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A little while ago a friend of mine almighty_weasel put together some rules for a modern-day version of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. His rules were simple:
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Mary Fitzpatrick, RIP
Haven't posted on here in ages. As mentioned before I've been transferring my attentions, such as they are when I blog, to my new 'professional' Wordpress. If I mention I consider myself half a cartoonist then people who've been reading this should be able to find the new blog, mostly containing continuing Justice League reinventions thus far, ( Read more... ) -
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World's Finest: Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That...
So, with one of the Big Three down, it's time I turned my attention to one of the others. The next one, simply by virtue of my ideas being more fully-formed at present, is Batman.
Who Is Batman?Batman is the dark nightmare of crime. For whatever reason, supercriminals are more likely to freeze up in panic for Batman than for Superman. Despite the ( Read more... ) -
World's Finest: Superman
So the votes lay primarily in the direction of the Justice League of America. I've pretty much GOT to start with the Big Three, and out of those three, the one who's likely to be trickiest to reinvent is Superman. So here we go - Superman.
First, let's take a look at the character as he stands.
Who Is Superman? You all know the story. Kal-El, ( Read more... ) -
Reinvention: World's Finest
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I'm in a musing mood. And this being LiveJournal, it seems reasonable to muse aloud on it.
A while ago westslide posted a call for people to use LJ more. Tumblr, twitter and Facebook all have something a little different about them, after all - they CAN all be used to macroblog, but they're built around different ideas; tumblr is very much designed as an ( Read more... ) -
Unknown Armies - Charismancy
Because it'll be featuring in my upcoming game, and I could do with some peer review on the ideas in here.
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I have no idea, as yet, where this entry is going to go. I nearly wrote it a few days back, but apparently Semagic's idea of draft saving involves not bothering; the last draft I have on record is from a year ago and change.
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Commentary: William Gibson And The Blank Slate of History
It has been, quite literally, years since I posted a Commentary. Apparently I do come back to things ( Read more... )