Get it while it's hot
https://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-155-creative-process-ra-villains
I love how the Phoenix is this amazing character, and the Colossus is a cool monster, and Kleptek is just some edgelord with a really dumb name. Runs the gamut!
Trevor going the extra three miles with the gameshow music just to legitimize someone's goofy bit. :D
Them hemming and hawing about if Kleptek fit in with my question about future tech vs. ancient magic but he was solidly with in the bounds of what I hoped to see.
Their improvising the “trying to trick a primitive” was gold
Who wants to see the modern trying to not be evil Phoenix to be a Martin Adams supporting cast?
In the bit dealing with follow-up Legacy questions, didn't they say that Paul Parsons II is the only one to not fight in a war?
"Our" Legacy was born in 1973. Which war did he fight in? I feel like this would have been a bigger deal than we've heard about so far.
That got answered in the first Legacy epsiode:
Ah, it was in a different place on the wiki. Thanks.
So although they said "war" in this Ra episode, for America's Finest Legacy really they are referring to all the superheroic conflicts we're well familiar with.
Did none of them fight in Afghanistan or Iraq?
I have a feeling it was just confusing wording. In that since “our” Legacy is the oldest living Legacy, what they really meant was that all of the Legacies previous to Paul VIII had fought in a war except for the “Lucky” Legacy.
We did the math in the LP Discord after it was revealed present-day (which is IIRC 2016-ish in the metaverse) Heritage was in his 60s and current day Legacy would probably have to be born around the mid-50s for that age to work. (AZ is also probably technically that old too, really.)
Not as an enlisted soldier at least.
When Paul VIII took up the Legacy name, we had officially moved into the territory of fighting costumed super-villainy rather than simple wartime service. He works as part of a government-funded organization, but not one that puts him under the military hierarchy.
The 1973 birthdate detail has been around much longer than the big timeline project they did, so it probably falls into that "they hadn't thought through the timeline of events thoroughly when they decided on it" category.
Yeah, if you punch the https://sentinelsofthemultiverse.com/multiverse/ site into the Wayback Machine, the oddball ages and dates that get tossed about (and I think are still on the wiki) turns out were from the 2012-ish version of the bios.
(And now that I looked at it myself, my spitballing guessing on the Discord does match up that Legacy & AZ are meant to be about the same age and Tachyon about 10 years younger.)
Wow -- that's a blast from the past! X-D
*Asks pointed questions about the Phoenix for the Argent Adept Supporting Cast episode*: manages to get way more answers about unicorns than Phoenixes somehow
*doesn't even consider it coming up in the Ra Villians episode*: INFO DUMP.
Loved the new Phoenix lore though. I can't wait to work him/her/them into the RPG game with my kids.
Adam accidentally predicts AI, then echoes Call of Cthulhu (the story, not the game). I disagree with both takes.
Of all the fake comics that C&A will never make, The Phoenix’s story really won’t ever happen, because Marvel would sue for ownership of all characters who are named Phoenix, and constantly adding “the” isn’t enough to prevent that. Otherwise DC would have just referred to Shazam the superhero as “The Captain Marvel”.
Here we are, born to play things, we’re the questions of the multiverse awesome guitar solo.
“The character Tomb Raider” - sounds like someone who would drop in on Cowboy Bebop At His Computer.
Provolone, pepper jack, Havarti…cheeseburgers can go so much farther than Cheddar, Swiss, American, or even Gouda.