordsmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440378700782807683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-45945131506413858882018-05-13T22:20:09.780-04:002018-05-13T22:20:09.780-04:00well at least I gave you a new word to add to your...well at least I gave you a new word to add to your vocabmarvelboy74https://www.blogger.com/profile/13962731689660859167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-10315743344501335412018-05-05T17:35:29.820-04:002018-05-05T17:35:29.820-04:00Just the name "Kid Psycho" is an odd cho...Just the name "Kid Psycho" is an odd choice, since it had only been 5 years since the Hitchcock movie came out; also, by this point Superboy was no longer portrayed as the last survivor of his people, as Dev-Em (and his parents) had appeared in Adventure #320, about a year and a half before this story debuted.<br />And I can't help but wonder if the cover promise that, "You'll cheer! You'll cry!" was a somewhat desperate bit of salesmanship to get the more emotional readership not to plunk down another 12 cents on those upstart Marvel Comics that were climbing the sales charts.<br />Thanks for an insightful review, Emsley, and thank you, too, Marvel Boy, for making me look up the expression "5-head", which is a five-finger-high forehead; incidentally, the pun wouldn't quite work in England, where, last I knew, "forehead" rhymes with "horrid".wordsmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440378700782807683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-2413200896575063132018-05-04T11:50:58.291-04:002018-05-04T11:50:58.291-04:00I am so vexed by Kid Psycho. I like his powers a ...I am so vexed by Kid Psycho. I like his powers a lot. The idea his life span is shortened rather than being aged is weird. Granted, ideas like cellular damage were not in most writers' minds at the time but it does serve to give him limitations, if like Ultra Fan suggests, the greater the feat, the greater the risk to him. <br /><br />Also, not a fan of the 5-head under the turban.marvelboy74https://www.blogger.com/profile/13962731689660859167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-60127404956995176862018-05-02T11:26:56.328-04:002018-05-02T11:26:56.328-04:00Interesting. The little I knew about Kid Psycho w...Interesting. The little I knew about Kid Psycho was from the references like Who's Who, the Secrets of the Legion, his Crisis appearance, etc. I had though he just make force fields. This power is a lot more formidable.<br /><br />Maybe he'll be resurrected in another reboot. Perhaps his abilities were so formidable that someone went back in time and faked some medical records to keep him OUT of the Legion proper ... ?Boston Mossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-71684048742568765372018-05-01T21:37:55.714-04:002018-05-01T21:37:55.714-04:00Minor clarification: The second "opponent&qu...Minor clarification: The second "opponent" should have been listed as "cruel fate", rather than "cruel war".emsley wyatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905667921221387365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-35510190662447587272018-05-01T10:41:44.201-04:002018-05-01T10:41:44.201-04:00This was pretty high concept for the time, and mak...This was pretty high concept for the time, and makes me wonder how it would play out today. <br /><br />Probably with a lot of angst and melodrama, I suspect. <br /><br />Still, hell of a twist. And considering how many supers routinely flout the laws of physics and seemingly channel huge amounts of energy through their bodies, it's actually fairly plausible. <br /><br />In a similar vein... anyone else remember Strikeforce Morituri? To fight off an alien invasion, human volunteers were exposed to a process that granted them superhuman powers... with the absolute guarantee that their powers would kill them within a year. Similar premise...Jay Teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11617831944262749187noreply@blogger.com