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billroperA couple of years ago, Gretchen and I wrote a bit for SpaceTime Theater's ConClave show (where the con's theme was Heroes and Villains) about a married couple where the husband is a super-hero and the wife is a super-villain. Not surprisingly, they find themselves at a marriage counselor. Gretchen played the wife, Jerry played the husband, and Kelley played the counselor. The bit went over really well, so we thought we'd revisit the characters again.
Gretchen and I had the idea of having our couple invite their friends over for an anniversary party. (How could we possibly have come up with such an idea?) Since Sam and I are the biggest comics fans, we went upstairs to work on that bit, leaving Gretchen and the rest of the group to work on another bit.
Sam and I had a great time writing the bit -- which we hope that some of you will see this year at ConClave! We had to invent a lot of super-heroes and villains for the sketch, since we weren't using any existing characters.
Well, except for one. A tossed-off-for-laughs character who had appeared in a few Marvel comics in the 1980s and who hadn't been seen since. But he was exactly what we needed for the bit and we figured that only members of the subspecies Comics geekus maximus would actually catch the reference.
Until he showed up on the cover of an upcoming issue of "She-Hulk" in last month's Previews.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Captain Ultra!
Gretchen and I had the idea of having our couple invite their friends over for an anniversary party. (How could we possibly have come up with such an idea?) Since Sam and I are the biggest comics fans, we went upstairs to work on that bit, leaving Gretchen and the rest of the group to work on another bit.
Sam and I had a great time writing the bit -- which we hope that some of you will see this year at ConClave! We had to invent a lot of super-heroes and villains for the sketch, since we weren't using any existing characters.
Well, except for one. A tossed-off-for-laughs character who had appeared in a few Marvel comics in the 1980s and who hadn't been seen since. But he was exactly what we needed for the bit and we figured that only members of the subspecies Comics geekus maximus would actually catch the reference.
Until he showed up on the cover of an upcoming issue of "She-Hulk" in last month's Previews.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Captain Ultra!
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Date: 2004-08-04 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-08-04 04:11 am (UTC)Going off on a slight tangent, all us around here have become totally hooked on a MMORG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game) called "City of Heroes". All the heroes in this world are Superheroes and each is played by a real person somewhere in the world. All the bad guys are computer controlled.
Its an amazingly well written and fun game. The character creation part of the game is nearly as fun as playing it. Seeing the designs and names people have come up with is great fun. Some of dull (clones of existing characters.. though one made us laugh. He was a perfect copy of The Hulk, down to the purple pants, but he was three feet tall.. Mini-Hulk.) Some are not copies, but just boring (The Killer Sword Man) and some are Fun (like a speedster called "The Running Gag").
Diana wants to create a character who just runs up and watches other people fight called "The Gawker"
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Date: 2004-08-04 06:34 pm (UTC)