LifeLock CEO's Identity Stolen 13 Times

I do a lot of creative work outside of my everyday employment.  Art as 10cc sang so eloquently, for Art's Sake.  They also sang something about I'm Mandy, fly me; but that is for another time.  I also do some light fetish art work and a few other projects on the side (Recently the submission to the Decoder Ring Theatre contest).
So I am considering a webcomic; here are some thoughts I am kicking around.
While Tales of the Legendary is fun, it is hampered by a number of factors, the first being that it exists in the COH universe with characters (my own at any rate) that predate COH; and uses their backgrounds, world etc.
Theme: Superheroes mixing four colour and pulp sensibilities.
So going forward with a new continuity/universe is the first step.  Bella, Jackie, Gil, and the whole ALPO crew are definitely going to be there; with some new faces, and lots of unique villains.  The core will be a large city based up-and-coming superhero team.  There will be some established archtype heroes who are famous in the city.  (I may have to reuse the dubious Captain Starbolt); a plucky reporter with an alliterative name (Rachel Rivers... Sandy Souter... Xena Xerxes... no that last one is headed for the top of the villain's list - the Persian Pummeler.)
Frame/Sequence/Story.
I am unlikely to do it as 'issues' per se.  It is more likely that I will be doing mini-story arcs, with arbitrary 'Issue' covers being thrown in.  A constantly evolving storyline; recurring characters, etc.
Update frequency.
1-3 pages weekly; on a set schedule.  If you endeavor to do something like this; you have have to talk the talk and walk the walk.  I would rather update less frequently and make every single deadline than faff about with a more aggresive update schedule and drop the ball like a sports cliche.  While I love what Pete Abrams does with Sluggy, his breaks/inserts/vacations etc, drive me to distraction.  I like the model that OGLAF uses (www.oglaf.com -Extremely not safe for work, but great art and wicked, if mean sense of humour- if the page errors out on you, hit reload.) where an update/comic may be a single page, or a trio of pages; whatever is needed to tell the joke/story.
Tone.
Light Drama, superheroic action, comedy.  Not in that order.
Content.
About the same as TOTL extremely racy, without sliding into full on hard R territory.
Expectations.
Not high; though you never know.  These days throwing comics on the web is akin to taking coal to Newcastle.  No - coal is utile.  It is like dropping a turd upon an already extant pile.  There are so many that for yours to stand out it has to really be a cut above.
Prep: 3-6 months of updates done, locked, loaded and in the can ready for publication.
Thoughts?
(Besides have you seen this.. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... -Webcomics )

In discussions of the Avengers possible roster in upcoming movies with others in CoH. I was all of a sudden struck by a horrible thought. Also kind of cool, but still horrible.
Hank Pym. Several identities. But best known as Giant Man or Ant Man. Giant Man is obvious and probably better known. But he was actually Ant-Man first when he joined the Avengers. You know the drill. He'd shrink himself to Ant size, had a helmet that psionically controlled ants. Big fucking deal, yeah? Not very impressive?
My horrible thought was this -
I bet people would take Hank Pym a LOT MORE FUCKING SERIOUSLY if they knew he could control BULLET ANTS.
So yeah... BRRR...

What would the Stan Rogers song Mary Ellen Carter do?

Quote:She went down last October in a pouring driving rain.
The skipper, he'd been drinking and the Mate, he felt no pain.
Too close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow,
And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low.
There were just us five aboard her when she finally was awash.
We'd worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost.
And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim
That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again.

Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend.
She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end.
But insurance paid the loss to them, they let her rest below.
Then they laughed at us and said we had to go.
But we talked of her all winter, some days around the clock,
For she's worth a quarter million, afloat and at the dock.
And with every jar that hit the bar, we swore we would remain
And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.

REFRAIN:
Rise again, rise again, that her name not be lost
To the knowledge of men.
Those who loved her best and were with her till the end
Will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.

All spring, now, we've been with her on a barge lent by a friend.
Three dives a day in hard hat suit and twice I've had the bends.
Thank God it's only sixty feet and the currents here are slow
Or I'd never have the strength to go below.
But we've patched her rents, stopped her vents, dogged hatch and
porthole down.
Put cables to her, 'fore and aft and girded her around.
Tomorrow, noon, we'll hit the air and then take up the strain.
And make the Mary Ellen Carter Rise Again.

REFRAIN

For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale.
She'd saved our lives so many times, living through the gales
And the laughing, drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave
They won't be laughing in another day. . .
And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

Rise again, rise again - though your heart it be broken
And life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend.
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
Rise again, rise again - though your heart it be broken
And life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend.
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

I tried mining my Fenspace archives today for information about the TSAB, only to discover that there isn't any beyond what's already on the FenWiki - there's never been anything substantial posted about Benjamin Franklin station or Stephen Caldwell or Amy O'Connell. Now I know ECSNorway is still posting here on occasion, so this isn't a matter for immediate concern, but it did get me to thinking. And we all know how dangerous that is...

There are some folks who started filling in corners of Fenspace, then... left, sometimes with their contributions unfinished. What do we want to do with these works-possibly-still-in-progress? (For example, should the Professor become an open character, or is CattyNebulart planning on coming back and doing something with him some day - and how can we know? Likewise with Candy Apple Red's and His Lovely Wife, The Island and Acyl, and a few other examples.)

I don't want to simply ignore these contributions, but the unfinished state of some of them makes it difficult to do anything with those. Should we try fleshing out these writeups, risking upsetting the people who created them and seem to have dropped out of Fenspace, or should we just leave them as stubs and redlinks in the FenWiki, leaving small holes in the setting?

[size=smaller](Oh, yes... Does Amy O'Connell happen to look like http://pagesperso-orange.fr/inukiblog/c ... ha-amy.jpg]this? )[/size]
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

I will call this NSFW due to bikini babe-age, bikini cow-age and Jackie.
http://www.whatsupdark.com/3.html

I have officially had it to here with the lag and unplayability of this server. And I'm with Valles now. I'm not coming back until the devs replace that piece of rusting shite and take the old server hardware out to the backlot, and put it out of it's misery.
It is not me. It is not my ISP. I can play on Infinity and Justice just fine.
(Edit: Better?)

Meet BountyHead Bebop, the RPG....
According to the author, he approached Sunrise for an actual license and was told that they weren't interested - dismissed pen and paper RPGs as "kid stuff".
So a few serial numbers filed off and....
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.