Samothrake

That. Is. So. COOOL!
Why couldn't I have had that for my wedding cake!?



oh. yeah.....I didn't have a wedding cake....

This my biggest sticking point at the moment as well. It's not just he history of things that have happened to the character, it's the growth of the character from those occurances. Many of these heroes started out as reall two-dimensional characters. Many were defined by their powers, not their personality. But the things that happened to them caused them to grow beyond what they started as. And this relaunch, from what little we know of it right now, seems to be taking much of that history and growth and tossing it to the winds.

For a brown haired speedster I only have to point to the very first one, Jay Garrick. Nowadays it’s hard to tell with the stereotypical grey/white temples and his hat, but Jay has brown hair. Max Mercury also had brown hair early in his career before it turned white from age. Eobard Thawne, the original Reverse Flash, later the original Professor Zoom, also originally had brown hair before it got turned white.

There are more brown haired super heroes than you think. A random list of some I found and knew about:
Peter Parker (Spiderman), Hank Hall (Hawk, Monarch and Extant), Ted Kord (Blue Beetle), Adam Blake (Captain Comet), Abel Tarant (the Tattooed Man), Adrianna Tomaz (Isis) (very dark brown), Ahri'ahn (Arion, Lord of Atlantis), Wolfsbane, Will Payton (Starman), Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat), Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic), Bucky Barnes (Bucky, Winter Soldier, current Captain Amercia), Jay Garrick (first Flash), Bruce Banner (when he’s not being Hulk), Amy Allen (Bombshell), Janet Van Dyne (Wasp), Mark Shaw (formerly Manhunter), Max Lord, Carter Hall (Hawkman) depending on the incarnation, Brin Londo (Timberwolf of LHS), Kiera Saunders (Hawkgirl) though lots of art have more red in her hair, Cliff Steel (DCs Robotman) (though to be fair we rarely see his human form), Todd Rice (Obsidian), Dan Garrett (original Blue Beetle), Dmitri Pushkin (Rocket Red), Gim Allon (Colossal Boy of LSH), Martin Stein (part of Firestorm), Hal Jordan (though many artists color his darker), Kent Nelson (Doctor Fate), Rogue (dunno her actual name), Hercules, Ben Grimm (when he’s not in his rocky Thing form), Deliliah Dearborn (Geiger), Doreen Green (Squirrel Girl), Betty Ross, Nick Fury, Hank Pym, Cyril Shelldrake (Knight of Knight and Squire), Dan “Terrible” Turpin, Christopher Summers (Corsair and father of the summers brood), Heimdall (though it’s hard to tell with that helm), Jack Power (Matter Master of the Power Pack), Jaime Madrox (Multiple Man), Hank McCoy (before he was turned blue and beasty), Jennifer Walters (when she’s not being green as She-Hulk), Jessica Jones (Jewel, but better known nowadays as Luke Cage’s woman and mother of his child), Mitchel Shelley (Resurrection Man), and more that I don’t want to type.

This is a non-exhaustive list. The DC Database has 1531 entries under ‘brown hair’ and the Marvel database has even more with 2162 entries. Granted a large portion of those entries are of supporting characters and villains, but brown hair in superheroes is more common than you might think.
I’m surprised that you didn’t mention Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. But then you didn’t actually put names to your ‘slightly obscure’ heroes. Even Nick Fury and Hercules could be considered ‘big name’ heroes.
Now, going through those databases, there seemed to be more brown haired men than woman, but that is a different subject and I think we have had enough of a sidetrack here. Wanna talk about hair color in heroes and villains, we can make another thread.

Furio, what are you trying to show us? Can you fix that? Please?

If that's truly the case, then the artist truly messed up with the drawing of his arms. Those arms - especially the left one - can't be anything but cybernetic.

As to the the whole reboot thing, I am still in the 'wait and see, give a few months and see where things go' category. I am willing to follow some of these characters (like Beetle and Firestorm) because I like them, and being a curious monkey, will see what happens. I might even look up their digital iniative and see what's up with that.

I just hope that when this comes out, there will be enough people here that want to discuss them. As I have said, I really miss the weekly comics threads.

Ah Not_Rhino I wish I could see that picture. I sure I would derive some enjoyment out of it.

Thank you for that link. From it we get to see other covers such as

Wonder Woman


Captain Atom


Firestorm


Hawkman


Justice League International



So, we can see that Wonder Woman's leggings are black (ugh).

Firestorm is a combination of Jason and Ronnie. Ineresting how they are both dressed on the cover. I wonder if it is a 'visual reference' for to know who is in "control'. Also makes me wonde what's going on with the Firestorm in the back.

Hawkman is tweaked. More armor, and what looks like organic/bone weapons. (no Nth metal?)

So JLI is Rocket Red (dunno which one), Guy Gardner, Ice, Fire, Booster Gold, August General in Iron (Chinese superhero from the Great Ten), Vixen and what could be Donna Troy. August General, Guy, and Vixen look to have no changes to their uniforms. Can't tell with Fire, as she's - well - on/made of fire. Small tweaks to Booster's and Rocket Red's costumes. If that IS Donna, it's a totally new costume for her.

And finally, not sure what to think of Captain Atom's 'quantum fire hair' but it looks wierd. Wish we could get more of a full body shot of him.

All in all, very intersesting.

But flashing the viewer is the way the brought in the 12-18 year old audience! And going commando isn't going to happen in any official DC comic. Use google for that if you want.

I'm gonna assume there's no sarcasm here. Just for my own sanity.

Jason Todd has been alive since before Infinite Crisis (five or six yearss now). Superboy Primes punching of of he walls of reality brought him back.
Yes, that is the official reason. I'm not kidding you.

As bad as that sounds, I invite you to go here to find out the whole explaination found in Batman Annual #25.

I wouldn't know. Haven't read anything by him, that I know of. Also, we don't know how long he's going to be the writer. They could give him five or six issues and kick him off. On the other hand, perhaps this character is one where he might shine. I DUNNO!

Why did they have to mess this much with Slade's costume? It was classic the way it was. Now he looks like some bad combination of Azreal and Deathstroke. And his legs look way too cybernetic. Speaking of his legs, that left foot is badly drawn. If I didn't know better, I would say Slade is wearing a lady's high heel boot!

YES! Jaime's still around, but it appears that he's been sent back to High School. Again because character growth is a bad thing...

I can't tell if she has full leggings with her boots or if her with white around her thighs and knees, or if her boots come up past her knees in a strange cutout design around the knee.

I don't see the doubling, but even doubled, we are looking at either 3 trillionths or three hundred billionths of a joule. We probably use more energy to blink our eyes.

Actually I think you missed the minus (-) part of that equasion. so it is 1.5 to the -10th power joules. If my foggy math memories serve me, that is one and a half trillionth of a joule (or perhaps one and a half hundredth billlion of a joule, not sure).
He shows that the energy is 0.0000000001503 joules of energy.
1.503E-10 Joules is just a shorthand way of not having to put in all those 0s, dude.
Unfortunately, our forum doesn't do superscript, which is what is truly needed for equasions of this kind to look right.

I agree that Kid Flash's costume is too busy. As are most of them. I did some checking and I best I was able to find out is that he 'officially' before Flash Point has 'auburn' colored hair. Auburn, as defined by Encarta is "dark coppery red or reddish-brown" with synonyms "redheaded, auburn-haired, chestnut-haired, ginger, sandy." Other characters with auburn hair within that wiki that I could find were Barbara Ann Minerva (Cheetah), Starfire, Artemis, Barbara Gordon, Crimson Fox, Cora, Aurora (from Team Titans), Alegra Garcia, Sgt. Rock, Carla Draper, Enigma, Mary Batson (Mary Marvel?, Marcia King, Komand'r, Nina Dowd (the Mighty Endowed), Ronnie Raymone, Philip Crane (Quantum), Ray Palmer, Razorkut, Steve Lombard, Pantha, Zoe Saugin (Kintetix) and others. Post Infinite Crisis Bart has been drawn - to my knowledge with more red in his hair, especialy when the Flash title was his. And since these characters are supposed to be somewhat "reimagined" it could just be that they decided to make his hair more red. Personally I have no problem with it. Iris Allen is Wally's aunt, and since there's blood relation there, it would seem that there's some red in the family. I see no reason why a grandson of Barry and Iris couldn't be more readheaded than boring brown.


You mean this costume?

Think I would have preferred it without the red above the shield, but it still looks good