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Alphonse Avery is the Anchor. He has the ability of immovability. Anything he touches remains in place with him. CES

Keenan Wales is the star of the local little league. When recess changes him, it changes him into Bat Man with a bat and a supply of baseballs to use on his enemies. CES

Robyn Lox is the heroic Bobbin Spool. Her command of thread allows to act like a spider as long as she has a supply close at hand. Naturally like her predecessor in Sherwood Forest, she robs from the rich to give to the poor. CES

Wanted by the police for his burglaries, the scientific community for his ability to survive hostile environments, Casey Roan can flatten himself out to squeeze through any opening as the Tapeworm CES

Gloria Gay Hardy is the unkillable Survive. Anything lethal thrown her way just misses. This is an ability that can cause problems for her allies as much as it saves her from trouble. CES

Henry Lane is the hero known as The Copier. He has the power to copy his friends' and enemies' powers. It makes him singularly powerful, but limited to whomever is in range of his ability. CES

The locals know to get out of way of the man in a bear costume known as Super Crisp. This is a blaster capable of burning through anything he notices. He can power up with a extra powerful blast by eating any sugar/honey products. CES

The Mudroot Menacers are a staple of their small town and the surrounding county. These five lowlifes are frequent enemies of the Farm Belt. Their theme is cereal mascots. CES

Floyd Pinkerton is the Lunatic. His life draining ability is enhanced by his mental power of personality reworking. Anyone Floyd decides to victimize suddenly have strange outbursts, the need to be clean at all times, hallucinations, and mild strokes, then death. CES

Elsa Panzer is younger than the rest of the rangers. She more than makes up for it with her strange ability to become a pink tank with hearts on it. She has earned the name Tank Girl. CES

Wight Jenkins was always able to shrink and fly. She started out as the heroine Tiny Dancer. After being bitten by Cooper Manson and becoming a vampire, she became the Tiny Terror. CES

Brian O'Brian has been drilled with his heritage as a descendant of the Emerald Isle. Taking on the gifts of one of its most famous heroes, Brian becomes the Hound every recess. CES

Watched American Ultra-Mike Howell is a stoner convenience store clerk who has been programmed to be a killing machine. When the CIA targets him and his girlfriend, his programmer unlocks his skills so he can defend himself. Hilarity ensues. CES

In the case I mentioned, the cops thought this guy was breaking into his own house. When they asked him what he was doing, he turned around with his wallet in hand. I guess he thought he was being robbed. So they started blasting away. The doorframe held the victim up in the line of fire so he couldn't fall down. It might have looked like he was still trying to shoot. CES

I believe that police officers are taught to shoot until the target falls down. A man was shot in New York over thirty times because his door frame held him up a few years ago. The squad responsible was disbanded CES

Watched the Man from Uncle. I am not sure I agree with some of the choices in the character rewrites, but Hugh Grant as Mr Waverly was pretty spiffy. CES

The sequels are pretty good. I think I recommended them on this thread earlier. While there are monsters in Verus's setting, this is the first UF one with no vampires that I can recall. CES

The Crossing by Mike Connolly. Harry Bosch, retired detective suing the LAPD, is asked by his brother and lawyer to investigate a murder another client is accused of doing. And that's when the trouble starts... CES

Same here with McCrory. How do they think vetting is going to be done? Didn't we used to be the country that asked people to send us their homeless and poor? CES

They have to blame Snowden because nobody knows how the thing was planned and they are thrashing around for answers. They are assuming that the operation was carried out with radio contact and so forth. The fact of the matter is this could be a set of independent groups given different targets and told to carry it out. There would be nothing to surveil electronically except for phone calls and if you didn't have number to tap, then you got nothing. Like the stingray that the FBI loaned to local police. Track like 50k calls in its radius I think, but if you don't have the number, the call you want just comes in like all the rest, so the machine is only good if you have a start up number. Surveillance and electronic intrusion is worthless until you have something as a starting point. These politicians either don't know that which I find hard to believe after Watergate, or willfully ignorant to make themselves look good before they know what's going on. CES

Every paper in town is reporting that France bombed an ISIS capital in Syria in retaliation. They have been bombing across the border in Iraq, but they decided to hit in Syria using US strike targets CES

The Winston-Salem Journal reported a man was pardoned after 30 years in prison and is suing for malicious prosecution. As part of his defense, he alleged that the police who picked him up dangled him from a bridge, and then threatened his parents to get a confession. When he was retried, a jury found him not guilty of the crime. CES

Buckley Buckner is the hero known as the Buck. Capable of leaping a fence, running at 60 miles per hour, and slamming a villain with his giant antlers, he is the deer of daring do CES

They are farm tools after all. CES

officer believed shot as a hate crime towards police in Illinois is revealed to be an embezzler and is believed to have staged a suicide as a murder CES