Case 114: Mad About DC #1
Dial Holders: Who knows?
Dial Type: Watch/Pendant Dial
Dialing: The Dial seems to have an awareness - also, a funny face - and knows it screwed up on these.
Costume: Inspired by a red Coke can, the chrome top represented on both the cowl and the epaulets, it has a nasty looking trap door on the chest that reveals the nips, and air vents at the armpits. I suspect the holster has a soda pop can in it. Silly, but red is a great color.
Powers: His nipples are engorged with cola, which shoots out, well, not exactly at will. When the trap door is opened?
Sighted: Shocked at his own powers.
Possibilities: Remember that team of drunk heroes that sometimes helped Hitman? Vaguely? Yeah, me too. Soda Nips feels like he could be on the team, still visiting the bar in between AA meetings, wondering if he could become Rum and Coke Man if he cashed in his ten-year chip.
Integration Quotient: 25% (would have had a chance, but we don't see much of Hitman anymore)
Costume: Just a green robe and pointy hat and fancy facial hair. Boring, but it's a nice shade of green.
Powers: Can summon lizards, but only small lizards. Not, like, alligators or anything. Certainly not dinosaurs. Not even a snapping turtle. Stop putting every reptile in this category!
Sighted: Summoning a third lizard (could be a gecko - the others could be a chameleon and an iguana).
Possibilities: Zatanna sometimes might need to go talk to a specialist, and his little wizard's tower is full of fun lizards to draw. He's not the kind of guy you send into battle.
Integration Quotient: 10% (the name is dumber than the power, honestly)
Costume: None, but he looks like a skeleton coalescing out of smoke.
Powers: Unclear. We don't know if C.S. is always intangible or if it can solidify, nor if it's actually huge, like a cloud.
Sighted: Appearing in clouds.
Possibilities: If such a creature appeared in the sky, perhaps as some kind of ghostly/undead manifestation, an aggregate of people who drowned and are coming back to take revenge on the living, I think we'd have something. As a HERO, well, I guess that could still happen, but what would Spectre-Lite have to do?
Integration Quotient: 10% (as a monster, the quotient rises to 50%)
Costume: None. The persona is essentially just an inverted box of noodles, but two egg slices make up its eyes, so there may be life there.
Powers: Nutritious, but you gotta follow the 5-second rule.
Sighted: On the floor, as advertised.
Possibilities: It really looks like this Dial H "fail" has made the Dial Holder just turn into an inanimate object for an hour.
Integration Quotient: 100% (huh?! well, yes, there's EVERY opportunity in MOST comics to have an upturned box of ramen on panel during any given disaster or super battle)
Costume: Just a guy in a business suit, but his head is a steam locomotive.
Powers: He chugs black smoke, and by pulling on an imaginary handle, he can sound a train whistle.
Sighted: Tooting.
Possibilities: His powers aren't entirely useless - a smokescreen and a possible distraction - the fact that he dresses for business puts him squarely away from superhero battles. He's villain-coded, really, but so is Mr. Bones. Could he be a weird cyborg (or helmeted guy) who runs some kind of superhero train service? Perhaps a connection to Billy Batson's famous ride?
Integration Quotient: 15% (while you could have imagined such a character in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, or even China Miéville's Dial H - I guess that's cheating - there are fewer opportunities today)
Next: More of this crap.
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