Piratecat Comics & MnM presents six issues of Code-4: Reunion (updated 4/06)

[Thornir Alekeg]

I've suddenly developed a craving for Hostess snacks...

Oh, and a warning, the Interruption link Pcat posted does contain an item or two not suitable for workplace monitors - as I found out while the director walked by...

 

[Cerebral Paladin]

It would take a fanboy to hear "claws and regen" and think anything other than Wolverine.

But the key is that 9-L isn't a clawed fighter who happens to regenerate; he's a regenerator who happens to have claws.

It's not that there isn't power overlap--obviously, there is. But look and feel is a huge part of what defines superheroes. Thor doesn't feel like Iron Man at all, even though their core power set (tough, melee fighters, ranged attack, flight) are pretty darn similar. Sure, partly that's because there are differences. But largely it's that the look and feel are very different.

I'm not a huge comics geek, but I've read comics off and on for years, and it didn't occur to me to compare 9-L to Wolverine, because the look and feel is so different and because Wolverine is defined by being a claw-wielding fighter and 9-L is defined by being a reckless regenerator. I wouldn't have been surprised to find out that it was a reimagining of the same power set, but I'm also not surprised that it's coincidental.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

But the key is that 9-L isn't a clawed fighter who happens to regenerate; he's a regenerator who happens to have claws.

That's the key, is it? Brilliant. Thanks for clearing that up. We'll just call that "The Commutative Property of Super Powers."

(And Wolverine doesn't happen to regenerate. It's his mutant power, for goodness sakes.)

But look and feel is a huge part of what defines superheroes... I'm not a huge comics geek, but I've read comics off and on for years, and it didn't occur to me to compare 9-L to Wolverine, because the look and feel is so different and because Wolverine is defined by being a claw-wielding fighter and 9-L is defined by being a reckless regenerator.

Yes, look and feel is a huge part of it. And if 9-L wielded a tire iron out of the back of his car instead of having claws attached to his forearms, the comparison wouldn't have occurred to me.

But he doesn't. Nine Lives has claws, and he regenerates, so the look and feel is more similar than dissimilar.

The "key" distinction isn't in the power set, but in personality.

I don't know why I'm still in this conversation, really. It's not like I have a problem with the concept no matter what its genesis-- I am playing a friggin Omnibot, for goodness sakes.

I think it was a perfectly natural observation, and I don't know why the observation seems to have been taken as some kind of insult (cause it wasn't).

Wulf

 

[Blackjack]

I think it was a perfectly natural observation, and I don't know why the observation seems to have been taken as some kind of insult (cause it wasn't).

Okay, okay -- being fond of both Cerebral Paladin and Wulf, let's just leave it at "I didn't take as an insult; I can see why it occurred to Wulf, although surprisingly it didn't occur to me, and apparently not to some others as well."

 

[KidCthulhu]

I am playing a friggin Omnibot, for goodness sakes.

Wait. The Omnibot isn't original? I thought you made that up!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Okay, okay -- being fond of both Cerebral Paladin and Wulf, let's just leave it at "I didn't take as an insult; I can see why it occurred to Wulf, although surprisingly it didn't occur to me, and apparently not to some others as well."

What, and deny me the opportunity for more witty rejoinders!? This horse has life in it yet!

Allow me to introduce you to my new character, a twin-scimitar wielding dark elf-- NOT to be confused with a certain dark-elf who wields twin scimitars...



Ok, I'm spent.

 

[Blackjack]

What, and deny me the opportunity for more witty rejoinders!?

Oh, is that what those were?

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Oh, is that what those were?

Well, you know... I won't be making T-shirts and mugs out of them anytime soon...

 

[thatdarncat]

*goes and makes some fresh popcorn then settles back to watch the show*

 

[Piratecat]

Next update should come this weekend; I'm out of state for two days. Stay tuned!