Romans are the flavor of the week for the WST so to any who are interested in picking up some notices on their incarnate toons or gobs of xp on their non 50's Post your intrest and available times on this topic!
 As it stands I'll be looking to form one tomorrow evening sometime around 7 Mountain time/9Est.

by all means, I think we oughta have an introspective moment of silence for poor ol' Tin Tin (Snort).
Okay.  Wrong film.  Let me try again.
The lovely wife and I just got back from seeing Tintin.  Wow.  That sound I heard in the theater was Pixar loudly shitting themselves, because someone has made an animated movie on par with their efforts.  This is easily the best action adventure film I have seen in the last 12 months (saying this year would undermine it somewhat) and one of the best pulp genre movies to date.  Oh yes.  Pulp.  The hero may look to be a bit of a nonce, but he handles himself in a fight with the aplomb of Charles Bronson and is hard, tough and competent without the accompanying chest thumping or monologue by a doomed villain on the can of whoop ass that was inadvertently opened.  This film is a labor of love, with superb detail on all of the environments; and a reverence for the source material that would do a young earth creationist proud.
And it is not a kid's film - though you can bring kids.  There is enough flash, pirates and wild chases to keep them on the edge of the seat.  The violence is understated, but it is real.  Punches hurt and bullets kill; even if blood is not sprayed about like an unfortunate porn genre simile.  The swordfights, of which there are several are the second best I have seen in the last twelve months (beaten out by a hair's breadth by 13 Assassins) - and one particular lethal move is so skillfully carried out and animated that it is easy for the neophyte to miss.  There are genre films that don't pay as much attention to fight choreography as this film did.
The 3d is nice.  If you like 3D you will enjoy it - if you don't, you will tolerate it.  Most of the time, the immersion is so good that it will just flow past you as part of the narrative; which is where it belongs.  Transparent.
One complaint.  The previews.  Some soulless douche-canoe who is choad deep in Oedipal bliss decided to create a full length version of The Lorax.   I now know what my childhood being raped by rabid midget thalidomide clowns looks and sounds like.

Having just found the 'Sector General' series of novels by James White, I would like to motion for some sort of larger hospital to be available in Fenspace.
Perhaps even opened by fen of 'Sector General'.

The relatives left an hour ago, the dirty dishes are cleaned up, and Dick Clark's been put to bed.  It's time to wish the forums a happy new 2012!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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I have been on a kick of reading superhero fiction lately.
So in the interests of turning up some more recommendations I thought I would pass along my own.
My Recs:
Published Prose:
"Soon, I will be invincible!" by Austin Grossman
    Just awesome.  A look at a Dr. Doom type guy from inside his head, among others.
"In Hero Years... I'm Dead" by Michael Stackpole
    Also awesome. A former hero tries to rebuild his life after being gone for many  years.
Web Serials:
"Worm" by Wildbow
    Very good, but not finished. A young girl grows into her powers and ends up almost-accidentally turning into a super-villain.
    Link: http://parahumans.wordpress.com/
"Legion of Nothing"
    A group of childhood friends deal with being "Legacy" heros and stepping into the very big shoes left for them.
    Link: http://inmydaydreams.com/
"Whateley Academy stories" by Many.
   I have gone through most of it, and most of it is fairly high quality. Warning for TG.
   Link: Crystallhall.org

Any good fanfic for established universes or the like would be fine, or even decent COH fanfic.

Has anyone seen any coverage of this on mainstream news channels?
I was kind of surprised that the only place ive seen this on is Reddit. Not necessarily that reedit got it first off the reuters feed, but rather that none of the mainstream channels seem to have covered this much at all.
Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/w...fire_in_northern_russia/

Well its that time again.  The Legendary has a full roster and we're gonna have to start bleeding a few people to add more active toons.  I don't wanna go wholesale "Drop everyone over 3 years away just yet, so...  opinions?
Dren
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

I don't know what the original Japanese version does, but I can't help but wonder if this version would do anything different.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.