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Post by Jim on Nov 25, 2007 5:15:05 GMT
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Post by Blue Angel on Nov 25, 2007 6:01:45 GMT
just piss-poor as a piece of design - i collected and sold US comic books from my mid teens till late twenties (i still buy the occassional thing but the intereste has waned over the years) which included a lot of superhero comics and that costume is dreadful, whatever they payed the graphic artist is too much. Any suggestions for a name - here's a few Captain Routefinder, The Isolationist, The Minister, The Defender (er, maybe not that last one bearing Irish history in mind  ) |
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Post by Wasp on Nov 25, 2007 18:14:51 GMT
I fwe get a few more of these characters we could call them the glorious revolution defenders, maybe that is a bit long so perhaps the reformers would be better.
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Post by Blue Angel on Nov 25, 2007 21:34:00 GMT
um the defenders was already used as the name of a fairly popular Marvel comic in the 1970's which is infamous for been written in a style that suggests the author was using an early deriative of crack cocaine mixed with LSD. Off hand I can think of a few heroes in comics from both the Irish republic and N.Ireland but they are mostly from nationalist backgrounds and generally steretoypes who say 'bejesus' a lot. Although one big figure in the comic book world is Garth Ennis who is from the north but I don't think the orange order would wanth him designing comic book heroes for them as this is his most famous work:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_%28comics%29Although for anyone who has a VERY black or broad sense of humor I'd recommend it but I'd warn anyone it takes the piss out all organised religions something fierce and both Protestant and Catholics get lashed in there along with everyone else. |
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Post by Wasp on Nov 26, 2007 0:25:56 GMT
Believe it or not I think most from N.Ireland have a broad sense of humour where they can slag their own religion/politivs off. Like I am an orange/black b***ard. lol
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Post by Blue Angel on Nov 26, 2007 7:22:07 GMT
yeah i know the N.Ireland sense of humor is infamously very black but this bloke pushs the envelope shall we say. Oh yes he also happens to be moderately unionist but unless they want the character to become Captain Blue Bag he'd be a bad choice. Anyway I really do think the whole mascot thing is tired and I don't see designing a really lame superhero as been a great way to raise interest in an organisation.
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Post by earl on Nov 26, 2007 10:04:09 GMT
um the defenders was already used as the name of a fairly popular Marvel comic in the 1970's which is infamous for been written in a style that suggests the author was using an early deriative of crack cocaine mixed with LSD. Off hand I can think of a few heroes in comics from both the Irish republic and N.Ireland but they are mostly from nationalist backgrounds and generally steretoypes who say 'bejesus' a lot. Although one big figure in the comic book world is Garth Ennis who is from the north but I don't think the orange order would wanth him designing comic book heroes for them as this is his most famous work:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_%28comics%29Although for anyone who has a VERY black or broad sense of humor I'd recommend it but I'd warn anyone it takes the piss out all organised religions something fierce and both Protestant and Catholics get lashed in there along with everyone else. I have the first 2 collections of The Preacher. Cassidy kicking Micheal Collins in the gonads at the GPO is pretty funny! He's a great comic character. All super heros have to have an arch nemisis so any suggestions for this guy? Will the Pope be kinda like the kingpin in spiderman? |
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Post by Blue Angel on Nov 26, 2007 10:16:00 GMT
keep reading further on in the series as cassidy is part of some unusual twists in there - one of my favourite moments was when the main character's girlfriend told god he was a bastard to his face The pope is not cool enough to be the kingpin - (funnily enough daredevil who is kinpgins superhero counterpart in comics is one of the less stereotypical characters with irish roots) although he has the global organisation your true master villian needs |
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Post by earl on Nov 26, 2007 10:27:59 GMT
keep reading further on in the series as cassidy is part of some unusual twists in there - one of my favourite moments was when the main character's girlfriend told god he was a bastard to his face The pope is not cool enough to be the kingpin - (funnily enough daredevil who is kinpgins superhero counterpart in comics is one of the less stereotypical characters with irish roots) although he has the global organisation your true master villian needs I need to get the rest in the series. I enjoyed what I read about it. Maybe Brendan McKenna could be turned into an arch nemisis! |
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Post by Blue Angel on Nov 26, 2007 10:34:02 GMT
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Post by earl on Nov 26, 2007 10:58:48 GMT
;D ;D Very good. And scary! |
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Post by Shades40 on Nov 26, 2007 15:17:40 GMT
He looks a bit gay, I suggest they call him "orange lil"
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Post by Blue Angel on Nov 26, 2007 15:25:24 GMT
um maybe Diamond Lil commerate the Battle of the Diamond perhaps...
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Post by Shades40 on Nov 26, 2007 15:38:54 GMT
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Post by earl on Nov 26, 2007 16:42:53 GMT
With the purple cape, he reminds me more of a pimp or snoop doggy dog than the OO.
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