Comments on: From the moldering portion of the vaults

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:06:10 +0000

I love this post, thank you for making it

By: shoortdriethy

shoortdriethy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:50:41 +0000

Very Good site, thank yo mister, it’s help’s me!

By: Aardy R. DeVarque

Aardy R. DeVarque — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:43:16 +0000

Yer welcome!

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:27:27 +0000

Not really. That comment wasn’t there originally. I suspect it was held up for moderation because of the number of links it had.

In any event, it had exactly what I was looking for. Granted, doesn’t add a tremendous amount to what is easily available here, but I enjoyed reading it all (and it makes the Word doc I put together nicely complete now.)

Thanks, Aardy!

By: Skemono

Skemono — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:09:59 +0000

Somehow I missed that post and saw only your post right below it. My bad.

Not really. That comment wasn’t there originally. I suspect it was held up for moderation because of the number of links it had.

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:57:52 +0000

Aardy R. DeVarque: @Sean — If you want to see all of the actual original texts of the original “I should write the Legion” series, then go to the first two Internet Archive links I posted. Those *are* the original posts, archived for posterity.

Face palm.

Somehow I missed that post and saw only your post right below it. My bad. Thanks!!

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:21:50 +0000

No, Wolverine stabbed the Damage Control exec who ordered it in the head in broad daylight in the middle of NYC, and only told Miriam Sharpe the truth about what happened, which she apparently kept to herself.

The executive, Walter Declun, somehow survived that and became a super-villain called the Broker who’s working for Doom in Doomwar.

By: Burke

Burke — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:43:04 +0000

That’s what they call an Idiot Plot. For the plot to work, most or all of the characters involved need to be or behave like idiots.

By: LurkerWithout

LurkerWithout — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:00:53 +0000

“Also, a few conspiracy theories floated around, like “Big Insurance backed the SHRA because the need for paying for all the damage superhumans caused would be taken off them, and shunted to the federal taxpayer.””
@Tullberg: IIRC this was part of the story arc from Wolverine’s book at the time. He found out that the new “profits above all” types who had taken over Damage Control were using M.G.H. to boost the powers of destructive villains like Nitro. So of course Maria Hill arrested him. For only being registered in Canada I guess or something…

Fuck the overplot for the last 8 years has required a lot of supposedly smart characters to be inexplicably stupid…

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:08:43 +0000

Jon H– You’re exactly right. Organising all the heroes as a government agency would probably make them less accountable rather than more.

By: Aardy R. DeVarque

Aardy R. DeVarque — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:04:01 +0000

@Sean — If you want to see all of the actual original texts of the original “I should write the Legion” series, then go to the first two Internet Archive links I posted. Those *are* the original posts, archived for posterity.

They lack the images (though you’ve already seen those), but have _all_ the text (at least of those posts that got archived).

By: Jon H

Jon H — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:47:18 +0000

The silly thing is thinking that registration would protect the public.

Empirically, police have a license to kill civilians with impunity. Even when they are put on trial for, say, shooting a grandma in a SWAT raid based on a wrong address, they only rarely get convicted or see any time.

The real-world version of the Stamford fiasco would probably be something like the Philly police dropping a bomb on the MOVE house in West Philly. Burned down the whole city block.

By: Rob Brown

Rob Brown — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:38:28 +0000

AWESOME! Thank you for reposting this, MGK. I thought that this entire thing was lost forever when LiveJournal suspended your account.

By: coren

coren — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:33:10 +0000

@magnus: as a character there was nothing wrong with the sentry. It’s everything after his first mini sans Jeff Parker that started fucking it all up

By: Simon K

Simon K — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:18:25 +0000

@Greg Manuel if you ever get to write Cap, I DEMAND you use that line.