Re: [BNW] Bargainers comments [MATT]

[Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net>]

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> >I enjoyed the Bargainers book quite a bit, and I think we'll all be
> >going back and re-examining the rest of the BNW stuff in light of
> >what's been revealed there. Personally, I think this book has raised a
> >lot more questions that it has answered.
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> >However, I have one criticism, and I'm afraid it's a major one: The
> >editing of this book was mediocre at best. Misspellings, dropped words,
> >grammatical mistakes -- they're all jarring to read in a release from a
> >major publisher. Matt's writing is excellent, but mistakes like I saw
> >in Bargainers really throw me out of the reverie I try to maintain
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> That was my impression as well, and a comment I felt I had to make for my
> on-line review of Bargainers for Azrael Online (which should see print in
> August).  The fact that proofreader is listed as "Alan Smythee" suggests
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> >Why didn't the Iron Mask and Marie Laveau vanish after the Bicentennial
> >Battle? Is this something we should expect to see explored in later
> >stuff? (I don't have an objection to that, but I was surprised it
> >wasn't mentioned.)
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> My impression at least was that Houdini was "off-dimension" when the BB went
> down.  Kind of the same way I explained the presence of my own Alpha (well,
> Grant Morrison's own Alpha, but you know what I mean), Promotheus, at my web
> site.  Don't know about Marie, but don't recall right off hand - did Matt
> establish she was super-powered and Alpha-classed?

AFAIK, I understood it that she was.  However, I'd bet almost definitely
she wasn't in the home dimension at the time...

SeanMike

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