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...
... products of their time period. The Batman cartoon had a lot of thirties gangsters for a reason, and the Fantastic Four are such sixties characters I have a...
I haven't gone very far with this, but here's some thoughts as to what I might do with the Guardians/Disneyland City past the campaign. I've previously posted...
Maybe Flash II (aka Barry Allen), Jon'n Jon'zz (aka the Martian Manhunter) and Green Lantern II (aka Hal Jordan) could all join in 1958 only to resign in 1959...
That is me always leaving :) Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you Slice N Dice: Game and Pizza...
What? No Martian Manhunter joining when he arrives on Earth? What about Superboy? David McMahon dmcmahon1@... "Character is doing the right thing when...
Wow, so David, Ken, and Brad are still out there after all. ;) It was a stupid mistake that Superman and Superboy didn't make the list. Superman played a...
ooc: Thanks for the commentary, Scott. I appreciate your honesty. With any luck however, speaking of the Martian Manhunter, I should have the details...
There is also Archie's The Fly who appeared in 1958 or 1959. He would make a great addition to the team in the closing years of the 50s. David McMahon ...
;Well Of course you can't get rid of us that easily ken Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you ...
1955 Jan.-Jun. The Disney Company, with tremendous financial backing from corporate America, redesigns Anaheim, California into a planned community with themed...
Ken/Black Canary (as opposed to Ken/Dynamic Man) was talking to me a few days ago about how, given the rules of Superland and the sale of new characters in...
He willed the forcefield to stop repelling bullets and start absorbing their kinetic energy. His assailants fired a second wave of bullets from better cover,...
July 28, 1955. Disneyland City. Disneyland City was a commercial success. The world's first planned, themed amusement-oriented city for all ages had excited...
The Saint/Mickey Mouse story is nothing more than a short 2-page piece intended to lighten the mood here after so much Korean War coverage. I hope to post page...