How to Explore the Limitations of Your Superhero Characters
Added 2025-02-24 08:00:34 +0000 UTCYup, my team of idiots is at it again. I would love to use them more often, but good ideas for stupid superhero action don’t come that often. I suppose it’s debatable whether I had a good idea this time around, but I felt it was at least worth a shot.
The first trailer for the MCU version of Fantastic Four dropped. It’s bad business to direct my readers to another far more successful webcomic, but Penny Arcade sums up my feelings pretty well on this one.
It looks like the Thing will finally get the treatment he deserves. It isn’t just the quality of the CGI, or that they’re letting his personality shine through, but little things like the fact that when he claps, it sounds like rocks clanking together.
Also, it’s good to see Herbie, though we should all brace ourselves for irritating guys on the internet complaining that using tape reels for his eyes makes no sense, especially since they don’t seem to be feeding tape to anything, and aren’t bound to each other in any way. (And no, I’m not one of those irritating guys. I’m not complaining about Herbie. I’m complaining about the people who will inevitably complain, making me one of a far superior group of irritating guys.)
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Speaking of Penny Arcade, I once met Tycho and his wife at a Denny's in Seattle. This was in the mid 2000s and he was surprised to be recognized. They were really nice..
Glen Newsome
2025-02-25 15:35:00 +0000 UTCNobody has mentioned, or seemingly noticed the blood stains all over Omnipresent Man.
Scott Meyer
2025-02-25 08:58:04 +0000 UTCKnifeketeer still has his knives, so there can't have been any stabbing. Anyhow his overt power (iirc) is to wield his thirsty blades (and his iconic padded blade) without hurting anyone. In today's episode, Omni lets slip the secret of the hidden power that makes Knifeketeer invincible: the stupendous power of the Sublimely Stupid Mistake. Rearrange-o didn't stand a chance. I wonder if MacraMayhem will untangle the threads and restore everyone to their proper powers? Because Rearrange-o's mayhem infringes on his territory. Im'a stay tuned!
Kurt Harriman
2025-02-24 21:49:36 +0000 UTC
