Category Archives: Comic Characters That Time Forgot

FanExpo Scavenger Hunt

By munday | Published August 19, 2013

As we all know, Toronto’s biggest comic/sci-fi/horror/whatever convention, FanExpo, is just around the corner. Starting Thursday, August 22, the Metro Convention Centre (255 Front Street West) will host celebrity and artist signings, panel discussions, costume contests, and one of my favourite things … rows and rows of dollar comic bins.
There are so many repeated ‘tropes’ [...]

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Comic Characters That Time Forgot: Silhouette

By munday | Published August 2, 2011

Name: Silhouette Chord
Group Affiliation: New Warriors (sort of)
First Appearance: New Warriors #2 (Marvel Comics, 1990)
Powers: teleportation (through shadows only)
Last seen: Civil War # 4 (2006)
Comic books have a rather proud tradition of physically handicapped superheroes. Professor X and The Chief (Dr. Niles Caulder) were both wheelchair-bound, Daredevil was blind, Jericho and Black Bolt (sort of) [...]

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Comic Characters That Time Forgot: Karma

By munday | Published July 24, 2011

Name: Karma (Wayne Hawkins)
Group Affiliation: Doom Patrol
First Appearance: Doom Patrol #4 (DC Comics, 1988)
Powers: gave other people bad luck (through, technically, disrupted others’ motor reflexes)
Last seen: Suicide Squad #58 (also in 1991)
In the late 1980s, DC undertook a valiant effort (as they seem to every few years) to revitalize fan-favourite team of misfits, The Doom [...]

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Comic Characters That Time Forgot: Gomi

By munday | Published July 20, 2011

Name: Gomi (Alphonsus Lefszycic)
Group Affiliation: Fallen Angels
First Appearance: Fallen Angels #2 (Marvel Comics, 1987)
Powers: telekinesis (moves stuff with his mind)
Last seen: Fallen Angels #8 (also in 1987)
Gomi is, hands-down, one of the weirdest comic characters of all time, on one of the weirdest teams of all time, Fallen Angels. Telekinesis is cool [...]

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