Omega Man

Comic Book Discussion Thread (Old, New, Manga)

@Captain UniI'll have to check out the book if Darwyn Cooke was involved in any way. Everything from Marvel my son and I have tried to pick up has been an uphill battle. I managed to score all six issues of Nova Centurion but had a hiccup around issue #4. Got my son Moon Knight's new series but after issue #3 we haven't managed to find anything before it sells out. Shop guy said every cover of every #4 was sold out. Same thing happened with the new Daredevil after #1. I got the first two or three issues of Imperial Guardians since the team included Darkhawk but then had a hiccup and missed an issue. I told the shop clerk I didn't wanna pay $15 or $20 for a variant cover for anything other than maybe a #1 of something, but that's all they ever have for half the stuff I wanna read. I like Daredevil and Moon Knight but not enough to pay $15-25 for a random cover of issue #5 or #6. Variant covers are starting to get on my nerves now.

@Lord Wraith Damn, you really invested in Absolute LOL. I looked at the line like 'What if Image did DC characters in the 90's?' and it all made a bit more sense, but the only one that REALLY got my attention was Green Arrow. I thought for sure Connor Hawke would be under the mask and then issue #2 happened. I JUST got #3 Wednesday but haven't had a chance to read through it yet. And GA follows the whole Image thought pattern too because there was the mystery behind who the original Shadowhawk was.

What's your take on the current JSA? There's quite a few of the back issues at my shop but I remember seeing a lot more knock off characters and new ones introduced or inspired by stuff Geoff Johns did recently with Stargirl. Like the evil Russian Red Lantern having a daughter named Ruby, and then Huntress and Powergirl playing larger roles. And I think Solomon Grundy was on the team?! It just seemed like it was trying too hard to be different from GJ, and I think he set a pretty high bar for anybody to try and reach.

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I forgot to mention I picked up the remastered Capes series before realizing it was an older book remastered but was hyped when it continued beyond the original six issues. Aside from the animated Invincible this was my first peek into the universe, and I've been getting a friend at work the Battle Beast series since issue #6. Lately I've been on a silver age Marvel kick and got early issues of Mar-Vell from his book in the 60's when he still had the green and white suit, and I scored his Giant Sized book from later in the run. I also got the android Human Torch #1 from back then, as well as Nova #1 and Red Wolf #1. I recently found the entire five issue series that was *supposed* to be Mar-Vell's return to the Marvel U, that lead into Secret Invasion after Civil War(and you can probably guess that twist). My son got into the Azrael character in Batman so we've been collecting a ton of that stuff (it was the first long comics arc I remember reading from back when I was in the 2nd grade). We got all the stuff with Bane and Az, I found facsimile editions of Batman Year One and Year Two for my boy, the original Batman Venom story that ran in one of his monthlies a few years before they introduced Bane, all kinds of stuff. I've also been going back and trying to collect some of the shorter runs of comics I enjoyed when I was younger like the OG Spiderman 2099 (I think it's around 45 issues or so), the heroic 90's Green Goblin (got about half of it rn), and then the stuff that spun out of DC's Rann/Thanagar War like Strange Adventures. I managed to track down most of Malibu's Night Man but haven't been as lucky when it comes to Prime.

Comic Book Discussion Thread (Old, New, Manga)

I often wonder about how many people on the Guild read and enjoy comics. The last few years I've got back into the hobby, and I'm currently reading a ton of good stuff. The new Space Ghost stuff from Dynamite is what got me back in the comic shop, then DC had to go and make Kyle Rayner the main Green Lantern again so I've been picking that book up for the first time in years. Dynamite is also doing an exceptional crossover between the Thundercats and the Silverhawks which I never thought I'd see in a million years. They also landed the franchise Fire and Ice, and while I missed that series they made a spin-off Darkwolf series I managed to score the first issue of last week. There's also a new Rocketeer series called Rocketeer Ignition from IDW that's probably the best Rocketeer book I've ever read. OH! I also picked up the first issue of another indy book from some random publisher called Zorro Legacy that's about a new Zorro in the modern day. HIGHLY recommend all of this stuff. Absolute Green Arrow too. That's the only Absolute book I'm reading rn, but it's killing me wondering who's behind the mask.

Anybody around these parts reading anything?

Golden Age

Collab with @Cyrania

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Reinforcements had arrived in Jungle Boy and Lady Lynx, who quickly dispatched Nazis dressed as civilians with their bow and bullets respectively. Armed American soldiers guarded the entrances and exits of the Ammunition Plant and the remaining Nazis were running out of options. Albrecht, the Nazi Wolfman, was in a circle of green flame with the Torch of Liberty. The green clad hero had already got a decent combo on the monster of a man, as well as blasting him in the stomach with a concentrated fireball.

"I understand enough English, hero. But do you speak any German?" the wolfman asked, already healing from the fiery attacks and lunging at the Torch.

Elastic Man was busy with a Nazi armed with some type of machine gun. Shots fired erratically as the hero with a secret tried to keep his cool. It wasn't much for him to dodge or even redirect some of the bullets aimed towards the production plant. That's when the wolfman yelled out in German at the civilian dressed Nazi that Elastic Man hadn't yet seen.

"Wirf die Bomben, du Idiot! Du hattest nur eine einzige Aufgabe!" the Wolfman screamed as the American hero struck him with another fire enhanced fist in the ribcage. The man the werewolf screamed at carried a backpack full of explosives, and the tiniest of sparks could ignite the entire plant if only it was close enough to the material storage.

Clear as a bell, the Wolfman's words translated in Elastic Man's mind. *"Throw the bombs, idiot! You only had one job!"*

Elastic Man jolted. Right, the explosives! Reaching out, he could sense where the man was, preparing to do exactly that. He had to hurry!

He sprung back into the trees then swung down behind the guy and shoulder checked him in the back, knocking him to the ground and allowing Elastic Man to take the Machine Gun away from him. Then he checked the position of the explosives guy, let go of the tree, then rolled up into a ball and barreled straight towards his legs. With that, he knocked the man off his feet, and the bomb in the man's hands flew up into the air. He'd have to do something about that. Very gingerly then, the hero with secrets stretched out his good arm to wrap it around the bomb (discretely using telekinesis in order to make sure to grab the bomb and not the lit fuse). Then he quickly wrapped his arm into a slingshot and fired the bomb up into the air, past the tops of the trees. Then he ripped off the backpack filled with the rest with a quick 'Sorry' to the poor guy attached to it, then slingshot it up in a like manner.

The backpack then hit the first bomb and with a tremendous *boom*, all the explosives created a fun fireworks show harmlessly in the air.

"Guess that takes care of that!" Elastic Man said with a deep breath.

"You took me by surprise this time, American. Wenn wir uns das nächste Mal treffen, werde ich dir das Leben nehmen." the Wolfman stated to the green clad Torch before howling into the night and leaping over the flames and into the darkness of the woods. John controlled the flames around him and absorbed them into himself. A trick he'd learned days earlier after accidentally catching something on fire.

"Damnit." he muttered under his breath.

The sun had finally set and it seemed as though the day was saved. The Wolfman managed to get away but the other seven Nazis had been dealt with. Elastic Man, the Torch of Liberty, Jungle Boy, and Lady Lynx waited for orders from the head military guy on the site. Apparently more military reinforcements were on their way. The four heroes were all surrounding the materials section of the plant now, looking like the moteliest of crews if there ever was one. John tried not to stare, but he questioned how a woman could shoot a rifle like that in the woods outside wearing heels and gold jewelry.

"Ma'am, you look too pretty to be here. Should be sippin' lemonade or sweet tea on somebody's porch. Who taught you how to shoot, your Pa?" the Torch finally asked.

He could understand a man running around like Tarzan in the movies, and even somebody that could stretch and shapeshift. A superpowered woman in heels and a maroon dress with a rifle on her back was unheard of at this point in history.

Golden Age

@Sanity43217 Your character reminded me of this sketch of what Marvel's the Sentry could've looked like in the 70's...



The RP is off to a good start if you're still game!

Golden Age

Gonna go ahead and say it here and not just hide everything in the Discord server, you guys and girls are doing AMAZING. Such a great start!!! I've legit got what the different characters' voices would sound like in my head. Looking forward to where we take this!!!

Golden Age

@Dezuel The character sheet is well written, but the character seems more suited to the Silver or Bronze Age rather than the Golden. There's a few similarities to Golden Boy as well. Having Mags, Apocalypse, and Lord for the Archetypes doesn't fit with the theme. Solo teen heroes weren't really a thing in the Golden Age unless you wanted to have a mentor that's already been killed.

Check out some of the JSA characters or the Invaders for Archetypes.

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Sullivan County, Northeastern Tennessee
June, 1938

"I can deal with the dog man, stretch! Make sure none of those bastards have explosives!" yelled out the green clad Torch lighting the area around him in emerald flames to create a circle of fire around himself and the wolfman.

If he'd been paying attention, John might've seen a reaction from the elastic hero after he created his green flames. However the red clad stretching hero made his way into the woods after the other Nazis. Torch already had several scratches in the back of his suit, thankfully the military provided him with a durable coat in case it rained that evening. The eighty degree plus June weather didn't bother John anymore, thankfully. He lit up both of his hands now with green flames and taunted the Nazi superhuman.

"I hope you understand enough English to understand that this is going to hurt." the Torch stated before throwing a couple fire enhanced jabs at the wolfman before blasting off a two handed emerald fireball like something out of an Asian fantasy novel.

Back inside the Ammunition Plant the few remaining employees and guards were on high alert. The two heroes having just teleported in were given orders from the man in charge. He simply instructed that none of the United States' enemies were to make it to the materials section of the warehouse. "If the gunpowder and explosives went up people would be able to hear the explosion all the way in Virginia." was reiterated at least twice by the other guards on duty.

Vaten, Louisiana...

The masked man stood over a half dozen corpses in the back of a restaurant. He was barely human anymore. The way he enjoyed the carnage and gore was sickening. After seeing a woman of color passing for white in the small town earlier in the day, the Skull followed her into the restaurant. When everyone was too stupid to notice or just simply didn't care, the Skull slaughtered them all. It started thundering outside and rain followed. The Laughing Skull stepped out back and let the rain wash away all of the red stains on his skin and clothes. After several moments he looked around and spotted an old Ford truck.

"S'pose it's time to head east..." stated the unhinged American murder machine.

New York City, New York...

The young demonic ward of Blackwood seemed to float from one boat towards the other that was housing the scuffle between Golden Boy and a handful of unprepared Silverwings. Another ship floated in from the Brooklyn Bay area. And another from the Hudson Bay area. Each of them carried five Silverwings a piece. And all of them were prepared. Nearly a dozen Silverwings shot through the air in leather SS jackets, winged rocket-packs, with automatic rifles.

"Tötet die amerikanischen Helden!" screamed one of the Silverwings in German firing at the floating demon child.

"Ich werde die Statue zerstören!" yelled another heading towards the Statue of Liberty.

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I would like to show my interest for this one, have watched this one for a few days. Will see about providing a sheet tomorrow.

@Dezuel

Can't wait to see what you go with!

I'm gonna start working on a post today to tie everybody's stuff together in the Tennessee situation. Might introduce another Nazi superhuman or do something with the Laughing Skull to give somebody something to start with him...

Golden Age

It was 1938 and the road to World War II was fast approaching. Nazi spies, superhumans, and a racist mobster in a skull mask is just the beginning. Who will answer the call? And can anyone truly save the Golden Age?!

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Rules:

1.) No back-to-back posting.

2.) PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND SET-UPS!!

3.) Make sense. If we can't make heads or tails of your posts they're likely to get skipped over.

4.) Get permission before using another player's character in your posts if it involves changing the scene or making actions. Everybody will take beatings in this game in battle however, so don't get pissed if you get punched or blasted into a wall by the bad guys! Namely me controlling the badguys...

5.) Problems with the game or players should be sent directly to me through PM's. I don't want a bunch of bickering in the OOC.

6.) Abandoned characters will be used as NPC's or killed off within the context of the story.

7.) “I was waiting for [insert player/character] to make a move” is not how this game is played. Move forward.

8.) There is no rule #8.

9.) My word is law.

10.) Obey the law.

11.) In the event that I'm offline for any period of time, the Co-GM [None ATM] will take control and THEIR word will then be law.

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Queensport, Northeastern Tennessee
April, 1938...

Over half a dozen banks had managed to get robbed overnight by somebody slipping through the cracks. Only one man suspected that it was an old adversary that could walk through walls. The criminal in the ghost costume couldn't remember the name of the city where he fought the guy with green fire powers. However, after tonight Ghostface most certainly would. On top of a Woolworths building, the green clad hero who could manipulate fire waited patiently for the third night in a row. The Torch of Liberty had recently been told by the local Sheriff about the banks in the tri-city area all getting robbed in the last month. The bank across the street from him happened to be the largest bank in downtown Queensport. After he finally saw the criminal make an appearance and walk through a wall in the alleyway, the Torch headed into action.

As the man called Ghostface phased through the wall with a bag of money, the Torch was ready for him. As soon as the villain phased back into his solid form the Torch was there with a right haymaker.

"Little late for a withdraw." the hero stated.

A short time later...

The sheriff of Queensport was on the scene and had Ghostface in cuffs in the back of his police car.

"I told you I'd get him." Torch said with a smirk to the officer.

"You did. Wonder if I'd catch more criminals if I wore a bright colored suit." he replied.

"Powers don't hurt either." Torch commented with a small laugh as the sun was setting.

"Hey, did you hear about the stuff going on with the Germans? On the radio?" the sheriff asked.

"No, what's going on?" Torch replied.

"President Roosevelt formally addressed the nation and asked for the help of people like you. I think he called you 'Superhumans' or something like that." he explained.

New York City, New York
June...

The Statue of Liberty was undergoing maintenance. If anyone looked at her from a distance they'd see her crown was slowly losing it's spikes. The mayor wanted the Statue in top shape for the World's Fair coming to town the following year. The Golden Guardian as well as Golden Boy assisted where they could, helping remove the spikes and get them in the boats for transport for the steeplejacks who took on the job.

"The general I spoke with earlier mentioned Silverwings may show but so far we've been seeing clear skies. You think you can keep her safe if I go ahead and take leave?" the Golden Guardian asked the younger hero in blue.

From a distance, men on a small boat could see the Golden Guardian flying away. One of the five men grabbed a bag and opened it revealing leather jackets and winged rocket packs similar to something out of a science fiction movie.

"An die Arbeit, Männer!" one man spoke in German.

Sullivan County, Northeastern Tennessee
June...

"Can't believe I got lucky like I did. I volunteered to help the military and the place they send me is less than two hours from home." the Torch thought to himself as he patrolled the fence line around the Warpath Ammunition Plant.

"The military man told me there was a couple of Nazis in costumes targeting these types of places. One that could move fast and another who was strong and Goliath-sized..." John continued pondering before hearing a noise in the surrounding woods behind him.

The Torch lit up one of his hands with green flames. Inside of the facility an officer in an army uniform informed the foreman that additional superhuman help was on it's way...

"You never know with these superhuman types. Somebody could fly here, run really fast, or..." the men spoke to one another as Lady Lynx and another hero teleported to the ammunition plant about five feet from them.

Back outside the Torch was surveying the area. Truth be told his vision wasn't the best when it came to things at a certain distance. It didn't help that things always seemed to happen once places began winding down for the end of the day.

"Greif jetzt an, Albrecht!" someone yelled.

The Torch of Liberty turned to look in the direction of the German voice but was attacked from behind by a seven foot tall humanoid wolfman. The wolfman had seven men working with him scattered in the woods, Nazis in civilian clothes armed with guns. One of them had a backpack on with explosives in it. Thankfully, help had already arrived inside.

Golden Age

It's Friday!!! I should have the IC finished today after work. I'll finish replying to PMs and looking at character sheets as well!!