MISC: GODLING # 48 All-American Hero style? by J. Vandersteen

[Andrew Perron]

On 4/20/2015 6:32 AM, jvdsteen1974 at gmail.com wrote:
> Op maandag 20 april 2015 01:23:54 UTC+2 schreef Andrew Perron:
>> On 4/16/2015 4:15 PM, jvdsteen1974 at gmail.com wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Four bearded, armed men carrying AK-47's stand in a darkened room.
>>
>> Hmmmmmmf. This whole scene felt kinda flat, from the carbon-copy
>> zero-interiority terrorists to what he did to them. I mean, I know you're
>> establishing Mark as doing stereotypical action hero things because he's
>> influenced by that whole media landscape and idea of what a "hero" is, but in
>> exploring that, I would have preferred a little more focus on what makes these
>> techniques fucked-up over on the side of... man, I don't even know what
>> country this takes place in. Or who these people are - does "prototype
>> al-Qaida" mean that organization, or someone else who's using the same techniques?
>>
>I just wanted to show very quickly how this Godling differs from the other
 > one without starting a new plot (have enough of those running now) .

Oh, sure. I would have just, I don't know, have the newscaster mention 
side-effects in the region or something, or see inside one of the terrorists' 
minds before they're killed. A little goes a long way with this.

>>> "Naga... Look around you... There is my sacrifice," The Dark Monk
>>   > tells the snake. The creature attacks the sitting monks, biting, swallowing
>>   > and killing.
>>
>> So did they know this was going to happen, or? `.`
>
> They did not. Dark Monk is such an a-hole ;-)

CURSE YOU, DARK MONK

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, monk-y business