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No, they tend to use their own feet. No sense in using ones left by someone else.
Keep your stick on the ice.
Live it.
I agree 100% on everything to this point.
It's fine to put real-world sensibilities into our discussions as long as you put them into the context of their world (or universe). Like I stated before, entire nations (and worlds, for that matter) of people have been wiped off their Earth with nary a ripple in the social, economic, or political landscape of the rest of the world. I can put real-world sensibilities into Star Wars, yet it has very little to do contextually with my world.In fact, i think that we HAVE TO put our real-world sensibilities into our discussions of comic books, lest all we have are conversations about nothing at all. If we cannot compare them to real life, then what are we to compare them to? For real life, after all, is all we know.
Anyway, I've decided that Cody was just a Life Model Decoy that The Master reprogrammed to serve his needs and the entirety of Parliament Hill was rebuilt by Damage Control over the weekend.
I can barely keep up with super-advanced aliens trying to conquer/enslave/dominate/destroy/repopulate Alpha Flight's "world".
Most importantly, I like reading about a character who can manipulate the magnetic fields in order to fly and move things; who is a shape-shifting demi-goddess; who can pull objects of various sizes out of a pouch and levitate; who can run and fly faster than I can comprehend; who can transform into an immensely powerful being of ambiguous origin; who is an alien created to dominate, and; who is a heroic, acrobatic former Government agent with more courage and determination than people twice his size. If I'm putting any real-world sensiblities into suspending disbelief enough to be entertained by that, I don't know what else to say. In Alpha Flight's world, the Master made a mess.
I like the "Life Model Decoy" idea for Cody, too. [(Post-Omega Flight) Brown has been a tool, too, BTW; is he a LMD?]
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Once upon a time, they exploded from the pages of The X-Men. For a moment, they were "Canada's answer to The Avengers."
They were ALPHA FLIGHT....
...once upon a time.
There's a story that, while filming the first Superman movie, Richard Donner (or was it one of the producers?) stuck up signs everywhere, with one word:
Verisimilitude.
I think that's what we need in these stories; not realism, because that's just boring, but at least the feeling that people are reacting in ways that make sense. And not self-contradictory.
- Le Messor
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing."
Vera Similitude? I think she was my biology teacher 20-some years ago! lol.
That i can agree with. We may have to suspend disbelief in order to swallow the worlds we catapult ourselves into when we open the covers of our favourite comics, but that doesn't mean that what goes on there should contradict what has gone on before, nor should it change what has already happened without a darn good reason and a lot of thought before doing so! If you can't write your story without altering what somebody else has already written, then write something else!at least the feeling that people are reacting in ways that make sense. And not self-contradictory
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Stay tuned to http://verbal-sweetness-comics.blogspot.ca/ , where everything starts at point zero. No building on anybody else's work.
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Man, I finally got some issues of the Maxi awhile back, around the time it ended, and I am disappointed. Even though it finished as originally planned, the ending seemed so rushed and full of loose ends. And Vindicator's fall from grace just to make Mac Hudson the hero and leader of Alpha Flight again leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Are we not allowed to have strong female leaders in comics? Sorry, but Guardian sucks. He always sucked. Byrne designed him for the express purpose of being a self righteous naive fool who gets himself killed so that Heather becomes Vindicator. Screw this story arch. Well, ok, don't know if Byrne meant for Mac to be that hate-worthy, but really, we were better off without another super genius lead male who always thinks he's right about everything. My faith in Marvel's writers is not restored. Though there were some decent moments in the new book, and great art, the main plot and it's resolution just ruins it for me. Don't know if I'm going to bother getting the rest of the issues I missed.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, you must be Marvel."
-FlightPath07 Don't you feel all important now?
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What can I say, it's about the only thing that remains true in all the Marvel universe. lol I wish I'd realized the site was back, sooner. I hate marvel, but you guys are alright.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, you must be Marvel."
-FlightPath07 Don't you feel all important now?