Killer Shrike Posted June 28, 2006 Report Share Posted June 28, 2006 I normally avoid liscenced fiction like the plague, but I stopped at Barnes & Nobles last night on the way home and browsed around. Finding nothing interesting, on the way out noticed the City of Heroes fiction book and saw that Robin D. Laws was the author so I picked it up and flipped thru a few pages. The writing was suprisingly engaging, so I bought it and read about 3/4's last night until my wife forcibly took the book out of my geeky little hands sometime between 1 and 2. Personally I particularly like two characters: Manticore (a hard boiled character that kind of mixes Hawkeye and Batman) and Synapse (a speedster / blaster). Anyway, so far so good; I think any Champions players out there would probably like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamashii2000 Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx I normally avoid liscenced fiction like the plague, but I stopped at Barnes & Nobles last night on the way home and browsed around. Finding nothing interesting, on the way out noticed the City of Heroes fiction book and saw that Robin D. Laws was the author so I picked it up and flipped thru a few pages. The writing was suprisingly engaging, so I bought it and read about 3/4's last night until my wife forcibly took the book out of my geeky little hands sometime between 1 and 2. Personally I particularly like two characters: Manticore (a hard boiled character that kind of mixes Hawkeye and Batman) and Synapse (a speedster / blaster). Anyway, so far so good; I think any Champions players out there would probably like it. Long as they paint Statesman as being a complete and utter pr#ck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx Long as they paint Statesman as being a complete and utter pr#ck. Where does that come from? Sorry to disappoint but they don't. KS, I enjoyed the book too. Have you read the first in the series, Web of Arachnos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamashii2000 Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx Where does that come from? Sorry to disappoint but they don't. KS, I enjoyed the book too. Have you read the first in the series, Web of Arachnos? The Comic - States comes off a bit......... poorly in it. Esp where Mantacore is concerned, not long ago he 'suspended' Mantacore, took his bow and broke it. (Coarse - early in the series Mantacore did put a arrow through Statesman's chest...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx The Comic - States comes off a bit......... poorly in it. Esp where Mantacore is concerned, not long ago he 'suspended' Mantacore, took his bow and broke it. (Coarse - early in the series Mantacore did put a arrow through Statesman's chest...) Ah, I see. Sorry, I misinterpretted your sentiment as rancor. States does play a little hardcore but *spoilerfree* there's things going on. If anything Maticore is the more rigid charatcer portrayed. This book is how the group reformed in the '80s with the pre-Rikti War line-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamashii2000 Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx Ah' date=' I see. Sorry, I misinterpretted your sentiment as rancor. States does play a little hardcore but *spoilerfree* there's things going on. If anything Maticore is the more rigid charatcer portrayed. This book is how the group reformed in the '80s with the pre-Rikti War line-up.[/quote'] Well truth be told..there is a 'tiny' bit of rancor there. But no, I was wondering if they kept his personality consistant. Althrough - pre-Rikti... I think that Maticore might be the current ones father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted June 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx Where does that come from? Sorry to disappoint but they don't. KS, I enjoyed the book too. Have you read the first in the series, Web of Arachnos? Nope. Any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx I enjoyed it. The story details how super beings came into existence in the twentieth century for the CoX world. The narrative transitions from Edwardian adventure fiction to pulps nicely. As popcorn goes The Web of Arachnos is as tasty as The Freedom Phalanx. Edit: I should note I paid for neither of these books, having gotten them for Xmas and birthday. I like to think I would have bought them eventually though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx Is this the comics that come with the Subscription to the game? I got those, the first series was nice, using characters conceivably developed in the game. The second series was done by Top Cow, and used the "Iconic Characters" I liked it okay. They stopped mailing them to me and now I read them online... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haerandir Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx Yeah, that's the comics in question. It was in the first Top Cow story arc that States became "a complete and utter pr#ck". I only read the first few issues, since that was about the time I canceled my game subscription, but I have to agree that Statesman in those issues was portrayed as being... a tad abrasive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Re: City of Heroes: Freedom Phalanx States definately comes off as being a prick in the second comic series, one thing that comes up several times between States and Manticore is that States has a definite Code Against Killing, while Manticore has a lot lower CaK or none at all. I will admit to being a bit proud that the supergroup I play regularly with shows up in a piece of fan fiction in one of the early issues of the second comic our Supergroup is called Global Heroics, the concept being heroes have come to Paragon City from all over the world to fight for justice etc... each player takes the name of a country and either mr/ms/mrs, this group has been around almost since the begining of City of Heroes, we play on the Triumph Server, and we have an evil counterpart, the League of Rogue Nations Our costume colors are based on the color of our chosen countries flag... so they can get pretty loud, Lithuania and Lativa arent exactly subdued http://www.globalheroics.com/ My main characters are Mister Tonga and Captain Platypus, Mr Tonga being a Martial Arts/Regen Scrapper. and Captain Platypus is a Spines/Regen Scrapper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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