Coming in a little late in the day with the original character background written for Rev. Some explanation is in order:
Several years ago, I discovered that there was a new edition of the Hero System roleplaying game out (the fifth edition–now there’s a sixth), so I picked it up with the intention of perhaps starting a Champions game.
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Okay, I was wrong last time. It didn’t take two years to get the sequel out. It took three, coming out in June 1981.
Which was frustrating if you were a fan, because there had been much publicity during the production of the first film that they were actually filming both movies simultaneously. So just what was taking so long?
Read More >Monday, December 27th, 2010 Tags: Movies, Superman Category: Super Movie Monday 1 Comment
Yes, I know, it’s late in the day to finally be posting this, but I had to dig through a lot of comics before finally finding a Christmas-themed story worth posting (I have some better …
Saturday, December 25th, 2010 Tags: comics Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
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It’s Christmas week, so there’s no Extra today (in case you couldn’t tell already). There will also be no chapter on Friday, though there may be a Christmas surprise. We’ll see.
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This is it, the conclusion to our titanic three part-recap of Superman, the 1978 film that started the modern boom in superhero movies.
Monday, December 20th, 2010 Tags: Movies, Superman Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments
In honor of the climax of Superman: The Movie, here’s an issue of Action Comics just one year before the movie opened. The issue is Action Comics #472, June 1977. If you notice, the cover …
Saturday, December 18th, 2010 Tags: comics, Superman Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
It’s hard to come up with these and get them done and polished within the deadlines I set myself. Therefore, this week’s Extra is not full-sized, and it’s not as polished as I’d like, but it’s pretty good. This week, the amazing Doctor Jolt!
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Read More >Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 Category: Extras No Comments
Last week, we discussed the origins of the 1978 big-budget spectacular, Superman. We looked at how the film related his origins on the planet Krypton, sired by Marlon Brando, and how the film set up the sequel in its opening scenes featuring a trio of Kryptonian criminals. Then we discussed how the second section of the movie took an entirely different tone as teenaged Clark Kent had to face his mythic destiny while surrounded by the sweeping expanses of Canadian Kansas.
As this week’s section of the film opens,
Read More >Monday, December 13th, 2010 Tags: Movies, Superman Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments
So last week, when I was discussing Action Comics #402, I was gloating about having had to pay only 15 cents for it. Little did I know that within two short months, my comics would …
Saturday, December 11th, 2010 Tags: comics, Superman Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
