LNH20: Earth-Twenty Roundup Thread And Getting The New Tag In There
Andrew Perron
pwerdna at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 22:51:08 PDT 2011
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 22:52:03 +0000 (UTC), Dave Van Domelen wrote:
> Here's a suggestion for some of the old PD or with-permission characters
> who are a bit dated, due to being tied too tightly to Usenet in-jokes, comic
> tropes not used much since the 90s, or anything else that doesn't age well.
> Establish a 1990s team in the backstory and put these characters in as
> members or as enemies of the members.
Yes. I very much agree.
> For instance, the Post-Time Shifter's power is less significant on blogs
> and boards that have built-in threading and better time-stamping. He'd make
> a good villain for the 90s team. And while signature files still exist, the
> way Sig.Lad worked feels too tied to Usenet for my tastes, so I'd put him on
> the 90s team.
Hmmmm. Makes sense!
> I'm officially tossing the Society of Wireless Heroes into the pot as
> one of the Golden Age historicals. General Use, but if you have no idea what
> the Goon Show is you might want to ask before writing them. :)
Ooooooh. This can easily be tied into the "development of the net" thing
that Lalo has going.
> For Silver Age, the Net.astic Nine can remain, but probably should not
> be the premiere hero team. Someone else should come up with an Avengers or
> JLA equivalent that can be namedropped (and Kid Enthusiastic the immortal
> could have been a member).
I'd say that his parents would have been; he's only 30 at this point, after
all.
> We could have the 90s team be called the LNH as well, but it might be a
> cleaner break if we give them a different name, perhaps one that includes
> Usenet in the name somehow. Heroes Usenetted? Eh. Think about it. Perhaps
> they started with a name that has alt. in it, but "graduated" to rec. status
> later. There could also be a secret military supers team with ARPANet in
> their name somehow, rivals to the "amateurs" in Sig.Lad's team.
To go in a slightly different reference direction: The Rec.ers?
> Dave Van Domelen, contemplating a new WC named Professor Xavier Peter
> Sessions...Professor Exposition.
Niiiiiiice.
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, yay for silly~
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