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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12:08 AM

    In reply to Superheroes Confront Their Most Terrifying Foe: Old Age
    I always imagined rest home Superman being more Jewish and living in Cleveland.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/26/09

    In reply to Superheroes Confront Their Most Terrifying Foe: Old Age
    ...did mr' fantastic have a stroke?
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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    11/26/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: i wouldnt have picked up on that. you are clever.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/26/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: For his sake I hope he's wearing tighty whities too since his arm & leg probably aren't the only things sagging at this point..
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/26/09

    In reply to Superheroes Confront Their Most Terrifying Foe: Old Age
    Superheroes never age, they just get retconned.
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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    11/26/09

    @AmishJohn: +3 Continuity.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/26/09

    @AmishJohn: They age if the story calls for it..
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    11/26/09

    In reply to Superheroes Confront Their Most Terrifying Foe: Old Age
    Forget the magic lasso. Wonder Woman needs a Wonder bra...
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    Edited by Jrsy Devil's Advocate® at 11/26/09 5:54 PM Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of 0kami 0kami
    11/26/09

    In reply to Superheroes Confront Their Most Terrifying Foe: Old Age
    Lauren I need to thank you! I saw this piece when I was in Miami for YoungARTS week 2008. We plucky writing kids were invited to the art kid's exhabition at a locl gallery (everything seems to be held in a warehouse in that city). This installation was right there in the beggining and we all thought it was amazing. I still have some photos on my camera phone of this piece actually. Man, what a great week.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    11/26/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    A float filled with conspirators dressed like teddy bears, concealing: a catapult loaded with flaming naphtha! The naphtha goes up, and whoosh! Giant flaming balloons! Mass panic in the streets! More exclamation points than you can shake a stick at!

    I've presented this idea before but don't have the funding to go forward with it.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/25/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    The Millennium Falcon balloon, but only secured with a rotating pivot fore and aft for real barrel role action!

    Just think of all the little Death Star balloons you could sell.
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    If you really want to sci-fi it up, how about a giant Tripod lumbering down the street? A firetruck of firemen setting fire to copies of Twilight. An Area 51 "weather balloon". A flashmob of zombies fresh from an outbreak of the Rage virus. Darth Vader's Helmet balloon. An army of cylons marching along. Alien Vs Predator - they could stage a mock battle in various locations as the parade progresses.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/25/09

    @astrogirl: Or the "Tripod" from the first War of the Worlds.
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    Edited by Hamslicer at 11/25/09 5:38 AM Hamslicer was starred Hamslicer was unstarred
    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Or they should just invite the entirety of the east coast 501st Legion to the parade, along with the balloon...
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Suggestion for the SG:U float - RDA can make sporadic, brief appearance along the parade route. Staying for only a few minutes to get off a few wisecracks before once again disappearing.
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    Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 11/24/09 6:13 PM RandomFrequentFlierDent was starred RandomFrequentFlierDent was unstarred
    Image of AltMargaret AltMargaret
    11/24/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Joe Malozzi walks behind, telling the crowd that the float gets better the farther down the street it gets. "Hang in there!"
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Why not reenact this?
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    How about a freak electrical storm zaps LIFE into the balloons?

    What am I saying, at best the Superman balloon would dry-hump Rockefeller Center and a world-weary New-Yorker would look up and say "More of the same." before ducking into the subway.
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    How about a a Twilight balloon? It could be Edward. With his shirt off. And he should sparkle!! Ohh, shiny.... (put down the gun, I'm kidding!)
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    What? No giant Summer Glau balloon?
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/24/09

    @Bill-Lee: You can't inflate a stick.

    (I kid, I kid!)
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    Image of Wheema Wheema
    11/24/09

    @Bill-Lee: only way she'll ever match up to the overinflated opinion people have of her
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/24/09

    @Darklighter: Careful, slick. She can kill you with her brain.
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/24/09

    @Smeagol92055: Oh no she can't she's just..ack..cough...help..me...
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    Image of closeencounter closeencounter
    11/24/09

    @Wheema: BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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    11/24/09

    @closeencounter: I wish to de-promote this comment about Summer.
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    Image of TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle
    11/17/09

    In reply to Is Spider-Man 4 Going The Way Of Superman Returns?
    I'm not Fringe watcher (yet. Just got the season 1 rundown from my boss and I'm very intrigued). But are those gents in fedoras meant to evoke the Men in Black of urban folklore/UFOlogy? #spiderman4
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    11/18/09

    @TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle: Pretty much, yeah. 'The Arrival', the fourth episode of the series and the final two are pretty essential viewing for The Observer. That being said, have a nose around fringepedia and you'll get an idea of the very interesting thing they're doing with him/it/them. #spiderman4
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