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volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-06 21:06:00

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The periodic table has come to life...and its EVIL !
One of the stranger Avengers issues.

So on the way home from Attilan, The Avergers stop in the Soviet Union (great idea)

Seems the soviets are doing wierd science that lets persons take on the properties of different elements.

What great idea !!!

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	thanekos 2009-04-06 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	... thankfully, they didn't get to try for 112-118. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-04-06 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	Judging by what I can see of the page formatting and my memories of school, we hadn't gotten that far into the hundreds when this was made. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-04-06 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	As someone who hated chemistry class, the idea that the periodic table is evil does not surprise me in the least. (Reply to this)

	surlytmpl 2009-04-07 12:00 am UTC (link)
	"My God! They've made...Sulfur!" "Actually, I just had a burrito for lunch." (Reply to this)

	arbre_rieur 2009-04-07 01:34 am UTC (link)
	The Element of Doom have returned a couple of times since then. In their later appearances, they had successfully created one member for each element, so that there were over one hundred of them. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-04-07 06:52 am UTC (link)
	I only know of the appearance in the Thunderbolts, were there others ?? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-04-07 02:06 am UTC (link)
	I *loved* the Elements of Doom, like the Metal Men gone evil. Kurt Busiek used them a time or two since then (Reply to this)

	psychop_rex 2009-04-07 03:47 am UTC (link)
	I used to own this story in a TPB, but it got lost somehow. Which is a shame, 'cause this era of the Avengers had some pretty damn good stories in it. Anyone want to post the one where Hawkeye goes up against Deathbird? Also - uh, Volksjager, forgive me if you meant to do this, but it looks like you mixed up the last three scans - they're not quite in sequence. (Reply to this)

icon_uk
2009-04-07 05:21 am UTC (link)

"Elements of Doom.... ROLL CALL!"

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.

With as ever, all due admiration to Tom Lehrer (Though this song is now slightly out of date, he has always promised to expand it when enough new elements were discovered to make up a new verse... this has not yet happened)

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	besamim 2009-04-07 07:40 am UTC (link)
	Although this is Marvel, I can't help but wonder how DC's Element Girl would've handled this. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-04-07 08:42 am UTC (link)
	She'd probably beg them to kill her, if Sandman is any indication. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-04-07 10:24 am UTC (link)
	Oh, the she-metamorpho I wasn't sure who it was. (Reply to this) (Parent)

besamim
2009-04-07 02:59 pm UTC (link)

She'd probably beg them to kill her, if Sandman is any indication.

Hee hee. I meant before that stage of her life. Not that I know anything about it; she was apparently such an obscure and long-unused character that when Gaiman called a DC editor to ask "Can I kill Element Girl?", the initial response was "Who?" (Well, it's better than Len Wein's alleged response to Alan Moore when he asked for permission to do what he did to Barbara Gordon: "Sure, cripple the bitch.")

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	as a russian history and science geek... rayerai 2009-04-07 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	I squeed so hard I scared my cat. (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-04-08 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	I'm guessing that Falcon would have been turned into Dolomite, the baddest, blackest mineral there is. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	regulus13 2009-04-12 03:12 pm UTC (link)
	Why, that would have required a giant orgy between Calcium, Magnesium, Carbon, and Oxygen! Something that's strangely appropriate for D_S... :þ (Reply to this) (Parent)