MISC: Godling Reboot??

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Sat Jul 20 18:29:48 PDT 2013


On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:26:38 +0000 (UTC), Tom Russell wrote:

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> And that being said, I don't think "overpowered" is necessarily a bad
> thing. One could argue that Superman, Green Lantern, or the Flash are
> overpowered-- speedsters have an especially versatile set of gimmicks and
> solutions-to-impossible-problems within one elegant superpower-- but that's
> only if the stories are about the brute application of those powers without
> imagination or personality. The best stories for those characters have
> imagination and personality to spare. I think your stories had the same
> qualities of imagination, personality, and wonder-- they weren't about the
> powers but the things those powers let you do as a writer.

Pretty much. I'd say Godling works well when he has a wide palette of
different abilities to use, but has to be clever with which one he picks
and how he uses it.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, always fun.


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