Superboy #4

[superfangirl1]

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[thanekos]

whoever the Hunter was, he's aged enough that they don't have to shadow his face. Clever.

[xammax]

I am not a fan of Luthor 2.0

[icon_uk]

Which one do you mean? The supergenius, best-friend of childhood Superboy? The half-clone of Luthor? Or the one who is Lex's actual niece?

[sweettart1823]

Actually aren't you like broken up by now. But really, you're kind of exactly cousins it's not different at all, you're not a clone really, you were made from genetic material of two people, one of those is her uncle, your "dad" kind of = cousins. Unless I've gotten my definition mixed up. I mean really.

[supergirl]

... his hero symbol is a thought bubble?

[icon_uk]

He wouldn't even be the first, Dream Girl from the Legion had a thought bubble as her Legion icon for years, and in the LSH cartoon she used it as her costume logo too.

[darrylayo]

Ah, c'mon, I thought that was cute.

[darkknightjrk]

Conner does make fun of that when Psionic Boy first appears--calls him "Thought Balloon Boy."

[lieut_kettch]

Cassie and Kon aren't doing too well? Rose must be ecstatic.

[red_menace]

She was beginning to think they'd never take the hint after nobody noticed the red sunlamps she installed in Cassie's room.

[bewareofgeek]

Where have I seen that ponytail before...

[shadowpsykie]

i think you are thinking of Mirage from the Team Titans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_(DC_Comics)#Miriam_Delgado

[red_menace]

My money's on him being after Simon.

[thanekos]

he'd be the second telepath to consider killing him, after Tellus's " For what you're going to do, I should probably kill you right now "

[kenn_el]

Yup. The future soldiers handled Conner easily. They only fled when Simon showed up. And in the last conversation in the book, pronouns are used, not names.

[akodo_rokku]

I'm sorry, but whatever his potential future villainy Simon gets a lifetime pass for Parasite Frogs.

[lieut_kettch]

Not just Parasite Frogs. A GUN that shoots Parasite Frogs. That trumps a gun that shoots swords every time.

[pyrotwilight]

....Though Balloon Lad's "future" sorta reminds me of the Team Titans, as does his future hero group.

[jlbarnett]

I'm taking this as he's actually a villain, not a hero willing to do whatever's necessary or something.

[psychopathicus_rex]

You know, it would be nice if, just once, a person were ACTUALLY WHAT HE OR SHE APPEARS TO BE. What a revelation, huh? Who saw THAT coming?
Also, I like, uh... whatshername. Luthor's niece. It seems like all teens in comics nowadays fit into one of several categories - they're angsty goths or shy nerds or perfect GED underwear-model types. It's nice to see someone who's more in-between - she's a bit of a 'bad girl', but she still comes off as a perfectly nice, normal person.

[fifthie]

I'm just waiting for her to turn out to be a living bomb, or whatever the such.

[brilliantnova]

Did Cass and Kon break up O_o; in which book?

[jlbarnett]

The most recent Teen Titans, but it was done in a way that could actually get them back together pretty quick, I think.

[blackruzsa]

Wow his eyes....
We're actually taking up some lit where I see a similar relationship with the two of them...
I don't care that they're cousins, (I read the Mortal Instruments, I didn't care about them being siblings either) but it's more like the relationship feels forced, and well, it's not appealing.

[shadowpsykie]

he... had to get naked to comminucate?.... not that i am complaining mind you....

[red_menace]

I want you to know how very difficult it is to hold back the "antenna" jokes bouncing around in my head right now.

[comicoz]

Anyone else read the whole issue and have troubles following the story? It seemed like it was 2-4 stories jammed together with various pages left out along the way to squeeze them in.

[kenn_el]

I thought it flowed quite nicely.

[bariman]

Oh, I see how this is going to end. People from the future want to kill Simon for doing bad things, not realizing that killing him is what makes him do bad things in the first place. Classic stable time loop. See, someone kills Simon and Superboy fails to save him. Then the Parasite Frogs get Simon's corpse and use the resurrection process he'd been working on. Unfortunately, it doesn't work quite right, and Simon comes back all evil and hating Superboy and ends up being a big-time supervillain. If then never killed him, he would never have become a bad guy. Thanks for screwing things up, future guys!

[jlroberson]

While I think this guy writes a great Superboy, I have to confess, I read his GIANT0SIZE ATOM and was struck by the fact they had people casually tossing about his bit of white dwarf matter--you know, the stuff so superheavy he couldn't lift it in his origin story(which has been reprinted dozens upon dozens of times). So I asked him about that, in what I thought was a reasonable way, on Twitter. The response:
"because I'm not a scientist. In fact I'm fairly dumb. And it's a comic book"

Well, first of all, yes. But neither were Fox & Kane, but they were CREATING SOMETHING about a scientist and some basic science, you'd think, would come into it. Second of all, maybe, but that's not my impression. But third: as someone who makes comics himself, and has done for a long time(I'm assuming he thought I was just some nitpicky fan. I'm not nitpicky, and as far as superhero comics in general, but the Atom especially--not a fan, no, not as such)--I cannot STAND when creators, who make their LIVING from this stuff, then dismiss even the slightest criticism with "it's just a comic book." No shit, really? Here I thought we were talking of the Koran. To me, that statement implies disrespect of the medium they make their living off of, and it's something I'd never say. To me, that's the laziest of all excuses.

Kinda put me off reading him again, really.