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[bzarcher]

So, as spartanfan requested: What I feel about CoH issue #3.

Better.

I still hold it at arms length, though, because #1 & #2 failed utterly to do anything that would make me want to play the game, and I'm betting a lot of people felt the same.

But, I'll admit, the last 8 pages or so were much better, though I still think the way he (mis) handled Sister Psyche is still dumb.

HOWEVER.

I am also reposting a comment I left for herr spartanfan, because it is STILL TRUE.

Besides, I hold to my guns after reading some of Mark Waid's big "team books" recently (JLA, FF, X-men, Avengers, JSA) - he seems to repeat the theme of "Break the team and expose flaws/pressures/stresses that were never there before under other writers or canon, and turn all the members against each other more than the against the villians."

The fact that EVERY recent TPB of a team book that Mark Waid wrote (and I checked them all out of Columbus Public Library over the past month, so I do KNOW this, because I researched it like a good historian before I made my outlandish claims) doesn't say to me "This means he's treating City of Heroes like any other good Super Hero setting", as twfarlan suggested. It says to me that Mark Waid doesn't know how to write any other kind of book. (In deference to snowspinner, He did his best to deconstruct the team in his FF run, though not quite in the same way, and to show that there were a lot of divisions, psyche issues, and serious stresses on the team that hadn't appeared before, and particularly did some very nasty things to Reed Richards which came out of left field and may or may not have really been needed.)

But, we'll see. I know the book is changing writers soon. Maybe I will like it more then. Regardless, Waid doesn't have too many issues left.

In other news: Thai food incredibly fucking tasty. Full. In love with a wonderful girl and happy. Film at 11.

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[spoonybardol.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the comic (for a moment there I thought up were talking about the game's expansions) when would I expect to recieve it? I joined at the start of this month, and I have the options and mailing address set right, so d'ya think I might get #3 next week?

And how would I go about getting the first two?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I just got #3 in the mail today.

For #1 or #2, I'd say either go to the comic book store, or the NC Soft store at www.cityofheroes.com

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Actually, he doesn't have any issues left. Issue #3 was his final issue.

And fair enough, he does seem to write the same story with every group. Can't argue the obvious truth. :)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Oh? I thought he was booked through #6? Huh.

Yeah. :D As I just got done telling Phil, I could live with that being his big schtick if he just used it a bit more sparingly. Ah, well.

[xaxxa.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I was shocked to get Issue 3 in the mail yesterday. Guess it was a side-perk of the trial.

The only thing it brought out of me was annoyance. Annoyance that I couldn't make a Blaster with a bow and arrows. I -so- wanted to make Archer Colossus in CoH form. Alas.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Issue 5, the one that's on the test server right now, introduces the Arrow blaster set, and defenders get a Trick Arrow primary filled with Green-arrow style stuff.

[xaxxa.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Trick Arrows.