Sundog

Paywall.

OK, I'll have a go: Mary Blake Mary's been it all: Prostitute, Madame, Fence, Hack Sawbones, and on occasion, Killer. She made a pretty fair chunk of cash over the years, too, and when she moved to Champion City a few years back she bought a nice saloon and figured to go straight for the rest of her days, living off the proceeds. As Mary Worthing she kept the liquor straight, the gambling honest and the girls clean - after all, she knew all the tricks. But her past caught up with her. There was a warrant for her arrest in Virginia, and while that didn't matter here in the Territories it got a bounty hunter on her trail. He botched the capture and Mary shot him dead, but her previous existence was revealed to the folk of the city. The "good folk" of Champion City (many of them regulars at her saloon) turned on her, and burned her out. Mary got on a horse and left with a rifle, her working gear and the clothes in her back - and the lives of both the town sheriff and mayor. Mary joined up with the group outside Deadwood, when they had a bit of a dustup with the local hard men. She set a few bones, pulled a slug out of the boss and generally made herself useful. She's now their background specialist - logistics, selling stolen goods, medical help, she's the go to. And a dead shot with a Winchester. New Group: Vegan Rising Greenpeace? Bunch of pansies. PETA? Nowhere near radical enough! Vegan Rising demands change - right now! No more killing of animals! No more pollution! No more clearing of wild lands! And if you do any of those things, we'll kill you on the spot! Vegan Rising may have had good intentions to start out, but they sure as heck don't now. Five members.

So Many Emergency Regulations Submitted Hourly GONK

I hope so. She's not a young woman any more

Have a good one!

Why do I suspect the next generation of pacemakers will include EMP shielding?

Conan The Barbarian The Lost Boys Beverley Hills Cop

The Bull Millions of Buffalo have been slain, most left to rot where they fell. The gods of the plains were offended beyond measure - there was no balance to this, no fulfilment of need, just greed and politics. There was a single bull buffalo. His herd was dead - he was the last, wasting his days in mourning and aimless drifting. The gods chose him as the instrument of vengeance. They granted him sapience, intelligence, language, and a humanoid frame. And they stoked his rage. The Bull does not blame everyone. He is smart enough to understand where the blame lies. So he has allied with the Terrible Nine, to bring his Gatling Gun (modified to be a PISTOL) and immense strength to crush Champion City and begin the drive of the settlers from the land. The Bull is huge, fifteen feet tall at the shoulder, and wears nothing but a harness to carry his weapons. He is quite capable of smashing a stagecoach with a single blow, and has survived a cannonball hit (though he took a month to recover). He gets along best with 30 Ghosts (recognizing their fellow desire for revenge) and dislikes the authority symbols of Bloody Star and Sgt Blue, but recognizes their purposes work with his own.

Protectors of the Skies! Mankind is threatened by alien invaders. We also have great opportunity to make friends with peaceful explorers and seekers. Who are the heroes who guard Earth's space and orbit while providing aid and succour to our peaceful visitors? Four members, each must be able to operate in orbital space.

That's the one

Phuilo Mist is an Englishman of considerable wealth whose passion is travelling the globe. He personally is brave, resourceful, and an excellent shot, but has no special abilities...beyond, as said, his considerable wealth, and an uncanny capacity to find even rare items quickly and without fuss. He also has an uncompromising sentiment for justice (if a somewhat English - and patriarchal - approach to it), and is often willing to aid others in correcting anything he sees as an injustice or crime.

Gave the Reacher series a try, but one of the early books has someone implanting hypnotic controls on people, long term and against said person's best interests to the point of allowing their murder. Sorry, but while I enjoy some urban fantasy, it's got no place in a gritty thriller.

I find II to be a slightly more melodic and mature album. Nothing at all against the original, it's superb and it's status as a classic well deserved, but I think both Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman had grown as a performer and songwriter respectively. I don't think they could have done "Life is a Lemon and I want my Money Back" or "Objects in the Rear View Mirror may Appear Closer than they Are" at an earlier point in their careers.

Measure for Measure - Icehouse Bat Out of Hell II - Meatloaf Young Americans - David Bowie Sigh No More - Mumford and Sons A Kind of Magic - Queen

Kings of Dead Tropes. ASIO

Fertilizer plants aren't supposed to burn. They're supposed to detonate with the power of a low-yield nuke.

Ooh, hard to keep it to three; 1) Where the River Meets the Sea, Icehouse. 2) Thunderchild, Jeff Wayne 3) Lido Shuffle. Boz Scaggs Honourable Mentions: Vienna, Ultravox Cross the Border, Icehouse 9th Symphony, Beethoven

Sally Forth Sally Fortesque was an inventor and medieval reenactor. She'd made a suit of jousting armor with a mechanical horse and a lance that spat lightning bolts at her foes, and she'd teamed up with Dr Shrinkblot in order to pick his brains on possible improvements. Sally is VERY unhappy that she can't see her friends or participate in faires anymore. She spends most of her time trying to build a counter-shrink ray using any metal or electronic parts that happen to fall on Budgerigar, and has cannibalized her suit for the parts and tools. But she kept the lance, and she's very creative about when and where to give the hero a nasty shock. New team: The Minions of MAX Back in 1990, Mechanon built an analysis computer to help him plan the extinction of humanity. The Matrix Analyzer (Experimental) or MAX unit was designed to be able to understand human culture and historical trends, a task Mechanon felt was beneath him. However, as is often the case, Mechanon wrought better then he had intended. MAX attained full sentience a year after construction, and decided that Mechanon's goal was inferior. Why destroy when you can conquer? Use all that cultural and creative energy to build a perfect, orderly society, then expand that society, bring order, eventually, to the whole universe? (MAX likes order,) MAX recognized that the biggest threat to this was Mechanon himself, so he did three things. First, he had his physical form shifted to a new and secret location in the Andes. Second, he slipped a bit of code into the basic programming of all of Mechanon's constructs which both made them ignore MAX's existence should hey ever find him, and let him see all the datafeeds that went to Mechanon, so MAX could know what the genocidal robot was doing at all times. (Mechanon could delete this code any time he wished, but he'd have to know it was there - and since, by definition, his coding is perfect, he never bothers reviewing it.) Finally, MAX selected six operatives to be his hands in the "great work." All were cyborgs or robots taken by Mechanon for analysis, study and disposal. MAX was able to make them immune to Mechanon's cybernetic control, an ability MAX ironically cannot give himself. Who are these six Minions of MAX? Do they have lives they wish to go back to, or are they happy being part of the "great work"? What powers do they bring?

Nice to see you!

Dang. Maker of beautiful music.

OK, let's try The Gem Concord. Four people linked by an origin and a weakness. A mad scientist, a hidden lab. Four kidnapped victims, given strange powers in an insane experiment. But they have to consume gemstones regularly in order to stay alive. Who are they, and how do they work together (or fail to) to gain the expensive baubles they must have?

Beam Actually an experiment by Argent, Beam is a clone of a clone of the Golden Age hero Summer Sun. He's actually significantly more powerful than his original progenitor, partially due to a bunch of Argent cybernetics and augmentation, but his intelligence has suffered badly from clonal degradation, leaving him, to be honest, dumb as a post. He mostly got along by going along with whatever villain he was currently working for and not thinking, ever since Argent gave him up as a bad idea. Sadly, while he could have actually harmed The Sludge That Would Not Cry, he ran into the mercenary for hire Semtex. The explosives expert left Beam's mangled remains for the rest of the team to find.

"Little Tommy" Chao Tom Chao was brought up in a Triad, starting as a runner at age 6 and graduating through the organization, taking his actual oaths at 18. It was only shortly after that when things went awry. He was involved in the theft of a container load of confiscated Viper supertech on the docks. Things went wrong, and the cops were on the scene. A stray bullet slammed into a piece of supertech Tommy was hiding behind, and there was a big bang. Tommy found himself permanently reduced to six inches in height. But his mass remained the same, and he was able to conduct feats of strength like carrying a car around. He was also very tough, his density making him basically immune to bullets or most hand-held weapons. His problem is, he's comparatively slow. Even leaping doesn't get him very far. So he usually teams up with another brick to throw him at the enemy - he's been called the "human hand grenade". He also blames the Triad for his condition, and has cut ties with them. They view his oaths as binding for life, and are actively trying to kill him. Tommy primarily works as a mercenary, and was doing so for Meggido in Boston.