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Re: The Hero Forum's Fattest Man in Comics! Fat Ninja was from the old Silverwolf Comics line, later known as Greater Mercury Comics. Only thing of true reknown to come outa there was Tim Vigil & Ron Lim. They were a fun kinda bad though. IIRC, within the Silverwolf universe itself, Fat Ninja was drawn by the vigilante Grips and I believe written by Vengeance, another bloodthirsty vigilante in that world. http://www.silverwolfcomics.com/

Re: The Composite Superman I feel compelled to point out that ol CS only looks like Batman on one side, but he's nicely armored by the combined invulnerability of Supergirl, Mon-El & Ultra-Boy. Dude was a tank and a half. Pity he seemed to suffer from Captain Marvel Syndrome. 12th level intellect and he never bothered to arrange to absorb those powers permanently? That'd been first thing on my to-do list.

Re: The Magnum Mage Hmm, well, not to be snarky-sounding or anything, but he's just not that interesting to me. To be honest, Vibora Bay doesn't do anything for me as a whole, either. I mean, it's not bad but nothing in it clicks for me and makes me want to incorporate it into my campaign. OTOH, if it turns out he's the one who's going to put a bullet between the eyes of ol Takophanes, or kill himself stopping some near-invincible mystic threat like Tyranonn, then that'd add a lot more spice to the guy. That said, I like it better when the special destinies are reserved for PCs. That's who I'm going to craft stories around, after all.

Re: Philosophical question So you guys are saying that not one of you expects your players in this scenario to decide they have to take matters into their own hands and rub out Hitler only to decide a moment later that they can go one better and take over Germany and lead it to greatness themselves? I just know that if given the opportunity, at least one of my guys is gonna pull something like that. OTOH, if I'm personally going to get the chance to kill Hitler, altering WWII is gonna catch both of my grandfathers and wind up altering who they married and when. If this works out either good or bad, I may not be around to regret it or to celebrate.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Ballad of Barry Allen -Jim's Big Ego It's good stuff.

Re: Captain Carrot returns! Me too. The mock cover he drew for that article was great.

Re: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania So, do the occasional zombie outbreaks bring down property values?

Re: Captain Carrot returns! Well, if it makes you guys feel any better, look at this alternative idea. http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=yabs&article=264 Admittedly, it's from the "You'll All Be Sorry" column Gail Simone used to write for CBR, but it is funny.

Re: Signature Request *CW #7 SPOILERS* Well, I'd say Mark Gruenwald was spinning in his grave, but he was cremated and mixed with the ink in a special edition reprint of his excellent Squadron Supreme series. I can only assume that these puppies are whirling around and bursting into flame as we speak.

Re: WWYCD: Relationship Crisis... Hmm. Doremo: Upon the revelation that the overly destructive martial artist/criminal mercenary is his kid sister, Katie; "What!?! Tell me this is the result of brainwashing from that kidnapping two years ago and not because I forbid you to go streetfighting in Hong Kong!" Rubbing at his temples, he turns and glares at Kid Fist. "Somehow this is your fault again, isn't it? I mean I'd expect things like this from your brother. After all he's sworn eternal vengeance on Verizon for having annoying phone commercials and then there was that stalking thing with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Oh and then there was that ill-fated attempt to develop Peyote-Fu. Man, don't get me started on that one." Thunderbolt: Staring into the cloud-filled sky, Thunderbolt mentally counts to ten and tries to get himself under control. It's not working. Before him is his oldest son, clad in the remains of a costume symbolizing the Thunderbird of the Dakota tribe. Thunderbolt has spent three weeks trailing just behind his son's various criminal outings and now they stand in the growing drizzle, watching the remains of the summoning circle run and disintegrate from the rain. T-bolt's stomach is churning and there's a horrible cold feeling seeping into his bones. 'God, I'm getting too old for this.' he thought. Looking at his son, Thunderbolt took a deep breath and sighed. "Richard Montgomery Crafter! What in God's name was going through your head! My God, you're forty seven years old! What am I going to have to tell Pam. 'I'm sorry, Pamela, your husband of twenty two years decided to play supervillain. I must not have spent enough time with him as a child.' Damn it, boy, you just became a grandfather!" Richard simply stared at the ground. Since being unmasked, he'd said nothing, only glared angrily. Thunderbolt could feel tears well in his eyes as he stared at his eldest son. "Say something, Rich. Please. You were the only one, the only child I thought I didn't screw up with. I know I failed Irene and the twins haven't talked to me in over ten years but you & Pam always seemed to want me around. You two even set up a surprise party for me for my seventy-fifth birthday! That was only six months ago. You call me at least once every couple weeks and keep me updated on the kids..." Thunderbolt trailed off, the storm intensifying as his gut churned with his son's betrayal. "...give me something to work with, Rich. Some way to fix this! Please! I've got friends and favors. We can work someting out but, give me a reason. Richard continued to look away... Gallant: I'm skipping him. He's already got a DNPC & Hunted in one with his evil twin brother, Blackguard. Kid Dynamo: Watching as his creator, Professor Armitage is cuffed and led away by PRIMUS agents. Centurion nudges his shoulder. "So, the Professor was the head of an ARGENT cell. Guess it explains the cybernetics he patched me up with after the car wreck, huh?" Looking down at Kid Dynamo, he shook his head. "Shouldn't you be a little more upset about this?" Kid Dynamo looked at him. "Are you kidding? I hacked my behavior protocols 18 months ago. I'm cool as a cucumber until I can afford to freak out. After all, we androids have an image to maintain. I'll let myself panic after we brainstorm how to get around the Department of Child Welfare chucking me in foster care. According to those papers he forged, I am legally his son after all." Centurion shrugged. "We really should have seen this coming. How many scientists decide to make a synthetic boy to study human development and then install a weapons platform in him with things like lightning cannons, chainsaw hands and laser beam eyes?" "Don't forget the 'skintanium armor' and strength of five gorillas. Geez, Doc was a nutbar. When I turn my emotions on, I'm gonna miss him."

Re: Golden Age Campaign City - HELP! So, you going to use the Phantom of the Fair? Y'know the one the Crimson Avenger fought? He had flight & superstrength.

Re: Golden Age Campaign City - HELP! I'd recommend using Wikipedia for more than just city knowledge. Type in a year and see a reasonably accurate listing of useful events. That's useful for finding out what movies were out in what year without hitting IMDB all the time. Adds some nice background color. Also, don't forget to do some music-based research and come up with a nice vaguely named newspaper and a few popular radio newscasters. Consider adding a few fake radio shows to the standards broadcasts too. By '40, it'd be cool to have at least one radio program touting the "true-life adventures" of some PC or moderately noteworthy NPC. Use the NPC if you want the actual NPC drug into events he can't cope with and require bailing out by PCs. You know, all the standard fare.

Re: Seeimgly Strange Characters to Model Don't forget that the Revenant from "Peer Review" is a now a regularly appearing character in the PS238 comic. He's training/mentoring tyler Marlocke.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Go look into the high school yearbooks of people from two different locations. Do you see that guy you swear you went to high school with in them? That's Death Tribble. He's watching us, all of us.

Re: Complicate the Person Above L. Marcus is secretly engaged in a transtemporal duel over Beatles song copyrights with Michael Jackson. Judging by the deteriorating appearance, finances and sanity of Jackson, it may be surmised the King of Pop is losing, badly.

Re: [Character] Battlestone It's funny that "You Should Be Dead" by Cut Throats 9 just popped up on my Winamp when I saw this post. Anyway, I never bothered to stat Battlestone out but the temptation to use the Automaton Rules for him seems like a fun idea. after all, as one of the Project: Born Again subjects, he's a rather lively and quick corpse. Does nicely in explaining those crazy little murderous escapades he's indulged in too. If you're interested, here's a DC Heroes writeup that seems pretty good. http://www.writeups.org/affiche_fiche.php?id=106 http://www.writeups.org/index.html If nothing else, it's got a nice history of the character along with a few other Brigade members elsewhere on the site.

Re: Exiled Champions Dang... Looks like invoking the spirit of Fuzion, even without directly naming it, killed this thread nicely. Well, fret not Champions: The New Millenium fans, we'll always have Cateran. 'Cause apparently she's immortal enough to outlive a rather unpopular game line.

Re: Exiled Champions Y'know, there's still other worlds untapped there. Professor Jacob Manning was a young archeology professor at Bay City University when an old friend involved him in a series of encounters with a malevolent mystical organization known as the Brotherhood Arcane. During a desperate struggle at a magical ruin that would later be known as the Pit, they found themselves stranded in the Shadow Realm. As his old friend managed to return them home, Jacob felt some unseen force attempt to hold him there. Though he broke free, it's mark has been left upon him. Now his body has been altered, twisting into a more monstrous form. His new body has incredible physical power and resilience that increases as it's form grows more demonic in appearance. Fortunately, with concentration he can also return to a fully human form for brief periods. He fears this form may carry with it an evil nature but for now he revels in his power and fights for justice as Behemoth, mainstay of the Champions.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Despite having an internal temperature above the melting point of iron, Death Tribble's heart is composed of the frozen tears of the damned. You have to respect that.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Armed only with a How-To book on carpentry, a handful of well-crafted puppets and a shovel, Satin Kitty single-handedly created the myth of Atlantis.

Re: Complicate the Person Above L. Marcus is a character assassin. Fortunately, he's a specialist who deals with figures of myth and legend. You could ask 'Snakedancer' Johannsen how dangerous he is. That is, if L. Marcus hadn't decreated him at the behest of a jealous Pecos Bill.

Re: Thunderbird Questions That's a wise plan.

Re: Thunderbird Questions That I recall, Warpath's flight ability happened when Warren Ellis was writing the book. There'd been this "6 months later" event involving the aftermath of the High Evolutionary deciding to suppress mutant powers and the X-men having to go stop him on his space station. Afterwards the X-men fought the Neo, which was a suddenly retconned-in race of immortal supermutants who had been decimated by the High Evolutionary's attempted cure. After a while no one talked about the Neo any more. Gen-X had a storyline jump where Synch died, among other events. X-Force, meanwhile, wound up working with Pete Wisdom and since he claimed all mutant's powers had rebooted in the wake of the HE's cure, that Warpath should be able to fly if he tried hard enough. This worked somehow. Funny, Wisdom never tried to convince Cannonball that he had heat vision if he wanted or that Mirage could become superstrong. Anyway that's not as annoying as how his superhuman senses developed. At one point, he and the rest of X-force encountered Mimic who, upon duplicating Warpath's powers, started screaming about how hard it was to control these newly enhanced senses he'd acquired. Warpath was confused as he'd seemingly never noticed them until just then. Yeesh.

Re: Thunderbird Questions Hmm. Well, I just reread the few scant appearances John had in the early days. In Giant Size X-men #1, he catches and wrestles a bison/buffalo to the ground in one grab & toss. Later on Krakoa, he gets snared by one of the mutant plants and yanks it out of the ground in one swift move. The plant is the size of a medium tree, both in bulk and root system. After that he's just kinda there, storywise. #94 has him burned by a "low-intensity" laser in the Danger Room. He's hurt but it's just a scratch really. He's walking around on it like it's no problem a moment later. #95 is (obviously) not a good issue for him. He gets his butt handed to him by Gort the Gorilla-Man, who is definitely stronger than him. He's then slammed into Banshee and knocked out by the impact. Huh, woulda thought he'd be a little more resilient than that. When the two wake up later, they spot Count Nefaria escaping in a Harrier. T-bird jumps onto it while it takes off, climbs the length of the plane as Nefaria is flying away and proceeds to smash a couple holes in the cockpit without much difficulty. Apparently the plot keeps him from hauling Count Sterotype out of the cockpit at this point and the plane crashes and explodes. End of Thunderbird's short career as an X-man. Frankly, he's much more impressive in flashbacks and alternate world stories. As a minor note, Nefaria is later said to have teleported himself to safety from said crash and later gets ionic powers and kicks collective Avengers rear. Now ask yourselves why he didn't just teleport away in the first place.

Re: A tip OIF the hat: How to remove Crowns OK, lemme see if I got this then. Vigorously applied violence seems to be the recommended approach, preferably with a mystical hazmat team present. Sounds like a plan. I think we should get the drop on them one at a time, preferably using extremely heavy objects.