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Badficwriter (ashtoreth) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-19 22:06:00

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char: firestorm/ronnie raymond, char: killer frost/crystal frost, creator: gerry conway, creator: pat broderick, creator: rafael kayanan, publisher: dc comics

Firestorm Villain: Killer Frost
Or: Gerry Conway and his Gender War issues!

The early Gerry Conway had some pretty good stuff. Since she's coming back as a Black Lantern, here's a look at the original Killer Frost. (Roughly 16 pages, poor dial-upper..)

3 scans from Firestorm vol. 1, issue 4 (Gerry Conway writes, Pat Broderick and Rodin Rodriguez on art)

Killer Frost has taken over New York (where only Firestorm and Red Tornado hung out) by breaking water mains everywhere and then freezing it all. She demands Firestorm bow to her or she'll start killing hostages.

Curt Noland is the DC counterpart to Burt Reynolds, of course.

After being defeated, she is frozen in jail to prevent her from using her powers. Outside, a guard is watching birds fly around wires. Inside, the warden is visiting. (7 scans from Firestorm 20, Gerry Conway writes, art by Rodin Rodriguez and Rafael Kayanan)

And who is that one man you ask? Why it's Martin Stein, the passive half of the composite hero Firestorm. Here is Frost while stalking him.

The offhand, bloodless humor is somehow more evil than all the cackling of modern villainy.

Because Stein is a superhero, he escapes, making her think he's dead.

7 scans from Firestorm 21, same creative team. Here we meet Louise Lincoln! Who will go on to become Killer Frost II.

One of the guards manages to escape, while his comrades beg for help. Frost watches impassively. The remaining guards drop their weapons, saying that that counted for something, right?

She simply walks up the freeway, freezing as she goes 'with the air of a pedestrian at a crosswalk'. As she decays, she looks older. Assorted pages from their fight:

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jlroberson
2009-07-20 02:59 am UTC (link)

Interesting nobody ever comments that Ronnie Raymond is where Conway's Peter Parker dialogue went. But then, Firestorm himself is an inversion of Spidey. For instance, he's a high school jock who's victimized constantly by an intellectual hipster nerd.

I like him around this time. Though years of grimdark have perhaps made it seem tame, there was a bit in the early 80s, until that awful League he created(Vibe and all), that Conway's stuff had a nice, dramatic edge of danger to it. Like the SSOV story with Killer Frost where the League and JSA are taken down brutally.

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	btravage.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 04:00 am UTC (link)
	Professor Stein is a hipster? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-07-20 04:41 am UTC (link)
	No, Ronnie was intellectually bullied by a kid at school. IIRC, it's what made him join a nuclear protest--the one that got him turned into Firestorm. Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; that or trying to impress a girl. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-07-20 06:59 am UTC (link)
	IIRC It was Cliff Carmichael, who ended up becoming the second, now never seen, Thinker in Suicide Squad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-07-20 04:42 am UTC (link)
	I mean, really, what does it take, to manage to create what's come to be almost universally regarded as the WORST Justice League ever? Pressure to follow in X-Men's footsteps. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-07-20 05:59 pm UTC (link)
	The Detroit League had a lot of potential. I was in love with emo Steel and Vixen came off like a female Wolverine. It could've gone much like New Avengers had, under a different writer. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fredneil.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 04:20 am UTC (link)
	What, the man who brought fridging female characters into comic books has issues with women? Nahhhh. (Reply to this) (Thread)