Re: [BNW] Bomber, cool or stupid?

[Gerry Saracco <urbwarzine@earthlink.net>]

At 06:06 AM 3/9/00 PST, Steve Crow wrote:
>If you really want to be a completist, HB also appeared in the Secret 
>Society of Super-Villains cancelled issues in Cancelled Comics Calvacade, 
>too, when the villain group put together by the Silver Ghost wanted to knock 
>off the F-Fighters.  SG's group featured such one-shot wonders as 
>Quakemaster (coming to my web site soon, I promise!) and the Sizematic Twins 
>(don't ask ;) ).

I remember that! I also remembered an issue of JLA (I believe in the 60's),
during one of the annual JLA/JSA teamups, where they go to the FF's earth,
and help them finally defeat the nazi's.

The sizematic twins had growth and shrinking, right? Quakemaster was kind of
lame; if his power had been internal, and not some jackhammer like device,
he might have been ok :)

>Well, there you get into a tricky kind of thing which is why I've been kinda 
>leery of listing a lot of folks.  There are lots of mainstream villains who 
>project explosive blasts.  Plastique kinda falls into that category.

True.

>Really, however, only Nitro (of Marvel) and the Human Bomb (to a lesser 
>degree) actually "detonated" their bodies.  Most other folks just point 
>their fingers and fire bursts of "explosive energy."  Which makes them more 
>Blasters than Bombers, IMO.

The Human Bomb doesn't really blow up like Nitro; he usually just takes off
his gloves, and punches something (though he really only needs to touch it).
I know he had his suit ripped once, and there was an explosion, but his body
doesn't discorporate like Nitro does.

I always did like Nitro, since he started off as an enemy of Captain
Mar-Vell. Never really turned into a big time villain, but he would have
made an excellant member of any number of villain teams....


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