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Re: Superhuman women and normal women Actually, it was an adult woman with Kitty Pryde's hair style. May have been a coincidence, a lack of hairstyles, a doodle or a future Kitty. Keith "just to set the record straight" Curtis

Re: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners "I know I'm gonna use good judgement. I haven't lost my temper in 40 years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't. The hell I won't--" John Wayne, McLintock! "It's all in the reflexes" Kurt Russell, Jack Burton Keith "Also likes "Why couldn't you just put the bunny back in the box?"" Curtis

Re: My Cool Color Hudson City Map This is an accurate summary.

Re: Superhuman women and normal women Actually, he was drawing them for money at conventions. Keith "Which is nothing new or even remotely unique to JB" Curtis

Re: My Cool Color Hudson City Map No coincidence. Lots of fans and freelancers have names in Hero products. Most of them are the result of Hero's program to generate donations for the CBLDF. Others are there because some mad mapmaker wanted to put friends, family members and pets in. Keith ":whistle:Curtis

Re: The Price of an Inn? Figure what a very skilled laborer (middle-class analog) makes in a year. Figure half a middle-class income goes into paying a mortgage. Multiply by 30 years. Price of inn. Keith "I just tell my players it will cost x per month and then let them know if they are having trouble making x" Curtis

Re: Once more in English, please? See? Fat! Fat and lazy! You punks got it too easy! Keith "why, I oughta..." Curtis

Re: Once more in English, please? The language of heraldry holds a particular annoyance for me: it ruined the ending of "The Scarlet Letter". Way back in high school, I had no idea what "On a field sable, the letter 'A', gules" meant. Nothing like making the last line of the book a puzzle. Oh well, it at least prompted me to go find out what it meant. And back then, we didn't have your fancy shmancy search engines and intarweb forums. We had to do it the old fashioned way and go to the library or ask a teacher. That's right you whippersnappers. If we didn't get off our butts and do the legwork, we lived in squalid ignorance! And we liked it! Keith "curmudgeon" Curtis

Re: Black Lagoon HERO Incredible work, Susano! You've got a mini-sourcebook here. If you could get the BL license and a Hero license, you'd be sitting on a gold mine. Keith "Well, I'd buy a copy, anyway" Curtis PS. I'm not sure Revy's ability to use her DCV levels requires a half move. Aren't there lots of scenes of her just standing there, evading bullets by her sheer badass-ness. Keith "I've got a big gun/I took it from my lord" Curtis

Re: Once more in English, please? Isn't that how he was using the term? Keith "v.Emblazon, n.Blazon" Curtis

Re: Creepiest/Sickest superhero concept ever? How about Son of Satan? Keith "Still can't believe Marvel actually marketed a comic with this as the title." Curtis EDIT: Oops, he's not dead.

Re: Best superhero titles of the 70's They stopped wearing the yellow and blacks long before that. Even before the title was revived. Remember, Marvel's big cash cow was once so unpopular it was only published as a reprint title. Keith "Meek shall inherit" Curtis

Re: Creepiest/Sickest superhero concept ever? Iron Man? No? How about Zitpops, from E-Man? He was a Cyclops parody who had energy-laden pimples that could only be restrained by a ruby begonia mask... Morbius, the Living Vampire? Keith "No, seriously, Iron Man?" Curtis

Re: Steve's Chat Tonight (Thursday, March 8) Every Thursday at that time, unless family or World of Warcraft interferes. Keith "priorities" Curtis

Re: DM of the Rings I don't know. I really liked the Schroedinger's cat reference two issues back. Keith "Have I become some kind of Uncertainty Lich?" Curtis

Re: Cap is dead!!!! Hugh, it seems we're pretty much in agreement. (I was ignoring 50's Cap as a publishing blip.) Although I haven't bought any comics in the last 8 months, I have kept up through discussions boards, reviews and published excerpts. I'm just in a situation where finances and geographic isolation have enforced a cold-turkey cessation. Keith "I miss them less than I thought I would" Curtis

Re: Best superhero titles of the 70's Kamandi, Last Boy on Earth.* Jimmy Olsen (Kirby) Keith "Can't include things like the X-Men, since they bled over into the 80's and beyond" Curtis _______________________ *Savage Earth is a pale attempt to capture that lightning. EDIT: OK, Kamandi wasn't a superhero title, but was related to them, and Superhero enough for my definition.

Re: Cap is dead!!!! Re: Frodo (enclosed in spoiler tags for prevention of derails) Re: Captain America's transformation from killer to non-killer: This is an unfair premise. The changes we are talking about are perceived changes in how the creators make the characters act. There is no real Tony Stark or Reed Richards by which we can judge the passage of time or the mutability of character. Twenty years passed between presentations of Captain America. Twenty real years wherein the character languished pretty much unused and largely ignored. Bringing the character back in any shape or form has no bearing on why fans might feel upset. He was a character from Timely Comics, forgotten by the general public. Who cares what the character did 20 years ago? Now, people were reading the Fantastic Four and Iron Man just before CW started. Their characters altered overnight, rather obviously for the express purpose of supporting a gimmicky storyline. For people who don't particularly care for the storyline, they have every right to be upset, and should voice their disapproval with their buying dollar. They have every right to be vocal, in the hopes that their favorite characters will be treated in a manner they would like to spend their entertainment money on. Please note that this is not confined to CW. It happens all the time in both DC and Marvel (Max Lord, for example). Such changes rightfully feel artificial and contrived, weakening the suspension of disbelief that allows the reader to enjoy the characters. If Reed Richards can turn around his entire character for the sake of one storyline, who is Reed Richards? He's whoever writes him, of course. Millar has again and again shown himself to have unlikable points of view and storytelling conventions (so far as this board is concerned). People look at Reed in Civil War and can only see the hand of Millar. To sum up (too late), the changes in character that people are complaining about are not gradual evolutions of the characters in response to changing social values; they are short-sighted, gimmick-driven straw-men and authorial-voices created to sell comics. If they work in the long run, then I would not hesitate to agree that the changes reflect society. But my strong suspicion is that this will all be forgotten in five years. Keith "Only to be replaced by something even more horrible" Curtis

Re: Cap is dead!!!! Sorry, imprecise language on my part. What I meant was that looking to that story for pre-Crisis monkeyshines on Superman's part was not looking at what was then-"canon". The original intent was never printed pre-Crisis. This is all true. I didn't know what time criteria you were using. I was using Spence's comment that sparked the citation: Keith "But yes, the vast majority of characters in either DC or Marvel had no overt pre-marital sex before 1980 or so" Curtis

Re: Cap is dead!!!! It was not replaced in the print version, but only in the special edition. Supes had several implied encounters before marrying Lois. THe one that sticks out most in my memory was with Amazing Grace(?) of Apoclypse, admittedly while mind controlled, similar to the situation between Moondragon and Thor. (And possibly Barda - evidence is less conclusive). Apparently it's OK to have mind-control sex with male superheroes. Keith "Unless you're Ms. Marvel's writer" Curtis

Re: Music To Raise The Dead To Amadana's choices, I would add the totally over-used Toccata and Fugue in Dm, by Bach. Keith "Used this in a Live RPG" Curtis

Re: Dextor The Dynamically Balanced Walking Bobot , Hyper-frere! Keith "Waiting for the one that does all my work" Curtis

Re: Cap is dead!!!! I liked the Death/Rebirth of Superman storyline. With the exception of the lame villain(Doomsday), I felt it to be well-paced and executed. Of course, I never believed that the death was intended to be permanent. I don't mind sales-driven comics if the story is well-told, and I'll stand by my guns on that one. Keith ""No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."" Curtis

Re: Swimming, snake-like robot Looks cool, but then the average pool sweep looks just as lifelike. I'd like to see some evidence that the motions were planned and directed (and by how much), before I turn on the "ooh! ahh!" Keith "Japan makes cool-looking robots" Curtis

Re: Marvel Femal Martial Artists Mantis defeated Thor in hand to hand combat waaaay back in the 70's. She used a choke hold on him. She also must have rolled a crit for max damage. Keith "She choked him with her thighs. No, really." Curtis