TWERPS POPEYE Beginning in the 1920's, gonzo cartoonist E.C. Segar began chronicling the misadventures of the eccentric Oyl family. In 1929 a new character...
You're right. This is one we didn't expect. This is great. You learn something new every day. Thanks for the historical info. I will put this in the files...
lol, thanks. It only took me an hour or so to type it out, but I'd had it in my head for a while. I've got another famous comic strip that I want to make...
In 1936, in a far off land, a madman rises to power through treachery and fear, preaching the virtue of racial purity. All those that seek to oppose him...
Great work! I loved the old Flash Gordon serials and comic strips. What's next? Buck Rogers? Dick Tracy? This is good stuff. By the way, speaking of serials, I...
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I could do Dick Tracy at some point. I don't know enough about Buck Rogers to do it as a setting, though. At some point down the...
Hi, Popeye ..... Amazing :) Flash Gordon ..... Equally amazing. How familiar are you with The Phantom :) You have very succinctly summed up complex histories...
Thanks for the feedback Mike :) The Phantom I could do as a single character write-up, although his world isn't sufficiently different from our own world to...
... Such a thing as too much TWERPS?? Play D&D or Warhammer instead?? BLASPHEMY, sir! Bad gamer -- no biscuit! Go to your room, young man, and don't come out...
The Phantom! Doc Savage & Co.! After thinking about it, those characters, and the Dick Tracy characters would fit in with Aslin's Crimebusters. I belive there...
THE PHANTOM ST:7 Athlete+3, Detective+3, Spook+3* Some 400 years ago, a British ship was overrun and scuttled by the fierce Singh Pirates. The only survivor...
Batgirl. Mmmmmm........ :) eclectic scholar <eclectic_scholar@...> wrote: (I think of it as the Batgirl trait from the old Adam West _Batman_ series,...
Well, I am looking into doing Barsoom, although there are some difficulties due to the fact that EVERYBODY is a warrior, but there are also many folks with...
i don't necessarily post *a lot* but i'm here ;) Justin The true test of honor is not in how you die, it's in how you live. -- Superman He's dead Jim, there's...
Located seemingly in the middle of nowhere, the city's dark and grimy streets are oft hidden by the bright lights and loud music that can be heard at all...
I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't had the oportunity to do either, and I really want to. The ads I've seen and the brief glances into the comics at the...
Actually, Will, if you wait until December 13th they are putting out a deluxe DVD version with lots of special features and nearly half an hour of extended...
hi, As a matter of fact, there is provisions for a Shadow type of character in Crimebusters. I wold love to play that one out, too, as an absolute Shadow Fan....
hi,, I try to post when i can. the past year or so has been tough as real life has attacked me with a vengence. In the past i've only noticed a core group of...
TWERPS: BARSOOM KAOR!! Beginning in 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first (and arguably the greatest) of what would be considered the pulp authors began his ...
So now I can have something I've always wanted : THE MONGO - BARSOOM WAR OF THE WORLDS!!! Can John Carter handle Flash Gordon? Who can tell? Who will win? WE...
Some more characters from the original comic strip run. Enjoy :) CASTOR OYL ST:5 Swindler+2, Detective+2 The original hero of Segar's stories, Castor was...
... I just picked up a new Jonah Hex comic today. It looks like a new on-going series from DC since it's #1 with the cover date Jan 06. Yes, they have started...
Did you ever get any of the "Hex" comics, when he was thrown into the future? I read some Jonah Hex, not a lot. I was following the exploits of the Justice...
I remember the Hex comic set in the Mad Max future. Most of us die- hard Hex fans will tell you that it was a bad dream and it never really happened. Yes, I...
All of those sound like good ideas, even the Dark Crystal. There's one I hadn't thought about. My wife is a big Groo fan. I think this would be a neat surprise...
To be candid, I would prefer more of the humorous genre TWERPS instead of the more serious specific reworkings. For example, while I loved both the Flash...