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Do I get honorable mention if I tell you that they used their TRS-80 to compensate for a problem Superman was having with his normally-Super brain power? I think he had to catch a jet and couldn't do all the calculations he would normally have had to.
Compu-Kids or something like that, and their names probably weren't Chris and Vicky.
Back in the early 1980s, Radio Shack got DC to make a couple of characters to market their Tandy computer line to kids, and produce comics teaming these characters with Superman and a few of their own adventures. There were two of them. What were their names, and what were they known as?
--guess who's organizing his comics collection?
wyld
Do I get honorable mention if I tell you that they used their TRS-80 to compensate for a problem Superman was having with his normally-Super brain power?
You do in fact get an honorable mention for that!
I want to say that they used a futuristic device called a "modem" to get information from the Metropolis Library that helped Superman discover the necessary clue to solve a mystery. Now, I'm pretty sure Superman could fly to the library and look this information up faster than they could download the information at 2400 baud, but it's nice to let them participate.
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Eric and Shanna, the Whiz Kids.
Technically, it's Alec and Shanna, the TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids. Close enough for promotional comix, though.
Your question, JTR.
--wyld
When our story opens, the Question is investigating an impossible locked-room murder mystery involving a midget and a 6'6"-tall call girl into heavy bondage. Don't worry, I'll explain later. It's all vitally relevant.
--Alan Moore, Twilight
I've never heard of the Meta Militia, but I believe that Earth-8 is the Earth where weak 1990s replacements would have been originals - Kyle Rayner, Jean-Paul Valley, Artemis, etc.
I'll guess George Bush.
--wyld
When our story opens, the Question is investigating an impossible locked-room murder mystery involving a midget and a 6'6"-tall call girl into heavy bondage. Don't worry, I'll explain later. It's all vitally relevant.
--Alan Moore, Twilight
I've never heard of the Meta Militia, but I believe that Earth-8 is the Earth where weak 1990s replacements would have been originals - Kyle Rayner, Jean-Paul Valley, Artemis, etc.
I'll guess George Bush.
--wyld
No, not any real presidents of the USA.
And the Lord Havok who recently fought for and against Monarch came from this Earth.
Oh, don't tell me this was a parody of the whole Civil War/Initiative thing? Because that storyline parodies itself pretty effectively.
Kind of a parody on CW, yes, tho not as funny as the one panel parody done in Infinite Crisis when Luthor combined two worlds (whose numbers, when added, equaled 616) then he couldn't understand why the two sets of heroes just started fighting each other and so decided to wipe out that combined Earth.
Kind of a hint here: The Meta Militia is a current name, but they've been known as the Champions Of Angor, The Justifiers, and the Assemblers.
Every time, they're a pastiche of Marvel Comic's Avengers.
The Earth-8 versions are known as the Meta Militia.
As is, I'll even accepted the Marvel Comics character's name of the pastiche hero.
Well, I looked up the answer, so I'm disqualifying myself. So please, believe in me when I say I'm spinning round round, round round.
The human top has nothing to do with this.
You could be like a certain someone else, look it up, announce you looked it up and post the answer.
Well, I'm about ready to let it go. I'll give it a few more hours and if there isn't a correct answer by then, I'll open the thread... tho I'm surprised no one has gotten it yet.