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edited 9th Feb '16 11:41:54 AM by alliterator
x6 I get the impression that Marvel's Most Wanted might end up as an actual procedural.
Heck perhaps Mockingbird and co. end up operating under whatever version of the Sokovia Accords ends up in after the events of Civil War, rather then the current, legally tenuous, state of SHIELD.
edited 9th Feb '16 11:45:51 AM by Falrinn
I read Powers.
It was interesting but sorta bleak. Actually no sorta. It was just bleak. Practically every new volume is another hero dead, another new conspiracy, or a hero going off their rocker.
Thats the sort of thing you get in procedurals I guess but its very hard to binge.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt had one of those too. "What if Captain America won the Civil War?" Iron Man sacrifices himself to stop the stupid Thor Clonebot and the government overreacts to his death by mass-producing more Thor clones and declaring genocidal war on all superheroes forever. The message, I guess, is that it's a good thing the government side won 'cause Iron Man's the only thing standing between them and being the complete f*cking bastards that the X-Men kept trying to tell everyone that they are.
Militia, not military. These kinds of distinctions are important in U.S. law.
The National Guard is a volunteer reserve force of men and women who train as soldiers while also holding civilian jobs. They can be employed by the Army or Air Force if needed but until such a time, they remain as part of the U.S. militia.
There is no situation in which the Army and Air Force can legally put gun emplacements and pilot attack choppers around our cities hunting for criminals. That is wholly forbidden by U.S. law.
edited 9th Feb '16 11:51:11 AM by TobiasDrake
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The military hunting down and killing all superheroes or murdering them in their sleep would also, generally, be an awful story and what absolutely zero people read comics for.
I'll give Warren Ellis the benefit of the doubt on Black Summer since he's done good stuff but just as a concept it smacks of the worst kind of deconstruction.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersEven if the government decide to pass superhero regulations, it would pretty much be a symbolic gesture if they didn't have any superhumans in their employ. If a team of superhumans decided to take over the world to enforce peace there's not much anyone could do to stop them, as seen in Squadron Supreme.
Make mine Marvel.Not thin at all. The National Guard operates under state authority, not federal. That's what makes them a militia. They're civilians who train as soldiers part-time in the event that the state needs its armed forces, such as in the event of an emergency. Congress cannot order the 54 individual National Guards to embark on a genocidal witchhunt.
edited 9th Feb '16 12:42:06 PM by TobiasDrake
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Okay, here goes: the only superhero team in Black Summer are the Seven Guns, people who have specialized cybernetic enhancements to give them powers. The one who killed the President was John Horus, the Superman of the team, while the main character of the book is Tom Noir, the Batman of the team. After John Horus kills the President (and all of his advisers), he tells the nation to elect a new President and that anyone coming after him will be killed.
Well, the government does come after him, but they have a secret: Frank Blacksmith, the creator of their implants, is on the side of the government and is helping to hunt them down. Also, Tom Noir wants to stop John Horus, while the rest of the Seven Guns just want to survive being killed by the government. Tom eventually kills John and Frank, while the Seven Guns manage to fight off the government until one of them dies and then they flee.
edited 9th Feb '16 1:17:28 PM by alliterator
I suppose its all in execution.
Edit: As it is, Noir is expy Batman and Horus is expy Superman so this is yet another Batman v Superman fight and geez if we're not always sitting in a pile of those.
Shrug.
edited 9th Feb '16 1:39:19 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersProbably still goes on the pile with Hyperion and that Injustice Superman that killed a bunch of people.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersBecause that was a Superman who was always insane vs. his Lex Luthor that wanted to fuck him.
My various fanfics.I used to think I had a problem with Superman deconstructions after running into so many, but I really don't. My actually issue is when superpowered heroes are derailed to idolize or prop up the Badass Normal heroes.
Haven't read Irredeemable so I can't comment on it.
If its good, then great!
No problem being on the Superman v Batman pile.
Squadron Supreme is somewhere near the bottom of that pile and people largely agree that its a classic (the classic Superman v Batman brought to you by Marvel)
Its all in the execution
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It often feels like the What Ifs end up with better and more uplifting endings than the main series ever does. Like the What If of Planet Hulk where the Hulk did land on the planet he was meant to be sent to and ends up cultivating the evolution of entire new species and civilizations on that world.