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Post by michaelpaciocco on Aug 9, 2009 6:56:48 GMT -8
Alright, here are the rules:
You pick a fellow KBOXer at random, and ask 5 fan questions. The person answers, and then that person has to ask someone else 5 questions, and so on.
So, I'm going to ask Anders, just because he's been one of our more prolific posters of late.
ANDERS
1) The best "modern era" run on the Fantastic four? (I.e. Byrne? Simonson? DeFalco? Claremont? Waid/Wieringo?)
2) You land in an arsenal room full of comicdom's greatest weapons. Do you choose: a) The Hammer of Thor (Marvel) b) Captain America's Shield c) Green Lantern ring d) The Helmet of Dr. Fate e) Other
State your reasoning.
3) The one forgotten/abandoned property you'd love to try your hand at, and why?
4) The best supporting cast character in comics is....?
5) Superhero Ethics: Is it fair to compare Captain America's super-soldier serum to the use of anabolic steroids or other drug usage? Why or why not?
Bonus: Does this same reasoning apply to Miraclo? What do you see as the distinguishing characteristic?
Tag, you're it,
Michael
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Post by Anders on Aug 9, 2009 12:11:14 GMT -8
An excellent game, and excellent questions! I'll try to do them justice... 1) The best "modern era" run on the Fantastic four? (I.e. Byrne? Simonson? DeFalco? Claremont? Waid/Wieringo?) I've read far too little FF since the eighties to give this a fair answer. I haven't been very impressed with what I have read, but I suspect my view of the FF has been shaped more by Byrne's early eighties run than any other. However, in more recent reading I think I've enjoyed the FF more in their indirect pastisch appearances in Moore's 1968, Astro City and Planetary. The FF stories I do enjoy reading are the ones that treat them as something other than typical superheroes: they're scientists, explorers, not just guys in blue suits who bash on Doom every now and then. 2) You land in an arsenal room full of comicdom's greatest weapons. Do you choose: a) The Hammer of Thor (Marvel) b) Captain America's Shield c) Green Lantern ring d) The Helmet of Dr. Fate e) Other I would have a hard time resisting Mjölner (assuming I'd be able to lift it), not because it's the most powerful (that would be the ring, I think) but just because of my Norse heritage. (And since I'm not very fond of the Marvel version of Thor on purely aesthetic grounds I wouldn't mind taking it away from him either. ) 3) The one forgotten/abandoned property you'd love to try your hand at, and why? I don't think there is one, mostly because doing something with a property requires coming up with stories and I am not very good at that. I can invent characters, places and situations, but telling a story with a beginning, a middle and an end is something my brain doesn't do very well. I have exactly one actual story in my head, and that is so closely tied to characters, places and myths that placing it somewhere else would make it uninteresting, at least to me. However, something I would like to do is a kind of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen piece with old Swedish children's books/comics characters. These aren't exactly forgotten or abandoned, but their creators are dead and it would be incredible fun to put the characters into different situations. I think that's as close as I'm going to get. I very rarely have ideas on what to do with other people's characters (which is probably one reason why I don't run published adventures when I GM). 4) The best supporting cast character in comics is....? Nearly anyone from Cerebus. Prince Mick, Weishaupt, Elrod, Bear, Boobah, the Roach, Jaka (from Jaka's Story, not the later bastardization), Mrs. Thatcher... 5) Superhero Ethics: Is it fair to compare Captain America's super-soldier serum to the use of anabolic steroids or other drug usage? Why or why not? I don't know anything about Miraclo so I can't make that comparison. As to the super-soldier serum vs. steroids, there are similarities and differences. They are both short-cuts to physical perfection (of different kinds), but the super-soldier serum doesn't have the negative consequences for the bystanders that steroids do (increased propensity for violence etc). I think it's fair to discuss them together, but those differences need to be kept in mind. I need to get to bed now but I will post some new questions for someone else tomorrow.
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Post by Anders on Aug 10, 2009 8:53:47 GMT -8
Okay, these questions are for Jesse. Jesse, I know I rag on you a bit from time to time, but I respect your encyclopedic knowledge and that you have the energy to care so much about things that I have given up on. So,
JESSE
1) A three-parter: a) Pick your single favorite issue of any comic of all time b) ...not published by DC or Marvel c) ...and not featuring superheroes.
2) From now on and until the end of time, every single comic will be written by one person, and one person only. They will be at the top of their game, writing as well as they ever have (according to your personal judgement), with artists, letterers etc varying over time, and it must be someone who has been active in writing comics. Who do you choose and why?
3) You get to produce a TV show for up to five seasons, using any existing property of your choice. (You can ignore any other adaptations if you wish.) You get to pick any director, living or dead, but the cast will all be unknowns. Which property do you choose, which director, and why?
4) The West Wing is remade with Norman Osborne taking the role of the president. Who are his closest advisors?
5) Pick one fictional character who will come into existence right this moment. Explain your choice.
You're it,
Anders
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Post by jessebaker on Aug 11, 2009 23:28:10 GMT -8
1) A three-parter: a) Pick your single favorite issue of any comic of all time b) ...not published by DC or Marvel c) ...and not featuring superheroes. --------------------------- Jesse: So many issues of Strangers In Paradise I could pick. I'd have to go with Strangers in Paradise V3 #9; the confrontation in the issue between Darcy Parker and Katchoo remains, IMHO, one of the most memorable and chilling moments of the series. ------------------------------
2) From now on and until the end of time, every single comic will be written by one person, and one person only. They will be at the top of their game, writing as well as they ever have (according to your personal judgement), with artists, letterers etc varying over time, and it must be someone who has been active in writing comics. Who do you choose and why? -------------------------------- Jesse: Louis Simonson, because I loved her work on X-Factor, New Mutants, and her work with the rest of JOSS on the Superman books for the bulk of the 1990s. -------------------------------------------- 3) You get to produce a TV show for up to five seasons, using any existing property of your choice. (You can ignore any other adaptations if you wish.) You get to pick any director, living or dead, but the cast will all be unknowns. Which property do you choose, which director, and why? ------------------------------ Jesse: Given that I'm stuck with an unknown cast, I go the following: Seth McFarlane doing an animated version of Star Trek Voyager, under the logic that Seth McFarlane might actually make Voyager watchable. ------------------------------- 4) The West Wing is remade with Norman Osborne taking the role of the president. Who are his closest advisors? -------------------------------- Jesse: Hank Pym, Peter Parker, Black Lightning, Amanda Waller, the chick from SWORD, Betty Brant, and Doctor Doom. --------------------------------- 5) Pick one fictional character who will come into existence right this moment. Explain your choice. ----------------------------------- Jesse: Misty's Psyduck from the Pokemon cartoon. Who wouldn't want a platypuss who can fry people's brains with it's vast psychic power and who just wants to be loved by it's owner?
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Post by jensaltmann on Aug 11, 2009 23:34:30 GMT -8
Remember to tag and ask someone else, Jesse.
BTW, I propose a rider to the tagging rule: if the taggee hasn't at least acknowledged the tag within, say 3 days, the tagger can choose to tag someone else.
Just as a precaution. Not everyone might read this thread, and some taggees might not notice they've been tagged.
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Post by jessebaker on Aug 12, 2009 0:09:07 GMT -8
OK, questions for Kirk:
1. Rather than bring over the revived Doctor Who series, Sci-Fi Channel makes a deal to instead remake the series for a US audience. Casting, they make the following picks:
Kristen Bell=Rose Tyler David Rees Snell=Captain Jack Harkness Judith Light= Jackie Tyler Dule Hill= Mickey Marcia Cross= Sarah Jane Smith
What American actor do you cast as "The Doctor", with the added twist being that Sci-Fi Channel has opted to omit the whole "regeneration" plotline, meaning you are stuck with the actor you pick for the combined tenure of both Ecclestone and Tennant as well as the fact that your pick must be in the same age range as the two actors (meaning in his early 30s)?
2. You have a time machine; do you go back in time and steal all copies of the missing Doctor Who episodes so that they can be copied in the future so that they will always be preserved? Or do you go back in time and rescue the original 10 hour version of Greed?
3. List five songs that in your mind would qualify as nightmare fuel, not because they suck but because the lyrics and music are scary as hell and could freak someone out if they were made to listen to it.
4. Going back to 2000; Sinestro shows back up on Earth, after Lex Luthor loses the Presidency due to George W Bush blackmailing him with files on his criminal activies to make Lex drop out at the last minute and pretty much daring Lex to call his counter bluff of revealing Bush's plans to drag America into a war with Iraq no matter what illegal thing he has to do to get the war on. Sinestro, wanting to piss off Kyle Raynor, comes up with the idea of the two men forming their own "Justice League" to collectively fuck with the minds of Superman and Kyle Raynor by going around, beating up bad guys and saving the world (think Dark Avengers, but in the DCU). Who does Lex Luthor and Sinestro recruit, unde the logic of them recruiting villains that would be willing to save the world and not screw up the plan by backsliding into villainy?
5. You are in a hotel when you come across a room where Pokemon are being made to fight for their owners sick enjoyment. Do you watch or do you try and break up the fighting, by pointing out how the sport is nothing more than cockfighting and is cruel to the Pokemon being made to fight?
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Post by jensaltmann on Aug 12, 2009 0:42:04 GMT -8
[...]comes up with the idea of the two men forming their own "Justice League" to collectively fuck with the minds of Superman and Kyle Raynor by going around, beating up bad guys and saving the world (think Dark Avengers, but in the DCU). Who does Lex Luthor and Sinestro recruit, unde the logic of them recruiting villains that would be willing to save the world and not screw up the plan by backsliding into villainy? Just yesterday, literally, I pitched something like this to DC.
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Post by K-Box on Aug 12, 2009 12:28:42 GMT -8
I'm gonna have to give this some thought ...
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Post by K-Box on Aug 12, 2009 13:15:19 GMT -8
First question:
I really like some of your AmeriWho casting picks (Veronica Mars as Rose and Gus as Mickey are aces), but not others (Mary McDonnell is clearly the American Lis Sladen, just as Jean Smart would make a great American stand-in for Camille Coduri).
If Kyle MacLachlan were 10 years younger, he'd be a great American Ten (Tennant and Eccleston are both late 30s to early 40s, btw). I almost said Hugh Laurie for an American Nine, until I remembered that he's British.
I hate the idea of an overly attractive male actor as the Doctor, but if Brad Pitt could channel his inner freak from 12 Monkeys, he might be interesting, but probably not for the long haul. Likewise, Johnny Depp is almost too on-the-nose, because his version of the Doctor would basically be every other Johnny Depp character ever. James Spader would also be 10 years too old for the role as you define it, but his reptilian charm would make for a very interesting Doctor.
I'm sure I'm overlooking some great comic/dramatic actor with a tricksterish bent, but for right now, I'm actually thinking an unknown would be the best bet.
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Post by K-Box on Aug 12, 2009 17:05:35 GMT -8
Second question:
... Goddamn you, you bastard.
The Whovian in me would be SORELY tempted, but the film historian in me would never be able to live with myself if I didn't save Greed. As much as the words "classic film" are overused (including by me), it really is, even if I have almost no interest in it personally.
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Post by jensaltmann on Aug 13, 2009 7:56:40 GMT -8
What's "Greed?"
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Post by jessebaker on Aug 13, 2009 8:25:01 GMT -8
A famous silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim, who most people know not from his days as a director but from his work as an actor, most notably as Gloria Swanson's co-star in "Sunset Boulevard". The film is about the effects of greed upon three people: a dentist, his wife, and his wife's ex-boyfriend/cousin. The wife wins the lottery and goes crazy hording her money from her husband, who's practice as a dentist is ruined by his wife's cousin/former lover (who is pissed that he let the dentist friend marry his cousin right before she won the lottery) as far as him outing the dentist as not being officially licence as a dentist. The husband ends up snapping and murdering his wife, who's refusal to spend a dime of her fortune destroys the marriage. The cousin ends up chasing the husband into Death Valley where they both die. (It's all better than it sounds, with the Death Valley sequence being the film's most famous scene). The film originally ran 10 hours but was cut down to four hours (which does exist, in reconstructed form as of 1999, thanks to Turner Classic Films) when the studio making the film was acquired by MGM (who really didn't like Stroheim). MGM then recut the film again, without Stroheim's permission to about 80 minutes, making the original 10 hour film one of the lost classic films of early Hollywood.
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Post by jensaltmann on Aug 18, 2009 23:54:13 GMT -8
Kirk, you still need to finish answering your questions and pick a next victim.
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Post by K-Box on Aug 19, 2009 7:33:44 GMT -8
I'll finish my questions later today.
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Post by K-Box on Aug 20, 2009 8:22:18 GMT -8
Fifth question (working backward):
If Pokemon existed in the real world, yeah, I probably would try to break up the fight, because the cock-fighting parallel would be very apt.
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