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Jacobkosh
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Plot summary
In the first issue of this story (which was part of a two-issue framework for the project), the Vigilante gathers together a new Spider (called "I, Spyder" and apparently the son of the original), Gimmix (the estranged daughter of Merry, the Girl of a Thousand Gimmicks), a new Boy Blue, Dyno-Mite Dan (owner of two "working fakes" imitations of the explosive rings of T.N.T. and Dan the Dyna-Mite), and the Whip (granddaughter of the Golden Age Whip). The team sets out to battle the Buffalo Spider (later on, the Sheeda are betrayed by Spyder in Seven Soldiers of Victory #1 in another nod to the original), only to be killed during an event known as the Harrowing.
The seven miniseries follow seven other characters with indirect connections to the first group, each with their own art styles, genres, and character arcs. A central part of Morrison's idea for the current series is that, although the seven characters in question are each a part of the same struggle, they never actually meet (although there are references to each other in the various titles). Thus, the team is actually not a team.
An explanation for this is presented in Manhattan Guardian and Zatanna. In the first, a man named Ed Starsgard (Baby Brain) tells Guardian that the Sheeda have been attacking humanity in periodic waves, taking everything of value (physical and mental) and leaving behind just enough for the survivors to rebuild for next time. It is prophesied that the Sheeda will eventually be stopped by seven soldiers, so they target teams of seven, including the Ultramarine Corps and the Justice League of America (JLA: Classified #1-3). However, because the Seven Soldiers have never met, they stand a chance of doing the job.
In Zatanna, a ghost remarks that there are too many coincidences in the story and it feels like there is a "mystery string tying it all together". It eventually emerges that the Seven Unknown Men of Slaughter Swamp are driving the Seven Soldiers to stop the Sheeda.
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Wow, I look exactly like Morrison. I have a cleft chin and my ears are a touch bigger but this is seriously spooky.
edit: I don't dress like that though. Not sure what is up with that outfit.
edit#2: Further GISing has revealed that I actually don't look as much like him as the first image led me to believe. But I could be his stunt double easily.
Maybe lawful evil...
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Nah, Chaotic Neutral is randomness (or an excuse to not have to actually roleplay a character :P ).
Neutral evil is pure me-first, id-driven thinking; they just do what they want without any regard for consequences.
Chaotic evil is sadism and hate and so forth.
fffffffffuuuUUUUUUUUUUU-
please
not having a fucking D&D Alignment argument
please
Ah, my mistake. >.<
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Sorry, just re-discovered my AD&D books the other night. This line of thought was bound to surface.
CN was always a sign you should just ban a player from the table.
The blonde highlights are making them kind of bluey
I am semi-Aryan
Yo
What about Choatic Apathy?
look they're chaotic pedant they can't help it
Oh God it is so awkward when someone uses a PnP for unacceptable wish fulfillment.
Nah, there's a reason they cleaned up the alignment system :P
Sparked way too much confusion I guess
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Munchkin!
omega-level wrongness here
like
on a near incomprehensible scale
eddy you basically just said the equivalent of unpleasant curry-shits the next day are the best part about Indian food
It's ok.
Munchkin is great because I'm a spiteful person in competitive games and Munchkin not only allows that
it nurtures it
It really depends on whose Lex Luthor we're talking about
Red Son's Lex Luthor is not evil, exactly, to my mind
So if eddy's opinion was reflective of an alignment...
Any alignment can be bad in the hands of a jackass player. CN is no different. You can play CN like a retard, but you can also do the same thing with LN or CG or whatever. There are lots of nuanced CN characters that would be great opportunities for RPing.
oh man munchkin is awesome
especially when you mix more than one set together
at my house we have Star Munchkin, Munchkin, and Munchkin Booty
sci-fi, fantasy, and pirate themed sets, respectively
so you get like
dwarf cyborg buccaneers with a chainsaw duct-taped to a crossbow
on a viking longboat crewed by kittens
the republic of venice has a regiment of nine thousand troops
but if it goes anywhere, that will decrease rapidly, because when an army is in a province, any troops beyond the limit that the province will support get a large chunk taken out every month from attrition
so by the time venice's men get anywhere, they're down to more like five thousand
and you can't split a single regiment
grrr!
The canon one, not the "What if" Lex Luthors or whatever.
I...I TOUCH THE BOOBS
I am going to finish Green Arrow: Year One and then I'm going to decide whether or not to buy Daredevil Vol 2 (Frank Miller), but then I am going to buy the shit out of that.