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Re: Project XIII: images from my campaign

Re: Marvel's Ten Best, Continued...The Ten Best Energy Projectors That's Black Bolt you're thinking of. And, yes, yes he is - Bill

Re: Build me Looney Tunes!

Re: Why does Image Comics s[tin]k?

Re: Why does Image Comics s[tin]k? Well, this is good to know. I was confused by the Image-bashing, which Invincible is one of my favorite books (and many other's as well, given that they've sold out of the Invincible hardcover and are having to print more!) I'm not familar with Image /then/ since I've only been back to reading comics in the last couple of years. - Bill

Re: Character Art

Re: Character Art I have but two things to say: (1) I'm really looking forward to this book. I was very impressed with the Algernon Files, and think y'all do a great job on the genre. What's the expected release date? (2) Oooohhhh... Dinosaurs! - Bill P.S. I thought I was going nuts! You posted this same message to the Pulp Hero board, and I replied to it there, not realizing where I was. Then I saw the discussion on the Champions board, but my post was missing and no subscribed message notices. Whew! Glad I finally figured it out.

Re: Character Art I have but two things to say: (1) I'm really looking forward to this book. I was very impressed with the Algernon Files, and think y'all do a great job on the genre. What's the expected release date? (2) Oooohhhh... Dinosaurs! - Bill

Re: Game Maps and Counters Exchange Hmmm... Not too bad, if I do say so myself For some reason, I couldn't upload just the PDF file. Instead I had to ZIP it. Sorry 'bout that. - Bill

Re: Game Maps and Counters Exchange Nice! I have a little Python program I wrote to take images like this and turn them into cardboard heroes. I'll try it on some of these. Thanks!

Re: I need a certain type of catastrophe

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

Re: Iyo: The Most Underrated Or Underused Character In Comics

Re: Iyo: The Most Underrated Or Underused Character In Comics Brother Blood (in the current Teen Titans book, a few issues back) - Bill

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.

Re: Interesting Megastructures Another good read is "Bigger Than Worlds" by Larry Niven, in one of his short story collections (A Hole in Space, maybe?) It covers large, world replacing structures from asteroid bubble worlds to galaxy-sized Dyson spheres with the living area on the *outside*. I'm especially fond of the cosmic macaroni. Also, this is an interesting article on his web page that compiles books using world-size structures. (EDIT: Oops, it's also just a link to a copy of the article Nyrath referenced above).

Re: Animated Series Style Character Images

Re: GGU Email Server Down... Again Try chat-subscribe@globalguardians.com, adminlist-subscribe@globalguardians.com, and gamemasters-subscribe@globalguardians.com - Bill

Re: Animated Series Style Character Images I assume that his secret id is Roy G. Biv? - Bill

Re: A black hole in orbit: what would it be like? You (and Hyper-Man) are thinking of the Niven short story "There is a Tide". Louis Wu finds a planet with a 'moon' that is a five feet or so diameter sphere of neutronium. Meets up with an alien race (the Trinocs) who make the mistake of getting too close. From a distance, the 'moon' produces tides just like Luna does here, but the gravitational gradient is *incredibly* steep, so don't get too close. "Neutron Star", OTOH, is Beowulf Shafer's orbit of an actual neutron star in a GP hull packed with, among other things, a bunch of explosives courtesy of Sigmund Ausfaller. This ends my "Niven Nerd" fact of the day - Bill

Re: Animated Series Style Character Images Try the Gimp (http://www.gimp.org). It is free, and works well. It supports layers, blending of layers, import of photoshop files, etc., etc. It's really quite impressive. I think most of my problems using it stem from the fact that it is the first sophisticated image-processing program I've used. - Bill

Re: Animated Series Style Character Images

Astro City is one of my all-time favorite comics, so I was very excited to read about Astro City - A Visitor's Guide. I haven't had a chance to swing by and buy it yet, but according to the web site, it's available today. Anyone have it? Read it? Like it? - Bill

Re: Christpher Reeves Another cool one from Scott Kurtz, author of the PvP online comic strip. http://www.pvponline.com/images/news/tribute.gif

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I have a recent copy of Discover magazine with an article on the computer museum out in California (Palo Alto, I think). One of the pictures is a big air traffic controller console with a built in cigarette lighter. Makes me want to get one of these.