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20 Great American Superheroes To Share Your Holiday With

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lightninglouie
07/04/09

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I am shocked, shocked, at the absence of Mister Freedom!

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MonkeyT
07/04/09

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Since you mentioned American Maid, don't forget Captain Liberty from the live action Tick. If only for how she killed The Immortal.
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cynopt
07/04/09

@MonkeyT: Pretty sure he managed to get the two mixed together in his head; he says "Dressed like Lady Liberty", but American Maid's costume is more of a domestically inclined Captain America type deal.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/04/09

@cynopt: I think you're right.

I <3 Capt. Liberty and the whole live-action Tick.

(adds to Amazon Wish List)
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Pope John Peeps II
07/04/09

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There's something really compelling about the Comedian when you think about him as a character in a book. Trying to piece together his motivations means that there's always a little hole missing, and it's that little lacuna of insanity or cruelty or just darkness that always escapes. It's what makes him laugh too, I suppose. It's a really nicely put together figure that sort of embodies all the cold-war mentalities and post-vietnam traumas of America.
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Pope John Peeps II
07/04/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I guess the thing it reminds me most of perhaps is Kurtz in Marlow's Heart of Darkness. A sort of brilliant, intensely ideological figure who gets caught up in the fragility of those ideals, and obsessed with their dark opposite, and so becomes a horrible savage in the process.
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Pope John Peeps II
07/04/09

@Pope John Peeps II: haha. Conrad's Heart of Darkness, rather. Marlow was the central character.
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