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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 384836" data-attributes="member: 834">*blink*I've recently become a comic book fan.  I read a lot of things including many Marvel titles.  I'm reasonably familiar with the kind of stories that have been going on at Marvel for the past year or so and I must say...I am so grateful that Marvel no longer seems to do this kind of silly stuff!Sheesh.  The incredible Hulk is a very good book under Bruce Jones.  The classic Dr Jekyll VS MR. Hyde.  Stories about the monster within.  Very classy, adult and entertaining.  It's the kind of book I'm shamelessly trying to get friends to read, friends who usually read more classic litterature.And now I hear that the Hulk used to be separated from Banner?!  That he once lifted one of the great Pyramid?!  How do you lift a Pyramid, anyway?  By which end do you hold it?  How do you prevent all the individual blocks of stones from falling all around you?  If the Hulk tried to lift the pyramid, beside looking like an idiot, he'd just end up tearing away one block at a time.  And you're telling me there used to be story about this sort of non-sense?*shudder*Superman; to each his own but I see no appeal in him.  An alien who looks exactly like an homo sapiens.  Who is able to lift ridiculously heavy objects without having them collapse on their own weight.  Who flies faster than a plane and is invulnerable to bullets that he is able to dodge anyway, thus making him one of the most redundantly superpowered hero that I know of.  Whose personality has the complexity of a paper clip.  Whose main weakness is not a flaw of character but an allergy to an alien metal.    Oookay.  I guess it worked in the 40s because he was the first superhero as we know them.  And it could still work in the 60s because of the code.  But today?I'm willing to suspend my disbelief long enough to accept superpowers but once I do that I expect a good story with meaty characters and no incoherances. Oh yeah, on the topic of superstrenght: Mutants&Masterminds seems the right way to do it.  Cap all stats at 20 and then use powers for superlifting.  And use common sense.  You can't lift one of the great pyramids just because your maximum lifting capacity says you can lift 10 million tons for example...</blockquote>

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