I'd love to see them, or you could work them into a between-the-scenes tie-in anyhow.

All my e-mails are set to autoreply to my watsonhouse address. That's the account I've had for a decade now and it's the only one some of my clients and more infrequent correspondents know. But it's also the one that gets the most spam and has the least effective filters.

> > And Boseman's corpse is yours. > Excellent. I'm on Page 3 of the next Doorman chapter which catches the series up to the Saving The Future series.

The other dead team members belong to Voodoo Vicaress, however.

> > > The Juniors are looking impressive, but unfortunately they just don't have the numbers to go up against this Purveyor's line-up. > > Whereas the current LL do? > Well, if the two teams combined we'd be getting closer to only 2-1 odds.

Perhaps it's time to consider that membership drive.

> > > Thanks for including DupliKate...I really need to write some more with her. I daresay I'm tempted to include her in the Doorman series but odds are that would be just plain mean. > > Right now she's safe wherever Chiaki and Lara hid her - possibly St Jude's Orphanage since Chiaki's on retainer from Champagne to protect that place. > Kate could staff the entire thing by herself if the other staff are unable to get to work due to the crime wave hitting the city.

There's your story, right there.

> > In the Imperium Guard's case they were pretty much directly lifted from a team who themsleves were meant to be a homage lift from DC's Legion of Super-Heroes. > I didn't realize they were based on the Legion, but that makes sense. I knew Gladiator was a Superman-rip at least.

It's clearest in their earliest appearances. When they became recurring characters Marvel tried to blur things a little bit more. In the same way the earliest Shi'Ar spaceships clearly homaged Star Trek.

> I should probably do something to distinguish Gamma Ray Gary from Beta Ray Bill at some point. And while it was unintentional, D'ur almost seems like a copy of Kyle Rayner.

I liked the orignal concept of Beta Ray Bill, a hero who gave up humanity and hope to become the hope for his race of humanity. I liked his mission, his ship, his character. It was a shame that he suddenly got tangled up is Ausgardian affairs where he was always going to be second string. it's like Captain America suddenly and permanently developing spider-powers.

Simonson managed to pull it off in his original appearances. Later, when it became Bill's status quo, the limitations became obvious.

> > > I also liked Orankle sticking it to the Carnifex just to be defiant...well, I guess she stuck herself rather than the Carnifex, but you get my drift. > > I wanted to show that even with all that power he can't always get his own way. Now he missed his TV shows for nothing. > I hope Lara blacked out the power to his place so his Tivo didn't work.

font color="lightslategrey" face="Lucida Sans Unicode">The Esqualine Tower has its own power sources. In fact being what it is and belonging to who it does, it's better defended and altogether more awesome that the Lair Mansion and Herringcarp Asylum put together.