ASH: CSV Annual #3 - Zoo of Malice (by Tony Pi)

[Scott Eiler]

On 8/20/2012 8:22 PM, Dave Van Domelen published:

>       Robert was torn.  He could tell Quenneville the truth about Montreal to
> save his team, though the grief-stricken man would never believe that the
> city was now stranded on Venus, kept alive by a precarious bubble.

This is the kind of thing I love to see in a superhero (or supervillain) 
comic:  a world actually changed by the superhumans.  I would have 
thought a publisher dedicated to fictional universes would have loved it 
too.  Oh well, the world's loss.  Unless we share it from RACC.

I will say, the characters look kind of like they got tossed together in 
a role-playing campaign.  Publishers may prefer their master 
supervillains without catchy one-word code names.  Even Victor von Doom 
has *two* words in his codename.  I can totally see Conflicto picking a 
short zippy name like "Conflicto", but I'm unclear on why the others put 
up with him.  He seems more like a minion than a master.

Still, the story certainly had action and a proper level of silliness. 
Well done.

-- 
(signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------

Let's take a look, if you will, at the Second Amendment of the
Constitution, which protects every American's right to shoot another
American.  This cherished constitutional right to shoot people and make
them dead is currently recognized in all fifty states, most recently
Florida.

- The Borowitz Report
(http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/03/29/an-argument-against-healthcare/),
March 2012.