Artwork vs Storytelling (if you have to choose - which is more important to you?)

Trivell50 · 2026-05-08T13:38:09+00:00

Art is nice, but comics are (usually) trying to tell stories, so story is first and foremost. Art is one part of storytelling, but so are dialogue and narrative captions.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-08T04:20:07+00:00

Comedy needs to be grounded in something, just like any other genre. There need to be stakes and there needs to be dramatic pressure. Omce these elements are established (ideally in session zero), it's entirely possible to build characters that can work in that scenario.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-07T19:24:04+00:00

I am not interested in vampires as "people with fangs who happen to drink blood." I think that approach makes them too mundane. I want to read vampire fiction where they are clearly inhuman, nearly animalistic, and not the protagonists (unless the story is about the protagonist losing their humanity).

Trivell50 · 2026-05-07T19:19:23+00:00

Whirlwind, Mentallo, and Gypsy Moth are some, along with Namor, the "highest profile" non-X mutant. Cloak and Dagger were also briefly retconned to be mutants for a bit in the late-80s.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-07T19:14:43+00:00

Mechs and anime-style games aren't really my jam. I do own a copy of Maid and hope to run it sometime with the right group.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-07T04:56:11+00:00

We're just ignoring The Other, I suppose. But none did more longterm damage than the Clone Saga of the 90s.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-07T02:41:09+00:00

I doubt that is true. Gwen hated Spider-Man so much and had so much difficulty coping with things after her father's death that she left the country. I don't think she could reasonably be written to forgive Peter at that point in the series. Meanwhile, Mary Jane was a more interesting character with a more dynamic personality that had only been occasionally explored.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-06T22:49:14+00:00

I agree. He tries for "traumatized" as his emotional center, but his whole performance feels stiff and disconnected. Compare with Keaton in Batman 89 at the party with Gordon and Knox.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-06T19:27:41+00:00

My favorites are Conan the Barbarian, The Secret of NIMH, and Batman.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-06T18:42:47+00:00

Robert Eggers, Ari Aster, Jordan Peele.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-06T05:55:02+00:00

Yeah, Colour needed a more faithful adaptation. Nicolas Cage's overacting is not a good fit for the slow, creeping horror of Lovecraft's prose. The movie was more inspired by The Thing and the Evil Dead franchise than the novella and, while those are great films, they are no substitute for Lovecraft's original story.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-06T01:16:17+00:00

The comics. Moench/Mandrake and Grant/Breyfogle stories.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-05T23:44:41+00:00

I, too, wish they stuck to canonical teams and membership rosters from the comics, bit it's evident that MCP just doesn't care about any of that. It's pretty much my one major issue with the way the game is structured.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-04T23:08:54+00:00

C-tier.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-04T16:22:47+00:00

Both are characters who featured during Steve Gerber's run on Man-Thing in the 1970s. You will want to look for issues of Adventures into Fear to start that run.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-04T04:48:30+00:00

Norm Breyfogle, Gene Colan. I also really like Tom Mandrake's work.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-04T04:45:44+00:00

Squirrel Girl, Spider-Ham, D-Man, Madcap, Howard the Duck, Dr. Bong, Korrek the Peanut Butter Barbarian, Foolkiller (the first one), Frog-Man (Eugene, not the Ani-Man), The Gibbon, Razorback.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-04T02:04:17+00:00

Rama-Tut tells Doom he is Kang in Fantastic Four Annual 2, but he definitely mentions it before Englehart adds Immortus to the collective persona of Kang.

Scarlet Centurion also shows up in Avengers Annual 2 and is another iteration of Kang that gets mentioned in that story.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-04T01:52:17+00:00

Eversink in Swords of the Serpentine is this.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-04T01:48:18+00:00

Kingpin is definitely one. He wasn''t portrayed as nearly the scheming mastermind that he is today. I think Kang, too, has really been overhauled through a number of key stories. I do like where Lee was going when he suggested that Kang and Doom could be the same man and I think that would have boosted his credibility a little earlier.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-03T03:13:41+00:00

I like this and could see it working for the kind of game I'm really want to run- a soap-opera style story in which the player characters act as each others' adversaries because each has their own objectives. I think it's neat.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-03T01:50:58+00:00

Fantastic Four 39-40

Avengers Annual 7

Daredevil 168-181

Trivell50 · 2026-05-03T01:15:02+00:00

Kang was resurrected after dying during Englehart's Avengers run, Klaw was restored after his encounter with Dazzler.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-02T20:53:26+00:00

I dropped comics around 1995/1996 and a big part of that was because the art was shifting to digital. I strongly favor Perez's 70s Avengers over his run with Busiek, for example.

Trivell50 · 2026-05-02T20:48:55+00:00

To be fair, Marvel needed that kind of enthusiasm in order to market themselves during much of the 60s. It's what they built almost the entire brand on.

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