Batman and the Outsiders had many flaws, mainly in the writing where things made no sense (example #1: Batman congratulates Geo-Force on killing a villain in the debut issue?!); however, I quite enjoyed it at the time and again in the Showcase reprint edition. Black Lightning, Metamorpho, and Katana were all really cool even if K often fell prey to "comic book sword wielded syndrome," I.e., a character based on a weapon she never really uses to its full capability, though not as much as folks like Black Knight and Valkyrie who were always using the hilt or flat side to avoid skewering and hacking bad guys.

I voted for Metamorpho because he looks cool, has cool powers, has a great backstory and personality, and is the first guy to ever turn down JLA membership. He really belonged on the Doom Patrol, though!

I went with Geo-Force, mostly because he always felt like an almost ran in terms of becoming a big name. Lord knows DC tried pushing him for a while there, then they just decided "Screw it, let's trash his reputation and ruin the character."

Which leaves me Katana, who is probably second for me, only by the width of a human hair. I'm giddy as a 5 year old at Disney that we have some version of her on Arrow, and I keep hoping they're going to make her a bigger part of the cast.

John wrote on Apr 17^th, 2015 at 2:08pm:


You mean like Ted Cruz?

whoa!!! politics in the V&V forum?!?!?

Yeah... when I heard her "I don't feel no ways tired" speech I though she was impersonating Forest Gump.

Both sides basically suck at this point. We deserve better.

Bill Clinton said that every candidate will try to tell you they were born in a log cabin that they built with their own two hands.