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Subj: Sometimes the subtext is the text. Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 07:30:32 am EST (Viewed 2 times) | Reply Subj: Nice parallel there ... Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:58:54 am EST (Viewed 605 times) | ||||||
Quote: ... Between the HV and CSFB! lines.Well, they're the two poster character lineages that have been well established for a long time but they've never really met "on screen". Since one is dedicated to a massive organised masterplan across the ages and the other is an agency of chaos there are bound to be conflicts between them from time to time. It's been on my to-do list for a while. You're clearly enjoying the continuity research that you've done. Research took less than two minutes. Everything I needed was already on or linked to the Who's Who page, including Scott's comprehensive listing of all his and others' WW2 characters. Actually though it was refreshing to try and work out who might have been around in those "barren" years. Since Marvel and DC continuities both stem from the sixties where there were "wartime heroes" and "modern heroes" and the gap between was sufficiently small that mature heroes like Reed Richards and Ben Grimm could have had wartime military experience the widening real-time difference has left a "dead time" that has never been properly filled. Byrne and Stern's "Lost Years" was one attempt to fill that at DC, but it was doomed to failure because attempts to bring in heroes just as great as the long-established well-loved one like the FF and the Avengers just undermined existing continuity. A huge part of the excitement of the early Marvel universe, and the FF, Hulk, and Spidey stuff in particular was "this hasn't happened before", later modified to "this hasn't happened since Cap's time in World War II". On the other hand, establishing that there was interaction between key characters before "the modern heroic age" has worked rather well to allow intriguing backstory. The earlier adventures of Xavier and Magneto, the longer history of Dr Steven Strange, even exploits of the low-profile Monster Hunters are all nice additions. I tend to like my PV pre-current-age characters to be lower profile too, mostly not costumed, mostly not organised, mostly not well known publicly; so when I do delve into the past that's the kind of cast I enjoy. Flapjack could always order some inflatable sheep, since that's a product that actually exists in real life. I suspect he would feel that that's an amateur substitution. He has standards. I sense time paradoxes ahead (between you and the Doctor Who version of "A Christmas Carol," that actually feels like a holiday tradition). Doctor Who does seem to fit amazingly well with Christmas. Aparently 41.8% of all viewers in the UK were watching this year, a massive market share. It would seem that the Devil has been manipulating  Well, thee's certainly more revelation to come. Pun intended. Santa's reindeer have to be among the most creatively applied holy symbols against vampires I've yet seen, and Mac's rant puts me in mind of Damien Karras' objections to doing the exorcism in The Exorcist ("No, really - most priests don't actually do this"). Mac's a pretty "low-church" pastor, and he's pragmatic. I try not to make him "super-priest". I look forward to seeing more. I really expected to have concluded this by now. Other writing deadlines have rather got in the way. Still, I've completed almost all my consultancy contracts for now (must go get some new paid work sometime but not in the next six weeks as I'm due a break from that) so I'm looking forward to some novel writing and other things I enjoy. Assuming we have enough folks around the PV to make it worthwhile I'm sure some of that writing time will be directed Parodyversewards. | |||||||
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