WAIT! Please.
on February 13, 2018 at 12:01 amT talked yesterday about our subversion of the usual crossover teamup formula. Like, every time two heroes or two teams of heroes meet, they fight over a misunderstanding but then realize they’re on the same side and then team up. Every time! You can set your watch by it. Yo, we wanted to do that backwards. That’s how we do. So our guys met, got along (though with some obvious steam building underneath them throughout), but suddenly an impasse is reached and it’s fight time. It’s what you want to see anyway, right? Hulk/Wolverine? Superman/Spider-Man? Alien/Predator/Batman? Why not put that stuff at the climax.
And this way, it’s not over a misunderstanding. The stakes are real.
Following up on what David said yesterday: the Fans have generally refused to choose between the mission and innocent lives, sometimes to ridiculous extremes. When Rikk talked about “decisions that made good people die,” he meant by accident, not like this. Faced with the Fans’ deadliest enemy to date, a time-traveling would-be dictator who altered history to her advantage, his first response was to try to alter it himself to make the bloodiest battle of the Civil War less bloody. That didn’t work out.Even committing to a plan to kill just that dictator– who had killed and would kill millions– was almost more of a sin against the sanctity of life than Rikk could handle. The others don’t always agree with him on specifics, but they do look to him for overall moral leadership, certainly more than they trust any government agency.They win their “roll for initiative,” with two exceptions. Jackie, as the newest, has not yet learned what it means when Rikk glances like that, and Mike is almost always ready to mix it up with somebody, on general principle.
I do admit I didn’t get the fighting at the time, but it makes a bit more sense now…
Funny thing is I somehow remembered Maximiliana thwarting that plan–watching from afar and realizing that plan wouldn’t work, then going to a different timeline where the Fans wouldn’t interfere anymore–but that must’ve been a fever dream =o
Or, you know, she IS watching, because she’s a time-traveler and hasn’t gotten to the Faans yet by her clock, and yeah the Faans timeline is one that was generated in part by her death and she shouldn’t have access to it until she splits it off but that’s THEIR universe and not this one so there and obviously she didn’t interfere here because all the Faans would freak out about how they’d already killed her and paradox like crazy so obviously she went to a different timeline after that.
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…. or maybe you’re just thinking about the one where she was interfering with StarTec.
(srsly I did re-read the entire archive to see where that was, but nothing rang a bell)
Mike rolled initiative several hours ago and has been holding his action.
“Take ’em fast and hard”, Walky? Phrasing.
Comic art convention is used here, and exists for a reason. If stuck to reality Rikk would not be able to look at the team behind him, but they’re exchanging the knowing glances and those panels just are better for it.
“Mike is almost always ready to mix it up with somebody, on general principle.”
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1038
This could get ugly, especially if the power differential is as steep on the Abductees favour as I think it is.