Bald eagles are super derpy and sound like weenies. XD Any time you hear one in a movie, itâs been overdubbed with a hawk. Theyâre the real cool birds.
inb4 all the Euros being shocked we have to pay to get our taxes done in the US :B
The Glamsdale Glam-o-drome? :V
Do I hear Glamour event for Definitive Miss Information? I could totally ship Glamfo. ;D
Love how she gets out of the force field. Thatâs classic.
Absolute Zero, man of the people. Weird that heâs Proletariatâs nemesis. :V
Ooh, it me!
So what I am hearing is that the tattoo protected Christopher from worse damage. Also hearing that Waykeep is in fact the secret to bringing Scholar back. :V
Okay but seriously, what did I miss? Do they mean Guise? Is it Guise? Heâs not that smart though, câmon.
âI am so unhappy.â Love it. Great to see this bit reach its ultimate conclusion.
Nah, Scholar and Nightmist are gone gone. Those are definite demises, as he mentioned.
Now, Maria Helena, OTOHâŚ
The funny thing though is that none of them âdiedâ in the traditional sense.
Erased from existence just means he needs to be drawn back in. Turned into mist? That mistâs still around, at least in one universe.
This is the kind of thing that is more readily undone in comics. It would feel far less cheap, imo, than just saying, âOh, theyâre not really deadâ to someone who, like, got speared through the head or something. Arguments about invalidating sacrifice aside, of course.
True enough. âInvalidating sacrificeâ is also not something that Iâm too concerned with, if the sacrifice feels forced, rather than part of the story. Best examples from recent-ish media the destruction of the Pegasus in Battlestar Galactica, or the entirety of Mass Effect 3. Nightmist actually felt like a part of her story, and part of her power, using herself as the fuel and the connection to other realms. Scholar also felt like a consequence of what he had done and what he had become. Wraithâs father, Thiago, so many others feel complete.
I guess I keep coming back to La Commodora because sheâs the one that feels incomplete, like how there are threads that only make sense if sheâs going to come back (especially after reading Time Slingerâs write up in the RPGâŚ).
She also seems like a good candiate to, if not break, at least uncover the sandwich bag - what with being one of the most knowledgeable non-singular beings in multiversal matters & whatnot.
Much as I donât like the isolation and the lack of dimensional or time travel, I donât think thatâs going to happen at any point in the foreseeable future in the metaplot. If I had to guess, I would say that if it does happen, itâll be something to do with the whole Prime War thing, if that ever happens. I had though that the RPG universe would eventually grow to become a new multiverse, but A&C recently said that the sandwich bag wouldnât stretch.
Is the misspelling of âseizedâ deliberate, do you think? For verisimilitude?
Adam told us on TLP discord is was totally intentional and for verisimilitude
Iâm just surprised they didnât go with âAminia, abducted!â
For the scene where they talk about Aminia being grabbed and Wraith noticing, I like the idea of the page (or double-page spread) being an X by X square grid of panels, where X is whatever number fits, probably 4 or 5 or 6. In the top left panel, itâs divided by a diagonal bar (sinister alignment), and we can see both Wraith radioing Aminia and Aminia receiving the radio transmission. Then, time moves forward a few seconds with every panel to either the right or down, and on the top we follow Aminia as she puts out fires for the team, only to get grabbed at the far right. On the left column of panels, we follow Wraith in the battle as she continues radioing Aminia, only to notice by the bottom that she isnât answering. And with the entire lower-right square of panels other than the top row and left side, we see the other four FF members and the rest of their battle, ideally laying out these events so that every row or column is a consistent timeline following one character or location or something. That way, assuming a 6-by-6 layout of small but intricately well-drawn panels, we can read down column 2, and the top is Aminia radioing Legacy to say that a building is falling down, and the rest of column 2 shows Legacy dealing with the building, but meanwhile a bus careens off a bridge, and in column 3 Aminia is radioing Tachyon to run over and grab all the people off the bus before it can hit the ground, and in column 4 she tells Bunker to do something, and column 5 is her getting grabbed, and column 6 is her being gone while the other heroes gradually wonder why theyâre no longer getting messages from her, before in the 36th panel we get Wraith having gathered up all the heroes to say that Aminia is definitely missing.
A page layout this complicated of course doesnât work with a Silver Age comic, but then neither does the level of suggestion alluded to in Christopherâs planned dialogue of Aminia taking down Glamour and lecturing her about it. In actual 70s comics, the writing was still too broad for that level of clever, planned-out storytelling, particularly revolving around a secondary character with no superpowers whoâs also a damsel in distress.