Hey everybody! Dan here, contrary to popular belief I am not dead! Or lazy! It's the opposite in fact. I recently got a real person job that has significantly cut into my drawing/Interwebz time! But don't worry about CrossoverKill, there's still a huge team of talent working on this project and we're all determined to see it through to the end. Speaking of “the end”, goodbye Moscow! Yikes. The Bad-verse just can't seem to catch a break.
Oh and I've just realized that, that nuke must have been pretty weak because a normal one would have disintegrated the earth around it rather than tear out huge chunks of it and toss them aside.
a guy that powerful needs a significant achilles heel, like the world flooding, or a nuclear war, or bobby pins. there all about equal in destructive power.
"But if you thought the Americans weren't fucking around, you don't speak Russian, which has 25 different words for sacrificing human life (not fucking around being to Russians what snow is to Eskimos). Take for instance the phrase "mertvaya ruka," which means "dead hand" in Russian.
In America, that might be the name of a horror movie or a masturbation technique. In Russia, it is the name given to the giant border-wide robot installed around the city of Moscow whose only job is to kill you and everyone you've ever loved. The robot detected that a nuke had just been dropped. Ol' Dead Hand would run signals up to the silos to double check that nobody was responding. Upon confirming that the people with their finger on the doomsday button were dead (or on a piss break, whatever), the system automatically launched all the Soviet weapons at the United States. No talk. No getting permission. Not even engaging Jimmy Carter in a stern dressing down to see if you could get him to give you New York City. Mertvaya Ruka launched immediately, and cut out the middleman. And the first guy. And the last guy. It was a doomsday robot, is what we're saying here.
While the Russians are unsettlingly quiet on the matter today, the mysterious UVB-76 radio transmission is believed to be part of Mertvaya Ruka, so it is generally believed to still be active in Moscow." - Cracked.com "5 Backup Plans That Would Have Changed History"
Dragonfire10503 - Moscow has a long tradition of being acceptable as a fictional nuclear target. It's roots can be traced to the cold war. As famous rumor says, one day communist Radio Yerevan got a call from America. Listener asked what's the most important city in the USRR. "Of course Yerevan." said jokingly presenter. Listener asked how many nuclear bombs is required to destroy Yerevan. "...But Moscow is also very important!"
Awesome page, Dan! This page evolved out of a scenario I suggested to the guys (for reasons soon to become clear)... it was Dan who suggested Moscow for the script I wrote but it is now the second time I have written the nuking/destruction of Moscow (the first time being in Magellan http://magellanverse.com/?p=144 )... I don't have anything against Moscow, honest!
sorry, having been all over the world and met people from multiple cultures, and having been in a few real wars, I can't actually say "ha, ha, it's a good thing millions of people were randomly killed" in what is (nowadays) a real world scenario. Now if they were going to spend the rest of their lives as mindless slaves with no will of their own a mercy killing might be a good thing, but I don't think that's what happened here.
Tolrick at 12:58PM, April 4, 2012
Wondering who tossed the nuke at them. Or why.
melsr007 at 5:20AM, Dec. 28, 2011
WOW!
coolclaytony at 3:25AM, Nov. 7, 2011
Oh wait, or are those buildings?
coolclaytony at 3:24AM, Nov. 7, 2011
Oh and I've just realized that, that nuke must have been pretty weak because a normal one would have disintegrated the earth around it rather than tear out huge chunks of it and toss them aside.
God of War at 2:34AM, Nov. 7, 2011
Wait a second - is that person in red cloak on second panel who I think it is (and I'm ain't thinking of Hooded Lady, also know as Waldo of DCnU).
jamoecw at 7:53AM, Nov. 6, 2011
a guy that powerful needs a significant achilles heel, like the world flooding, or a nuclear war, or bobby pins. there all about equal in destructive power.
Nowizard at 2:38PM, Nov. 5, 2011
Well, there goes my hometown... Wait, is that my house over there?
coolclaytony at 12:37PM, Nov. 4, 2011
"But if you thought the Americans weren't fucking around, you don't speak Russian, which has 25 different words for sacrificing human life (not fucking around being to Russians what snow is to Eskimos). Take for instance the phrase "mertvaya ruka," which means "dead hand" in Russian. In America, that might be the name of a horror movie or a masturbation technique. In Russia, it is the name given to the giant border-wide robot installed around the city of Moscow whose only job is to kill you and everyone you've ever loved. The robot detected that a nuke had just been dropped. Ol' Dead Hand would run signals up to the silos to double check that nobody was responding. Upon confirming that the people with their finger on the doomsday button were dead (or on a piss break, whatever), the system automatically launched all the Soviet weapons at the United States. No talk. No getting permission. Not even engaging Jimmy Carter in a stern dressing down to see if you could get him to give you New York City. Mertvaya Ruka launched immediately, and cut out the middleman. And the first guy. And the last guy. It was a doomsday robot, is what we're saying here. While the Russians are unsettlingly quiet on the matter today, the mysterious UVB-76 radio transmission is believed to be part of Mertvaya Ruka, so it is generally believed to still be active in Moscow." - Cracked.com "5 Backup Plans That Would Have Changed History"
crazy_goodfellow at 10:21AM, Nov. 4, 2011
Craaaaap. This isn't going well.
aqua 77 at 9:08PM, Nov. 3, 2011
meh they lost the entire purple lantern corps, and manhatan
man in black at 8:10PM, Nov. 3, 2011
great page
theRedDeath at 4:36PM, Nov. 3, 2011
You guys are over-thinking it. I just thought "red Square" was thematically appropriate.
God of War at 11:56AM, Nov. 3, 2011
Dragonfire10503 - Moscow has a long tradition of being acceptable as a fictional nuclear target. It's roots can be traced to the cold war. As famous rumor says, one day communist Radio Yerevan got a call from America. Listener asked what's the most important city in the USRR. "Of course Yerevan." said jokingly presenter. Listener asked how many nuclear bombs is required to destroy Yerevan. "...But Moscow is also very important!"
xmung at 10:54AM, Nov. 3, 2011
Awesome page, Dan! This page evolved out of a scenario I suggested to the guys (for reasons soon to become clear)... it was Dan who suggested Moscow for the script I wrote but it is now the second time I have written the nuking/destruction of Moscow (the first time being in Magellan http://magellanverse.com/?p=144 )... I don't have anything against Moscow, honest!
TomCHuskey at 10:15AM, Nov. 3, 2011
Keep in mind, the BGH-verse has lost at least one other major city (New York) and has been taken over by the local equivalent of the Legion Of Doom.
Dragonfire10503 at 9:05AM, Nov. 3, 2011
Okay my question is why Moscow?
Mr Kaos at 8:05AM, Nov. 3, 2011
oh crap... starting a nuclear war? O.o
Tobimaro at 7:40AM, Nov. 3, 2011
That is hardcore.
algeya at 6:53AM, Nov. 3, 2011
@Al.- even if super Dan was avaible he probably would mess up and destroy the rest of Europe.
Ozmandious at 4:41AM, Nov. 3, 2011
sorry, having been all over the world and met people from multiple cultures, and having been in a few real wars, I can't actually say "ha, ha, it's a good thing millions of people were randomly killed" in what is (nowadays) a real world scenario. Now if they were going to spend the rest of their lives as mindless slaves with no will of their own a mercy killing might be a good thing, but I don't think that's what happened here.
gullas at 4:14AM, Nov. 3, 2011
huh, actually a pretty good idea imo...
alschroeder at 4:03AM, Nov. 3, 2011
This looks like a job for ...SuperDan! Unfortunately, he's not available...
coolclaytony at 3:23AM, Nov. 3, 2011
hmm, I don't know if I should be happy or frightened.
God of War at 3:03AM, Nov. 3, 2011
Nuke Moscow - best way to start.
Neilsama at 12:44AM, Nov. 3, 2011
He never even felt it.