Let's have an expy thread. Who are your favorite expies of famous characters and what specifically do you like about them compared to or in contrast to what they're a reference to.

If Hickman did a Justice League run, I want him to recreate the Illuminati vs Great Society plot but show how the Great Society could've saved both worlds by having the Justice League beat the not-Illuminati

>>149010864 (OP)
616 Nighthawk. I like that he is a massive fucking loser and unlike Batman, none of his peers respect him.

>>149011031
Based

>>149010864 (OP)
THE BROWN WIDOW

Since Hyperion was already posted I'll mention another favorite.

Red Lion

African President/Dictator who frequently hires Deathstroke. Trapped in a civil war with tribes who oppose him, he does whatever he can to maintain control of his country.

He was created by Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan. He is a pastiche of the Marvel superhero Black Panther on whom Priest had previously worked on and is closely attached

>>149011012
Wasn't the Thor Expy in this an Abbo with the rainstick thing as his Mjolnir

>>149010864 (OP)
The Charlton characters were likely not super famous at the time, but they are known now.
Design and character wise, I prefer the Watchmen characters. I like The Question the most from the Charlton bunch, but I like Rorschach even more. I really like his tragic arc.

>>149012804
>>149012774
He is pretty cool.

>>149012774
>>149012804
Bring him back, DC

>>149010864 (OP)
How many versions of Hyperion are running out there right now?

>>149012774
>Red Lion
I don't think DC could use him right now considering what happened yesterday.

>>149011012
I like the front and center guy. Did these guys last more than a page?

>>149015016
They got some development pre Flashpoint. After Flashpoint you got two versions of them: eath 7 and earth 8, earths that were heavily based on main Marvel and Ultimate Marvel, although writers tend to focus more on the villains than the heroes.

I want them to put hyperion sentry.or even gladiator in rivals so we can have a decent superman vidya

>>149015186
>rivals
>decent vidya
pick one

>>149010864 (OP)
That's just Donna Troy

>>149010864 (OP)
I don't know , I don't think I ever laughed so hard as when reading Ethan try to deny he was Moral Man. Like this 7 ft dude couldn't fit his shoulders through the door trying to pretend he's a mild mannered reporter. No offense to your personal tastes but so many edgy serious takes on Superman. This was the first I think I saw go in the opposite direction and I just giggled every time he shows up. Even his "edgy" version put a smile on my face.

What if Superman bad?

Here is French Justice League in Marvel.

>>149012774
>>149012804
Yeah, very underutilized character.
The very concept of "what if Black Panther was more like the actual rulers of African nations" is hilariously intriguing.

>>149014950
One or two. There has been many of them but they either get rebooted or forgotten. King Hyperion seems to keep showing up just to job to whatever team he is going up against. I do miss Hickman's Hyperion raising zebra kids with Thor. Just Gods being Gods.

>>149010864 (OP)
he counts right?

>>149010864 (OP)
John >>>>> Tony.

>>149016815
Greg Land hand shat out these pages.

>Spider-Man with Antman's theme and ants
>Iron Man but constantly exploding
>Captain America with a stick
>Mexican Human Torch
>Southern Belle Scarlet Witch
They may be vidya but Freedom Force is my love

>>149018029
Absolutely primo taste.

>>149018029
>Southern Belle Scarlet Witch
all of a sudden I'm very interested

the Justice Friends are the best imo

>>149018058
It's a great game, just a top to bottom ode to Kirby. There was a comic adaptation from Image that had Tom Scioli doing the art, worth checking out.
It also had a pretty strong mod scene at the time for skins and stuff, that's how I found out about a bunch of comics. Really fond memories of it.

>>149013401
Good choice. But the Charlton Superheroes were already expies themself.
Atoman/Superman = Captain Atom = Dr Manhattan
Phantom Lady/Black Canary = Nightshade = Silk Spectre
The Shield = Peacekeeper = Comedian
Daredevil = Johnny Thunder = Ozymandias
Spirit/Spider-Man = Blue Beetle 1/Bluebeetle 2 = Niteowl 1/Niteowl 2
Mr. A = The Question = Rorschach

>>149018205
Based.

>>149018029
Still a good game.
Shame no one can make a copy of this.

>>149019514
I think you're confusing the other characters the Watchmen characters absorbed from other comics instead of the originals the Charlton ones were actually based on.

>>149016805
And this is only like a 1/5 of them

The Maximums. I always thought they were neat.

Who needs the Archies when you have...

Lefranc is basically Tintin in different art style

>>149017834
Baased blind anon

>>149018029
Holy crap are there a lot of mods for that game.

I am low key disgusted that Zarda just looks like a straight recolor of Wonder Woman now. I prefer her Ultimate designs, they conveyed her character better.

>>149021614
How would you feel if they brought back the finned helmet?

>>149010890
>If Hickman did a Justice League run

what did you think his Avengers run was

>>149021614
I was reading the Heroes Reborn 2021 stuff and thinking how it sucks that they've made SSA Nighthawk just 1:1 Batman now. Shitty event (when are they not), but that part really rankled.

>>149017257
I mean yeah basically.

>>149012864
No, that’s Earth 7's Thunderer, the Retaliators of Earth 8 have Wundajin instead

>>149018029
You forgot
>Professor X but he's also the Watcher
>>149021531
It's a VERY good game

>>149022696
I just did all the guys in that image, if we went through all of Freedom Force
>Cloak and Dagger but Hammer and Bigger Dagger
>Jimmy Olsen as Bucky Barnes
>The Punisher but also Ghost Rider
>Aquaman as played by Sean Connery and his Aqualoli
>The Flash with Green Lantern's backstory
>The Terminator in spandex
>Eve, aka a woman wearing leaves
>I Dream of Jeannie
>Aztec Firestorm
Black Jack (man with gun and Tricolor (woman with sword) from the sequel are pretty lame but at least we got Sky King
>The Rocketeer as played by the version of JFK from Clone High
Good cast in general
The Ant has one of my favourite costumes in all superhero media, it's so simple but effective

>>149014996
What the hell happened yesterday?

>>149020698
You are right with Black Canary. She would be in the same position as Nightshade.
Otherwise i think maybe Spirit is wrong.

>>149021742
Not a fan

Technically, Captain America is ripoff of The Archie/MLJ Comics character the Shield. The Shield premiered in Jan 1940 and Captain America premiering almost a year later in Dec 1940.
Does anyone have the big image list showing all the Superman expies?

>>149019514
No it was
>Daredevil = Peter Cannon = Ozymandias

>>149020698
He's kinda correct about the Daredevil part, Pete Morisi originally wanted to do a comic about the Golden Age Daredevil but couldn't get the rights, so he came up with Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt. He deliberately gave Peter Cannon the costume he did because he was basing it on the Golden Age Daredevil's costume

His origin is based on Centaur Comics' Amazing-Man, though

>>149022917
All his troubles seemed so far away.

>>149017834
That's not Greg Land art you dumb bot

>>149016799
Hudlin gets a lot of shit for his comics but I liked that story

>>149016805
Soupaman wasn't evil he was a gag character with no powers who "flew" around on a skateboard

>>149012774
>>149012804
Even when I don't like a specific piece of work, I always appreciate that Priest is the king of piss takes because he's actually talented to pull it off and not have it be childish trash, right, Garth Ennis?

>>149012774
>>149012804
Even when I don't like a specific piece of his work, I always appreciate that Priest is the king of piss takes because he's actually talented enough to pull it off and not have it be childish trash, right, Garth Ennis?
>proofread your posts, kids

>>149023440
It's possible that by Spirit, he meant The Phantom.

>>149016815
>The Thing smells like fish
his suffering is endless

>>149024605
>The Phantom
Thats him. You are good!

>>149018058
>all of a sudden I'm very interested
Same, what's her name and is there much art of her?

>>149024387
Wait a second, aren't a bunch of these named after districts, rivers, and such?

>>149025826
Yes there the gargoyles if they were in France instead of new york

>>149017177
King Hyperion is still alive?

>>149024594
Then why has Ennis written more good comics than Priest?

>>149014950
As far as I recall:
>Hickman's Hyperion/ANAD Squadron Supreme
>Aaron's Hyperion/Squadron Supreme of America

>>149026556
...
I'm a retard. I never picked the names were references to New York things as a kid.

>>149027118
How many variants of Hyperion exist?
>Squadron Supreme Hyperion
>Original Squadron Sinister Hyperion
>King Hyperion
>Supreme Power Hyperion
>Googled Hyperion
>Secret Wars Squadron Sinister Hyperion
>ANAD Squadron Supreme Hyperion
>Squadron Supreme of America Hyperion
>Zombie Hyperion

>>149016659
I like it

>>149025010
I think it is funny how the American copyrights laws will make him enter the public domain far faster than in the rest of the world.

>>149027423
Does anyone except Sweden even write stories for him? And it's not like they'll throw away all the history they've made up for him just to go back to the earliest iteration where it's just him in the 30s, no wife kids or ancestor adventures.

>>149027466
I think he is also popular in Australia.
But proto superheroes are mostly dead, popularity wise.

>>149027138
You also missed the episode where they outright point to parts of NYC and take names from there, because most of them wouldn't have names before.

I wish DC would go back to Ellis' Apollo's personality. The Millar/Ennis dumb blond version and the DCU's perfect, heroic, "too good for Midnighter" version are fucking terrible.

>>149027497
Makes sense. Maybe I should rewatch it since that was many decades ago and only vaguely remember it.

>>149011012
That "Crusader" fella is a cool take on a knightly-theme super costume, actually. Would prefer a historically-based helmet though.

>>149027306
>Supreme Power Hyperion
There are two of them, the "main" one who jobbed to crossovers and the "future" one who took over the world.

bump

>>149027138
>>149027497
Also when Demona and Thailog named the clones they named them after places in LA

Malibu, Brentwood, Burbank, Hollywood

>>149021800
not the same thing

>>149022519
>Random black guy kills Captain America and Wonder Woman
How?

>>149024387
Behemoth lives with his ex-wife?

>>149029252
He didn’t kill them, they were his friends he lost. Just lie how Hickman’s Secret Wars (which was going on at the time) had Hyperion (Marvel Superman), Morrison’s Multiversity was more or less his own not very subtle piss take on Secret Wars.

Thunderer was menat to be Ultimate Thor as at the time, the Incursions killed off the Ultimate Universe. So Thunderer was supposed to be the last of his universe too. The whole point of Multiversity was cricizing Marvel and other companies in general raising the stakes so high that fans would inevitably lose interest with constant “hard choices” and universes not telling any stories except being used as fodder for how big the threat is

>>149029345
>Morrison’s Multiversity was more or less his own not very subtle piss take on Secret Wars.
That's fucking bullshit anon. Multiversity was a project that Morrison was working way before it Hickman's Avengers run. Also Multiversity was published between 2014 and 2015 while Hickman's Secret Wars was announced the same year it was published.

>>149027084
>implying

>>149024387
>and my evil twin
lol

>>149027527
I wish DC would go back to his old look.

He looked majestic with the long white hair. The blond buzzcut just makes him look like a generic background character.

>>149010864 (OP)
I fucking hate Jason Aaron's Avengers and Heroes Reborn so much. I don't even know why he decided to use the Squadron Supreme as the villains?

>>149029791
Well, the first incarnation of the Squadron was as Avengers villains, so it makes sense on that level. Still fucking sucks though, sure.

>>149029813
Were they Mephisto constructs like in Aaron's run?

>>149029855
No, they were created by the Grandmaster to be his champions as part of a contest with Kang.

>>149029791
I hated that whole thing, but I liked when Hyperion killed Hulk several times.

>>149029874
>>149029855
Should add that they weren't created in the same way the Mephisto dupes were - the Grandmaster gave powers to a bunch of normal guys in 616. Only exception is Hyperion, who he actively created. Doctor Spectrum eventually died during a fight with Black Panther, Hyperion bought it fighting his Earth-712 counterpart in Gruenwald's Squadron, Nighthawk became a hero and has, as far as I know, been AWOL for over a decade at this point and the Whizzer became Speed Demon.

>>149030003
The Whizzer as in, the golden age hero, or another one?

>>149030003
>When the girlfriend you thought died in your drunk driving accident survived and ended up a paralyzed psychic who is severely messed up and flips between having and moving you and a secret government agency decides to use her as part of a plan to attack the Soviet Union and you sacrifice yourself to prevent a disaster, but the composite entity of the psychics try to save you but accidently send the villain to safety in another universe, and overwrite that universe's version of you to resemble you.
>>149030158
Whizzer is a different guy. He mentions reading about the Golden Age Whizzer in comic books as a continued Flash joke.

>>149030171
Man, Defenders ruled.

>>149010864 (OP)
It's ironic how the woman on the left looks more like WW compared to the actual WW! Haha!

>>149030158
The original Squadron speedster is named the Whizzer, as a nod to the Golden Age hero and to keep the Flash joke going as >>149030171
said. JMS' Supreme Power called its speedster Blur, and every incarnation of the Squadron since has used that name instead.

>>149024141
Jesus fucking christ, you mean to tell me there are people who do the same stupid shit he does?

>>149010864 (OP)
I'll always remember TMNT's Green Mantle, for being such a shamelessly blatant reference while still having a unique take on the powerset.

>>149010864 (OP)
Bluejay was pretty cool for an Ant-Man knockoff. At the very least he had a pretty cool costume, even if a little derivative.

>>149024019
>Daredevil = Peter Cannon = Ozymandias
You are right. I was not fully there. I blame the heat!

>>149016659
It's good. Cope

>>149010864 (OP)
That's just wonderwoman

>>149029473
Multiversity was a project that Morrison was working way before it Hickman's Avengers run. Also Multiversity was published between 2014 and 2015 while Hickman's Secret Wars was announced the same year it was published.

Secret Wars hadn't happened when Multiversity came out but Hickman already had the Illumaniti dissolve into childish infighting and pity parties after they killed the Great Society and their world.

The theme of "Time runs out" was already well established.

You can even see a riff on the "All hope lies in Doom" where Lord Havoc fucks with the cosmic rubix cube and summons Evil Nix. He has to be mercy killed by Hawkeye because he can't take the cosmic truth. Rather than Hickman's god-king who saves portions of reality (by destroying the rest? I think?) Morrison depicts him as a chump that gets in over his head and pays for it.

>>149031442
>two hacks independently came up with the most tired takes on 1970s comic books possible

do you know how many people think they came up with the plots of major motion picture sequels first

>>149032286
Of all the Supes expies I like Majestic the most.

>>149031081
Ok

>>149033350
Do you disagree?

>>149011031
Two of them got killed by a vent, not a super vent a normal industrial vent.

>>149018205
They are so similar yet so different. Val Hallen is the best.

Silver Agent's a real good Captain America expy I think. His origin is simmilar in that he starts out as a weaker than average guy much like Steve but I guess it's a bigger personal problem for him because every other dude in his family found their way into law, as officers, lawyers or in the millitary iirc. Even though he's got his condition (cerebral palsy?) he still finds a way to be of service to his country as a postman, and eventually winds up with his super soldier body trying to escape from some mob goons. But it's the way he talks/is written that sells him as a Captain America. He's always got a plan, is always concerned about others, always gives people strength just by being there. His overarching story though Astro City is a great sacrifice I could see Cap making, fighting on for his country/the world even knowing that an unfair death awaits him at the end of it all. He chose to do it too, he could've just stayed in the future but he's always gotta do the right think like Cap would even when it goes against the government. Sure he's not the most powerful hero around but he's still one of the best of them, past present and future
>>149016805
Cyborg Superman/his initial team were also a faux Fantastic Four iirc, but they all died horribly

>>149034118
and the other with a fire hose

>>149032535
I favour Astro Vities Samaritan.

>>149034443
Overall Astro City has very hood chatacter designs and story.

>>149032286
Qrd on Icon?

>>149035813
What if Supes but black?

>>149035813
An adult alien who crashlands in the American South in the 1800s and transforms into a black baby as he's being found by a slave woman. He grows up as a slave, fights in the Civil War, and then lives up to the present by faking his death and taking the identity of his own son after x number of years. In the present, he lives as a highly successful and socially conservative lawyer, who believes that African-Americans have a self-defeating mentality and could raise themselves up if they only worked hard for it. Raquel Ervin aka Rocket discovers his powers and convinces him that he can be a shining example of black excellence by using his powers for good, thus, Icon.

That's the Milestone story anyway, I haven't read anything of them since they got folded into mainline DC.

>>149035813
Black Superman.

>>149035813
Black Republican Superman with a sassy inner city teenage girl (Rocket) as his sidekick who constantly challenges his political views.

>>149036977
Let me guess, she's also a single mom?

>>149031440
True.

>>149029345
>>149029473
>>149031442
>>149031945
You dumb fucks do realize that Morrison and Hickman have talked before right? For Morrisoncon in 2011? They likely knew each other's plan

>>149037787
wew well I guess as long as neither of them had any intention of doing something original everybody wins

Does Tom Strong count as an expy or is he more of an homage to the genre?

>>149039002
Expy of Doc Savage, no?

>>149039017
That's my initial thought with him being raised to be the perfect man, but then he does also have explicit superhuman strength and arrested ageing due to outside influences which might move him away from being just a Doc Savage expy and more of just another character in the same genre.

>>149039113
I suppose a lot of expies start as expies but then evolve as the concept develops differently

>>149039002
>>149039017
>>149039113
Tom is various pre-Superman characters combined, mostly Doc Savage but he's got a little Hugo Danner to him in how his dad used him as a science experiment. He also has a lot of Superman traits that a lot of people don't pick up on because they're traits from the silver age.

>>149039002
I always considered him both a tribute of Supes and Doc Savage.

For a religious zealot Superman expy, Intercessor was way too badass to be stuck in a defunct porn comic.

>>149040673

>>149040673
>>149040683
Did he fiuck somebody?

>>149040673
He'd probably job to Azrael

>>149041124
Writing the saint dumas knight...

An open challenge

>>149037103
She isn't

>>149036977
>>149036189
Sounds good.

>>149032286
Why is Gladiator considered a Supes expy?

>>149041371
He's the Superboy slot in a group that references the Legion of Superheroes, a lot of powers overlap, and his real name Kallark sounds familiar. He just doesn't look quite as close as other Superman copies.

>>149041432
Might as well add Carol Danvers, or ''Car-Ell''.

>>149041500
Well now she is, but that was result of drifting away from her usual concept.

>>149041538
it's just weird how she went from her own character to not Hal Jordan to Supes rip off.

>>149041596
>from her own character
anon...

>>149028512

>>149030533
Indeed, others try. But nobody else has the style, panache, limited range of reference pics, and utter disregard for maintaining consistent hair style of a character across a single page. And that is why they will never compare to the great Greg Land.

>>149031081
He was clearly the Wasp, not Ant-Man.

>>149040765
He actually had an entire harem, which he forcibly added his recent rescue to via mind control.

>>149042278
He's clearly a mashup of both of them, if you want to be pedantic about it.

>>149039002
Inspired. Moore stole the concept.

>>149041371
His power set is Superman. And you could say that their power coming from believe in themself is a to Superman being as strong as the story needs him to be.

>>149010864 (OP)
These were all genius

>>149042591
Isn't he kinda more Mon-el since they both have a weakness that kinda perthetic(Lead for Mon-el and lack of confidence for Gladiator)

>>149010864 (OP)
Was always fond of Raimi's Darkman, as a Shadow pastiche.

>>149041596
She's always done the space stuff. The space cop stuff... you could argue Mar-Vell did that too. The supes rip off stuff was never proven, Fawcett went out of business.

>>149041371
The Shi'ar Imperial Guard is a riff on the Legion of Super-Heroes. Gladiator is Superboy, Smasher is Ultra Boy, Fang is Timber Wolf, etc. They were created by Claremont and Cockrum - Cockrum had been the artist for Superboy and the Legion only a few years prior.
Fang in particular is a funny one - Cockrum takes over art on Superboy, redesigns Timber Wolf and gives him the pointy haircut, then he goes over to Marvel and redesigns Wolverine and gives him the same hair. Then he designs Fang, then eventually has Wolverine wearing Fang's outfit. This dude *really* likes Timber Wolf.

Claremont and Cockrum's X-Men borrrowed a lot from Cockrum's time on the Legion in general - to the point that Nightcrawler was an idea Cockrum had proposed for the Legion and DC had rejected.

>>149042604
His real name is just Kal and Clark mashed together, man.

>>149042604
I thought the will is just a nod to Superman being so powerfull that it was the confident of readers and writers when he seemingly was nearly defeated and when he swings back to win.
But i have to admit it is my opinion not what Marvels writers said.

>>149042601
The expies really comes down to Not-Avengers and Not-Justice.

>>149043113

>>149043243

>>149043249

>>149016805
>public spirit being merely WhAt If SuPeRmAn BaD
oof

That said, the whole Marshal Law stable are my favorite expies.

>>149010864 (OP)
The Sentry and Destroyman are my favourite Supermans

>>149016805
Wait a minute isn't all the bad Supermen just people subconsciously admitting they don't want Jewish immigrants to take over...

I've been through a lot of shit lately and really like the idea of fighting yourself and how proud he was he saved hundreds of billions despite killing millions. Fucked up existential shit and has agoraphobia when he is amnesiac. He's a fucked up but really human superman burn out. I've never read anything about him after this though.

>>149043304
>I've never read anything about him after this though.
Keep it that way.

>>149043304
>>149043284
Sentry is the most modern character. All the inner demons thing is rather rare.

>>149043284
Fair.

>>149043388
wasnt he brought back from the 60s?

>>149043919
No, it's part of his fictional origin that he's retroactively been around since the beginnings of the "Marvel Universe", but his actual first appearance was in 2000.

>>149016805
Bruh, that cliche was already bad by how basic and cynic it was. I dont get why people liked it at the time, much less how many tried to make their own shitty version.
The only decent one was suppaman from akira toriyama, because he was an actual superman fan, and was played just for laughs because it was just a guy with a high ego who just used an skateboard.
Him having no morals and ethics was played just for laughs. The perfect parody.

>>149043949
Damn it was really well done I just shrugged it off assuming they rebooted some silver age goofball and his villain into mental issues and more edgy and thoughtful stuff.

Very well written that it's actually not based on anything yet doesn't feel out of place than any other actual reboot/edgy reimagining...

>>149010864 (OP)
Supreme is my favorite Superman run.

>>149044173
>Him having no morals and ethics was played just for laughs. The perfect parody.
>Being a total and deliberate asshole and having no redeeming qualities for the lulz is now funny and charming

You are part of the problem why superheroes like Superman and Cao are uncool and less admired than characters like Deadpool and Wolverine(or Homelander)

>>149043260
>a witch with vision

>>149013401
I think that Ditko's Blue Beetle looks better than Niteowl

>>149010864 (OP)
For me its Bluejay

>>149012774
>>149012804

Love him so much, he's so insanely based .

>>149039002
>>149039017
>>149039113
Moore's intent for Tom Strong was what would happen if the pulp genre became dominant instead of the superhero genre and how would one modernize it
Tom Strong's origin is a cross between Doc Savage (being raised to be a the perfect human) and Tarzan's (parents crashing on the island) and the inventor aspect likely comes from Tom Swift (the name, probably partially as well). And like >>149039224 said there's also a bit of Hugo Danner in him and there's Superman traits.

There's also some carryover from what Moore was doing on Supreme (Tom Strong's enemy Saveen ages and dies, Tom's prior love Greta Gabriel is out of the picture, Tom's outfit is red and white). But there's also other superhero homages in Tom Strong. The Terra Obscura story was Moore repurposing Nedor's Doc Strange as Tom Strong's counterpart and the Nedor heroes being the Earth-Two equivalent, only their Earth is located in the same universe (which is sort-of the idea with Marvel's Counter-Earth). Warren Strong is a rabbit version of Tom Strong kind of like how Hoppy the Marvel Bunny is the Captain Marvel bunny equivalent, and there's a story that's done in the style of the old Fawcett Captain Marvel comics, I forget the issue at the moment but it's the one where Tom teams up with his younger self and Warren. The one with the Salamander guy is kind of pulp lost civilization but also Namor and Atlantis (and he even hinted at this in Top 10 with the dialogue from that bickering couple)

>>149017762
What exactly is Prophet an Expie of? I know Diehard is literally cyborg Captain America

>>149016805
Wait why is Atoman there?

>>149023889
>"Hey Jack, what if we made The Shield... but he actually holds his shield?"

>>149024387
Ngl i thought when he said "Her boyfriend" i thought he meant his ex wife's that shit had me kekking for a minute

>>149045522
Lot of Squaddies.

>>149031081
I thought he was Yellow Jacket

>>149035226
Yep, i wish they'd turn it into a show but they'd probably ruin it, even if it's got brownie points like Winged Victory and the tranny guy's story.

For me it was all the Supervillain focused ones

>>149045462
He's kind of also Captain America in a way but I can't remember what else Liefeld was riffing on. I think some people have said Terminator as well.

I know that years later when Moore was revamping Liefeld's characters, Moore was intending on revamping Prophet by showing in Prophet's past he was a Doc Savage stand-in. There's the possibility that some ideas from this also got carried over to when Moore went to work on Tom Strong instead.

>>149040673
>>149040683
>defunct porn comic

Huh? What?

>>149043260
>>149043113

There was a Thunder Bolts one... but like the "not-suicide squad" Thunderbolts not the original ones

>>149045574
Oh well, i'm happy the John Prophet we ended up getting was an army of mutant clone space cavemen

>>149045623
So why isn't this guy called Red Behemoth?

>>149045623
Who the fuck is Oedipus supposed to be? Elektra?

>>149045757
Yes.

Ben Edlund also did an Elektra stand-in named Oedipus, in The Tick

>>149045453
Chris Sprouse did say that he and Moore discussed focusing on the Strong Family in a homage to the Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four
https://sardinianconnection.blogspot.com/2009/05/chris-sprouse-interview.html

>>149045543
Me too

>>149045534
Not all of them.

>>149045565
You cant turn that into a show. Too expensive.

>>149045623
Interesting. And this is pic related line-up expy.

>>149046654

>>149045462
>>149045574
He's Captain America and OMAC, he had a satellite called DOCC feeding him power like OMAC had Brother Eye. Also his sidekick was Jack Kirby as a jacked dwarf.

>>149010890
>If Hickman did a Justice League run, I want him to recreate the Illuminati vs Great Society plot but show how the Great Society could've saved both worlds by having the Justice League beat the not-Illuminati

no need, Superman already stopped the incursions decades ago

>>149010890
Kinda was done when NOT Iron Man betrayed Justice Incarnate

>>149047656
>We tried to fight the war in secret

GET IT?

I enjoyed this Squadron run even though it didn't really amount to much - I liked the concept of a Squadron made up of members from different realities, made me think of Exiles. Props for pulling in a New Universe guy and for also including Thundra, who rules.

>>149011012
God, I remember the threads for Multiversity. It was the last time I saw /co/ being hyped like crazy during a storytime because the final battle was Marvel and DC vs the Gentry.

>>149042245
greg land is an expy of a real artist

>>149045520
Eh its weisman i can see that being applicable.

I would love to go full on them being in the dc universe and doing a take what if the gargoyles plots happened in the dc universe along with some other gargoyle character expys

>>149046654
Funny how tom thumb ended up getting a expy with gizmo from the teen titans comic

I remember there was an expy team of the Avengers as the big bads of Millar's Authority run.

>>149029235
it's exactly the same thing

>>149047656
whats goin on with his leg in panel 4

some kind of multidimensional shit no doubt

>>149042663
>Claremont and Cockrum's X-Men borrrowed a lot from Cockrum's time on the Legion in general - to the point that Nightcrawler was an idea Cockrum had proposed for the Legion and DC had rejected.

Don't forget Storm being cobbled together from several unused Legion characters

>>149050880
I think their name was The Americans.

>>149045462
OMAC, and OMAC was originally intended as a future Captain America.

How about expys within their own continuity?

>>149032286
Missing the High and Jon Farmer.

>>149051685
I never saw OMAC as future Captain America.

>>149047597
This is... this is... this is OP as fuck

>>149046654
I think Marvel has done a better job with the DC expies than DC with the Marvel expies.

>>149052015
This. DC always come as petty when it comes to these kind of things, as Marvel expies always come as weak, dumb or just plain evil.

>>149050880
Damn you for reminding me of such terrible comics

>>149046654
I wish they would use some of the other guys more often
It's always the main five whenever the Squadron shows up

At least promote Skrullian Skymaster and Amphibian to full time members
Hell I'll even take Jovian and the Norn >>149010890

>>149045453
>I forget the issue at the moment but it's the one where Tom teams up with his younger self and Warren.
Tom Strong #13

>>149051972
Scrawny guy gets changed by satellite operation instead of super serum. If he done this at Marvel as he originally planned it was going to be a Captain America of the Future thing. I think Mark Evanier said this in the intro he wrote for the OMAC Archive

>>149052246
This cover is giving me Marvel family vibes

>>149052223
Well now, but it started out differently.

>>149052246
That's the one, thanks.

>>149052429
This issue had some nods to Fawcett Captain Marvel, like the first page layout is similar to the first pages of a lot of Fawcett Captain Marvel stories and Pete Poplaski did a pretty decent C.C. Beck imitation for the final chapter of the story

bump

>>149052246
>>149052512
The old man is also kind of loosely based on Shazam (the wizard) but is actually an older Tom Strong. This made me wonder if this was in reference to C.C. Beck saying in an interview he deliberately drew the wizard Shazam to look like what he believed an older Captain Marvel would look like

>>149010864 (OP)
>warrior woman with sword and shield
modern wonder woman is basically a parody of the real deal lmao

>>149050057
What expy was he? I thought he was the Atom?

>>149052015
The project behind it was more thought out. I mean the Marvel expies didnt got a miniseries, so it might just never got beyond npc levels.

>>149052223
Because most of them died.

>>149043304
>>149043385
If you decide to read more anyway, keep to the minis 2005 and 2018, seriously.