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Reply Subj: QORN: Ooo, this takes me back. Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 at 12:44:00 am EDT (Viewed 399 times) | |||||||
The problem with American comics' European or other non-US geographical teams is that they always fall into one of two errors. Either the team is comprised of characters that can be "spared" from the parent American team (often Americans) or who have some vague kind of overseas link, or the team if filled up with charatcers themed on caricatures of a national identity. By that latter I mean it would be like designing an American team with the line up of Captain America, Bald Eagle, Slapburger, SuperOprah, Ugly Tourist, Valley Girl, CIAgent, Californication Queen, Indian Brave, Wetback, and the Paunch. That all said, I'd put a European team togehter as follows: Mumphrey - he's got to be associated somewhere, if only to grumble that he doesn't like Europe. Dancer - she's had plenty of relations whith Europe, and she's Anglo-Irish dull thud & Cressida - Scotland almost counts a a country. Angry-Screaming-On-the-Internet Kid from Germany An Italian gangster robot from Shrike's Camorra Machina Chocolat, surviving teen sidekick of the Belgian Waffle Five Captain Mud - okay, Candia's not part of Europe, but it's got its cultural roots in Eastern Europe and it has approrpiate pverty levels Gromm, the Living Flatulence - just because Also I'd steal Nats' Messenger idea. | |||||||
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