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@koays: That's true. In the pre-IC content with Powergirl (largely JSA) I guess I didn't see that come up much; and I've never read anything where Donna or Hawkman were more than ancillary characters (ie: their inner details weren't important -- Although now that you mention it, I think I remember a moment (reading WW) where I found that Donna's background wasn't always what I had thought it to be).

It may not be the strongest counter-point, but I think it's "not as bad" with those characters because they aren't main-characters. Not that Rachel a main/classic X-Men member, but Uncanny X-Men is a feature book & the team themselves is definitely a "main character" in Marvel (and she got a lot of narrating time in those books --- while in DC those 3 people at best get time in a team-book and even then it's not one that has over-arching impact on the rest of DC (as say, the Justice League would). ......and it just seems like there's SOOO many people with this issues in Marvel (aka X-Men) haha.

But yea, like I said earlier it's mainly just an "issue" when trying to jump into the world. (With DC I also grew up on the many cartoons they put out, so even when starting their comics I already knew a lot of basic info).

I have to laugh at hearing others saying they hate the time-travel, because I found this thread after googling "x-men too much time travel" (seeing if anyone had voiced that already, somewhere on the internet). I wanted to read some X-Men (I'm mainly a DC reader, though I read about a fair amount Marvel - wiki summaries, etc - to get references when I do read Marvel, or to understand forum discussions) and I'm near the end of Claremont's modern Uncanny run (444-474) & had to think on this subject. Marvel (X-Men primarily, it seems) has SO much interaction between alternate universes/futures & the main/canon one. Often with characters staying in the 616 for an extended period. Add in that many times it's some child in the Grey/Summers family (but most aren't related, are from different universes, etc).... It's not the most difficult thing in the world, but it certainly doesn't help someone trying to build a bigger base of (clear) 1st-hand knowledge for Marvel (history, "current state of things", etc. Especially because there's always been so many different X-Men related books, teams splitting & re-forming, etc). I can't think of any comparable part of the DC-universe (pre or post new-52), even if you came in with little DC knowledge.

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After wardishy pointed it out, this I how I noticed it when I took a 2nd look. The first 3 (from the bottom up) look pretty clear, IMO, the 4th looks sort of squashed, and the 5th looks large/bloated. The separated lines that are perpendicular to the fingers are what really "confirmed" it for me (ie: there is a break to separate each finger from the adjacent ones).

Wow, you're right. That's a pretty big thing to let slip by. (I wonder if it'll be fixed when it actually gets printed). Surprised no one replied to this yet.

This will be cool, but it's funny that we were told they'd only be doing original stories, but ended up going "eh...it's just animate N52".

@highaccuser: Thanks! I'll have to do some investigating.

@highaccuser: Details? I'd love to read up on that.

That's kind of vague, as some people don't give a crap about explanations & accept anything no matter if it makes any sense or not (ie: Anything would be possible).

Dratini wasn't answering to making more, he (& I) was just saying that darkness is not a "thing". It's an absence of a thing. If you want to make something hot you vibrate it's atoms very quickly; if you want to make it colder, you slow down it's vibrations. With darkness there is nothing to affect. (ie: No particle of darkness, etc - nothing to move or change).

Say we're in a dark room - completely sealed, nothing but walls/ceilings. If you had the ability to alter elements you could perhaps "conjure" some that would react together & produce photons. If we want to really stretch power/logic, perhaps you could "will" electrons (in the air, etc) to an excited state & get them to produce photons on their own. If we allow there to be electrical sockets in the room, perhaps you could use the flow of electricity to get something going. It get tricky, IDK if there's ever been a comic showing of someone moving photons around (as they might particles of air, or something with atoms), other than people who can turn themselves invisible (and that's more of a case of reflecting existing photons differently).

Depending on who (/what feat) we're talking about, you could be mentally slowing down particles & mentally "painting" where you want to happen (so on page it looks like you're "moving ice").

@sirderp Like it was said, there is no particle that darkness is comprised of. Darkness is just the absence of light, so one would have to be pulling in photons from another source for the area to brighten. (Or, create some chemical reaction that causes light to be created).

Are these taking into account speed (aka effectiveness), or just smallest amount of body they can still be "alive" with? (ex: Flash can heal very fast, but only as a human would normally heal (just WAAAY faster) - so he wouldn't be able to regrow a limb or such. Perhaps he wouldn't be included in this discussion because it's against the spirit of it?)

also, props to people adding MM. Technically he can incorporate any matter into his own person & change that matter into his own body's type (so he just has to "move his mind" into 1 part, and can lose everything else & still survive).