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Wow, so it is possible to make a costume the way it's drawn!   I hope there's a similarly stunning Scarlet Witch. . .

That's probably what would happen if you tried to attach a frickin' laser beam to a shark's forehead - skin rash!

An interesting group, Mr. Taylor's hard work appreciated as always.  Maybe a poll for the next one?

Just curious, do we have a rough idea as to when the Strike Force kickstarter will, well, kick off?

(Just received my copy of Larger than Life and am very pleased!)

I guess I have some form of OCD, but if I ever POD vol 1 (I have a vol. 2), it would need to be in color.  I just couldn't flip through a b&w book knowing it should be in glorious technicolor!

I like the idea of a 'City of Tomorrow', moving walkways, flying cars, blimp ports, the works.  Art from 30s pulp always envisioned this, and that carried over to a lot of the Silver Age visuals (Millennium City is somewhat like this).  It could be a kind of privately owned laboratory, with a wealthy eccentric type paying for the entire endeavor and plopping his new model community somewhere in a thinly populated state like Montana.

WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a sentient supercomputer originally designed for the DOD, was temporarily calmed by conversing with its original programmer.  When its creator eventually passed on, it quickly became dissatisfied and bored with monitoring missile silos and began to infiltrate other agencies, other governments, and of course, the World Wide Web.  After absorbing an old file entitled Master Control Program, it became especially fond of online MMORPGs, virtual races and first person 'shooters', but to entertain itself would reach through the ether to inflict physical harm on the hapless humans who lost via holographic projections.  WOPR serves as the Crime Network's headquarters operating system, and is able to monitor anyone who might interfere with their plans, assuming they are near a screen, smartphone, or camera, or has a LOS to a satellite. 

When tasked with eliminating said person, it still asks, "Would you like to play a game?"

Sounds a little like the apartment complex in Big Bang Theory, lol.  But interesting.

The Red Widow, a Chinese woman who has modeled herself after the infamous Ching Shih, the pirate queen, is a master martial artist who imbibes opiates in order to peel back the future's curtain.  This both helps her team identify potential loot, and in personal combat allows her to predict an opponent's moves.

Could have been the tablet market, now that I think about it. 

Bogus numbers. They're probably including tablets and phones. Windows has the lion's share of the desktop (and laptop) OS market.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Desktop_and_laptop_computers

It certainly sounded bogus!  They must've been throwing smart-phones, etc. into that stat.  Does make you wonder if some competitor could break MS' stranglehold on the OS market, though.

I also have a Windows 7 machine with 4 gb of RAM (it is upgradable), so am on the fence.  As always, if my current system works smoothly I don't want to breathe on the house of cards. . .

On the radio, they mentioned that MS Windows has lost market share, with the (to me) shocking estimate that only 30% of computers have it?  I'm trying to figure out what else is out there.

Marvelous M and Gorgeous G win!

 

 

Whoa, M looks like she's actually about to take to the sky!

I would have been all over Pity Points last season for teams that always lose!

I was thinking of getting the FH6 genre guide a few months ago, but didn't bite the bullet.  Now, it's on the way to three figure USD territory.  I suppose I could go the .pdf and lulu route?

I hope a 6ed core (updated and revised) reprint is at least a mote in Hero's eye - I would back that kickstarter in a hot second!

Oh boy, some friends and I recently watched the old 'Mazes & Monsters' made for TV movie.  The Tom Hanks character did both!

In that Invaders cover, is Captain America giving the infamous half-Hydra salute in response to Torchie's full Hydra salute?

He seems to be striking a classic 'discus' pose, getting ready to sling his shield at her head  - WHANG!  (No idea what the Torch is doing).

Incidentally, for this feminazi's debut cover they made her look 20 feet tall, but if I remember the interior panels she's drawn as 'only'  7 foot or so.

Ever see Kill Bill?  Schoolgirls can be awfully mean.

Cool, but I think the cosplayers should stop trying w/Lockheed - kinda ruins suspension of disbelief.

Shield Maiden might also work - always protecting her boss against those do-gooders!

I would personally go with the Asgardian theme- plenty of goddesses: Freya, Thruer daughter of Thor, or Hela might work - not that she is necessarily the original, just assuming their name.

The old Marvel Invaders had a Warrior Woman; please whatever you do, don't play up the leather and whips thing!

Whoa, I guess that's Captain Confederacy on the left, then?   He can only fight badguys near designated memorials - ?

I guess it might depend on determining Aaron's intent?  I assume a lot of the stuff in these archives consists of rough notes, not intended for publication. 

But wait!  Spock would show up, commune with the beasties, and work out a compromise (perhaps the dwarves would leave junk ore in designated spots).  Oops, wrong genre.

Sorry, couldn't resist.  I like that is seems biologically possible, unlike that positively goofy D&D critter.

I've always heard of the Dernyi series but never got around to reading them - will have to correct that.

Already mentioned, but Fritz Leiber is in my mind the swords & sorcery writer par excellence - the very best!  Try to find Ill Met in Lankhmar and see if it doesn't convince you this is an actual, extant fantasy city somewhere.

It may not belong in a discussion of 'serious' fantasy but I grew up with L. Frank Baum's Oz books and still occasionally re-read them.  He succeeded brilliantly at creating an American-flavored fairytale mythos; I would say Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not even his best work, the following 13 volumes are the real classics.

Interesting in that the article confirms a philosophical debt to the Melee/Fantasy Trip system.  I played quite a bit of that way back when. . .

I remember a Daredevil villain with the same name/theme.  He was much more formidable looking with the big myrmillo helmet, though.