Larry Taper finally gets a solo story. Before I'm done, I'd like to give each of our heroes an adventure all to his or herself with no one helping. Actually, Taper started his career two years before he met Jeremy Bane and four years before joining the KDF and becoming a Tel Shai knight. He did perfectly well on his own.
Taper's habit of using more colorful or less common words in his speech might be irritating to those who know him but he makes a point not to be TOO obscure. A reasonably articulate person could follow what he's saying. Taper blames this trait on his parents both being "new word a day" enthusiasts but the fact that he drops the habit sometimes when excited hints he's doing it to amuse himself.
Four teenagers in a sleepy little town, a boy bouncing between two girlfriends and their laconic pal, not changing much over long periods of time... well, yeah, this could be a spoof/homage/dig at a very popular comic aimed at preteens. Hard to say.
And, by an exquisite irony, that innocuous tweeny comic is best known to kids today as a TV horror franchise (which actually has some basis in Silver Age comics: Agatha’s prototype has a surprisingly sinister history.)
"Prudence advises relocation," the Skull said. Or, as explosives expert J.D. Robb advised the Mythbusters after lighting the fuse on their Million Matchhead Bomb, “De-assify the area with the quickness.”
Hi there! The last time I was in Barnes & Noble (well over a year ago now), I skimmed through some Archie digests and saw the more realistic art and stories). I read EVERYTHING I could pin down in front of me as a kid, without any attempt at discriminating different genres. So in addition to old pulp reprints and mainstream novels, I devoured ARCHIE, READER'S DIGEST and WEIRD SCIENCE with an equal receptive little mind. It was great.
A real author could write a fairly unsettling serious horror yarn where (say) Betty gets an insight that she and her friends have been trapped in a time bubble since the 1940s, doing their romantic triangle dance over and over while the world went on beyond them. For all I know, probably this has been written a few times.
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Taper's habit of using more colorful or less common words in his speech might be irritating to those who know him but he makes a point not to be TOO obscure. A reasonably articulate person could follow what he's saying. Taper blames this trait on his parents both being "new word a day" enthusiasts but the fact that he drops the habit sometimes when excited hints he's doing it to amuse himself.
Four teenagers in a sleepy little town, a boy bouncing between two girlfriends and their laconic pal, not changing much over long periods of time... well, yeah, this could be a spoof/homage/dig at a very popular comic aimed at preteens. Hard to say.
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"Prudence advises relocation," the Skull said. Or, as explosives expert J.D. Robb advised the Mythbusters after lighting the fuse on their Million Matchhead Bomb, “De-assify the area with the quickness.”
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A real author could write a fairly unsettling serious horror yarn where (say) Betty gets an insight that she and her friends have been trapped in a time bubble since the 1940s, doing their romantic triangle dance over and over while the world went on beyond them. For all I know, probably this has been written a few times.
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