I've been Lurking here for a while since I got UK Squadron downloaded, I have't had much to say because well, I didn't have Golden Heroes (I know I know same...
Good to hear from 'Sidhain'. I just finished a campaign and old school or not GH/SQuk Rocks. Now your out why don't you let us know what happens and you can...
At the end of the of Pete Tamlyn's Caped Crusaders article in WD it states that: Pete Tamlyn is the author of GWs latest GH adventure pack, The Lancelot Caper....
I am beginning to write a new Campaign fot GH, and was wondering how every one else deals with the Americans. I am setting this one in the UK and am going to...
... With tolerance. :) ... You need to go and read the first few chapters of the comic ZENITH. The US doesn't have superheroes, they do have low level Psis...
Mmmh... for my part I fail to see how one can "hate all Americans with the passion of a Suicide Bomber" and have any interest in super-heroic culture, which is...
... Well, that's kinda incorrect. The penny dreadfuls of the late 1900s and very early 20th Century were worldwide in their sales and there were a very great...
... It's not a terrible idea to make baddies foreign. Makes them more memorable and makes them easier to represent in terms of accents. Look at Star Wars -...
"The penny dreadfuls of the late 1900s and very early 20th Century were worldwide in their sales and there were a very great many characters born outside the...
The modern superheroic element, exemplified by Superman, is maybe Canadian? Absolutely not ! Where does this idea come from ??? ... The fact that one of the...
I'm afraid that's not the point... Even if one of Superman's creators was of canadian nationality (which I don't recall to have read anywhere), this does not...
... Has anyone heard of Phillip Wylie's sci fi story "The Gladiator"? It is often quoted as the inspiration for Superman. ... I think that most people would...
From: <pelorus@...> ... more ... accents. ... was ... to ... pass - ... I set my Golden Heroes campaign in America (albeit an America filtered through...
From: "Nuguth Yug" ... Gladiator"? It ... Just "Gladiator", not "The Gladiator", and, yes, it's a great story. Should be on everybody's essential reading list...
... Interested list members may check www.writeups.org and run a search for "Hugo Danner" for a good read about that seminal story. There are also complete...
One thing about this whole idea that's funny is why do English get idealized forms but not Americans? I mean there are noble Britons in American comics ...
It exists. I read it. Made a couple of suggestions as I recall which he kindly incorporated. If we can find him and get him to publish it..... well it IS one...
... Well, there were characters like the Crimson Bat, the Bat, some bloke with his amazingly fast sports car. There were masked avengers of all sorts. And they...
OK so he was Canadian... so what ? Does it change anything about the inherent American-ness of superheroes as a concept / modern myth ? Or simply as a...
... . Like them or hate ... I'm not sure that anyone can own a planet,Anyone who thinks that they do has bitten off more than they can chew!Total hatred of any...
Super heroes being American. Giant Monsters being Japanese. Martial Arts films being Chinese. Most every culture has something to add. David McMahon ...
