Generation Legacy the Next Generation of OOC

[Samnell]

I am also a big fan of Age of Apaocalypse. Blink is great, but I just like seeing Magneto being cool.

I've got mixed feelings on it. I'm not one of the ones who was a monthly buyer back when it came out so I don't have the grudge that it hijacked four months of storyline, but it's lost its luster for me as I've read more and more in backissues. The stories aren't bad themselves, but alternate universe stories (and most space stories too) tend to come across as canned to me. It's easy to take huge risks with different directions for the characters because you can come back out and say it never really happened so far as core continuity goes. Likewise in space you can annihilate a whole species and never have much fallout since it all happened a billion miles away.

That's not to say you can't write good space stories or good alternate universe stories, it's just harder. As much as I love my Claremont 80s X-Men, I don't think the X-Men in space makes a lot of sense if the concept of the books is about minorities and marginalized people. Sure every story can't be mutant angst after mutant angst, but the less removed from the world that hates and fears them they are, the more the X-Men are just generic superheroes. I'd rather each book (or at least each family of books) have a distinct focus. But the economics of a large, established universe with many market-drawing characters is going to dictate a lot of books highlighting the top gun characters and tend to press back the second-stringers. The amount of redundant books will grow (unless titles are kept in constant crossover, which I'm told is what's done with the Superman titles and at least unifies the story in theory) to as large as the market can bear, plus one or two extras.

I'm probably over-thinking all of this.

 

[Tokiwong]

Admittedly I was probably 13 or 15 when these books came out, so I am sure they not have the same impact as they did then LOL

I am not much for comic books though, at least lately; I am a bigger fan of comic RPG universes then the actual inspirations, if that makes sense.

I am by nature story oriented, every now and then I buy a TPB but I don't have the patience to collect individual comics.

 

[Tokiwong]

Oh it is far out in advance but I will be out of town in June, well the middle of June.

 

[Samnell]

Admittedly I was probably 13 or 15 when these books came out, so I am sure they not have the same impact as they did then LOL

Then we're of an age then. Most of the comics I've read have been as backissues I got on the cheap (for several years a small chain of comic stores was clearing inventory by going two-for-one every weekend and only charging a dollar for most backissues on top of that) since I started reading comics in 1999.

I'm slowly, fitfully, converting over to just buying everything I want when it comes out in TPB.

 

[Mimic]

Hmmm, yeah, I'm rereading, too...but I wouldn't read much into that. Even if I could get it going again, I don't think I could talk a couple of the original players back out of retirement, leaving Mimic as the only original (assuming he wanted to), and the original PCs are central to the overall plot.

I would be all over that, Mimic was so much fun to play.

Admittedly I was probably 13 or 15 when these books came out, so I am sure they not have the same impact as they did then LOL

Thank you for making me feel old

On a serious note, how long did it take Gilden to create the spell? Or does it even matter?

 

[Tokiwong]

I would be all over that, Mimic was so much fun to play.



Thank you for making me feel old

On a serious note, how long did it take Gilden to create the spell? Or does it even matter?

lets say like two hours, cause I just woke up and I have no idea whee my book is

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Hmm.. Marvel marvel.. in the 80s and early 90s I loved it.. particularly Xmen..but as time went on..things came up that made me start to hate them (Liefield for one) and then Age of Apocalypse pretty much killed it.. multi title stories just to find out how things are goin in the strip I like.

My bigger grief with Marvel is the Bullpen editor in chief has ZERO control over continuity. That and it seems to me that Marvel is divided into two camps.. X-Camp and Avengers Camp and naer do the two cross well. I've seen a LOT of stories that would work better with the inclusion of Xavier or the Avengers into the pie..

I mean the Xtinction Agenda.. Mutants are being seized right and left everywhere.. we got Beast a card carrying Avenger.. if they needed help, they could darn well call in Cap an Co. The same thing with Galactic Storm.. where are the X-guys.

Done now.. I just wish Gaiman and Gross would do more Hellblazers.. Con-Job is one of my favorite b-stards.

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Gamewise.. I get this feeling (or hope for it) that Ryan is going to charge in impulsively.. granted I want a controntation between Cassie and him.

 

[Samnell]

My bigger grief with Marvel is the Bullpen editor in chief has ZERO control over continuity.

I share your pain. Apparently for years Mark Gruenwald did almost all of the continuity editing and was a genius for it. He was in line to follow Shooter in the big chair until a corporate shakeup took him out.

As far as Liefeld goes, I don't know how a serial plagiarist like that keeps getting work. Are huge men with tiny ballerina feet and women who are really huge men with huge breasts really that popular?

 

[KaintheSeeker]

I share your pain. Apparently for years Mark Gruenwald did almost all of the continuity editing and was a genius for it. He was in line to follow Shooter in the big chair until a corporate shakeup took him out.

As far as Liefeld goes, I don't know how a serial plagiarist like that keeps getting work. Are huge men with tiny ballerina feet and women who are really huge men with huge breasts really that popular?

I met leifield like oh.. 5 or 6 years ago..and he's an ego maniac (only topped by Tucci of Shi fame..that man is a complete buttmunch..) and I had freinds offering to pay me money to crush his hands when I saw him at the comic con in San Diego.

 

[Samnell]

I met leifield like oh.. 5 or 6 years ago..and he's an ego maniac (only topped by Tucci of Shi fame..that man is a complete buttmunch..) and I had freinds offering to pay me money to crush his hands when I saw him at the comic con in San Diego.

I was going to chew you out for your failure to perform, but I realized in the past five or six years I haven't read a single Liefeld comic. So you wouldn't have spared me anything.