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THA WINNAH--AND NEW CHAMPEEN!

Great Caesar's Ghost! I wasn't expecting The Inquisition!

Solar Powered Plane Completes Flight From Japan To Hawaii Longest leg of flight around the world.

A couple of positive items-- Saudi Prince To Donate Fortune To Charity Tim McGraw Giving Away Mortgage Free Houses To Veterans

Teens Storm Georgia Wal-Mart Apparently they wanted to see how much damage they could cause. I almost posted this in the Champions forum as a WWYCD. It's one thing to go one-on-one with Grond or Ogre on a rampage--over four dozen aggressors, even non-powered, are much harder to contain.

The company that makes them--and the LE agencies they market to--very likely don't see it that way. They see them as a less-lethal method of ensuring compliance, much like the Taser was supposed to be a less-lethal method of subduing a perp to get him into custody. The fact that the Taser has proven lethal in certain instances hasn't deterred its use, and I consider it doubtful that the the first death to occur--and it will--from these electric shackles will deter their use as well.

I would hope, at the very least, that the officers trained to use such devices are required to subject themselves to their effects before being allowed to inflict those devices upon prisoners in their custody. But I think in actuality the training for the devices consists of little more than watching the DVD that accompanied them.

Don't forget The Hulk and The Sub-Mariner. Especially not The Sub-Mariner. I like the outfits for Elektra and Red Sonja--they could be characters in a Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy HERO campaign. In fact, a lot of these outfits look like they belong in another genre besides a four-color superhero world. For some of the designs, that's a comment--for others, a complaint. It's like the artist kind of, sort of missed the point about super-character costumes--especially when it came to Vampirella. Like any costume, a superhero costume does more than conceal the original identity--it creates a new identity, one different, distinct and immediately recognizable. Doctor Impossible says it best-- "In street clothes I'd just be a criminal. Which I am, of course, but in the costume I'm something more. I wear the flag of a country that never existed and the uniform of its glorious army, spreading forth the dominion of the invincible empire of me. Doctor Impossible."--Soon I Will Be Invincible, pgs. 89-90 Yes, you can fight crime without circus tights and a cape, or a high-tech battlesuit, or mystic robes. But a superhero's costume represents something more--strength and speed, power and prowess, and the courage to use all that for the greater good. And something more--the idea that others can do the same, can find it within themselves to use their strengths and abilities for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, for any other just and noble cause. I don't quite get that sense from the costume redesigns on that page. Yes, they're practical, and yes, they're decidedly not "stripperrific." But I wouldn't call them inspiring--I wouldn't call them memorable. Just my thoughts on the subject--take them as you will.

Most, if not all of the actors listed have done voice work--that doesn't make them exclusively voice actors. Seriously--Brad Pitt? Jennifer Love Hewitt? They've done a whole lot more than provide voices for animated characters.

Okay. Thank You for clarifying that.

Nifty look for the armor there. May I make a suggestion? Swap out those six-armed cross emblems for the Greek letter Omega and call him Iron Omega--and he goes around saying things like, "I am Omega, the end of everything--especially you!!!" Just a thought. Hope that helps.

Star Force--Juliet Riley is the great-grandaughter of Bradford "Buzz" Bradley, better known to the world as the legendary hero Super Star. Why the "Might Of Antares" chose to manifest itself in Juliet after skipping the previous two generations is unknown, just as is the reason why Bradley was chosen to bear the power originally. Able to move and fly at exceptionally fast speeds, Star Force is also capable of wielding "red giant energy" for offense and defense (energy beams, energy shields, etc.) She also possesses "star-sight"--the ability to see clearly over tremendous distance. She has recently discovered she can turn intangible when moving at high speed--something her great grandfather theorized (but never attempted) could mean she is able to fly faster than light itself.

Professor Plague, at least, has villainous potential. The name sounds like a threat with which to be reckoned, a carrier of disease and infirmity. Doctor Dysentery--not so much. Weaponized diarrhea is even less fun than weaponized flatulence, no matter how thoroughly you are into gross-out humor.

That would be this guy.

It's cute--it's funny--it's potentially catastrophic. What more could you ask for?

Edward James Olmos sounds like the ideal choice for Major Martinez. For the Champions-- Defender----------------------------Brad Pitt Witchcraft---------------------------Jennifer Love Hewitt Ironclad------------------------------Dwayne Johnson Nighthawk---------------------------Vin Diesel Sapphire-----------------------------Christina Aguliera Kinetik--------------------------------Tyrese Gibson Some 4th Edition casting-- Seeker-------------------------------Chris Hemsworth Quantum----------------------------Zoe Saldana And some Old School-- Crusader-----------------------------Matthew Atherton Starburst-----------------------------Chris Pratt Foxbat--------------------------------David Arquette Doctor Destroyer-------------------Michael Ironside

And now, from the "We Told You So!" Department-- Rumsfeld: George W Bush Was Wrong About Iraq

Crimson Justice Crimson Angel Heroica Hope that helps.

NASA Discovers Marijuana Planet I don't know about you, but this would have been the strangest Star Trek episode ever.

Joe Biden's Advice To Grieving Families

Very good--but I think he should be called The Scarlet Samurai.

Not really. It's supposed to be a challenge, isn't it?

I was thinking that Lenore, who got a write-up in Adventurers Club #8, might be fun to do. One of Foxbat's early allies, she was a mutant with--as I recall--invisibility and teleportation powers, who pretended to be a vampire. She ran the Foxbat Vs. Fandom letter column for a while, and enjoyed toying with the people who wrote in to praise--or taunt--Foxbat. Just a suggestion. Thank You, Christopher, for all your work in converting these characters.