Ep 60 of the Letters Page - Tempest (and others -- i.e., Prime Wardens)

60 is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60 but today it is a Prime Number!

Listen to all the exciting number based puns Here

 

Stupid clocks going forward at different times in different countries mutter mutter

I'm excited for this episode, but I'm even MORE excited to see how character creation works in the SCrpg video later on their twitch! :D

I gotta say, I feel like there was a missed opportunity with the Plant Verse letter.

One word: Olive-Aeon.

I like OblivAcorn though that could also be a horse version. 

I'm just glad Trevor chimed in on his birth year, because that would have had me wondering all day.

Woooo! Flatman and team reference!

Don't believe them… it's just more lies!

"It's Jim Brooks" is about the funniest three words I've ever heard. XD Entirely based on context, anyway.

Jim Brooks as a Virtuoso with a harmonica is very definitely officially on my List of Funniest Sentinels-Related Mental Images now.

I also now have a burning need for art of the Xtreme Argent vs Ruin Void-powered electric guitar battle.

The whole Faith-Science-Magic thing did not occur to me before and is awesome now that they point it out.

And it sounds like Argent "leads" sort of like how I secretary: See what everyone else is doing for their thing and figure out a way to coordinate it and otherwise make it work better.

I maybe need to go back and listen again to double-check the details, but timing-wise does the "Death of Anthony Drake" thing happen to be the whole "Shu gets stabby while Argent is trying to break into the Ennead's domain" incident? It just seems like "he gets stabbed through the chest but somehow gets better anyway" thing gets explained pretty well by the whole "the editors realize they did a stupid" thing.

Also, yeesh editors, picking on my poor boy like that. Not cool.

Wait, who's 'Myriad'?  A heroic Proletariat?

Or... 'this portion of the podcast has been redacted'... Redacted?

Is Myriad the real name of [REDACTED]?  Surely not, right..?  That'd be out of alphabetical order... [REDACTED] has to come between Progeny and Sanction...

Maybe Myriad is their name before becoming a Scion and then call themselves "The Quorum"?

None of the Prime Wardens strike me as a science hero, so I had to think on it a little. Fanatic is faith, Captain Cosmic and Argent Adept are both magic (though maybe an Obliveon shard is considered sufficiently advanced technology), Haka is none/all. Must be Tempest and he was a scientist but it doesn't seem like science is his main deal or power source. Though I guess socially there could be that dynamic.

I'm glad to hear that Fanatic is not too preachy, as even though I'm religious I prefer to read comics for entertainment not to be preached at. And my initial impression was that I would not enjoy her comics even though she is one of my favorite heroes in the card game. That may still be the case for her solo book but I would probably love her in the Prime Wardens.

I'm also pleased to hear that they killed off a major hero only to bring them back, as I'm pretty sure if these were Marvel/DC characters they would have all "died" and come back by now.

I think it's definitely Tempest.  It's wierd, because normally you just see him and think "shoots lightening", but they did make a point of describing him as a scientist in his episode.

I think it's possible to write a character who is "preachy" without making the comic/story itself preachy.  But I don't think it's easy… it seems like most of the time the writers either use the character to preach at the audience, or else they don't fully grasp the subject being preached and therefore style the character after the first stereotype they come across.  Somewhere in between those two possibilities, I think there is some room for great story-telling.  (But since C&A are being realistic, a preachy Fanatic probably would've turned out just as good as the brief all religions version, so we can be glad that didn't happen.)

Just remember, "The only people who stay dead in comics are Bucky Barnes Jason Todd, and   Uncle Ben."

Over on Reddit people seem to be rallying around thinking that Myriad is Tempest's kidlet.

Honestly I find it interesting insofar that up to this point in the Sentinel Comics backstory, every undone death has been someone coming back to life profoundly changed. So this seems to be the first time there's ever been something resembling a normal "comic book death" incident where there's just a straight up retcon or someone otherwise coming back to life with no consequence.

It makes me kinda suspicious. :stuck_out_tongue:

(Also I find morbid bemusement about how everyone's IC reaction seems to not be any sort of actual grief but "Welp guess we just have to find someone else to do this job." Poor Anthony, sheesh…)

Given they were joking about Miss Information and Glamour, both identities used by Aminia Twain I am happy to believe that it is another identity she uses, until they prove me wrong.

 

This episode had a lot of content for Tempest I figured would go in an Editors Notes, so my questions got answered, probably before I even thought to ask!

So I was reminded recently how there's someone on Tumblr who likes to joke about the fact that Argent Adept isn't fond of modern pop while conversely Tempest specifically loves modern pop.

Forget Fanatic being preachy, there's your true team-killing discord. :V

http://eddrawsandwrites.tumblr.com/post/171570599093

...Would a Jim Brooks Virtuoso be the Heliotrope Harmonicist?

As much as I normally love the color name "heliotrope", Jim does not strike me as the type of man to feel comfortable in bright pinkish purple. Unless this is a universe where he somehow is convinced to get fashion advice from Unity.