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It sounds pretty ugly IMO. The words "backwood", "rural" or "country" springs to mind. No offense to citizens of the state Georgia. The main character will be trained in dueling banjoes... ... Seriously though, is it wrong that this news made me hope for an Eternal Champions RPG?

Wow a lot of stuff I likes already been mentioned (Hammet, Melville, PKD, Gaiman, Poe and such) I've always been fond of H. P. Lovecraft's work. I'm a huge fan of Barry Hughart's Master Li novels (Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone, Eight Skilled Gentlemen). Shirley Jackson is another author I'm pretty fond of (loved both The Haunting and We Have Always Lived in the Castle). I'm also pretty fond of the novels and short stories of Joe R. Lansdale, which all tend to be horror and crime type stuff, but well done with a twisted sense of humour. "Comic book" wise, the works of Alan Moore, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Leiji Matsumoto are all highly recommended by me; I think those three are probably the best 'current' comic book writers out there.

Rodriguez suggested Rourke, but Miller wasn't sure. So Rodriguez arranged a meeting between the three, and apparently after the meeting and Rourke had left, Miller said "He's Marv." Or something to that effect, I'm paraphrasing from what Rodriguez said from memory about Mickey Rourke's involvment...

I don't - I haven't seen it yet myself...

I'd like to see a SW game with a turnbased system, something akin to Tactics Ogre. But I know that's a game I'll never see...

I've been looking forward to this for some time...I think it has the potiential to be a fantastic film!

Funnily enough, you're the first person I know of - and I know a lot of die hard Doctor Who Fans - who don't like the look of the new program. The first episode was "leaked" on the internet a couple of weeks back, and I haven't heard anyone say anything too negative about it.

Hmmm, very interesting. I'm hoping its an original project. That'd be cool. But I confess I wouldn't be too torn up with something that's somehow connected to an existing franchise if it was well done.

What really bugged me was the censorship of the Humanoids books. They released them in normal comic book format, but drew clothes on them because they were "comic books" but later released unedited versions of them in the Trade paperback. It made no sense, and they really shouldn't have edited the originals...

You can pretty much do a good website simply by using tables and have some half decent skills in photoshop. I can make a website using notepad, as I know html okay. In fact most of the time I just type the code in myself rather than use the programs I do have at my disposal. And for most webpages, IMO, a lot of bells and whistles and javascript and flash movies and junk is too much.

Mebbe when Banner hulks out, his...you know...doesn't grow correspondingly so Hulk is mortally embarrassed by it and makes sure to have pants on at all time... The truth is less direct religious dogma, and actually the House Unamerican Activities Committee from the 50s. Fredrick Wertham, a psychologist, had published a novel, Seduction of the Innocent claiming that comics were causing children to become deviant criminals. As a result, the House began an investigation of the industry. The companies that had made their mark with superheros and kids comics took the opportunity to for the "Comics Code Authority" with two reasons. One was to quiet the HUAC people, the other was they saw a way to put out of business the companies that was killing them in sales. Companies like EC, the people behind Tales from the Crypt (and other horror/crime titles) and Lev Gleason, who published Crime Does Not Pay and other violent crime comics. Whereas the comics of this period had been pushing into adult territory, and might have led to the US comics scene being a more versatile and diverse medium, it instead put a stranglehold on the comics scene, out of which only superhero comics (like Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman) and humour books (like Archie or Richie Rich) survived...

I really like the htmlgoodies website (I use it all the time). Although not wild about the recent redesign... EDIT: Guess I should be a bit more helpful...so here it is. I still think for most webpages, basic HTML is good enough for what you need. So if you have a good enough memory of the html basics, you should be okay. Of course, if you're expected to create something fancier...

Maybe they're GAMMA RADIATED PANTS!!!!!!1111 Except then they'd be green. Hmmm, maybe Dr. Strange conjured them up...

I kinda agree that its most likely he was a patient at some time. However the show has had a way of playing with what they show you in the flashbacks...I could see there being something more to the scenario. Also it seems there may be even more ties between the crash survivors than we'd seen before; it was pointed out on another forum that Hurley owns a box company and Locke worked for one...odds seem to be they're the same company.

He has special purple pants - an issue even showed him buying some! :D

Its supposed to be for "mature topics". The forums description is "Over 18's only. Warning: Adult topics - approach with caution." That said, it doesn't get much traffic, the ocassional picture posts, or topic that revolves around sex/sexuality. AFAIK, there's never been a thread for cybersex there (although I believe there was one about the phenomena of cybersex when the forums opened).

Xavier's rich...odds are he bought them from Mr. Fantastic (who came up with the "unstable molecules" that make up the Fantastic Four's costumes, as well as the X-Mens) That said, who makes Banner/Hulk's big purple pants...? Oerwinde - Ah yeah, I'd forgotten about that modern day explanation.

Haven't read the Lady Death comic...actually I've never read a Lady Death comic at all...but I get the impression from people talking about it that its a fairly "tongue in cheek" book. Anyhow, Peter Parker sewed his own costume from fabric he found around the house (why Aunt May had fabric laying around the house with a spider pattern on it is another story entirely however!) Superman's costume was originally sewn from the cloth in the pod his father Jor-El sent him to earth with; like all things Kryptonian, being on earth made it indestructable. Martha Kent unraveled the blankets and such, and sewed (with the help of toddler-Clark's heat vision to "cut" the thread) the suit, which also was so super stretchy that it grew as Clark did! (All of this, however, isn't the case anymore after Superman's many origin reboots; his costume - while resiliant - tends to rip and tear a good bit).

Interesting enough article, and I think its probably a fairly accurate summation of the cause of Troika's demise.

According to a FAQ I read, it was WEG's Ghostbusters RPG that began the d6 system...

Okay, so I'm up to 4

I'll add my $.02 that the problems aren't enough to warrent closing them down. Problem posts can be delt with by the usermods, who theoretically should be able to let people know that, for now, Obsidian isn't staffed to be able to answer a lot/most/all of the direct queries at the moment.

Hmmm, films I that I think were tops this year included: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Incredibles Saddest Music in the World (technically a 2003 film, but it didn't get here until 2004) Hellboy The Grudge

Who opened the can of worms marked "Fallout"...? Anyhow, good to see you around again Dracomicron.

I love this show. It pretty much the only TV show I'm going out of my way to watch this season. Soooooo long until new episodes though...