Odd Griping

Well, I've been finding the 52 based fake-newsletter-whatever-the-hell-it-is thing to be a blast. I keep going back to poke at interesting things.

One thing that I find particularly interesting is this. Nifty isn't it? That's pictures of six major players...Black Adam, Booster Gold, Ralph Dibny, Renee Montoya, the Question and Steel. And three more question marks.

And now I really want to know who the question marks are! Are they heroes? Are they villains? Come on! I wanna know! :-)

There is one other notable aspect. When you click on each picture, it gives stats for them. I love stats. Comparing and contrasting, figuring out which ones make sense with what I see in the comics, which don't. I just find them entertaining.

But something befuddles me.

See, for Black Adam, he's listed as 6 feet tall even, and 198 pounds. Okay. I always thought in the JSA shots, he towered over most of the male JSA members and was certainly more than an inch taller than Sand (whose given stats are 5'11 and 162, according to the SF&O), for example. But that's okay with me, maybe he's hovering. I do think though that he shouldn't be smaller than Superman (6'3,225) or Batman (6'2, 210).

Part of it is that I tend to prefer my villains to be bigger than my heroes. Or at least antagonists, even if Adam's theoretically on the side of right. There's something intrinsically more satisfying about watching a smaller hero fight a bigger threat than vice versa. The other part is simply that a part of Black Adam's presence and majesty stems from his size. It seems weird that he's not bigger stat wise.

The big kicker though is that Booster Gold is 6'3 and 215 pounds according to that...wait *what*?! *Booster Gold* is bigger than *Black Adam*?! Okay, I can accept the whole future breeding, genetic selection thing making Booster taller than most men of our day. But he's bigger than *Black Adam*!

That just doesn't seem right to me!