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Kingfisher said on May 6th, 2010 at 11:29 am

You specified that this Cannonball wasn’t the X-men Cannonball but said nothing about Wildcat, so I’ll just assume I finally know his origin now and he’s just really THAT old.

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Stovepipe wins the prize being unconventionally badass.

Or just idiotic.

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Long Rifle looks exactly like John Tesh, which does offer some fascinating story opportunities.

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Candlejack said on May 6th, 2010 at 1:05 pm

Healer Randolph’s former master let him bear his last name? Well, that was…mighty white of him.

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Ambrael said on May 6th, 2010 at 1:25 pm

Oh, I think he earned it the old fashioned way.

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Master Mahan said on May 6th, 2010 at 1:31 pm

seriously, one day I’ll post the Tomahawk and Dan Hunter entry from Who’s Who and you will al go eeeewwwwwwww

Will not!

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Zifnab said on May 6th, 2010 at 1:58 pm

32% seems exceedingly generous. In the words of Healer Randolf, “That’s mighty white of you, sir.”

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Zifnab said on May 6th, 2010 at 1:59 pm

Oh, god damnit. Candlejack beat me to that joke. :-p And better too. Poo.

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@Kingfisher – Yeah, that about fits, given that they’ve deaged the JSA like 18 times by now. Plus, I am not sure I would confuse an X-Man with a DC character as often as I might two DC characters.

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Kid Kyoto said on May 6th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

“32% seems exceedingly generous. In the words of Healer Randolf, “That’s mighty white of you, sir.””

Keep in mind there’s 10 of them so that’s only 3.2% each. Probably less than that since Wildcat has to get 10% by himself.

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Wildcat deserves at least a 50% for his letters alone.

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Mary Warner said on May 6th, 2010 at 3:04 pm

Did they have stovepipe hats in the 18th Century?

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This can’t be right. We still won that war?

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Brian T. said on May 6th, 2010 at 3:43 pm

There’s a fairly effective Scottish weapon that is basically just a cannonball on the end of a chain. You can either swing it at people (like The Absorbing Man’s ball and chain) or throw it.

Mel Gibson used one in a scene in Braveheart.

So why didn’t they just give Cannonball one of those?

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RealKivlov said on May 6th, 2010 at 4:14 pm

Most people never realize that Cannonball, being limited to whatever he could carry, would retrieve spent cannonballs from the enemy no matter where they ended up. He would have made a hell of a gopher except golf wasn’t manly enough.

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More French than Georges Batroc?

I feel like I should make a bad fake French exclamation of surprise.

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Willie Everstop said on May 6th, 2010 at 4:52 pm

“seriously, one day I’ll post the Tomahawk and Dan Hunter entry from Who’s Who and you will all go eeeewwwwwwww”

That was the kind of freedom they were fighting for! It’s a group of teenage sidekicks, expert ball handlers, french sailors, and fabulous dressers. This unit was the 18th century version of don’t ask don’t tell. Unsung heroes.

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Willie Everstop said on May 6th, 2010 at 4:55 pm

Unsung heroes who were apparently sent on suicide missions.

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@Brett: Zut alors!

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Brian T. said on May 6th, 2010 at 5:47 pm

Sacre bleu!

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Jeff R. said on May 6th, 2010 at 6:43 pm

There are more singularly french ways of killing people, but carrying a guillotine into battle is even less practical than hand-tossing cannonballs…

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Will H. said on May 6th, 2010 at 8:06 pm

Mon Dieu!

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LightlyFrosted said on May 6th, 2010 at 9:05 pm

Sacre vache!

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Well, it sounds cooler the way you tell it.

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lilacsigil said on May 7th, 2010 at 2:01 am

The amazing black man who is not actually black! Seriously, look at that dude.

Well, at least having white-skinned “black” slaves is historically accurate!

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See, there’s potential in Stovepipe. Maybe in some sort of gritty legacy miniseries where the lost Stovepipe Hat is revealed as a gateway into the arsenal of a lost Celtic God of War, or something.

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In another time, Healer Randolph would have been known as “Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Group-Shot.”

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Mister Alex said on May 7th, 2010 at 1:38 pm

Coming to theatres August 2011:

STOVEPIPE BEGINS

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Josh R said on May 7th, 2010 at 9:50 pm

Has anyone noticed that in the group shot, Tomahawk’s green, disembodied head is looking at the rangers like he’s thinking “Jesus Christ, what a bunch of freaks…”

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Piranhtachew said on May 8th, 2010 at 6:26 am

@Willie: Fuck, yeah!

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Evil Abraham Lincoln said on May 10th, 2010 at 7:27 pm

Wait, this was actually *published*? And they expected people to pay *money* to read this?

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Looking at the pictures, I can only imagine people’s reaction to Healer Randolph. “Oh, no! It’s the Octaroon in the glasses! Run!” ::Tongue firmly in cheek.:; He looks like a deadly killer, that one.

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