Fictional Worlds

[3113]

Bigger the hero, bigger the mess.

Meh, back. I can get out of Metropolis if any of the big ones attack. They can be seen coming from a mile away. But everyone and their brother can screw me in Gotham. No one is safe from being a psycho, from those running the city, to those on the police, to those running the businesses....

Sorry. I'm not buying your argument. Still safer in Metropolis, at least on a day to day basis. I can live there, have a job, etc. And get out of town if the baddie shows up. Granted, my apartment may be gone by the time I get back, but Superman will put it back together again. All by himself and in a very short time.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

Granted, my apartment may be gone by the time I get back, but Superman will put it back together again. All by himself and in a very short time.

Is that you, Lois?

 

[sr71plt]

Granted, my apartment may be gone by the time I get back, but Superman will put it back together again. All by himself and in a very short time.

But will he have washed the dishes and run the sweeper?

 

[Aynmair]

I want my own Tardis! Don't they self-clean while you're out saving the world?

 

[DesEsseintes]

I'd like to live on a Culture habitat.

 

[slyc_willie]

Bigger the hero, bigger the mess.

And conversely, the smaller the hero (meaning Bats), the lesser the effect.

There's a reason ol' Bruce keeps to his digs in Gotham. He couldn't handle the big leagues.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

And conversely, the smaller the hero (meaning Bats), the lesser the effect.

There's a reason ol' Bruce keeps to his digs in Gotham. He couldn't handle the big leagues.

Are you daft, man? You'll start a full-on fan-boy flame war. It only takes an errant bit of heat vision or a spark from a misplaced Batarang.

Can we all just agree that Aquaman sucks? (I actually like the reboot, but for the sake of comraderie, let's spear the fish.)

 

[slyc_willie]

Are you daft, man? You'll start a full-on fan-boy flame war. It only takes an errant bit of heat vision or a spark from a misplaced Batarang.

Can we all just agree that Aquaman sucks? (I actually like the reboot, but for the sake of comraderie, let's spear the fish.)

But . . . but . . . I like Aquaman. King of Atlantis and all that (though he's nowhere near as cool as Namor).

How 'bout we pick on Ambush Bug, instead? Or the Creeper? Talk about a couple of old-school concepts that would be better off buried.

Oh, wait . . . Booster Gold. Yeah, Booster Gold sucks.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

But . . . but . . . I like Aquaman. King of Atlantis and all that (though he's nowhere near as cool as Namor).

How 'bout we pick on Ambush Bug, instead? Or the Creeper? Talk about a couple of old-school concepts that would be better off buried.

Oh, wait . . . Booster Gold. Yeah, Booster Gold sucks.

I like some of the newer stuff with Booster, where he's almost a self-aware parody of himself. He's like Billy Mays with super powers. Well, super-powered gadgets. Ok, more super-powered gadgets.

 

[slyc_willie]

I like some of the newer stuff with Booster, where he's almost a self-aware parody of himself. He's like Billy Mays with super powers. Well, super-powered gadgets. Ok, more super-powered gadgets.

Pfft! 24th-century entitlement boy who stole a Legionnaire ring and a power suit.

Seriously though, I was a fan of the rehashed Justice League back in the late eighties (of which Booster Gold was a member, as part of Maxwell Lord's "master plan"), which followed the whole Crisis thing that knocked off all the discontinuous stories of the previous fifty years. That series had some damn good writing. Some good humor that balanced out the innate seriousness of being the world's foremost super-group.

I especially like Martian Manhunter's affectation for Oreos.

"Oreos?"

"Captain Marvel introduced me to them. I like them."

"But . . . you're a martian."

"Yes, I am. And martians eat."

 

[AMoveableBeast]

Pfft! 24th-century entitlement boy who stole a Legionnaire ring and a power suit.

Seriously though, I was a fan of the rehashed Justice League back in the late eighties (of which Booster Gold was a member, as part of Maxwell Lord's "master plan"), which followed the whole Crisis thing that knocked off all the discontinuous stories of the previous fifty years. That series had some damn good writing. Some good humor that balanced out the innate seriousness of being the world's foremost super-group.

I especially like Martian Manhunter's affectation for Oreos.

"Oreos?"

"Captain Marvel introduced me to them. I like them."

"But . . . you're a martian."

"Yes, I am. And martians eat."

Yeah COIEs was a big, crazy ordeal. Insane in scope.

 

[slyc_willie]

Yeah COIEs was a big, crazy ordeal. Insane in scope.

But strangely enough, it worked. It gave a blanket explanation for all the disparate stories that had been floating around for decades. Simplicity is genius, even if it's complex simplicity.

 

[sheablue]

You guys are so cute.

Actually, I wish I could hang. I'm completely addicted to Marvel's Agents of Shield and I'm constantly getting online to find the lore and the background to what they introduce on the show. Reading my brother's comics as a child only left me with a tantalizing haze of a memory. And anyway, his were mostly X-Men.

 

[MrFoxwood]

Assuming that you've a decent source of funds, Anhk-Morpok would be my suggestion. Or, maybe, Lancre.

Lance was my first thought. I might visit Ankh-Morpork but I would want to live there.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

I'm an equal opportunity nerd myself. I love DC and Marvel. I like it when they compete for my affections.

Who gets to come to bed with me tonight? Huh? Is it you Psylocke? Or is it going to be a Wonder Woman kind of night?

 

[sr71plt]

I write a bit of sci-fi and futuristic, but not much--and I don't construct whole alien worlds to write a story, but in another dimension in a response to this question, in my GM stories I create a separate world. It isn't one of location or time, though. It's one of personal attitude. In my GM stories, being gay--and cruising--forms the norm. Almost everyone is male and attracted to other males--and, in most cases, able to discern what other men are looking for. Mostly I do that to save ink and effort in each story to isolate someplace where my characters can operate within a hetero world.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Sniff, all I know are trailer parks and ghettos.

A while back I read a trailer trash novel, and LOL'd because its such nonsense. TT families do not breakfast together, and mom doesn't cook, for starters; so their angst about their empty OJ carton was pure cognitive dissonance. The kids eat at school, duh!

IRL Sis and Junior quit high school so she isn't a cheerleader, and he isn't on the basketball team. And it would never cross her mind not to screw her boss or a customer or her uncle. And Junior's been servicing his teachers since he was old enough.

 

[loquere]

I'd like to live on a Culture habitat.

-Like at a Worlds Fair?
-A preserved untouched village in Africa?

 

[Swilly]

The city's not only corrupt, dark, dirty, scary and threatening, but so full of mentally-ill criminals that it's right next door to an insane asylum where all those criminals are housed and can break free and terrorize the city at any possible time

This is about Washington, right? And the insane asylum is the capitol building, with a branch at the white house? Yeah. I thought so.

 

[Mrdarkblueeyes]

Westeros crossed with Middle Earth: more races, a bit more magic, a lot more sex. It'd probably end up more like the D&D campaigns I used to play in, but with much more sex, since our DM was a bit prudish.

 

[slyc_willie]

You guys are so cute.

Actually, I wish I could hang. I'm completely addicted to Marvel's Agents of Shield and I'm constantly getting online to find the lore and the background to what they introduce on the show. Reading my brother's comics as a child only left me with a tantalizing haze of a memory. And anyway, his were mostly X-Men.

In my late teens, a friend of mine and I ran a comic book shop at the flea market. I was often called upon to explain the entire Jean Grey/Phoenix/Dark Phoenix/Inferno thing and how it was that Jean Grey was still alive . . . .

^Uber geek for comics (or, used to be)

 

[AMoveableBeast]

In my late teens, a friend of mine and I ran a comic book shop at the flea market. I was often called upon to explain the entire Jean Grey/Phoenix/Dark Phoenix/Inferno thing and how it was that Jean Grey was still alive . . . .

^Uber geek for comics (or, used to be)

Are we talking pre-retcon, or post-retcon?

You and I need to stop bantering before we overwhelm this thread with comic book lust.

 

[OzoneRed]

I'm still waiting for my Hogwarts letter...

 

[slyc_willie]

Are we talking pre-retcon, or post-retcon?

You and I need to stop bantering before we overwhelm this thread with comic book lust.

My comic book knowledge started in 1979 and ran to about 1991, when Marvel got all serious and dark. So I'm going to say pre-retcon, since I don't know what the heck "retcon" means.

And I'll end there.