[BNW] You knew it was coming sooner or later...

[Xotzil@aol.com]

Heh.

Let's talk about comic/superhero experiences (so to speak).

Super heroes (at least in my own somewhat less-than-worldly experience) are
inevitably tied to comic strips/books or Saturday morning television. My two
earliest memories of Saturday Morning (barring Scooby Doo) are the old late
1960's Spiderman (Spiderman...does whatever a spider can...) cartoon, and the
Adam West/Burt Ward Batman animated cartoon (avec Batmite, gods help us all).

The books themselves, I got into at a much later age (somewhere around 14?),
and was happily raped by Marvel for several years (with a crossover here and a
crossever there...here a cross there a cross everywhere a cross cross). When
Spiderman came out with his fifth book, I quit and went cold turkey (I STILL
quiver sometimes when walking past X-Men or Spidey at my local. Old habits die
hard, I guess).

DC's stuff never did it for me. Their characters seemed too perfect. Nothing
ever seemed to go wrong for them. "Killing Joke" started to change that, but
by then I had already proclaimed them "beneath me." At least until they
revamped the Green Lantern (my personal favourite DC character) w/Emerald Dawn
and Emerald Twilight.

These days, I idly pick up an X-Men every once in a while, just to see who is
still supposedly alive (or supposedly dead...Marvel loves to do soap opera
stuff w/who died in a plane crash/avalanche/gunfight/super battle/continuum-
changing event), but other than that, I leave them pretty much alone.

BNW, from what I've been able to see so far (and that is admittedly little)
does not seem to be attaching itself to the "comic" image that super heroes
usually seem to. Super Hero RPGs have been an odd bunch (lessee...Champions,
GURPS Super, Marvel Super Heroes, DC Heroes, Villains and Vigilantes,
and...one more? Was "Underground" a SupeRPG?), and the only one I never got
the "comic book" feeling off of was V&V.

Anywho, I'm just kind of curious as to other people's past w/the funny
books/shows and how they think BNW might slot into the genre.

Talk amongst yerselves...I'm all ears.

--Jacques D'Hatingmyjob