Posted by Lucifer Lyndon Razoodock at spider-wi041.proxy.aol.com on August 03, 2000 at 12:16:00:
In Reply to: Argos City.. posted by Darth Dobbin on August 03, 2000 at 07:51:44:
: : One last thought: Where the hell is Argo City s'posed to be located?
: I was never a big Supergirl fan, but I think that Argos City survived as a "chunk" of Krypton, by way of a series of force fields or something, and acts as a floating asteroid-city-state. Isn't it mobile? I've got this image of a floating, flat city with jet engines underneath it.
Interesting, that...
: Another Kryronian City survived as well- The shrunken City of Kandor, which Superman keeps in a bottle. Braniac was the shrinker of that city. That I'm sure about. In Silver Age WORLDS FINEST comics, Batman & Superman would often shirnk themselves & visit Kandor, adopting NEW superheroic guises. Since Kandor was techincally Krytonian, tiny Superman had no powers when inside it, and had to be more Batman-like in his approach to heroing.
Okay, here's an oppurtunity to stretch this thread back on-topic.
Having not read more than a handful of "Superman" comics, I'm a little fuzzy on the whole Kryptonite thing...and Brodie's "kryptonite condom" thing didn't help.
Alright, Brodie seems to insinuate that a condom made of any kryptonite would kill Supes, but I've always thought that there were different degrees of kryptonite which would have varying degrees of effects on Kryptonians.
Now, hold on, this is where it gets slippery...
Could someone please contrast for me the effects of Krypton's red sun versus our own yellow solar furnace (ie. has it ever been pseduo-explained why this happens?) I'd alsolike to understand why kryptonite has such weird effects on its own denizens when they encounter it so far off from its original location.
I'd also like to know how Superman accomplishes space travel when he leaves our solar system.
Now, I am going by this suave new "Supergirl" transfer on DvD and I'm sure there are idiosyncrasies with the comic (...right, I'm talking about Supergirl's idiosynchratic routine; see, it's on-topic...) and this pre-Schumacher homo-erotic love-fest, but it implies that Superman has headed off somewhere 100 lightyears away (was he sent via intergalactic cab?) and in the climax, Supergirl certainly seems to fly back to Argos City sans her Binary Ship (sic!). That she does not asphyxiate bothers me.
Also, O'Toole's Zaltar refers to Argos City as inner-space. What the hell is he babbling about?
: I don't know, I'm really not sure if I'm inventing the memory of Argos City out of whole cloth, though; my college years saw me doing an ungodly amount of acid.
I'm disappointed in you, Darth, since I happen to know that we're all closer to God when on acid.
Oh, yeah. I'm going to put another "Supergirl" post in Film-411 a bit later on. We should probably continue this yonder, dig it?
--tom