TrueGentleman

Just planting the seed of an idea ...

Somehow I don't think we can expect an Alan Scott Green Lantern movie any time soon.

That's the difference between "the acclaimed developers behind City of Heroes, City of Villains, Champions Online and Star Trek Online" and "the developers behind Champions Online and Star Trek Online".

What about combining a global unlock with an inf. sink, which the game needs all it can get?

Once a main character has ground out, say, enough Nemesis or Crey kills for the respective rifles, new toons could have access to these for a price, and the inf. could easily be glemailed to them if necesarily. Naturally the devs will want to keep certain pieces as per-character rewards (Vanguard and Roman pieces are, in all probability, perpetually hard-won items), but surely we don't have to repeat the same grinds for each concept character or re-roll.

Enthusiastically /signed for the latter (would it be something along the lines of Money to Burn?). MUDflation is rampant these days around here, and the game is badly in need of inf. sinks.

In addition, how about badges for prestige exchange, e.g. in increments of 100M, 250M, 500M, and 1B? Maybe Donated to the Cause, Gave at the Office, and the like?

Edit: Curses, I hit "post" before "preview" and missed Commander's similar suggestion. (I'd still argue that smaller increments for multiple badges are better than a single one for the inf. cap in terms of a currency sink.)

Just to reiterate from the unofficial thread, here's the exact exchange: I should have known that the New York Post's rumor-mongering, muck-raking style of tabloid journalism would extend to their video games reporting.

I should have known that the New York Post's rumor-mongering, muck-raking style of tabloid journalism would extend to their video games reporting.

Arguably. Black Summer certainly had a phenomenal premise that Ellis couldn't resolve satisfactorily. My own criticism of Ellis is that since he's so fascinated with bizarre ideas and themes, he overloads his works with exposition. Sometimes he makes a virtue of it (Crecy); sometimes he gets by despite it (Planetary); and sometimes he capsizes (Doctor Sleepless).

Nonetheless, I'll take his work over yet another mainstream comics publisher's must-have double-bag Death of Captain Obvious any day.

Add to that list Grant Morrison's "indie" work, e.g. The Invisibles, Filth, Zenith. In Zenith's Phase III storyline, he and Steve Yeowell pitilessly killed off several dimensions' worth of superheroes from comparatively innocent British children's comics in a black-and-white massacre that was more bleak than any of D.C.'s increasingly convoluted four-color crises.

Warren Ellis can also be counted on to deliver shocks in his independent work, such as his take on the limits of superheroism in Black Summer.

Then again, generic animal paws that fit cat, dog, bear, etc. themes - i.e. pads to complement the currently available claws - would stand a better chance of adoption than a single species'.

It might be a bit overpowering for Paragon's gangs to be given dual pistols, like the Malta Gunslingers. Instead, why not new animation in which they hold their pistols at exaggerated angles with a consequent -Accuracy? Nothing says "gangsta" like being unable to shoot straight because of posing.

I thought he was trying to go straight! {rim-shot}

But seriously, his old Outcasts gang uniform still suits him, although maybe some of the old costume pieces could be tweaked a bit.

I'm hopelessly late to this, but...

No capes!!!

Sadly, a faked death doesn't generate any more suspense than an easily reversible one.

I prefer Alan Moore's method of killing off the protagonist and then speedily resurrecting him for a reboot of their eponymous series, viz. Swamp Thing and Captain Britain. Unfortunately, that works only for second-tier properties.

Even more like, "Since you won't read Spider-Man anymore, we're just going to have to kill him!"

When it comes to killing off characters credibly, hack-auteur Joss Whedon understands that the audience doesn't care if redshirts die (because they're never coming back) and doesn't believe the deaths of the protagonists (because they have to come back or else there's no continuing story), so the logical targets are the secondary characters in whom the audience has some emotional investments. That's why the deaths of Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy worked, and that's why this "event" issue is fundamentally meaningless.

(Whedon also understands that it's impossible to make the death of a superhero stick - e.g. resurrecting/bringing back Colossus in his X-Men run - but putting them in impossible situations is more effective - e.g. consigning Kitty Pride on a one-way rocket to outer space in the same series.)