Echoes of the Multiverse

Oooh...I like this a lot! Hope you will flesh out this setting some more. I want to. Mostly talking about things like the 90s as a setting, the city as its own signature thing (the way Gotham is or the film Dark City), certain cities that work really well for this and others that require some minor...

This is a dark and scary world. It is a world of grim and forbidding cities. Urban dystopias made of gothic skyscrapers, rain-soaked gutters, and blood-stained back alleys. The line between the haves and the have nots is stark and unforgiving. Working class people scrape by day to day, living on thi...

This is mostly me just rambling/musing about something. So, over the past year or so, McFarlane Toys decided to bring back the old DC Super Powers line from Kenner. Sort of. Obviously, the figures don't have any of the action feature gimmicks of the originals, which is a good thing, as those were ki...

So, Centurions was one of Kenner's many attempts to regain the sales heights they once held with Star Wars (and much like Real Ghostbusters and MASK, never managed to bump Hasbro or Mattel from their top spots). It was a pretty cool concept, with Jack Kirby and Gil Kane contributing some design work...

Realistically, all of these place names are akin to the kingdom names Robert E Howard used in his Conan stories. They evoke a certain place and feel without being tied down to the real world facts of that place. Trying to actually map them somewhere specific is always going to be completely subjecti...

I would sooner pick Minneapolis for Dakota City, given that the Dakota nation place their origin in Minnesota, and leave Detroit for the Green Hornet and Robocop. Hmm. Good point. 🤔 Hub City might replace Detroit, with Blüdhaven as Milwaukee. I keep thinking of Opal City (from Starman) replacing Ba...

So, will Midway City then get Saint Louis' real world nickname of "the Gateway City"? I mean, one of NYC's nickname's is "Gotham", and you're replacing Chicago with Gotham, so it's weirdly consistent. Even if I still curse John Byrne's ignorance of U.S. cities. Probably just be ...

Random pointless setting idea riff: Metropolis (replacing NYC), home over the years to Doc Savage, Superman, Spiderman, Daredevil, Black Lightning, and the TMNT. Gotham City (replacing Chicago), home to the Shadow, Dick Tracy, Batman. Coast City and Star City (replacing the greater LA area), home to...

Ken wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 3:00 am "Temporal"?

http://www.temporalcomics.com/ I presume?

It might be potentially interesting to try placing various Marvel heroes in other cities - the Fantastic Four in a Coast City that takes the place of LA and is (or at least was) heavily based around the aerospace industry, and is where Reed developed his rocketship, for example. Just personally, I'v...

I've sometimes considered such a thing (Marvel + DC at least) with the idea of trying to figure out which fictional DC city is meant to be based on/analogous to which real city and just have it replace the real city. But it is debatable which is supposed to be which, so you are never going to hear t...

Yeah. I think Watchmen is probably the flagship example once DC decided to milk it more after the film, and then even worse, let Jones use it as his plaything.

If you look at the original Sentry miniseries, it is literally a meta take on Mary Sue self-insert characters and how they warp and destroy whatever setting they are placed it. He is "the bestest hero Ever", is best friends with Reed Richards, fixes the problems of Spiderman and the Hulk j...

Whenever I see people claim Harley Quinn as a role model for "women in STEM", I'm reminded that the original Mad Love origin comic made it pretty clear that the only way she passed her classes was sleeping with her professors. As for the X-Men, my head canon is that at some point (probably...

Hmm. By day, Ultraman; by night, the world's fastest knitter who sells scarfs on Etsy.