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In the Core Marvel Universe, Thor -- the literal Norse god of Thunder -- was turned into a frog for three issues, including one where his magic hammer turned him into a 6'6" frog-man (er, frog-god), which had the side effect of chipping his hammer so that another frog (who had once been a man before he was cursed by a fortune-teller) could turn into a normal-sized frog-god, which came in handy when he had to team up with a teleporting dog and a sabretooth tiger to get magic gems back from an alien from Jupiter's moon who was in love with the living embodiment of Death.

I love comic books. Although technically, Thanos is from Titan, which is one of Saturn's moons. But the rest of that is right.

Spider-Man has a note on his calendar that says it's his anniversary. WTF? Anniversary of WHAT?

Oh, Chris Sims of the Invincible Super-Blog, why are you so awesome?

So—a while back, I wrote up one of my standard tl;dr essays about Ricochet’s place in the Marvelverse, particularly his thoughts about the mutant-human conflict and IC & OOC rationales for why he’s not part of the X-Men. Since then we’ve gotten a couple new mutants here in camp—plus Wolverine—and their presence changes the equation enough that I felt like essaying again. This essay’s aimed to look at clarifying some things about Rico’s status as a mutant, and how he relates to the X-Men as a result. (Wolverine’s presence is likely to spark its own essay before too long; look for that to follow if you’ve absolutely nothing better to do with your time.)

( No Sleep Til Brooklyn )

... I should post this ICly, but. I'm probably gonna pass out instead. Maybe tomorrow.

Which of my characters' canons are you familiar with? (i.e. have watched/played enough to know what they're about.)

Failure is not an option. "None of the Above" should have been, but I forgot it.

Poll #1381933 Canon Familiarity Poll--Exactly What It Says On The Tin
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

Current starting line-up

Cut from the team

Team Name

Former Loners series writer CB Cebulski talking about their cameo in Darkhawk's new book:

"Yeah, y'know, when Brian Vaughn introduced the Loners--which was Excelsior back in the day in Runaways--it was the super-hero self help group and they were trying to stay out of costume. With great power comes great responsibility, but if you don't use those powers, what responsibility do you still have to the public? And that's kind of the question that we always struggled with, that the Loners [were] struggling with. And what we find now is they're back on the East Coast and they have kind of a different mandate after Secret Invasion, because they have a responsibility now, given everything that's happening in the Marvel Universe in Dark Reign with Norman Osborn taking over. They have the powers--they have to do something about it. So we're addressing that briefly in Darkhawk--in the War of Kings: Darkhawk specials, and what his role is, bouncing between Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. and the Loners, and where it's going to take his relationship once he gets drafted, so to speak, for the War of Kings."

So... Rico's back in New York City (this I knew) and his team may be getting a new mission statement to tie into the larger 'verse again (this I did not know). Time to keep reading.

Ricochet: an Omnibus Headcanon Exploration

This is an essay concept that has been percolating in the fevered pathways of my brain for some time now, and I figured I should finally let it out. It’s meant to explain how I think Ricochet feels about human-mutant relations in the Marvelverse and how that influences his views on similar scenarios he’s learned about in Camp. It’s also meant to reconcile his place in the Marvelverse ICly, mostly by stringing together best-guess rationales to make sense of what are actually entirely OOC editorial decisions. As with everything I write, I hope this will make something resembling sense.

( Too Freaking Long )

[On the TV screen at the Video-Rama and Porn Hut, Humphrey Bogart and Claude Raines have just begun their long walk from the airfield pondering the potential outcomes of a new and beautiful friendship, and the resident superhero owner/operator has stirred himself from the couch to stop the movie.]

Still as good the second time 'round, princess?

I love me a bandwagon.

Ask me a question for Thor, Ricochet, the Spirit, & Xanatos, and I'll give you a quintet of answers!

I'll admit it--I read this comic book, and yet I still have no idea what this is supposed to mean, exactly. Fortunately, it's drawn in pretty broad strokes, enough so that I can sort of make out the general shape of things.

Apparently the general shape of things involves Doctor Doom. And Dracula. On the Moon. No word on whether Steve was there too.

... yeah. If the prospect of moon-Dracula teaming up with Dr. Doom doesn't make you excited, you probably read other sorts of comic books than the ones I do.

... my current level of fail is sufficient that I'm having trouble getting gifts for people IRL, let alone for folks in a wacky internet hijinks game. BUT. I'm certainly not averse to putting on Ye Olde Thynkyng Cappe as necessary if anyone's curious as to what they'd be getting from: Thor, Ricochet, the Spirit, & Xanatos.

Also note in your comment if you'd like to play out gift-giving shenanigans, 'cause I'm down with that, too.

Apologies to those I was threading with last night--my internet cut out, leading to my disappearance, and it has remained out into this morning. I'm now at school and using their internet, but when I left home the connection was still out and I don't know when that'll be resolved. This happened a few weeks ago and my service provider sent a tech out to the house who declared there was nothing wrong with the signal... and then suggested we get a new router. Thanks, genius, but the problem we're having is with the goddamn MODEM, because our home network is still fine and dandy. Despite this stellar tech support, the problem seemed to resolve itself on its own... until last night. And since we have phone service from the same company, our phones are out, too. (Yet for some odd reason, the cable still works. GG, Comcast.)

Not vital enough for CFO, as I'm hoping the matter will be resolved by the time I get home, or at least enough to let me post more when I know more. If things really hit the fan I'll post a more definite notice then.

Catch you on the flip side.

Sorry folks, nary an Inferno in sight in this post. No, here I post a link thingy because it's a pretty accurate description of my own experiences with Marvel's latest "Things Will Never Be The Same!" Big Event (tm).

That would be the so-called Secret Invasion. Yeah, I didn't read it either. But I did read those other titles he mentioned here, and they were pretty awesome.

Also yes, Beta Ray Bill is hard to draw. This is because he's a motherfuckin' space horse.

DOES MY CHARACTER DO ANYTHING WITH YOURS OFFSCREEN? WHY NOT? Comment here to see where our characters are crossing paths, and where they're meeting up offscreen.

Thor camps out in the woods when he bothers to sleep, which isn't often--he doesn't need much rest and tends to get most of it by catnapping here and there. Most of the time he's on patrol, just wandering around camp and out into the woods, looking for anything that might catch his interest--luckily for him Camp tends to provide. He trains by himself out near the Barrier, but returns to the Mess Hall and the Library when he's looking for company. Every so often he flies for a bit, but it's not his preferred method of transportation. Thor comes and goes at all hours of the day and night, but if there's a gathering somewhere he'll usually take at least a cursory look before moving on.

Ricochet lives in the Video-Rama's back room, previously alone but now with the recent addition of a kitten named Bailey. He keeps to a semi-nocturnal schedule these days, waking in the late morning and opening the 'Rama up for business around 11. In the late afternoon he closes shop, suits up, and goes on patrol, but always winds up at the Library around sunset. He'll do another, late-night patrol after that, and then head back to the 'Rama to sleep sometime before dawn. That's the structure of his normal day, but he'll often ignore any schedule and just wander around Camp to see what's going on where at odd hours.

The Spirit is in Boys' 19 as a counselor, but he doesn't do much but sleep there. More often he's at the Library, or exploring back tunnels around the Labs, or just observing the goings-on in Camp itself. Unlike Thor or Rico he doesn't really patrol so much as lurk, waiting for bits of interesting action to come to him. He doesn't much like the woods and so keeps more to the inhabited parts of Camp.

This just in from Newsarama's Preview of Marvel Titles for February '09.

" WAR OF KINGS: DARKHAWK #1 (of 2)
Written by C.B. CEBULSKI
Penciled by HARVEY TOLIBAO
Cover by BRANDON PETERSON
As WAR OF KINGS approaches, the ascension of Darkhawk begins! New Warrior...Avenger...Intergalactic destroyer?! Chris Powell has been many things over his young life, but now he’s stepping up with a new life on the East Coast and a serious job at Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. But when his past comes back to haunt him and new information about his amulet and its legacy are violently brought to light, Darkhawk realizes he may have to face a much darker destiny that he ever realized. All this, plus the return of the Loners... and a reprint of DARKHAWK #1! You know how ANNIHILATION made you look twice at Nova (now star of a critically acclaimed series)? This is where Darkhawk takes off! "

Emphasis mine, of course. WE'RE BACK, BABY... as supporting characters. To Darkhawk.

Wait, WHAT?

I mean, sure I'm happy the team will be getting any sort of play at all, especially by Cebulski since he's spent so much time keeping other writers away from them. And yeah, Darkhawk was always one of my favorite Marvel B-listers, second only to Ricochet among the Loners. But seriously, Marvel--you're already calling that Darkhawk's gonna be the new breakout cosmic star, a la Nova? You really think lightning's gonna strike twice with yet another bucket-headed superhero getting a push? I hope so, but... Dude. It's Darkhawk.

Well, regardless... Rico's back in print come February. Something else to spend money on.

So for those of you who didn't catch it, I did a bad thing a few nights back, for which I am heartily sorry. Not. But on the off chance people were wondering why I was mentioning being on hiatus despite having been around an awful lot this week, allow me to clarify my schedule.

I called hiatus at the beginning of October because I had a series of weddings, summer placement interviews, schoolwork, work work, and exams looming on the horizon. At the moment I've gotten one wedding, the work work, and all the interviews out of the way, and in the last couple days have found enough free time to start playing a little bit again. That ends tomorrow night--my two-week exam period starts next Wednesday, and the second wedding is that weekend, and I'll be needing to devote my attention to those things again.

Tomorrow night is probably the last chance I'll have for RP for a little while, although I may stretch that in fits and starts over this weekend. And I'll probably keep chiming in on serious polls and the like as a means of blowing off stress in between studying for and actually taking exams. And hey, maybe I'll be able to make a little time for Halloween shenanigans here and there. But I really shouldn't be around too terribly much for the next two weeks--so if I make random appearances or drop threads more egregiously than usual, that's why.

You may now return to things that actually interest you! See you when I see you, folks.