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by Batgirl III
Mon Feb 06, 2023 6:25 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Superboy-Prime! Imperiex! Alexander Luthor!)

Shooter, Khan, Weisinger… Heck, even Stan Lee! There needs to be someone at the helm who has a long-term plan for the entire company and who can get everyone to stick to it.

Certain creators need an editor in chief and/or publisher who isn’t afraid to tell them “no” on occasion.
by Batgirl III
Mon Feb 06, 2023 5:40 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Superboy-Prime! Imperiex! Alexander Luthor!)

Another big problem with Infinite Crisis / Flashpoint / New 52 was Grant Morrison utterly refusing to let events in other books affect his work on the Batman. His stranglehold on the character and refusal to change the status quo there impacted the other Batman Family titles, which were something li...
by Batgirl III
Mon Feb 06, 2023 5:18 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime! Imperiex!)

Ted Kord (alongside hetero-life-mate Booster Gold) was basically the star of the Justice League International which ran for the better part of a decade. Kord was also a major supporting player for several years in Birds of Prey . I’d say of all the Charlton “Action Heroes,” the Blue Beetle probably ...
by Batgirl III
Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:15 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime! Imperiex!)

It’s Eighties as heck, but that second pic where her costume gains some sort of shoulder pad / pauldron / armor thingy is a really cool look.
by Batgirl III
Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:22 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime! Imperiex!)

Artists like Rob Leidfeld and Greg Land, I just hate as a matter of reflex at this point. But I don’t entirely dislike Turner. When he’s good, he’s very good… But his Supergirl run was not his best work. Edit to add: So… Doing some googling just now to see if I could find examples of his work I did ...
by Batgirl III
Mon Feb 06, 2023 12:06 am
Forum: Toys, Board Games and Video Games
Topic: Battletech
Replies: 17
Views: 16075

Re: Battletech

In the nerd circles I move in, the Battletech cartoon is mostly remembered with a sort mixture of nostalgia and cringe. Like, we all remember thinking it was pretty cheesy even when we were kids, but it certainly wasn’t the worst cartoon of its era and the CGI ‘Mech fights were pretty cool (although...
by Batgirl III
Mon Feb 06, 2023 12:00 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime! Imperiex!)

And at some point between the end of the Crisis and her death defending Kara, she had all her internal organs removed and her torso was trapped in a taffy stretching machine…
by Batgirl III
Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:22 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime! Imperiex!)

I was such a big fan of Geoff Johns until the entirety of DC Comics was handed to him as his personal sandbox (except for Morrison’s death grip on the Batman at the time).

Both men desperately needed editors brave enough to tell them “no.”
by Batgirl III
Sun Feb 05, 2023 1:55 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (The Eradicator! Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime!)

You can find large hints of this in some of his works, too. Thor #128 tells of a prophecy about how one day all the gods would die in Ragnarok, and then some "new gods" would be born and build a new high society. Not to disrespect the King, but that’s not an element of the Thor story that...
by Batgirl III
Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:44 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime! Imperiex!)

Way back in the Silver Age, in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (Vol. 1) #55 cover dated September 1961, Jimmy got sent back in time to viking era. He met Odin, Freya, Thor, et. al. and helped Thor defeat a scheme by Loki. This predates Marvel Comics’ Journey into Mystery (Vol. 1) #83 and the debut of th...
by Batgirl III
Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:41 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime! Imperiex!)

What I disliked most about OWAW wasn’t that it was Superman focused, but that (1) it made damn near every other monthly title in the line spend at least two or three issues on “tie ins” even if they were only tangentially related to the story. I could have forgiven that except (2) it was incredibly ...
by Batgirl III
Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:17 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (The Eradicator! Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime!)

3600 Sectors, with two Green Lanterns patrolling each, excepting sector 2814, which has six. That’s 7,204 of them to defend the entire universe and/or the entire galaxy (writers seem to flip-flop in their usage of the two terms… I suspect some writers honestly don’t know the difference.) So, the Gre...
by Batgirl III
Sat Feb 04, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073854

Re: Jab’s Builds! (The Eradicator! Silver Banshee! Superboy-Prime!)

Killing 32 green lanterns... When you are so powerful that minion rules are used for green lanterns. :D Did they give an explanation as to why he was so mighty? I've read that it is because he has the pre-retcon power level of Superman but I don't know whether this is official. Green Lantern Corps ...
by Batgirl III
Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:12 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Batgirl III's Character Thread (Simon Baz, Lady Shiva)
Replies: 1553
Views: 154834

Slayn

https://ami.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/chars/5457-194391819.jpg Madhouse Inc. Slayn Record of Lodoss War Character Power Level 8 ( 90 PP ) ABILITIES Strength -1 Stamina 0 Agility 1 Dexterity 1 Fighting 4 Intellect 4 Awareness 4 Presence 2 SKILLS Expertise [Arcane Lore] 4 (+8), Expertise [A...
by Batgirl III
Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:17 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Batgirl III's Character Thread (Simon Baz, Lady Shiva)
Replies: 1553
Views: 154834

Re: Batgirl III's Character Thread (Simon Baz, Lady Shiva)

My friends and I had a sort of rallying cry for describing our ideal D&D campaign: “More Lodoss, Less Slayers!” My friend Beth even had that written on the front of her DM’s screen.