"That's some table you've got there," commented Visionary as he was led into the Lair Mansion conference room. The table in the middle of the room was shaped like a giant "L", surrounded by egg shaped chairs.

"Not everyone has their team meetings at the kitchen table," Hallie reminded the possibly fake man as she followed behind with Maggie and Griffin. She was finding things a little hard to take in; everything appeared to be state of the art, but it didn't feel like the state of the art she was used to.

"The Lair Legion is due back from their battle with Peter Von Doom any minute now," Flapjack, the polished gentleman butler, told them. "May I get you a beverage while you wait?"

The group declined, and with a courteous nod the major domo left the room. "I'm not sure which is creepier; this bizarro-Flapjack or the real one," Hallie said.

The kids looked at each other briefly before responding in unison. "The real one."

A new, yet somewhat familiar voice broke in. "Oh, we're all real in our own way."

Standing in the doorway was Hallie, or rather, this reality's version of Hallie. She appeared to be housed in a robot shell, complete with metal skirt and 1960's style big hair.

"Hallie?" asked Visionary.

"That's me! HALLIE! It stands for H-," she began to explain before the digital Hallie cut her off.

"Heuristic Artificial Life Learning Intelligence Entity," she summed up for her doppleganger. It had been a long time since Hallie had thought of the origins of her name.

"Why yes! How did you know?"

"Because she is your alternate reality counterpart from...Earth X," summed up the next person to enter the room.

"That name is taken," pointed out Griffin helpfully. CrazySugarFreakBoy! had insisted he be in charge of the boy's comic book education.

"Twice, actually," chimed in Maggie.

"Oh, well then," Harper sputtered, unused to being corrected. "Earth 2!"

"Taken," said Griffin.

"Earth Prime?"

"Try again."

"Counter-Earth?"

"Fraid not."

"She is a doppleganger from a parallel universe," Harper said. He would come up with a cool name for their universe when the little killjoys weren't around.

"The question is," said the square-jawed hero behind Dr. Harper, "are they friends or foes?"

"Hatty?" checked Visionary.

"Merciful Maple Leaf! He knows my name!" exclaimed Hatman in surprise.

"We know who all of you are!" exclaimed Maggie.

She then named the rest of the Lair Legion membership who had just walked into the room.

To be continued...by you?

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I will try my best to get a contribution posted to this story this weekend. It's too fun of an idea to pass up. Loved the egg chairs, and the high tech but odd feel of everything for Hallie. I'm not sure if the next writer will be responsible for outlining the whole line up, or if people should just write a quick paragraph to introduce their idea of each of their characters...

Fun stuff!

It can go either way. I didn't say the entire Lair Legion membership was behind Hatman, just that some of them were. So the next author can choose how many characters they want to introduce.

I hope the fact I used your cast to jumpstart this thing won't handcuff you at all; I just felt we needed some POV characters and Visionary is perfect for that.




Glad you liked it. I'm hoping a round robin might help spark things around here a bit. What'd you think of the Silver Age Hatman design? It's not quite what I wanted, but Hero Machine only has so many options.

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If I have to reveal the Silver Age LL lineup I have a feeling everyone will be sorry.

And no offense, but that Silver Age Hatman costume is kind of...loud...

I was debating saying the table was two interlocking L's, but even for the Silver Age that's stretching it a bit.




As I said to Vizh, the next writer doesn't have to reveal the whole line-up; it could just be a couple of characters that walk into the room.




No offense taken, it was supposed to be.

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Although I did throw out one new name for the actual team in my short continuation...





I'm fine with it... I liked the simple concept of the Lighthouse taking an unscheduled jaunt through reality.





I really like the "H" design to his costume, to the point where I was trying to imagine a way to incorporate it into his modern day look without going straight spandex. No cape though?

Sometimes reality-crossing stories get bogged down by the journey; I'm more interested in the destination.







I really tried to get a cape on there, but with Hero Machine's option I couldn't find one that worked. Also wasn't sure what colour to make it; there is already so much red and yellow I didn't know if those colours would work for the cape. I debated doing a green one (for some incomprehensible reason a red and yellow costume with green cape works for Mr. Miracle) but it looked too random.

Do you have a suggestion for cape colour?

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I sent the message to your vizh at comcast address, if you didn't get it just shoot me a message at my address and I'll resend my original e-mail.

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Trickshot is a welcome addition to the Silver Age Lair Legion, and great way to work in Brap. With Flapjack being, well, normal, in this reality, someone was needed to spice up the Mansion staff!

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And Visionary scares another one. That should be his super-power.

It's a very silver-age way of doing things... just get the cast there in as few panels as possible.





Well, obviously from the banner I like to use the primary colors on Hatty, Red cape, blue jeans and cap and yellow symbols on a white shirt... so that's four colors if you count white. If I were just going to reinvent him with two colors, I might go red and white for the Canadian flag. Three colors could be any of the above. Classically, blue often represented highlights of black, such as Spider-man's costume, or perhaps it would be a baby blue because that ink printed well on cheap paper, such as for Cap's or Superman's uniforms.

How does this one look? It probably captures the traditional Hatman look more, but should be hokey enough for the Silver Age (I hope). I was going to go with a sleevless look (instead of that white stripe down the arm) but to get that H look on the torso I have to use that particular overshirt layer; I still get that homage to the t-shirt look Hatman usually sports though.

I'm not sure if it look like something from the Silver Age or the Legion of Superheroes version of Hatman...though really I guess that could be the same thing.

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I think he's probably more unnerving and off-putting than scary, probably.

I figured I could throw Trickshot in there without messing up anyone else's plans, so why not? And since I've never found an introduction for Brap in regular continuity, I like to drop him into alternate realities whenever possible. There's probably some big epic reason why he never manages to appear in the regular Parodyverse. Maybe he's secretly... The Apostate!

Well, okay, maybe not.

I think it's a good design given the limitations of the hero generator. In fact, about the only thing I'm not sold on are the yellow boots and gloves, but I see why you went that way and off the top of my head I don't have a suggestion that would improve them.

I still think the Golden Age Vision has one of the most pointlessly colorful costumes going. It's amazing to think that the green/yellow/red silver age Vision is actually toned down by comparison.

I'm not wild about the gloves and boots either, but as you say, my choices were a little limited. Ideally I think I would have contained the big H to above the waist and would have included a satchel to hold his hats.

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So neither Dancer, who's in the Legion, nor Brap, who's the Legion's chef, recognized Visionary... and yet there's a man who looks exactly like him and is named Visionary in their mansion as well.

That is a decidedly odd twist. Now someone must come up with the explanation!

I threw that in there because I thought it would be both crazy and funny.





I can come up with two: The modern Visionary had kids with him (and maybe he wasn't wearing the coat since he was at home?), and the Silver Age version never said he was named Visionary - and may not have a name at all.

P.S. I did warn you that if Lara Night showed up, she would be breaking the 4th wall.

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