Yeah, Paul has just enough Sentinel Comics knowledge to be dangerous. If they include someone who knows about Grimm we can have a retelling of a Tolkien tale.
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If you really want to homage that 1984 silliness, various characters from the setting should be making 4th wall breaking appearances at the actual Sentinel Comics offices to confront their creators about their inadequacies. Maybe follow up with some nested metastory and have those fictional creators confront the folks on the podcast about what a stupid idea the whole thing is.
Sadly I can’t think of a good expy for Aunt May in the setting, so unless (say) Pauline Parsons had an aged babysitter we’ve never heard of there’s no way to recreate the Aunt May, Herald of Galactus story, which remains the single best thing Marvel ever published. “Have a cream-filled snack cake, oh Devourer of Worlds.”
A Guise-in-his-apartment issue where he fails to pay his electric bill and the whole book is just black panels with word balloons, sound effects, and the odd panel with a lit match would be a good send-up of Snowblind in Alpha Flight. He could tussle with Scale Creep in the dark, or at least think he. Tripping over Guise-Cat needs to be a running gag.
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I will say that the “writers/artists put themselves in the story” trope in general is notably absent from Sentinel Comics considering how often it shows up in Marvel Comics at least.
Happened in DC a lot too, mostly in the 70s. Post-Crisis it’s been relatively rare.
In Sentinel’s case it’s due in part to the fact that the creators are as fictional as the characters. C&A haven’t managed to detail all the Paradigms for Terrorforms even, the last thing we need is more delays for them to give more bios on the metafictional company personnel - although I suspect that’s going to be part of the history book.
I proposed this a couple of years ago. The best way to make something non-canon. They probably should have done this instead of recording 3 episodes in 2 days!
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Nice and simple, Wager Master vs the Rambler.
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Or even better Wagermaster vs grimm
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Grimm is trying to figure out how to turn the chaos as Wagermaster messes with the heros into a story.
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“What do you mean, the bear? Where did the bear come from?”
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“When a Mama Bear and a Papa Bear love each other very much…”
@cuivre_composer I was thinking more of Wager Master deciding to try and out do Rambler. And hijinks pursue has Rambler keeps playing Wager Master for his own gain. So, Wager Master keeps raising the stakes as he fails over and over again.
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Writer’s Room: The Bride of Biomancer
Because you know he’s gotten lonely in the last 1700 years.
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There was this tidbit from the first shipping episode:
At around an hour and 9 minutes in, we talk about a Biomancer story. A bit of the recording was lost here, but the thing we talked about that didn’t make it into the episode is that, after her death, the body of the woman we mention is enshrined in Biomancer’s lair, and sometimes he makes fleshchildren to look like her, but he always destroys them because he cannot match her perfection. For all his “work toward perfection”, he cannot match the perfection of his one true love. Also, he’s super creepy.
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Lonely. Sure. There’s a reason fleshlights are called fleshlights. 
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We already know this November, and I don’t know if December has already gone up for a vote.
I’d like another Daybreak issue, like Aeon Girl’s first Christmas.
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Anything that deals with the RPG timeline is automatically a thumbs up for me. Maybe it’ll actually get some RPG questions answered.
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December won’t go up to a vote until a week before next month’s Editor’s Note.
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- Writer’s Room: A Prime Wardens Story Where They Actually Work Together Well as a Team and Actually Manage to Defeat the Villain(s)
I can’t help but feel like every single time C&A talk about the Prime Wardens at length they seem obligated to mention how terrible a team they are. And out of the four stories we’ve heard about them, half have ended in failure (La Gloire and the Fall of the Prime Wardens — the other two being Mother Earth and the Return of Tempest). But, you know, I still like most of these characters, and I want a story were they’re actually competent and cooperative (probably from volume 2 of their book, as I believe that’s were they sync together best).
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Related on the “positive stories for the Wardens” train is why I suggested the/a story where Argent Adept and Dana Bertrand become buddies (based on the Tachyon wedding ep), because not only would it be nice to have more Dana stories, it’d also be nice to have a story where Anthony has someone in his supporting cast who actually likes hanging around him.
We still need that “Captain Cosmic does something actually heroic” episode too that I swear someone (Wombat?) said they suggested once. Or had considered suggesting.
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Watch them do it and the twist is that someone (Guise? the president of their fan club? a 4th wall breaking appearance by the editor? Super-Fan?) set the whole thing up and arranged for the villain(s) to take a dive because they felt like the Wardens needed a win for a change.
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