[REVIEW] End of Month Reviews #78 - June 2010 [spoilers] Reviewed This Issue: Academy of Super-Heroes #107 [ASH] The Flagsuit Memo [ASH] The Gong Fu Kid [Contest] {high concept 10} Jolt City #19 [8Fold] Silver Arrow #2 [StarFall] SW10: What About Judy And Me? [SW10]
John Munlop was only a year away from his long planned retirement when he heard about his son's death. It was that piece of news that sent him over the edge into madness, and that madness from which the death trap that slaughtered so many emerged more than a decade later. It happened like this...
Always ten steps ahead, that Shaka Zoom. Plans within plans, a web of contingencies and feints that are nearly as impossible to comprehend as they are to predict. Proclaimed as the world's greatest mind, and not just self-proclaimed, at that.
The cover shows an aged Weapons Master ducking under several blades as a gout of flame narrowly misses him. The ceiling appears to be getting lower as well. "I'm gettin' too old for this crap," Chuck Morse hissed as he looked up at the rapidly descending basalt slab. This was followed by hoping that his last words wouldn't be a cliche.
In popular media, but a little less so in actual practice, the deathtrap is one of the signature melodramatic tools of the supervillain. But, thinking about all the things that get called deathtraps, it feels like there's more than one kind of thing there. A slowly dropping ceiling in an ancient temple is a lot different in design and purpose from one of Doctor Developer's creations, but both are called deathtraps.
Twelve years ago today, an event changed the world. All worlds along a rather large chunk of the worldtree, in fact. July 6, 1998 marked the end of the world for a potentially uncountable number of alternate realities, although we've only seen the details in a few of those worlds.
The cover shows Doctor Developer behind the wheel of a van, looking head on through the window at him. Copy along the bottom reads, "It's 281 miles to Chicago, I've got a full tank of gas, half a stack of pancakes, it's sunny, and I'm not wearing sunglasses. Hit it."
Egg Man was the first to encounter Crazy Glue. Which was a little unfortunate as he had only just arrived in Net.Ropolis and haven't even had a chance to sign up with the LNH (which he was intending to do so at his first available opportunity), but crime wasn't allowing him even a small break.
[The cover shows a collage of photos of the members of ASH, two and three at a time, strung together with red ribbon. In the lower right is a yellow sticky note reading, "See me!"] .|. COHERENT COMICS UNINCORPORATED presents ACADEMY OF SUPER-HEROES #107 -X------- -------- ----
"It's a trap," Doctor Developer broke in, causing a momentary hush around the table. After a moment, Lady Lawful snorted, as if at a private joke. He ignored her for the moment, and continued. "Look, I know the only reason I'm even at this 'summit meeting' is that you heroes wanted to talk to Clockwork Ibis, and neither side trusted the other enough to show up at less than full roster strength...although, speaking of trust, I see you didn't trust Set or Valkyrie enough to let them in on this."
THE GONG FU KID "Mom, why do we have to go to China?" "Because I have a job there at the American embassy." "And why isn't dad coming?" "He's going to stay here in Hollywood and pursue his dream of becoming a movie star." "So why don't we stay here with him?" "Because he's not a movie star yet. Jaden, don't worry: as soon as your father gets his big break and becomes a movie star he's going to send for us and we are all going to be together again and living in a mansion in Beverly Hills."
It's the bottom of the ninth, and Derek "Blue Boxer" Mason has made it to third base. His cohort and mentor, Martin "Green Knight" Rock, is at bat, his costume drenched in sweat. "Strike him out!" cries the demonic twelve-year-old catcher. The pitcher hovers in mid-air above his mound. "One more of my
My apologies for not doing this sooner. Life happened. Anyway, polls are open: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QKSLDPG There are four entries, please only vote once.
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Here's a link to something that analyzes your writings and finds what famous writer your work resembles... [link] I tried a number of my stories... and this is what I got... Eggplant #4 - Margaret Atwood [link] Guttertrash #25 - I did two parts and got these two: Margaret Mitchell
The LNH, or Legion of Net.Heroes, is a society of those beings who emulate the spirit of adventure and undying quest for justice while clothed in spandex and a never-ending stream of bad jokes. In short, we are super-heroes, or at the very least authors who spend what spare time we have writing about super-heroes.
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Hey, guys, this is the second month in a row I've posted a story and I haven't gotten any comments? What gives? Martin
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Since I'm low on idea juice, I'm going to with an old standby of mine: DEATH TRAPS! How complex can a death trap be? How simple can it be? Can you make a death trap out of ideas? Philosophy? People? Entries will be accepted until 11:59 PM on July 27th. Voting will open the 28th, close on the 31st, and a winner will be announced that day.
First and foremost, RACC is a site for people to post comics-related fiction. Stories about long-underwear vigilantes, anthropomorphic animals, SF, westerns, even Kleen Teens if anyone is so moved. As long as it relates to comics it's okay. So whether you're a reader, a writer, or that fabled creature the critic, or even all three - welcome to RACC: it's all the story, none of the art! (yet)
Go to SurveyMonkey to vote on High Concept Challenge the day July 2, 2010). Remember, if you haven't read all four entries, they can be found on Wil Alambre's RACC site. Dave Van Domelen, not voting due to potential conflict of interest and all that.
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Well, two new series, actually, as I can now confirm that ORPHANS OF MARS will be launching in July after receiving some rather positive feedback[*] re: their debut story in the pages of JOURNEY INTO... # 12. [*- Read: My wife really enjoyed it, and has been loudly demanding more on a daily basis.]
The LNH, or Legion of Net.Heroes, is a society of those beings who emulate the spirit of adventure and undying quest for justice while clothed in spandex and a never-ending stream of bad jokes. In short, we are super-heroes, or at the very least authors who spend what spare time we have writing about super-heroes.
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[Odd. Where did I put the subject line? Careless of me. Oh well, 2nd post.] Okay. So after *years* of delay because of the Apathy Beast gnawing on my leg, Tom has finally managed to get me to finish writing the first issue of My Father's Son via the judicious use of half yearly prods-with-a-metaphorical-stic k.
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High Concept #10 is "The Immigrant Experience". To explicate further, the story should be about someone who willingly relocated (to another city, country, planet or even reality) for some reason and is involved in superheroism or supervillainy. Maybe the super-aspect is why they moved, maybe not.
Oops, forgot to set a closing date (although my original post from this morning still hasn't shown up, hmmm). Entries will be accepted through the end of the day (11:59:59 PM Central Daylight Time) on June 25. That gives a little less than three weeks. Dave Van Domelen, wonders why his previous post hasn't gotten
Voting on High Concept Challeng 9 has closed. Four votes were received, with Dvandom as the winner for his 'Prisoner of the Red Planet'. [Swats the Challenge ball in Dvandom's direction.] Your turn Dave. - Saxon Brenton saxon.bren...@uts.edu.au saxonbren...@hotmail.com ______________________________ ______________________________ _____
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[Well, crud. I mistyped the email addy. This came through fine on a.c.lnh, but not at all on r.a.c.c.] Submissions for the 9th High Concept Challenge 'The Red Planet' have closed. There are four elligible stories. In alphabetical order they are: * Coherent Super Stories #20 'Prisoner of the Red Planet' - Dave Van Domelen (Dvandom)
First and foremost, RACC is a site for people to post comics-related fiction. Stories about long-underwear vigilantes, anthropomorphic animals, SF, westerns, even Kleen Teens if anyone is so moved. As long as it relates to comics it's okay. So whether you're a reader, a writer, or that fabled creature the critic, or even all three - welcome to RACC: it's all the story, none of the art! (yet)