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Title: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Michel Weisnor on April 13, 2007, 11:30:03 AM
Worst issue never. Hate it. Throw away. Spoilers now. 

Me am not Bizarro!


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Continental Op on April 14, 2007, 05:30:25 PM
I think I'm going to be the only person on the internet to talk about this issue without using "Bizarro language"...

It's important to remember, Bizarros were originally supposed to be "imperfect duplicates" not "exact opposites". And they can't be perfectly consistent in their "oppositeness" anyway, because that wouldn't be imperfect of them! Trying to make everything they say and do exactly opposite just leads to all kinds of insane logic problems... remember the routine on SEINFELD where non-comic fan Elaine asked Jerry to explain how Bizarro Superman was the opposite of Superman ("Does he live underwater? Is he black?").

Morrison keeps this in mind and instead of using the original Bizarro (who does exist in the All-Star continuity, but isn't seen in this story) he introduces creatures that just turn out to look similar. They are micro-organisms that attack by trying to copy and leech away the essence of a host organism, but they can't get it right. So, like cancer cells in the human body, they become destructive.

I wondered why Superman would release a growing-too-big-to-contain Sun-Eater since, well... they EAT SUNS!!!

Allie was apparently the All-Star version of the frumpy looking woman Allie who worked at the Daily Planet in John Byrne's late 1980s stories. Roger Stern later wrote a story that revealed she was homeless and actually lived at the Planet! Odd bit of "casting" to make her a large black woman though. The short black guy was apparently Ron Troupe, whose regular version became Clark's brother-in-law by marrying Lucy Lane a few years back. Memo to Frank Quitely: why do ALL black men have to be drawn with shaved heads? It's getting ridiculous.

Steve Lombard uses Viagra?

Good use of supporting characters but this issue seemed to go by too fast! More soon, please!

I give it an A minus (a real one, not a Bizarro-F plus).







Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: jamespup on April 14, 2007, 08:50:53 PM
Exactly....they don't do everything backwards, they do it WRONG.

Can't wait for the  "Z"  action figure !


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: NotSuper on April 21, 2007, 02:55:57 AM
This issue reminded me of a sci-fi version of Shaun of the Dead. And that's a good thing. :)


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Ruby Spears Superman on April 21, 2007, 10:36:04 PM
 Are you sure it was Viagra? I thought it was steriods! That would be an interesting twist on the original Steve Lombard as a former athelete!


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: jamespup on April 22, 2007, 12:03:25 AM
I assumed steroids as well

but then again, would he STILL be taking them, though?


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Klar Ken T5477 on April 27, 2007, 05:40:30 AM
This is Steve Lombard we're talking about, right?

In a world where all men measure themselves up to a god, Superman, Steve would still be doing st'roids and Viagra?  Performance enhancers anyway you cut it unless you're a Bobbit.  ;)


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Permanus on April 27, 2007, 11:46:54 AM
I only thought it was okay, which means the same thing in Bizarro language and human language. I did assume that Superman meant that Lombard was taking a viagra-like substance; after all, he is an insatiable ladies' man and a blowhard.


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Klar Ken T5477 on April 28, 2007, 05:46:21 PM
Unless Steve was planning on achieving liftoff an hour after the party, he would not be taking Viagra.


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Super Monkey on April 28, 2007, 06:56:51 PM
This whole thread is Bizarro :P


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Permanus on May 11, 2007, 08:12:18 AM
I only thought it was okay, which means the same thing in Bizarro language and human language. I did assume that Superman meant that Lombard was taking a viagra-like substance; after all, he is an insatiable ladies' man and a blowhard.

It must have been Bizarro Permanus who wrote that last entry, because I read it again last night and really loved it. It wasn't just okay, it was really good, and I'd completely forgotten the final page, which actually made me laugh out loud: "Call me... Zibarro," indeed! Now I'm really excited about Zibarro. Who is he? What does he do? Can he have his own comic book?


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Permanus on May 11, 2007, 08:21:51 AM
This whole thread is Bizarro :P
If you think this thread is Bizarro, check this one out:

http://www.barbelith.com/topic/22644/from/1155

It takes a certain kind of Bizarro genius to imagine "Bizarro Dylan Thomas. He drank himself sober in only eighteen shots."


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: albewolf on May 20, 2007, 03:33:07 PM
Well, it's interesting to see what the 'current' version of any 'super' chararcter will be.  I find the use of the 'imperfect duplicate' spot on with anything they plan on doing with (this)Bizarro (short term to be sure)...


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: Permanus on May 20, 2007, 07:41:15 PM
Well, Zibarro am imperfect imperfect duplicate, so, er, me am forgot point now.


Title: Re: All Loser Bizarro # 7 aka All-Star Superman #7
Post by: jamespup on June 11, 2007, 09:01:20 PM
Still waiting for Zibarro Inaction Figure

would it have zero points of articulation, or many points of dislocation?