Episode 102 of the Letters Page: Create a Thing LIVE

General GTG Sentinel Comics Lore
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It's time for another Create a thing Live!

https://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-102-create-a-thing-live

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This ep may have gotten me to buy in on The Guise Book all on its own...

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Christopher has confirmed in Discord that Hedgelord is not pictured there since he’s been lost to them.  

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That one was a lot of fun to listen to! I enjoy how C&A can get me invested in something that I would not otherwise find interesting. In general, I don't like the sillier comic characters, but man, is Pool Shark fun!

My wife works in the field of fluid mechanics, and she often writes about shear force. It's a thing: the force from different layers of a fluid moving at different speeds (shearing). Example in a sentence: "The SR-71 was a leaky airplane on the ground, because the heat from shear forces caused all its surfaces to expand and seal up in flight."

So, anyway, because of that it took me too long to get the joke. :P

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This was so good. :D Just listen to them come up with something and then go, "Yeah, that's the best thing ever." C&A are downright adorable when they're excited about stuff.

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I wonder... What project names did Sentinels and Spirit Island have?

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If they provide a full character sheet for him, I am TOTALLY playing as Pool Shark for at least one trade(6 issues).

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That seems to be the plan for that within The Guise Book!

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This episode also got me interested in looking up other 'Z-List' hero teams.

There's the team from the movie C+A mentioned, the Mystery Men. It's been quite a while since I've seen it, but I remember enjoying the movie. If I had to choose, I think my favorite character was the Shoveler.

The likes of The Inferior Five(DC) and The Great Lakes Avengers(Marvel Comics) are very close to the kind of team I think we can expect the NWA to be. I doubt we'll get anything the level of Section Eight(DC), and that's... Probably all for the better.

Can anyone else think of more 'Z-Lister' teams or characters? I always have a morbid curiosity for terrible ccomic book heroes.

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Squirrel Girl

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Yup. She was part of the GLA for a time, back around the time Deadpool joined. I don’t know if we can really count her as ‘Z-List’ though, simply for the fact that she’s decently well known now-a-days.

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And she single-handedly (okay, with Monkey Joe’s help) defeated Thanos – the real Thanos…

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They said in the podcast that SotM was named fairly early on, so it never had a project name.  Plus, as their first project, I didn’t get the impression that they’d started their project naming scheme yet at that point.

 

Spirit Island wasn’t their project to start off with.  I’m going to guess that when Eric came to them with it, it was already named.

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I’d think a fair number of characters from The Tick or Venture Brothers would qualify.

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Brick Frog!  :smiley:

“Oh, and he’s got a…knife…super…power…”

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D listers-

DC Hero Hotline

DC Justice League Antarctica

DC Legion of Substitute Heroes 

DC Hitman was a telapathic hitman antihero who hung out at a bar with d listers like "Dog Welder"

Marvel Forbush Man 

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Those are good, but they’re all kind of terrible on purpose. :stuck_out_tongue:

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This may have been one of the best episodes ever. I was laughing out loud listening to it. Especially when they got to Shear Force.

 

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Killing Unlimited Deplorable Zeroes Underground

Pool Shark to Cueball: “You ARE pool? Prepare to get played!”

Squirrel Girl’s power is memes.

Don’t miss the post-credits scene, where Adam discovers that he’s missed his true calling doing ASMR.

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There was an official acronym in the second episode that I didn’t catch, but I did think of an improvement on this wrong version even if it’s still wrong. I was thinking KUDZU was an Underground interested in Killing Unlimited people, and referred to those people as Deplorable Zeroes, meaning they’re so worthless that you can kill and kill and kill them forever, but you still haven’t done anything. That’s not bad, but I thought of a better one. It’s Killers United Defeating Zoological Undermenschen. You’ve got your German in there because obviously, but you’ve also got the idea that because they splice themselves with plant DNA, they think they’re not animals anymore, and thus they refer to everyone else as Zoologicals or “Zo-ons” for short.

You could further build this out in the Metaverse by saying that post-OblivAeon, when we know Shear Force is in the Xtremeverse, several people who are Citizens of the Sun but didn’t really seem Xtreme enough for Xtreme Citizen Dawn, they’re now retconned as the same equivalent people instead ending up as KUDZU members, because the two groups have a similar “people who aren’t us are garbage” attitude. KUDZU doesn’t reject everyone who lacks powers, if they’re willing to be given powers by KUDZU, but anyone who refuses an offer of membership dies, and not everyone gets an offer. It’s kind of like CotS mixed with RevoCorp, if RevoCorp didn’t care about money and was just openly building an army (of Plague Rats with Desert Eagles and Revolting Revenant Rays). The Citizens meanwhile are more willing to accept people who approach them and already have powers, but less likely to seek out powerless people and give them The Process.