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Bonus points for the armor being designed by Kilowog.

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Die Macher said on March 31st, 2011 at 9:33 am

Funny how the Russian superheroes are so locked into the “Red” motif… Red Star, Red Trinity, Rocket Red… American heroes get Green Arrow/Lantern, Blue Beetle, Black Canary, Booster Gold, and the primary colours of Superman/Wonder Woman etc., but with Russians it’s always Red this, Red that. Sheesh!

I did like Rocket Red #7 though.

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@Die Macher, what does that say about Red Tornado?

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Die Macher said on March 31st, 2011 at 10:56 am

Clearly he is a subversive, pinko, leftie, latte-munching, arugula-sipping, Marxicommie agent.

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DistantFred said on March 31st, 2011 at 11:10 am

@Psych – That Ma Hunkel being a card carrying Communist was another reason why the JSA quit instead on doing the House Un-American Activities hearings?

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@DistantFred: That would actually make for a great book idea. Nicely done, sir.

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Kid Kyoto said on March 31st, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Plus they’ve got a great design, comic book armor that acutally looks like armor and not metallic spandex. They’ve got a great industrial feel to them and he have heroic colors as well.

Good article.

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DC should do what Marvel did with Scourge and assimilate as much villain tech into the Rocket Red body armor as they can – even if its entirely redundant to what they already have.

Put enough jobber tech together and you’ll get something entirely badass.

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NCallahan said on March 31st, 2011 at 12:28 pm

I love that the armor doesn’t like traditionally “superheroic” — it looks like a bunch of hazmat suits. It lends itself to the Soviet-equivalent motif. “They’re definitely superheroes, but they aren’t American superheroes.”

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Zenrage: Even X-Cutioner?

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Cookie McCool said on March 31st, 2011 at 12:29 pm

I’m such a sucker for anything that has a hammer and sickle slapped on it. Me and Putin, we miss the Soviet Union so hard!

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@Zenrage, I really liked the idea and design for the Jack Monroe Scourge that plagued the Thunderbolts. It came together really well.

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Marionette said on March 31st, 2011 at 1:22 pm

That visor has to go, though. If you can’t see their faces, how are they going to be able to give that Rocket Red glare?

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I love that the armor doesn’t like traditionally “superheroic” — it looks like a bunch of hazmat suits.

In fairness, the suits have gotten more streamlined over time. But they’re still much more armor-ish than most suits of armor.

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@Marionette: As awesome as that might be, “Rocket’s Red Glare” comes from the American national anthem, and is not something that a typical Soviet-inspired hero might go for.

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@Die Macher- I lol’d hard at “arugula sipping.” Well played.

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@Die Macher – well I guess that explains Red Arrow…

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John 2.0 said on March 31st, 2011 at 2:42 pm

The fact that, if destroyed, they become low-yield fission bombs (as seen in DC 1,000,000) seems like a very Soviet-era design flaw.

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@Adam Farrar–I especially like that the Jack Monroe Scourge tooks it’s design cues from Paul Kirk’s Manhunter outfit.

Seriously–look at the placement of Nomad’s stun discs and the shurikens on Kirk’s tunic.

The Rocket Reds are awesome. They look so damn Soviet–bulky, overbuilt, and powerful. That’s been lost a bit in later redesigns, because unlike Iron Man, sleekness is not the point.

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some guy said on March 31st, 2011 at 3:29 pm

I wonder how many guys make up the Red brigade. Apparently a brigade can have anywhere from 600 to 6500 guys in it, depending on the size and number of the battalions that make it up.

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I really don’t care about the Rocket Reds in general but I LOVE RR#4. Dmitri Pushkin is what would happen if Yakov Smirnoff were Iron Man and that is all kinds of awesome.

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I had no idea that these guys ever existed. After reading “The Winter Men” it’s kind of cool to know that such figures existed in more mainstream comics, and the way that MGK discusses these characters puts me almost completely in mind of the premise of that other series. Neat.

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Black Mage said on March 31st, 2011 at 7:01 pm

The Rocket Reds are to American superheroes as the Soyuz is to the space shuttle. And I LOVE the Soyuz.

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Hey MGK, didn’t you also mention you like the “new” Rocket Red Gavril Ivanovich in JL: Generation Lost?

If I recall correctly, you thought he was pretty funny — which I agree with, by the way.

And yes, the Rocket Reds are awesome.

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Garfield said on March 31st, 2011 at 9:05 pm

That Englehart/Staton GLC was a rollicking good read. (Creepy stuff about kinda-jailbait Arisia aside.) Did Doctor Ub’X get his own Who’s Who entry? If so, you know what to do for next Thursday. (And Ch’p really has to be in at least one crowd shot in the GL movie.)

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Ah, Rocket Reds – sure, they are kind of stereotypical, but considered most of the other Russian superheroes created by Americans, at least they don’t (usually) suck.

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piranhtachew said on April 1st, 2011 at 5:24 am

*Wonders if they could make a good KHL team.*

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Danny Sichel said on April 4th, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Remember the scene in Chase where it turned out that unemployed post-Soviet Rockets Red had been selling off pieces of their armor to the Senderoso Luminoso?

God damn, Chase was a magnificent comic.

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I loved these guys back in the 80’s when they seemed to be all over DC Comics. I’m not a fan of the redesigned armor. I could handle the Apokalyptian armor from Justice League International, I could even kind of handle the idea that they used it to upgrade the others so they all matched (the idea works better if all the Rocket Reds looks alike so you can’t tell them apart except by their number) but the totally new designs are just way too sleek for my taste. Bulking works so much better.

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