Word Association -- Do-It-Yourself

Doug:  Here's a little game you can play, solitaire-style -- and then we'll build it out and into a discussion.  We've all done word associations before...  I say "Red", you say the first thing that pops into your head, like "apple", or "firetruck".  I thought today it would be fun to do this with comics and other pop-culture related topics.

Doug:  Here's the way it will work, and I'll start.  I'll give you a couple of word associations of my own, and then I'm going to leave you with a couple of prompts.  Any commenter today can address my prompts, but what I'd like to get going is a conversation that stretches over the weekend where we respond to the commenter before, then give some of our own opinions on word associations, but then leave something for the next commenter as we go.  So below, I say "Roy Thomas" and "Conan", but you come along and say "No, no, no -- when I hear 'Roy Thomas' I think of the Invaders".  That's cool -- the game goes on, but we build these little topics for discussion as we roll along.  Shoot, by the time the fifth or sixth commenter comes along, who knows what we'll be conversing/arguing about?

Doug:  So, here's what I have to say, and then what I'd like the next person to start with --

Roy Thomas -- Kree/Skrull War (ha!  I already changed my mind!)
Kid Flash -- Secret Society of Super-Villains

And here's what I'm leaving:

Tom & Jerry
The Atom

Doug:  Have fun!