V10 – Pg22
In the 1930s Winston Churchill famously remarked in the House of Commons during an exchange with the Prime Minister that he was confident history would find Baldwin wrong, “because I shall write that history“.
If you are a long time reader of Vanguard you may have noticed that the last few pages detailing their final battle don’t quite jibe with what you remember. (And if you’re not a long time reader, go back and read it! It’s really good.)
We live in interesting times. On one hand we live in a world where everyone has a cellphone camera, not to mention surveillance cameras, traffic cameras, and police body cameras. But simultaneously we live in a world of Photoshop, video editing, and CGI.
My wife and I were watching a television show the other day where, as a prank, they made a video in which they superimposed a famous person’s head on a different body (in fetish gear). Now, it wasn’t perfect, but they weren’t trying to be perfect. They were just goofing around. But it was really close. Close enough to make you nervous.
There’s a great movie from 1997 called, “Wag the Dog” where a film crew is hired to create a fake war to distract the public from a Presidential sex scandal. The film opened one month before the Monica Lewinski scandal broke.
“May you live in interesting times” -(purported) Chinese curse
– Gary
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FREE COMIC BOOK DAY APPROACHES!
Yes, Free Comic Book Day is a mere 10 days away and the super awesome team at the Collective of Heroes has put together a bumper-sized free comic for the occasion. I’ll pimp out the links once it goes up online.
Also, Avengers:Age Of Ultron has finally arrived. I’ll be seeing it on Saturday. I have a few friends who have seen advance screenings and they have been saying it is awesome. I AM VERY EXCITE!. From the clips/trailers, I think a World War Hulk could well be on the cards… fingers crossed.
Are you seeing the film this weekend? What are you’re thoughts on it?
See you Friday!
Dan
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Dan
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Gary Cohen
Looks like he’s not stuck in there with you… YOU’RE stuck in there with HIM!
Ha ha! Yup, and you’re gonna hear everyone of his conspiracy theories, dammit!
Hey he’s not completely wrong, only 4/7 of them died! Woden’s still fighting, Pendragon’s out but training his kid, and Spitfire’s actually more powerful than he was back then. Be interesting if Godiva did a permanent body-jump, but I doubt it.
I will respond to you with one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite books, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
…Of course, I’m assuming Godiva’s permanently dead because Dan said that characters stay dead. However, that only means that Godiva being alive in someone else’s body would actually be unexpected. How am I supposed to know that the author was intentionally misleading us! Augh!
Anyway if this actually happened, I guess exactly half the team died (3.5/7). I’d also guess that she’d lose her powers, as they were genetic: She can put herself into someone’s mind, but she can’t give that person her powers. What happens if she’s in someone’s mind when she dies? The target definitely won’t have her powers, but depending on the author, they might get a copy of her in their brain.
Since getting shot pulled her out of Die-Blood, and word of god, I’m still going with she’s dead. Still, we were told that someone shown dying stayed dead. We saw her getting fatally wounded, and we saw her dead, but we didn’t technically see her die…
My response was meant in a more general sense. That he is crazy, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not also right about why there were so many closed coffins.
Sure it was closed because it was empty and not because of the gruesomeness of it
Yeah but look at Gradlon, he’s lost half of his face! I would think he would get a closed casket, right?