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by Jack of Spades
Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:41 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Leprechauns! Lavender! Lissa Russell! The Muppets!)

Now THIS is the Jab stuff I tuned in for!

YAAAAYYYYY!!!! (Flails arms.)
by Jack of Spades
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:06 am
Forum: Ask the Staff
Topic: Hall of Shame admissions
Replies: 1
Views: 245

Hall of Shame admissions

I just noticed it's pushing four years since Ares has had to add anyone to the Hall of Shame. I love this community.
by Jack of Spades
Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:39 am
Forum: Books, Comics and Web-Comics
Topic: DC Adventures Universe History Question
Replies: 4
Views: 632

Re: DC Adventures Universe History Question

The reasoning I use is that the "lantern" is Guardian technology for containing the energy of the emotional spectrum. The orange lantern is built from that base, and the Zamarons decided that technology worked better than the raw star sapphire gems. I see the Blue Lanterns as EMTs to the G...
by Jack of Spades
Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:10 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Jab’s Builds! (The Untouchables! Undercover Cops! NBA Jam!)

* Astro City (UGH fuck it- they're never gonna release that damn "N-Forcer Origin Story" one so I might as well do it eventually. This will have some newbies from the new comic, though I'll have to re-read it as I forget everyone but the damn dog in that story that didn't at all give me t...
by Jack of Spades
Wed Nov 15, 2023 2:55 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Jackdaw! Jamie Braddock! Meggan! Nightcrawler!)

I tend to prefer what I understand to be Claremont's original plan for Nightcrawler's parentage, that he's the son of Mystique and Destiny. As I heard it, editorial nixed it. Unsurprisingly.
by Jack of Spades
Mon Nov 06, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Merlyn! Courtney Ross! Saturnyne! Mad Jim Jaspers!)

Of all Marvel's all-powerful reality warpers, Mad Jim Jaspers is my least favorite, because he's just a whackadoodle with no style beyond being bizarre. Proteus, the Scarlet Witch, even Franklin Richards – they have some style.
by Jack of Spades
Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:43 am
Forum: Film, Television and Music
Topic: My take on Andor
Replies: 4
Views: 2741

Re: My take on Andor

Oh, I have no illusions that the series creators agree with my viewpoint. They are trying to present Karn as Andor's evil counterpart, and, well, the series is called Andor . It's just that I find almost anyone else in the series more interesting than the titular protagonist. The problem with Karn a...
by Jack of Spades
Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:13 am
Forum: Film, Television and Music
Topic: My take on Andor
Replies: 4
Views: 2741

Re: My take on Andor

I guess we just read it differently. As I saw it he wanted to be a cop, and when the system was corrupt (forcing him to sign a report he hadn't read or make up a resolution to the case, for example), he didn't care for that at all, even though it would have advanced him. He did want to be what he th...
by Jack of Spades
Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:55 pm
Forum: Film, Television and Music
Topic: My take on Andor
Replies: 4
Views: 2741

My take on Andor

I recently decided to watch the Star Wars series Andor . (As a Star Trek fan, I can’t help always thinking this series should be about the home of blue-skinned aliens with antennae.) I tried to watch it when it was first release, but lost interest. Since then I’ve gotten more curious about the craft...
by Jack of Spades
Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:12 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Gung-Ho! Bazooka! Spirit! Shipwreck! Roadblock!)

The GI Joe comic convinced me to make a pastiche of them to fill the role of SHIELD-analog in my then-current Champions campaign, replacing UNTIL. I reworked VIPER to use more real-world equipment, tactics, etc., and it was actually pretty memorable. Larry Hama inspired me to look into how things re...
by Jack of Spades
Mon Aug 14, 2023 1:17 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Heavy Hitters and Skillmonkeys (Fulgrim, Carnage, Batman)
Replies: 243
Views: 31417

Re: Heavy Hitters and Skillmonkeys (Silver Age Superman)

I've never really bought the Space Marines as high-PL; they're not that much better than other basic infantry. But then I was never that taken with them anyway (I'm an Eldar guy from before there were Aspect Warriors).
by Jack of Spades
Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:57 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Kate Neville! SHIELD Super-Agents! Maria Hill!)

I also resolved, in my own version of the MU, the status of SHIELD. My take on SHIELD is that it's like NATO, a treaty organization in which the US pulls most of the weight. When the president "dissolved" SHIELD, he pulled the US out of the treaty, leaving SHIELD a shell of itself and basi...
by Jack of Spades
Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:53 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Kate Neville! SHIELD Super-Agents! Maria Hill!)

I used Hill and the Contessa as NPCs in my MU campaigns. My read on Hill was similar to my take on J. Jonah Jameson; she has a near-pathological distrust of people who conceal their identities (a weird quirk for a spy), on top of being a military-focused hardass. She distrusts power centers outside ...
by Jack of Spades
Tue Jul 18, 2023 4:56 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Care Bears! Street Fighter VI! Chun-Li!)

I'm so glad to see the Care Bears finally reposted. Their original posting, along with the Archie cast, convinced me of Jab's genius.
by Jack of Spades
Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:27 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7073648

Re: Bébé's Kids

Jabroniville wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 11:52 pm [...]he had died after signing on so the movie was made animated and another actor played him
This seems like everything you need to know about the "franchise," and I've never heard of Robin Harris or Bébé's Kids.