Tarukor? I didn't even see her

So Supergirl is dreaming the Legion of Super Heroes. You know, that makes as much sense as a lot of things in the Legion's history. She must have eaten some bad pizza to have come up with Bouncing Boy.

But wait. She's blaming it on tarukor - a Kryptonian dreamstate that occurs before adulthood.

Izzat so? Really? Funny how Kal-El never experienced that. Maybe it's a girl thing. Or maybe he did experience it, and imagined he had a Superboy period when he actually never did. Or maybe he actually did have a Superboy period during tarukor, and thought he was dreaming. Or maybe Kal-El is going to wake up any issue now, when his mom Lara calls him down to supper, and discover that he dreamed us.

I have a headache. Damn that Bobby Ewing.

Maybe the writer of Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes forgot to talk to the writer of Superman: Birthright. Yeah, that must be it.

No, wait, Mark Waid wrote both of 'em.

The Phantom Lady has no idea

Ragnell of the Written World performs a Phantom Lady Breastospective. If nothing else, it proves that since being acquired by DC, Phantom Lady has had a long run of illustrators who don't know how to draw women.

EDIT: The art is by Chris Jones and Keith Champagne, from All Star Comics 80 Page Giant #1, 1999. The word balloon is in the original (though I've made it larger for readability), and is a response to Wonder Woman's accusation that "Your costume blatantly invites the dark stares of men."

Basic questions

To think it took Ask Yahoo to answer the burning question, Why does Superman wear his underwear on top of his clothes?

Detective329, page 27

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Carmine Infantino at his peak, inked by himself, from "The Puzzle of the Purple Pony."

The World's Mightiest Mortal

Over at Comic Book Resources, Eric Larsen has a lot to say about the original (dare I say "real"?) Captain Marvel, and how DC's subsequent attempts to revive the character have gotten it wrong.

Always remember

Still the sexiest woman in comics.

Always remember

And, apparently, gave Supergirl the name of her tailor.

Don't joke

When the discussion over on the Marvel Masterworks DC Archives Message Board rolled around to a new page header graphic, I made a tongue-in-cheek suggestion: Rather than, oh, I don't know, using a character that might ever actually show up in a DC Archive, I used Photoshop to create a banner graphic of Jack Kirby's The Dingbats of Danger Street.

I didn't expect them to actually use it.

This is a job for...?

Are you old enough to remember when the Adam West Batman was new?

Did you ever think that the show had done nigh-irreparable harm to the comic?

Well... It could be worse. Mark Evanier has the same producer's pilot for Wonder Woman.

And the adventure continues...

According to Paul Dini, who should know, having just dined with Bruce Timm (Justice League Unlimited) and Glen Murakami (Teen Titans), the end of JLU and Titans wasn't related to ratings, which were just fine. He stopped just short of saying what it was related to, though he hinted it was increased "territoriality" regarding certain DC characters. As a character and his/her corresponding villains are optioned for another series or movie, their availability for other purposes is limited. I'll point out that all of DC's Big Three (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) are on, or headed for, the Big Screen. And that Batman and his various signature villains (most notably the Joker) are concurrently appearing in The Batman over on WB.

There's also the widely-held belief that no animated series really needs to run beyond 65 episodes (which allows it to be "stripped"--run five-a-week for 13 weeks), since "kids don't care about reruns". The last two years of JLU were borrowed time.

On the other hand, there are plenty more animated DC shows in various stages of development, and if the last three years of JLU have taught us anything, it's that the DC Universe is a rich and diverse place. Doom Patrol and Plastic Man have been mentioned, and "Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes" is a likely candidate. A Teen Titans movie has been announced: I wouldn't be too surprised to hear a JLU movie is being planned as well.