the Evil DM

I picked up a copy of Boom! Studios newest comic book G.I. Spy and I enjoyed it immensely. G.I. Spy is set in the late 1930’s and follows the adventures of US Army Intelligence agent Jack Shepherd, who travels the world on behalf of the US government to battle threats to national security. In the opening issue he is in the Belgian Congo where he and a British agent named Kaitlin Hunter uncover a secret Uranium mining operation being run by the Nazi’s. So there you have it, secret agents, hidden bases, and Nazis. Throw in some killer robots, high tech gadgets and Albert Einstein and you have the makings for a good old-fashioned “two-fisted†pulp adventure. What’s not to love? There are a few little nits; the biggest one is that the hero uses the word “coolâ€. I can forgive a lot, especially when reading a comic book, but c’mon lets try to stay in character, I'm sure with a little more thought the writer could have come up with something a little more in line with the dialogue of the era than “coolâ€. But all in all that’s my only nit to pick in an otherwise entertaining read. The website is slick and promises some great villains and more gadgets. G.I. Spy comes in on the high –end price wise at $3.99 an issue but you’re supporting a small publisher and there were no ads on every other page to interrupt the story, so for me it was money well spent. I heard some buzz from Comicon that the publishers were shopping the title to some studios for consideration; this would make a great Popcorn movie. I'm gonna start on a Jack Shepard action figure kit-bash this weekend, I'm thinking of using a Max Steele or one of the Lanard head sculpts, and go from there. The idea behind G.I. Spy isn’t too distant from my own vision of a Post WWII Adventure Team. As to gaming, the world of G.I. Spy would make a great campaign no matter what the system.

Re: Announcing — DIME HERO ADVENTURES! But DEEP7 games already has a Product out there called Dime Heroes that offers "short, simple, no-frills PDF scenarios that will sell for $3-5."

Re: What Other Pulp Hero Books Would You Like To See? An organizations book showing not only good and bad organizations but other groups that have mysterious agendas. a city book. giving details of a north american city in a pulp style world. maybe a mythical island city-state similar to Hong-kong or Monaco. a book dedicated to supernatural threats

Re: Questions and Suggestions for my next campaign. And dont forget, since this is pulp, the ship could be powered by an all new super-secret type of lifting gas "Hylogen", better than hydrogen and non flammable. in fact it could revolutionize travel and it's military applications make it very desirable to many nations and other organizations...

Here is a blog with some great photos to get the creative juices going. very useable in a pulp or horror campaign. http://thingsthatwere.blogspot.com/

Re: Questions and Suggestions for my next campaign. ok this may be a stretch but if done properly it might be pretty cool. on this really big ship in between adventures, are a series of dissapearances and murders. the culprit? a vampire. either a member of the crew (like the assistant to the engineer on the Nightwatch) or a stow away who is being protected by a trusted member of the crew (Ensign Renfield?). at first throw some red herrings to make it look like the murderer is a jack the ripper madman type- then throw in the supernatural element. I used this in a star frontiers game i once ran. I set it on a mining asteroid. a cross between the sci-Fi movie"Outland" with Sean Connery and Dracula.

Re: Pulp Film Recommendations To "st Barbara" the movie was just known as "Hard times" to the best of my knowledge anyway. it came out in 1975 and was directed by Walter Hill.

Re: Looking for an example of a Dragon Lady character from TV/Movies for a Pulp campaign. do a google image search of Anna May Wong and you will find your Dragonlady. http://us_asians.tripod.com/features-am-wong.html http://silentladies.com/PWong.html

Re: Pulp Film Recommendations Hard times with James Coburn and Charles Bronson. Depression era New orleans. Coburn is a fight promoter/con man. and bronson is a bare knuckles brawler. gritty movie rich in atmosphere, and great fight scenes. the Naked Prey with Cornel Wilde - the great white hunter gets hunted. Wilde plays an explorer who is captured by tribesmen, stripped naked and forced to run as they try to hunt him down. good fodder for the great white hunter/ safari pulp types. The Quest- Jean claude Van damme. the movie is set in the 1920's or 30's it's like kung fu pulp. it has Malaysian pirates and ancient temples,zeppelins, and fighters from all over the world vying for a golden dragon

Re: Pulp Reading Hard to believe 7 pages of thread on pulp writers and not one mention of Louis Lamour. best known for his westerns lamour "cut his teeth" in the pulps writing adventure fiction. his Characters such tramp steamer captain "Ponga Jim" Mayo and Fortune hunter Pilot "Turk Madden" are pure Pulp archetypes. go to amazon or borders and look up: The hills of homicide "In the dark alleys of the pulsing cities and the savage criminal wilderness, Louis L'Amour introduces a new brand of characters: men like Kip Morgan, the ex-fighter turned detective who is tough enough to bounce a bouncer, yet has more up his sleeve than sheer muscle; Joe Ragan, dedicated career cop who fears nothing in the pursuit of justice; and women whose soft laughter covers their underlying cruelty. These are fast-moving stories of brawls where once a man goes down and doesn't get up fast enough he's through, of flashing knives that whisper death, of guns that blaze their fatal file through the blackest nights." Night over the Solomons "They're freelance pilots and full-time troubleshooters for democracy. They're men like Steven Cowan, Mike Thorne, and Turk Madden who face danger every day of their lives and fight like tigers for what they believe in. With the world on the brink of war, they're on the front lines, wherever there's action. From the dangerous South Seas islands, to steaming South American jungles, to the other islands of Japan, you'll find these man ready to fight the enemies of freedom--in a battle to the death." West from Singapore "He's a two-fisted American adventurer and veteran of a hundred waterfront brawls. He's "Ponga Jim" Mayo, and he minds his own business and leaves international intrigue to others. But, as master of his own tramp freighter, trouble seeks him out as he navigates the treacherous East Indian seas from Borneo to Singapore. Never one to back away from danger, Jim straps on his colt automatic and takes the helm of the Semiramis, ready to battle pirates and spies, dope peddlers and gunrunners and whoever else dares to challenge his command...and God help the man who crosses Jim Mayo." Pulpy enough for ya??

Re: Real world Pulp characters my vote goes to Nikola Tesla. One of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century.

Over on another board the subject of the J.I. classic "Lands of Mystery" came up. Has there been any discussion about doing a version for the new Pulp Hero line?