... Those are fine questions, Brad. I see the following status quo for Superland 1971: The Justice Society of America is pretty much defunct as a team by 1971....
OOC: Thanks for answering my question. :) ... Those are fine questions, Brad. I see the following status quo for Superland 1971: The Justice Society of America...
Psyklop broke through the door to the roof and glanced behind him, making sure he was not immediately followed. He pressed a stud on the inside of his back...
Scott, Sorry to jump in and then jump out, but I'm having family problems... I wish life were a littler simpler, it would be like too good. But not in this...
"My name is still classified information. The U.S. Army gave me the code name Captain America -- and the actual rank of Private. World War II had just begun...
One private, his eyes pressed tight to a pair of binoculars, silently mouthed a curse. Then he lowered the binoculars, socked the man next to him in the arm,...
"Well, I for one am glad to hear your powers have limits after all. Perhaps, then, you will accept our generous offer of transports and return to your company...
They both froze, but pricked up their ears. They were all alone in this part of the valley, but they could hear a distant rumbling. It sounded something like...
"More encouraging were the remaining two members of my squad, both old friends I had worked with back in the last war. Green Arrow stuck with almost his entire...
Company S Barracks. 0925 hours. "I wish there'd been time for more of a regular boot camp before we shipped over here," Scotty Thunder said as he cleaned his...
Superheroes by the dozen came running up to the waiting transports in orderly rows. With skill and grace, each leaped into the back of the vehicle waiting for...
While still writing page eight, I was lucky enough to learn of this online source of "oral" histories -- http://korea50.army.mil. Very handy for learning...
"Not at all," said the Phantom. "I just prefer not to kill." He whistled for his dog. "If Devil can't sniff out all those land mines they planted, there could...
Lately, I've been reading comic books more than writing about them. Normally that's bad news for Superland, but tonight I share my top ten picks from all the...
scottenkainen <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: #7. The Travelers #11 (2001) - At its best, this fantasy/humor title is hilarious -- such as the leprechaun in...
... It's still around, published now by Wingnut Games. ... Even though I'd been impressed by Waid's 9-cent FF comic, I too had avoided the title because of the...
Because my top 10 list garnered more feedback than my fiction (thanks, Ken!), and because I'd bought so many comic books, I can also take the opposite tact and...
Lately, I've been busy transferring files to my new computer. While doing so, I turned up some more files of potential interest to anyone still reading here....
I never got far with this one. I hope to crank out a page of 1951 within the next week. Beyond the known world! Beyond human comprehension! There lies, ...
1928 American icon Mickey Mouse makes his film debut at Colony Theatre, New York City. His voice and creator Walt Disney owed a debt to his wife, who advised...
January 2, 1951. 0647 hours. The fighting had continued throughout the night, the flash of a thousand gun muzzles twinkling like stars in the dark. Dawn came...
Luckily, there were few bullets ricocheting in their direction, so far from the fighting. Bullets were much harder to dodge when moving towards them at the...
"A mile behind us!" the first lieutenant yelled over another explosion. "Why? I can't call an airstrike now. They're too close!" "It just looks like that from...
Earlier this year I purchased Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946. The game was too new to be considered back when I was starting...
Yes...I FINALLY got to see it tonight. I thought it was exciting, with lots of good performances. In some ways, it was more faithful to the comic book than the...
scottenkainen <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Yes...I FINALLY got to see it tonight. I thought it was exciting, with lots of good performances. In some ways,...
... Spiderman 2 came out. And maybe Hellboy. But anyway, it was nice to see them just jump into the characters without doing a whole lot of exposition. I hear...
scottenkainen <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: As per my opinion about the Spider-Man movies, I would have preferred a more faithful adaptation of the...