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The blue blur's comic adaption is probably my favorite of the three...


They adapted @Byrd Man's original Create-A-Hero character into a comic? I'm impressed.
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I'll be totally honest and say I don't really have a particular "arc" planned out for Tony just yet. So, if it seems like my posts just consist of him doing random shit, you'll know why.
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I never really read comics like at all. I do somewhat remember having some random pokemon comics at one time and picked up a spider-man here and there. Pretty much all my comic book knowledge came from cartoons, mostly Spider-Man 90s one, and my Ultimate Spider-Man Guide book that introduced me to a ton of Spider-Man lore and a whole range of different comic-book characters. Then it was like Justice League cartoon and pretty much anything that came around that time or after.

And now for my all time favorite comic-book. :)



I got myself a copy, it is one awesome piece of glorious Satire.
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Favorite runs, eh? We'll, let's see.

Spider-Man: Throw a dart at a '70s Spider-Man comic. If it was written by Gerry Conway, Len Wein, or Marv Wolfman, then you're golden. Alternately, grab the first few trades of Ultimate Spider-Man.

Superman: I love Birthright. Like, a lot.

Batman: I'm tempted to say The Long Halloween, but that's the most basic bitch answer. Seeing as I am a basic bitch, though, I'll stand by it.

Thor: God of Thunder is the run that got me back into reading modern comics. (At least for a little while.)
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Favorite runs, eh? We'll, let's see.

Spider-Man: Throw a dart at a '70s Spider-Man comic. If it was written by Gerry Conway, Len Wein, or Marv Wolfman, then you're golden. Alternately, grab the first few trades of Ultimate Spider-Man.

Superman: I love Birthright. Like, a lot.

Batman: I'm tempted to say The Long Halloween, but that's the most basic bitch answer. Seeing as I am a basic bitch, though, I'll stand by it.

Thor: God of Thunder is the run that got me back into reading modern comics. (At least for a little while.)


@Eddie Brock likes his Spider-Men with their Six Arm Sagas and their Aunt Mays marrying Eight Limbed Villains confirmed...



Smek! Indeed...

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Who is everyone's respective favourite character? And what run of theirs is your favourite to date?

When I first started taking comic books seriously as having the potential to be legitimate art and not just cheap popcorn entertainment, it was specifically because of Mark Waid's work with Superman-- in particular, Kingdom Come and Birthright. I patterned a lot of my character work, my dialogue, many of my story concepts for Superman, off of ideas I had re-reading those stories over and over. I'd go as far as to say that if it weren't for Waid, I would have probably never become a Superman or DC fan. Which is something I find incredibly sad now, given how much I fucking loathe the man himself.

My favorite superhero, though-- in fact, my favorite fictional character period-- is and will always be Peter Parker. However, my favorite "runs" with Pete weren't in the comics, but rather in the cartoons (particularly Spectacular) and actually the new PS4 game. If it specifically has to be a comic, probably Spider-Man: Blue.
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Y'all know who my favorite character is.

Sadly, D-Man's comic appearances really aren't notable enough for me to entertain a favorite.


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Everything felt new and exciting again, and I miss that type of forward progression in comics.


This is why I have a love/hate relationship with comic books as a storytelling medium. By their serialized nature, comics are so resistant to change. It's why Peter Parker feels like he's spinning his wheels; the character has done everything he can do. All that's left now is to settle down, have a kid, be Spider-Dad for a few years, and then pass the reins to Mayday Parker. That's how you progress Peter Parker, not by making him Tony Stark Lite. But Marvel will never ever, ever do that. At least not outside a self-contained book.

DC's even more egregious in some ways. Legacy characters are written into their DNA, with many of the sidekicks originating from the earliest years of the shared DC Universe. And yet we're doomed to never see these characters inherit the mantles they're destined for. The best we can hope for is a transition to a successful adult alter ego a la Nightwing, but even then the mentor character is still hanging around, fighting crime like a helicopter parent who can't let go.

I understand the business side of it, but it's frustrating to stifle narrative potential for financial reasons. Particularly given that if you look at the reception for Grayson Batman and Bucky Cap, you see that there is a market for people like me who want to see these universes evolve and change -- so long as the passing of the mantle feels earned and isn't itself a purely financial (*cough* "diversity" *cough*) decision.
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This is why I have a love/hate relationship with comic books as a storytelling medium. By their serialized nature, comics are so resistant to change. It's why Peter Parker feels like he's spinning his wheels; the character has done everything he can do. All that's left now is to settle down, have a kid, be Spider-Dad for a few years, and then pass the reins to Mayday Parker. That's how you progress Peter Parker, not by making him Tony Stark Lite. But Marvel will never ever, ever do that. At least not outside a self-contained book.

DC's even more egregious in some ways. Legacy characters are written into their DNA, with many of the sidekicks originating from the earliest years of the shared DC Universe. And yet we're doomed to never see these characters inherit the mantles they're destined for. The best we can hope for is a transition to a successful adult alter ego a la Nightwing, but even then the mentor character is still hanging around, fighting crime like a helicopter parent who can't let go.

I understand the business side of it, but it's frustrating to stifle narrative potential for financial reasons. Particularly given that if you look at the reception for Grayson Batman and Bucky Cap, you see that there is a market for people like me who want to see these universes evolve and change -- so long as the passing of the mantle feels earned and isn't itself a purely financial (*cough* "diversity" *cough*) decision.


You could do a number of things... responsibilities change with age. I'd probably write it that due to the bite's effect on him he's unable to have kids, because the responsibility of parenthood kind of conflicts with going out and protecting the city when you realize the high likelihood of leaving orphaned kids from the high likelihood of capes dying. Or I suppose you could roll with it and play it as Pete seeing it as no different than being a police officer (which could also have its own arcs of "am I holding back to make sure I go home at night, and if so can I still be effective?") regardless of the death rates of each. There's still interesting takes as he ages.
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Or I suppose you could roll with it and play it as Pete seeing it as no different than being a police officer (which could also have its own arcs of "am I holding back to make sure I go home at night, and if so can I still be effective?") regardless of the death rates of each.


That's probably exactly how I'd play it. It's great drama in the typical Spider-Man vein. Hell, that's why you have Miles Morales: So that if Peter decides the risk is too high, he has someone to directly mentor in his place until Mayday comes of age.

... shit, I think I'm pitching myself an RPG concept.
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The inherent problem with comics is that because they're made to just go on forever, anything that can be done can just be undone. We've seen classic characters age, die, or otherwise be put on the shelf before, with the attempt to get new characters the spotlight, but eventually someone will want to dust off that old concept and bring the original back. If someone writes the single greatest possible way to end the Batman/Joker rivalry, in a way that leaves absolutely no loose ends and no possibility for a rematch, well, it doesn't actually matter because somewhere down the line, someone will bring it back. Peter Parker has been a young man for over half a century; Bruce and Clark have been about 40-ish for 75+ years; the idea that someone can just now put some gray hairs on them and expect audiences to buy their replacements just isn't going to stick.

Because superheroes-- the big 'iconic' ones in particular-- are more or less eternal, they've become the collective property of the popular consciousness rather than any one particular writer and artist, and with that comes a status quo and a set of expectations that have to be met. Most of the time, radical departures, reinterpretations, or shake-ups to the lore are met with controversy at best, if not outright rejection. You can't get away with doing to Superman what Morrison did with Animal Man, f'rinstance. I will say that adding new characters is usually well-received, but taking them away or making them clash with the common perception of them is a gamble that rarely ever pays off.

In that respect, I kinda wish comics would get away from having a strict ongoing continuity and just let creators have free reign in self-contained standalone stories. That way, they can take more risks and experiment more without as harsh consequences from the general public because hey, if you don't like that story, it doesn't overwrite the ones you do like. And it's not like we don't already have proof of concept in that regard-- most of the best-regarded superhero books of the past twenty or thirty years have been stories that happen outside of the monthly canon anyway.
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Believe me, I understand all the reasons why it can't and won't ever happen, but I've yet to stumble upon a compelling reason why it shouldn't. Sure, you could say, "Well, there are still stories to tell with the classic characters," and that's true -- we're living proof of that, I hope -- but at a certain point you hit diminishing returns... if comics haven't already. Besides, as you said, the classic characters don't have to be completely shelved so long as there are self-contained stories and Elseworlds.

But those don't move books like crossover events and the like do, and so we're back at making narrative decisions for financial reasons, which is where the comics industry (or, at least Marvel and DC) has been stagnating for... 30 years or so?

What I'm saying is everybody should come out for Eddie Brock's "Marvel: A New Generation" RPG, coming soon to the Roleplayer Guild only to be swiftly run into the ground with self-insert OCs and people who miss the concept and want to use the classic characters anyway!
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What I'm saying is everybody should come out for Eddie Brock's "Marvel: A New Generation" RPG, coming soon to the Roleplayer Guild only to be swiftly run into the ground with self-insert OCs and people who miss the concept and want to use the classic characters anyway!


1st post: "Can I be Batman?"
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What I'm saying is everybody should come out for Eddie Brock's "Marvel: A New Generation" RPG, coming soon to the Roleplayer Guild only to be swiftly run into the ground with self-insert OCs and people who miss the concept and want to use the classic characters anyway!


Okay but hear me out,

What if Spider-Man was... Canadian?
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What I'm saying is everybody should come out for Eddie Brock's "Marvel: A New Generation" RPG, coming soon to the Roleplayer Guild only to be swiftly run into the ground with self-insert OCs and people who miss the concept and want to use the classic characters anyway!

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*Works on high school Wally West Character Sheet*
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That's probably exactly how I'd play it. It's great drama in the typical Spider-Man vein. Hell, that's why you have Miles Morales: So that if Peter decides the risk is too high, he has someone to directly mentor in his place until Mayday comes of age.

... shit, I think I'm pitching myself an RPG concept.


Now we're back on @Byrd Man's college football dynasty again...
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Sorry I haven’t been around this weekend. Much busier than I expected. Am going to plan to get 3 posts done this week though. Need to get back into the rythym I was in last season:
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Batman's recruiting program is second to none... but just like the college sports circuit few get more than 4 years.

Dan Didio graduates Robins/Nightwings with a crowbar. You can't Red-Robin shirt Tim Drake forever...
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The whole Red Robin thing still irks me. Tim should have picked up Nightwing when Dick picked up the cowl.

The current Bat-Family dynamic just feels like a half-assed attempt at a compromise to not completely alienate the Tim fans with the addition of Morrison’s Damian
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