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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 3383457" data-attributes="member: 2">Gulla, best of luck in the new job!And I apologize to anyone using the stealth skin for EN World; the text looks great on the default black background, but it's awfully hard to read in Stealth. [sblock]Poorly used super powers drive me nuts. I just recently unearthed my box of Superman and Batman comics from 1975-79. Some of them were great, but the very first one I read was <a href="http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2006/2006_Individual/2006_09/001200.php" target="_blank">The Brave and the Bold #125</a>, which features some of the worst writing of a hero's powers that I've ever seen. The Flash runs from Asia to America in the blink of an eye, but he can't outrun a motorcycle because it would ruin a plot point? *twitch* I wanted to do something better.And after writing two serious stories in a row with supernatural elements in them, I was  also in the mood for something fun.The problem is, how do you write a comic book without an artist? My answer was two-fold: good banter and vivid action. As I wrote, all the dialog was voiced in my head by my friends. I was just there to scribble it down and record the action.Berandor, deliberately goading villains into doing something stupid was one of the main weapons I see in Rubber Band's bag of tricks. Everyone's caught, and the villain's going to kill you? Then taunt him in the most effective way possible. It ended up a little longer than I had intended because my characters wouldn't shut up and get on with the story, but I hope it also shows in a subtle way how well the heroes are matched with one another. It lessened the dramatic impact of the scene... but hey, that's because I was trying to set people up for the real moment when RB gets snuffed. Good nit-picking all around, by the way. I love this point in the story writing -- figuring out what we both might have done differently.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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