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Reply Subj: Needs more alcohol for that. Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 at 10:03:05 pm EDT (Viewed 3 times) | |||||||
Quote: Actually, one "weakness" of the new line-up is the absence of characters who can supply useful background facts...I can also see Liu Xi filling this gap in some circumstances. Quote: One minor criticism I have of US superhero comics is that they rarely use real-life settings outside the US. We get plenty of fictional nations, hidden lands, lost cities etc, but apart from occasional forays to well-known capital cities the heroes rarely get out of New York or wherever. If I was a supervillain I'd operate in Sweden and nobody would ever oppose me. So I do try to send the LL out and about a bit every now and then. Hence Indonesia, which I don't think has had a superhero visit from any superhero ever in any comic book ever.I should have known you would have done the research. And I think you are correct. There was a bad Avengers Spotlight story with Tigra once in a bad parody of a southeast asian nation, but I recall it was also a made up one. Of course, the Indonesians themselves have their own superheroes. I remember watching some on TV when I was there earlier this year. A kind of soccer team-come superhero team by memory. And of course, there are these guys. Quote: Meanwhile, here's the map that informed the current chapter:That's awesome! Thanks for going to the trouble of posting it! And here I was thinking that Vinnie's 'Agathar' reference was just a revelation that he had a thing for Sorceress' granny, and a Bostonian accent. Quote: What I'm interested to hear is whether chopping the story up this time is a good idea or not. This one was quite hard to get out onto paper (or whatever the electronic analogy for typing on a keyboard is) so I just did it as one massively long chapter. I think I'll have to call a halt to it after the next story section and declare another chapter then (I think there'll be seven daily parts to this). I'm worried that the story might not achive momentum if people don't read it all in one go; but I'm also thinking that the board could use some regular activity.Well, I was going to post that you should do the dailies (partly because I'm feeling depressed and that will at least give me something to look forward to each day) but it seems you already have done so! WOOT! (off to read). | |||||||
